Lark (disambiguation)

Lark, The Lark, Larks or The Larks may also refer to:

A lark is a small terrestrial bird.

Geography

• Lark, Utah, United States, a ghost town
• Lark, Wisconsin, United States, an unincorporated community
• Lark Street, Albany, New York, United States
• River Lark, a river in England
• Lark Lane, Liverpool, England
• Lark Wood, a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire, England
• Lark or Larak Island, in the Persian Gulf off the coast of Iran

Arts and entertainment

Music

• The Larks, an influential American vocal group active in the 1950s
• Lark (band), an electronica band from South Africa
• "The Lark", nickname given to String Quartet No. 53 in D major, Op. 64, No. 5, by Joseph Haydn
• "The Lark", composed by Mikhail Glinka
• "The Lark" or "Ciocârlia", composed by Angheluş Dinicu
• Lark (album), a 1972 album by Linda Lewis

Films

• The Lark (1964 film), a Soviet film
• The Lark (2007 film), a British film

Fictional characters

• Miss Lark, a recurring character in the Mary Poppins book series
• Lady Lark, a Marvel Comics character
• Lark, from the PlayStation 2 game Devil Kings
• Lark, from the Nintendo 64 game Pilotwings 64

Plays

• The Lark (play), a 1952 play about Joan of Arc by Jean Anouilh

In the military

• HMS Lark, sixteen Royal Navy ships
• Hired armed lugger Lark, used by the Royal Navy from 1799 to 1801
• USS Lark, two US Navy ships
• CSS Lark, a Confederate paddle steamer and blockade runner during the American Civil War
• SAM-N-2 Lark, an early U.S. Navy anti-aircraft missile
• Lark (Norwegian resistance), a Second World War group sent into German-occupied Norway to prepare for a possible Allied invasion

Transportation

• Studebaker Lark, a compact car built by Studebaker in the 1950s and early 1960s
• Lark (passenger train), a passenger train operated by the Southern Pacific Railroad
• Lark, a South Devon Railway 0-4-0 steam locomotive
• Curtiss Model 41 Lark, a commercial biplane introduced in 1925
• Keleher Lark, a single-seat aerobatic sport aircraft designed in the early 1960s
• Lark (dinghy), a two-person racing dinghy
• MV Larks, a former name of the ferry MV Lucky Star (1976)

Sports

• Denver Larks, a former name of the Denver Nuggets National Basketball Association team
• Larks, a nickname for the Montreal Alouettes Canadian Football League team
• Hays Larks, a collegiate summer baseball team in Hays, Kansas
• Jersey Larks, a professional ice hockey team which played in the Eastern Hockey League during the 1960-61 season
• Oakland Larks, a baseball team in the West Coast Negro Baseball League in 1946
• Mynavi ABC Championship, a Japan Golf Tour event called the ABC Lark Cup (1988-1991) and the Lark Cup (1992-1993)

People

• Lark (name), a list of people with either the surname or given name
• Lark (person), someone who prefers to get up early in the morning and go to bed in the early evening
• Sarah Lark, a pen name of German author Christiane Gohl (born 1958)
• Lark O'Neal, a pen name of American novelist Barbara O'Neal (fl. 1990-present)
• K. Gordon Lark, American biologist

Other uses

• Lark (cigarette), a brand of cigarette made by Philip Morris
• Lark Theater, a single-screen Art Deco cinema in Larkspur, California, United States
• Lark Hotels, an American hotel management and development company
• Lark, an XML syntax analyzer written by Tim Bray
• Colloquial for a larrikin act

See also

• Lark Force, a Second World War Australian Army unit
• SAI KZ VII Lærke (Danish for "Lark"), a light utility aircraft first flown in 1946
• "An Awhesyth" (Cornish for "The Lark"), a traditional Cornish folk song
• Alouette (disambiguation) (French for "lark")
• LARC (disambiguation)