Lovelace
Lovelace is a surname. Notable people named Lovelace are:
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Surname
- Ada Augusta, Countess of Lovelace (1815–1852), English noblewoman, daughter of Lord Byron, computer pioneer
- Alan M. Lovelace (born 1929), former deputy administrator of NASA
- Claud Lovelace (1934–2012), theoretical physicist and a founder of string theory
- Creighton Lovelace (born 1981), American pastor
- Earl Lovelace (born 1935), Trinidadian writer
- Eldridge Lovelace (1913–2008), American city planner and author
- Francis Lovelace (1621–1675), second governor of New York Colony
- James J. Lovelace, American general
- Linda Lovelace (1949–2002), pornographic film star and later spokesperson for an anti-pornography movement
- Maud Hart Lovelace (1892–1980), American writer
- Richard Lovelace (1618–1657), English poet and gentleman
- Tom Lovelace (1897–1979), American baseball player
- William Randolph Lovelace II (1907–1965), American physician
Peerage
There have been two Lovelace peerages. First were the Barons Lovelace:
- Richard Lovelace, 1st Baron Lovelace (c. 1567–1634)
- John Lovelace, 2nd Baron Lovelace (1616–1670)
- John Lovelace, 3rd Baron Lovelace (c. 1640–1693)
- John Lovelace, 4th Baron Lovelace (d. 1709)
- John Lovelace, 5th Baron Lovelace (d. 1709)
- Nevill Lovelace, 6th Baron Lovelace (1708–1736)
after which the title was extinct
Later the title was reused as an Earldom:
- William King-Noel, 1st Earl of Lovelace (1805–1893)
- Ralph Gordon Noel King, 2nd Earl of Lovelace (1839–1906)
- Major Lionel Fortescue King, 3rd Earl of Lovelace (1865–1929)
- Peter Malcolm King, 4th Earl of Lovelace (1905–1964)
- Peter Axel William Locke King, 5th Earl of Lovelace (1951–2018)
The title is now extinct.
Given name
- Lovelace Watkins (1938–1995), American singer
- Sandra Lovelace Nicholas (born 1948), Canadian senator and aboriginal rights activist
Fictional characters
- Lovelace, a character in the canon world of My Little Pony
- Lovelace, a character in the film Happy Feet
- Lovelace, a character in the novel Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
- Simon Lovelace, a character in the Bartimaeus book series by Jonathan Stroud
- The Lovelace Cartel, a drug cartel featured in the Black Lagoon manga series
- Doctor Loveless, a midget villain/antagonist character on the 1960s TV show Wild Wild West
Other uses
- Lovelace (film), a biopic about Linda Lovelace
- Baron Lovelace (extinct)
- Earl of Lovelace
- The Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, a non-profit biomedical research organization
- Lovelace: A Rock Musical, about the life of Linda Lovelace
- The Lovelace Medal, named for Ada Lovelace
- Lovelace (crater), a crater on the far side of the Moon
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See also
- Loveless
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