Lysander (disambiguation)

Lysander may refer to:

People

• Albert Lysander (1875–1956), Swedish Lutheran priest; one of the early pioneers of the Swedish High Church movement
• Lysander, military general of ancient Sparta
• Lysander Button ( 1810–1898), American inventor
• Lysander Farrar (1812–1876), New York politician
• Lysander Spooner (1808–1887), American political activist and legal theorist

Military

• HMS Lysander, several ships of the British Royal Navy
• Westland Lysander, British military aircraft of the 1930s and 1940s

Places

• Lysander, New York

Literature

• Lysander I and IV, monarchs in the fictional CoDominium universe
• Lysander (Shakespeare), character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream

Etymology

From the Greek name Λυσανδρος (Lysandros) which meant "a release of a man" from Greek λυσις (lysis) "a release" and ανδρος (andros) "of a man".