Vane (surname)

Vane is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:^{[nb 1]}

• Charles Vane (c.1680–1721), English pirate who preyed upon English and French shipping. His pirate career lasted from 1716–1719
• Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 6th Marquess of Londonderry (1852–1915), British Conservative politician
• Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry (1878–1949), Secretary of State for Air in the 1930s, in favour of the appeasement policy towards Nazi German
• Christopher Vane, 1st Baron Barnard (1653–1723), English peer known for his treatment of his heirs, and his employment as steward of Peter Smart; father of the poet Christopher Smart
• Edith Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Marchioness of Londonderry (1878–1959), a noted socialite and philanthropist in the United Kingdom between World War I and World War II
• Sir Francis Vane, Baronet, (1861–1934), early aide of Lord Baden-Powell's and a Scout Commissioner of London before Baden-Powell ousted him from the Scout Association; founder of the Order of World Scouts, the earliest multinational Scouting movement
• George Vane-Tempest, 5th Marquess of Londonderry (1821–1884), Anglo-Irish aristocrat, businessman and Conservative politician
• Harry Vane, 11th Baron Barnard (born September 21, 1923), British peer, the son of Christopher Vane, 10th Baron Barnard
• Henry Vane:
  • Sir Henry Vane the Elder (1589–1655), English courtier, father of Henry Vane the Younger
  • Sir Henry Vane the Younger (1613–1662), statesman, Puritan, son of Henry Vane the Elder
  • Henry Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington (c. 1705–1758) (c. 1705 – 6 March 1758), an English peer, the son of Gilbert Vane, 2nd Baron Barnard
  • Henry Vane, 2nd Earl of Darlington (1726–1792), English peer, the son of the 1st Earl
• John Robert Vane (1927–2004), English pharmacologist, born in Tardebigg, Worcestershire
• Mark Sutton Vane, English architectural lighting designer
• Richard Fletcher-Vane, 2nd Baron Inglewood (b. 1951), Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom, Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Cumbria and Lancashire North from 1989 to 1994, and for North West England from 1999 to 2004
• Robin Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 8th Marquess of Londonderry (1902–1955), Irish peer and politician
• William Vane, 1st Duke of Cleveland (1766–1842), British peer
• William Fletcher-Vane, 1st Baron Inglewood (1909–1989), British politician
• Zachary A. Vane, American politician

See also

• Ben Vane, a Scottish mountain situated in the southern Highlands
• Harriet Vane, a fictional character in the works of British writer Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957)

Notes

1. Before the 18th century it was not unusual for the name Vane also to be spelt Fane — See for example Sir Ralph Vane of Badsel Manor, executed at Tower Hill 1552 — and so it is not unusual for different modern sources to use different spellings for the same person prior to the 18th century.