Lovelace

Lovelace
Family name

Lovelace is a surname. The two most notable people named Lovelace are:

• Ada Augusta, Countess Lovelace (1815–1852), English noblewoman, daughter of Lord Byron, computer pioneer
• Linda Lovelace (1949–2002), pornographic film star and later spokesperson for an anti-pornography movement

Other notable people with the surname include:

• 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
• 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 who contributed to aerospace medicine

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 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
• Jessamine Lovelace, a character in the Infernal Devices trilogy by Cassandra Clare

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

See also

• Loveless