- Lenoir
Lenoir may refer to the following persons:
*Etienne Lenoir , Belgian pioneer of the internal combustion engine
*Etienne Lenoir (instrument maker) , French instrument maker, inventor of therepeating circle .
*J. B. Lenoir , Blues singer
*Noémie Lenoir , French supermodel
*Philippe Lenoir (1785-1867), French painter
* General William Lenoir, anAmerican Revolutionary War patriot
*William B. Lenoir , astronaut
*Richard Lenoir KI5DX , world wide amateur radio operator KI5DXor the following locations:
*Lenoir, North Carolina ,United States
*Lenoir County, North Carolina , United States
*Lenoir Dining Hall ,University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
*Lenoir City, Tennessee as well as:
*USS Lenoir (AKA-74) , a WWII attack cargo ship
* TheLenoir Cycle , the basis of the first commercially producedInternal Combustion Engine .See also:
*Rosetta LeNoire
*Lenoir-Rhyne College
*Richard-Lenoir (Paris Metro) The name Lenoir can be spelled three ways: Lenoir, Lenoire or LeNoir (habit existing only in the US to distinguish the article within the name, not in Francophone countries). The spelling "Lenore" is used in one of Edgar Allan Poe's poems, and is mentioned in "The Raven". If spelled Lenoir, Lenoire (sometimes LeNoir in the US) it is pronounced "Luh-nwar". It is French in origin and means "The Black".
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