- Eucherius Of Lyon
Saint Eucherius, bishop of Lyon, (died c. 449) was a high-born and high-ranking ecclesiastic in the Christian Church of Gaul. He is remembered for his letters advocating extreme self-abnegation. Henry Wace ranked him "except perhaps St. Irenaeus the most distinguished occupant of that see". On the death of his wife, as was a common 5th century practice, he withdrew for a time to the monastery of Lérins, …
- Florus Of Lyon
Florus of Lyon (Florus Lugdunensis) was a deacon in Lyon, ecclesiastical writer in the first half of the ninth century. After the year 852, no further information definite as to time has come down to us regarding Florus; so that his death may be said, with probable exactitude, to have occurred about the year 860
- Lupicinus Of Lyon
Saint Lupicinus (c. 486) was an Abbot and the Bishop of Lyon. His brother was Saint Romanus of Condat.. Lupicinus is noted for founding the abbeys of Saint-Claude in the Jura mountains and in the Lauconne districts of France.
- Nicetius Of Lyon
Saint Nicetius (Nizier) was bishop of Lyon, France, during the 6th century. He served from 552 or 553. He was ordained as a priest by Agricola, Bishop of Châlons-sur-Marne. He was the nephew of Saint Sacerdos, bishop of Lyon, and his successor. He revived ecclesiastical chant in his diocese. He was also noted for being an exorcist. Nicetius received the title of patriarch from the pope.
- Jamie Lyon
Jamie Lyon (born 24 January 1982) is an Australian rugby league player currently playing for the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles in the National Rugby League competition. He previously played for the Parramatta Eels and also played two seasons in the English Super League with St. Helens. He has represented for New South Wales and Australia. Lyon has previously played for St.
- Susan Lyon Countess of Strathmore and Kin
Susan Lyon, "née" Cochrane, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne was the daughter of John Cochrane, 4th Earl of Dundonald, husband of Charles Lyon, 6th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and "Scotland's fairest daughter," to quote a chronicler of the time. She married Charles Lyon, 6th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, but he was killed in an unfortunate brawl at Forfar by Carnegie of Finhavon in May 1728, leaving no heir.
- Ben Lyon
Ben Lyon was an United States film actor, and a 20th Century Fox studio executive. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Lyon entered films in 1918 after a successful appearance on Broadway opposite Jeanne Eagels. He attracted attention in the highly successful film "Flaming Youth" (1923), and steadily developed into a leading man. He was most successfully paired with some of the leading actresses of the silent era including Pola Negri, Gloria Swanson, Colleen Moore, …
- Brandon Lyon
Brandon James Lyon is a baseball pitcher for the Arizona Diamondbacks franchise. He was born on 10th August 1979, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Lyon made his major league debut midway through the 2001 season, posting a respectable 5-4 record for the Toronto Blue Jays, with a 4.29 ERA from 11 starts. He was the 2nd youngest winning pitcher in Blue Jays' history after winning on debut (2-1 over Baltimore). 2002 however, was a different story.
- George Lyon
George Seymour Lyon (July 27, 1858 - May 11, 1938) was a Canadian golfer and has been honored in Canada's Sports Hall of Fame. Lyon was born in Richmond, Ontario. Although he began playing golf at the age of 38, he won the gold medal in golf in the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis, Missouri. He won the Canadian Amateur eight times between 1898 and 1914 and won the Canadian Senior's Golf Association Championship ten times between 1918 and 1930.
- Matthew Lyon
Matthew Lyon (July 14, 1749 - August 1, 1822), (father of Chittenden Lyon and great-grandfather of William Peters Hepburn), was a printer, farmer, soldier, and politician, serving as a United States Representative from Vermont and from Kentucky. Lyon was born near Dublin, in near by County Wicklow, Ireland, and attended school in Dublin. He began to learn the trade of printer in 1763 and immigrated to what would become the United States in 1765.
- Garry Lyon
Gareth "Garry" Lyon (born September 13, 1967 in Devonport, Tasmania) is a former Australian rules footballer, best known as former captain of the Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League.
- Mary Lyon
Mary Mason Lyon (28 February 1797 - 5 March 1849) was the founder of the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley, (now Mount Holyoke College), Massachusetts and a pioneer in women's education in America. She served as its first president (referred to at that time as "principal").
- Sterling Lyon
Sterling Rufus Lyon, PC, LL.B (born January 30, 1927) was Premier of Manitoba from 1977 to 1981. His government introduced several fiscally-conservative measures, and was sometimes seen as a local version of the government of Margaret Thatcher in the United Kingdom. Born in Windsor, Ontario, Lyon moved with his family to Manitoba at a young age. He graduated from the University of Winnipeg in 1948, and received an LL.B from the Manitoba Law School in 1953.
- George Lyon
George Lyon (born 16 July 1956 in Rothesay) is a Scottish Liberal Democrat politician, and a former Member of the Scottish Parliament for Argyll and Bute, and former Deputy Minister for Finance, Public Service Reform and Parliamentary Business. Previously a Vice-President, then President of the National Farmers Union of Scotland, …
- Lisa Lyon
Lisa Lyon is a female bodybuilder from the United States. Her stats as taken on October 1980: She stands at 5'3" and weighs only 105 pounds, but she can dead-lift 225 pounds, bench-press 120 pounds, and squat 265 pounds; two and a half times her own weight.
- Jimmy Lyon
"Jimmy Lyon" (born James Douglas Lyon on May 22, 1955) is an American rock guitarist. Lyon is known primarily as the guitarist for Eddie Money in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and as a member of the Greg Kihn Band in the early 1990s. Lyon was the lone guitarist on Money's first two albums "Eddie Money" and "Life For The Taking". He was the lead guitarist on the albums "Playing for Keeps" and "No Control".
- Jennifer Lyon
Jennifer "Jenn" Lyon (born on February 27,1972) is a nanny currently attending California State University, Northridge, who was a contestant on the CBS reality television series Survivor: Palau. Jenn grew up in Washington and Oregon and has also lived in Spain and London, England. On Survivor: Palau, Jenn's friendship/romance with fellow castaway Gregg Carey was largely responsible for her success in the game. For a time, Jenn, Gregg, Ian Rosenberger, Katie Gallagher, …
- Barrett Lyon
Barrett Lyon born March 18, 1978, is the founder of Prolexic, the world's first DDoS defence service, a company started from his bedroom that grew into a multi-national coproration protecting hundreds of its customers against attacks. He is also the creator of The Opte Project that mapped the entire Internet, creating intricate designs.
- Rick Lyon
Rick Lyon is a puppeteer and actor originally from Rochester, New York, who has worked for the Jim Henson Company as one of the operators of Big Bird. He appeared on Broadway originating the roles of several characters in "Avenue Q", a musical for which he designed and created the puppets. In the fall of 2005 he reprised his roles as Nicky and Trekkie Monster in the production of the show in Las Vegas for nine months, where he met and married co-star Tonya Dixon, …
- Nick Lyon
Nick Lyon (born April 25 1970, in Pocatello, Idaho) is a writer and director, with the films "Grendel" (2006), "Punk Love" (2006), "I Love You, Baby" (2000) and "Hilda Humphrey" (1997) to his credit.
- John Lyon 5th Earl of Strathmore and Kin
John Lyon, 5th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (1696-November 13 1715) was a Scottish peer and the son of John Lyon, 4th Earl of Strathmore. He was killed in 1715, aged 19, at the Battle of Sheriffmuir.
- Juliet Lyon
Juliet Lyon succeeded Stephen Shaw as Director of the Prison Reform Trust when he was appointed Prisons and Probation Ombudsman in 1999. PRT provides information, conducts research and works as the secretariat to the All Party Penal Affairs Group. Before joining PRT, Juliet was associate director of the Trust for the Study of Adolescence. She has worked in mental health and in education as head of a psychiatric unit school.
- Waldo K. Lyon
Dr. Waldo K. Lyon (died May 5, 1998) was the founder and chief research scientist for the U.S. Navy of the Arctic Submarine Laboratory at the Naval Electronics Laboratory. He retired in 1996 after 55 years of government service. During his career he advised top Navy officials on essential matters of national defense and was personally thanked by Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy for his efforts.
- Sue Lyon
Sue Lyon (born July 10, 1946 in Davenport, Iowa) is a former Golden Globe winning American actress.
- Alex Lyon
Alexander Ward Lyon (15 October 1931 - 30 September 1993) was a British Labour politician. Lyon was educated at West Leeds High School and University College, London. He became a barrister, called to the Bar at Inner Temple in 1954. He was a member of the Bar Council and of the Fabian Society. He was also a local Methodist preacher and secretary of Leeds North West Constituency Labour Party. Lyon was elected Member of Parliament for the City of York in 1966, …
- Harold L. Lyon
Harold L. Lyon (born 1930) is a painter originally from Canada. He spent his youth working in the northern Ontario woods with his father before attending the Meinzinger School of Art in Detroit, Michigan. He also attended the Ontario College of Art in Toronto. Lyon then taught art on his own CBC television series, worked in advertising, and illustrated on a freelance basis, including time working as an illustrator for the Hudson's Bay Company in Calgary, …
- Lucius Lyon
Lucius Lyon (February 26, 1800-September 24, 1851) was a U.S. statesman from the state of Michigan. He was born in Shelburne, Vermont, where he received a common school education and studied engineering and surveying. He moved to Bronson, Michigan, in 1821 where he became a land surveyor, eventually becoming the Deputy Surveyor General of the Michigan Territory. In 1829, he was commissioned to rebuild the Fort Gratiot Lighthouse at the entrance to the St.
- Richard F. Lyon
Richard Francis Lyon (1819-1894) was a Georgia attorney and jurist before and during the Confederacy.
- Nathaniel Lyon
Nathaniel Lyon (July 14, 1818 - August 10, 1861) was the first Union general to be killed in the American Civil War and is noted for his actions in the state of Missouri at the beginning of the conflict. Lyon is a controversial figure in American history. Some credit his quick action and hard line Unionism for stopping the Missouri secession movement. Others question his influence peddling and his role in events such as the St. Louis Massacre, …
- Annabel Lyon
Annabel Lyon (born 1971) is a Canadian short story writer. She has a degree in philosophy from Simon Fraser University and an MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia. Her collection of three novellas, "The Best Thing for You" (2004), was nominated for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.
- Edward E. Lyon
Edward Eugene Lyon (08 August 1871 &d 18 November 1931) was a United States Army Private awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for actions on 13 May 1899. Private Lyon was part of the Young's Scouts, 2nd Oregon Volunteer Regiment. He later became a police sergeant. Private Lyon is buried in Hollywood Cemetery, Hollywood, California.
- Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon
Del Martin (born May 5, 1921) and Phyllis Lyon (born 1924) are an American lesbian couple known as feminist and gay-rights activists.
- Danny Lyon
Danny Lyon (born 1942), is a self-taught American photographer and filmmaker. He is also credited as an accomplished writer to accompany his photographs. He studied history at the University of Chicago, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1963. That same year, he published his first photographs working for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
- Homer L. Lyon
Homer Le Grand Lyon (March 1, 1879 - May 31, 1956) was a U.S. Representative from North Carolina. Born in Elizabethtown, North Carolina, Lyon attended the public schools, the Davis Military School, Winston, North Carolina, and the law department of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was admitted to the bar in 1900 and commenced practice in Whiteville, North Carolina. He served as delegate to every Democratic State convention from 1901 to 1921.
- Constantius Of Lyon
Constantius of Lyon was a priest from what is Auvergne in modern-day France, who wrote a hagiography of Saint Germanus of Auxerre. He was a friend of Sidonius Apollinaris and Bishop Lupus of Troyes.
- Ross Lyon
Ross Lyon (born November 8, 1966) is a former Australian rules footballer. He is of no relation to Garry Lyon.
- Hylan B. Lyon
Hylan B. Lyon (1836 - April 25 1907) was a general of the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. He would be best remembered for a raid into Kentucky in December 1864 in which his troops burned seven county courthouses.
- Robert W. Lyon
- Flt Sgt John Lyon
Flight Sergeant John Lyon (9 April 1916 - 20 March 1943) served in the Royal Australian Air Force during World War II. He was captured by the Japanese and executed at Salamua aged 26. On 18 March 1943 he was the Wireless Operator/Air Gunner (WAG) in an RAAF Boston bomber piloted by Flight Lieutenant 'Bill' Newton VC. The mission was to attack buildings at Salamua which they achieved but the aircraft burst into flames from anti-aircraft fire.
- George Lyon
George Lyon was a captain in the British Army and a Canadian businessman and politician. He was born in Inveraray, Scotland in 1790. In November 1810, he came to Canada to serve with the 100th Foot Glasgow Infantry Regiment. He served with them in the War of 1812. After the regiment disbanded in 1818, he was given a land grant of 500 acres (2 km²) and settled in Richmond, Ontario. He acquired additional lands when he built a grist mill and sawmill there.