Lancelot was a knight of the mythical Round Table.

Lancelot or Launcelot may also refer to:

People

Given name

  • Lancelot Andrewes (1555–1626), English bishop and scholar
  • Lancelot Addison (1632–1703), English clergyman and writer
  • Lancelot Addison (Archdeacon of Dorset)
  • Lancelot Baugh Allen (1774–1845), British educator
  • Lancelot Barrington-Ward (1884–1953), British surgeon and rugby union player
  • Lancelot Blackburne (1658–1743), Archbishop of York and alleged pirate
  • Lancelot Blondeel (1498–1561), Flemish painter
  • Lancelot Stephen Bosanquet (1903–1984), British mathematician
  • Lancelot van Brederode (died 1573), Dutch military leader
  • Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1807–1862), English Bible translator
  • Lancelot "Capability" Brown (1716–1783), English landscape architect
  • Lancelot Browne (–1605), English physician
  • Lancelot Bulkeley (1568?–1650), Welsh archbishop
  • Lancelot de Carle (1508–1568), French scholar, poet and diplomat
  • Lancelot Carnegie (1861–1933), British politician and diplomat
  • Lancelot Clark (1936–2018), English shoemaker
  • Lancelot Colson (1627 – c. 1687), English astrologer
  • Lancelot Curran (1899–1984), Northern Ireland High Court judge and parliamentarian
  • Lancelot Cutforth (1899–1980), British Army officer
  • Lancelot de Mole (1880–1950), Australian engineer and inventor
  • Lancelot Dent (died 1853), British opium dealer in China
  • Lancelot Dowbiggin (1685–1759), English architect
  • Lancelot Driffield (1880–1917), English cricketer
  • Lancelot Elphinstone (1879–1965), Attorney General of Ceylon
  • Lancelot Errington (1657–1745), English Jacobite mariner
  • Lancelot Fish (1861–1924), Archdeacon of Bath
  • Lancelot Gittens (born 1974), Guyanese athlete
  • Launcelot Goody (1908–1992), Australian Roman Catholic bishop
  • Lancelot Graham (1880–1958), British Indian civil servant
  • Lancelot Grove (1905–1943), British cricketer and army officer
  • Lancelot Hansen (1885–1928), Australian rugby league footballer
  • Lancelot Hare (1851–1922), British civil servant, Lieutenant-governor of Bengal
  • Lancelot Gerald Hasluck (1861–1937), English surveyor and philanthropist
  • Lancelot Hemus (1881–1923), New Zealand cricketer
  • Launcelot Henderson (born 1951), British Lord Justice of Appeal
  • Lancelot Hickes (1884–1965), British Army officer
  • Lancelot Hogben (1895–1975), British zoologist and statistician
  • Lancelot Holland (1887–1941), British admiral who fought and died in the Battle of the Denmark Strait
  • Lancelot Holland (British Army officer) (1781–1859), British Army officer and diarist
  • Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen (born 1971), Nigerian filmmaker
  • Lancelot Joynson-Hicks, 3rd Viscount Brentford (1902–1983), British politician
  • Launcelot Kiggell (born 1954), British Army officer
  • Lancelot Lake (1609–1680), English lawyer, landowner and politician
  • Lancelot Layne (died 1990), Trinidadian musician
  • Lancelot Lowther, 6th Earl of Lonsdale (1867–1953), English peer
  • Lancelot Oliphant (1881–1965), British diplomat
  • Launcelot Percival (1869–1941), Anglican priest and sportsman
  • Lancelot Perowne (1902–1982), British Army officer
  • Lancelot Phelps (1784–1866), American politician
  • Lancelot Phelps (priest) (1853–1936), British clergyman and educator
  • Lancelot Ribeiro (1933–2010), British Indian artist
  • Lancelot Richardson (1895–1917), Australian flying ace
  • Lancelot Richdale (1900–1983), New Zealand teacher and ornithologist
  • Lancelot Ridley (died 1576), English theologian
  • Lancelot Robinson (1905–1935), English cricketer
  • Lancelot Rolleston (1785–1862), British politician
  • Lancelot Royle (1898–1978), British sprinter and businessman
  • Lancelot de Saint-Maard (died 1278), marshal of France
  • Lancelot Salkeld (1475–1560), English clergyman
  • Lancelot Sanderson (1863–1944), British politician and judge
  • Lancelot Shadwell (1779–1850), English barrister and politician
  • Lancelot Cayley Shadwell (1882–1963), English writer, lyricist, and ceramicist
  • Lancelot II Schetz (died 1664), 2nd Count of Grobbendonk, Netherlandish nobleman and military commander
  • Lancelot Slee (–1878), English farmer and smuggler
  • Lancelot Slocock (1886–1916), English rugby union player
  • Lancelot Smith (–1956), Australian rugby union player
  • Lancelot Speed (1860–1931), British illustrator
  • Lancelot Spicer (1893–1979), British politician
  • Lancelot Spurr (1897–1965), Australian politician
  • Lancelot Stirling (1849–1932), Australian politician and grazier
  • Lancelot Threlkeld (1788–1859), English missionary in Australia
  • Lancelot II of Ursel (1499–1573), mayor of Antwerp
  • Lancelot Volders (1636–1723), Flemish painter
  • Launcelot Ward (1875–1929), British Army officer
  • Lancelot Ware (1915–2000), English barrister and biochemist
  • Lancelot Law Whyte (1896–1972) was a Scottish philosopher, scientist and financier

Surname

  • André Lancelot (born 1900), French rower
  • Claude Lancelot, (–1695), French monk and grammarian
  • Jacques Lancelot (1920–2009), French clarinetist
  • James Lancelot (born 1952), English organist and choir conductor
  • Livia Lancelot (born 1988), French motocross racer

Fictional characters

  • Lancelot Gobbo, a character in The Merchant of Venice
  • Launcelot Langstaff, the pseudonymous author of the satirical periodical Salmagundi
  • Lancelot Lakeknight, a character in the Battle Arena Toshinden fighting game series
  • Lancelot Richmond, a character in Nexo Knights
  • Lancelot, a hero in Mobile Legends: Bang Bang and its spin-off Mobile Legends: Adventure
  • Lancelot, a codename for several Kingsmans agents including James Spencer and his successor Roxanne "Roxy" Morton

Arts

  • Lancelot-Grail, a volume of medieval French works that are a major source of Arthurian legend
  • Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart, a 12th-century poem by Chretien de Troyes
  • Lancelot (novel), a 1978 novel by Walker Percy
  • Lancelot du Lac (film), a 1974 film directed by Robert Bresson
  • "Lancelot" (Merlin), an episode of the 2008 BBC TV series
  • Lancelot (video game), a 1988 text adventure game
  • Lanzelot, 1969 opera by Paul Dessau

Places

  • Lancelot, South Australia, a ghost town
  • Lancelot Inlet, an arm of Malaspina Inlet in the Desolation Sound area of the Coast of British Columbia, Canada

Other uses

  • Lancelet, a group of primitive chordates
  • Launcelot (horse), a racehorse
  • 2041 Lancelot, an asteroid
  • Brasserie Lancelot, French brewery
  • Lancelot Press, Canadian publishing company

See also

  • Sir Lancelot (disambiguation)