Lanchester

Lanchester may refer to:


 * Places
 * Lanchester, County Durham, village in England
 * Lanchester Polytechnic, former name of Coventry University


 * People
 * Elsa Lanchester (1902–86), Oscar-nominated English character actress
 * Frederick W. Lanchester, engineer who devised Lanchester's laws and founded Lanchester Motor Company
 * Lanchester's laws, mathematical formulae for calculating the strength of military forces
 * Henry Vaughan Lanchester, architect and brother of Frederick W.
 * John Lanchester (born 1962), British journalist and novelist.


 * Other uses
 * Lanchester Motor Company, now defunct Birmingham car manufacturer
 * Lanchester 4x2 Armoured Car
 * Lanchester 6x4 Armoured Car
 * Lanchester submachine gun, submachine gun used primarily by the Royal Navy in the Second World War