Crane
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Crane or cranes may be:
- Crane (bird), large long-necked birds
- Crane (machine), industrial machinery for lifting, etc
- Crane (martial arts), crane style martial arts
- Cranes (band), British goth rock band
Crane may be a surname: see Crane (surname)
Of a fictional character:
- Alistair Crane, character on the soap opera Passions
- Denny Crane, lawyer on Boston Legal
- Frasier Crane, title character of the sitcom Frasier
- Fancy Crane, character on the soap opera Passions
- Fox Crane, character on the soap opera Passions
- Jonathan Crane, a.k.a the Scarecrow, a comic book villain in the Batman series by DC comics
- Julian Crane, character on the soap opera Passions
- Ichabod Crane, protagonist in Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
- Martin Crane, character on the sitcom Frasier
- Niles Crane, character on the sitcom Frasier
- Sheridan Crane, character on the soap opera Passions
Towns named Crane:
Crane may also refer to:
- Crane Clan, of Samurai in the Legend of the Five Rings games
- Crane fly, a family of insects
- Crane Paper Company, supplier of paper for US banknotes
- Crane shot, in motion pictures, a shot taken with a camera mounted on a crane
- Crane School of Music, in Potsdam, New York
- Dallas Crane, alternative rock band from Melbourne, Australia
- USS Crane (DD-109), Wickes class destroyer, named after William M. Crane
- In the philosophy of Daniel Dennett, a material process which dispenses with the need for extrinsic explanations
- Cessna Crane, a British name for the United States built Cessna AT-17 Bobcat training aircraft
- Crane Co., an American industrial products company
- Crane (Bon Comics), a superheroine created by Bon Comics
- Crane (TV Series), a British adventure show from 1963-1965
