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cranston

n. 1 (surname) 2 A city in Rhode Island

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Cranston, RI -- U.S. city in Rhode Island
Population (2000): 79269
Housing Units (2000): 32068
Land area (2000): 28.569312 sq. miles (73.994174 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.362551 sq. miles (3.528990 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 29.931863 sq. miles (77.523164 sq. km)
FIPS code: 19180
Located within: Rhode Island (RI), FIPS 44
Location: 41.773200 N, 71.453289 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 02905 02907 02909 02910 02919 02920
02921
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Cranston

Cranston or Cranstoun is a Scottish surname originating in a clan that lived around Roxburgh in the Scottish Borders. It is a minor clan but has its own tartan and clan brooch. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Alan Cranston (1914–2000), American politician from California
  • Bryan Cranston (b. 1956), American actor
  • Catherine Cranston (1849–1934), also known as Kate Cranston or Miss Cranston, tea room proprietor
  • Earl Cranston (1840–1932), bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church
  • Edwin Cranston, professor of Japanese at Harvard University
  • John Cranston, colonial governor of Rhode Island
  • Ken Cranston (b. 1917), former English cricketer
  • Maurice Cranston (1920–1993), British philosopher and political scientist
  • Ross Cranston (b. 1948), British lawyer and politician, member of Parliament for Dudley
  • Samuel Cranston, colonial governor of Rhode Island
  • Tim Cranston (b. 1962), Canadian ice hockey player
  • Tom Cranston (b. 1983), English cricketer
  • Tom Cranston (footballer) (1891–1916), Scottish footballer
  • Toller Cranston (1949–2015), Canadian figure skater and artist

Fictional characters:

  • Billy Cranston, a character from the Power Rangers universe
  • Lamont Cranston, a crime-fighting vigilante from the 1930s series, The Shadow
Cranston (disambiguation)

Cranston is a Scottish surname.

Cranston may also refer to:

Usage examples of "cranston".

For this person who posed as Lamont Cranston, gentleman of leisure, was none other than The Shadow!

Lamont Cranston could have testified as he sat in the spacious reading room of the exclusive Cobalt Club.

Oddly, Stanley did not see Cranston leave the car when it parked at the designated place.

Meeting Lamont Cranston in the spacious first-floor hallway, he conducted his friend up a grand staircase to a very large study on the second floor of the huge mansion.

The man who shook hands with Cranston was Fred Treefe, former head of a local detective agency.

He was still nodding when he shook hands with Cranston in the lower hall.

The Shadow, known to Mileson as Lamont Cranston, had made his departure into the night.

Noting that Cranston was carrying garments that appeared to be an opera cape and a crush hat, the head waiter offered to take them to the check room.

Half stooped behind his table, he blotted out the attire that he wore as Cranston and became The Shadow.

That face, bearing the features of Lamont Cranston, was bloodless in its whiteness.

Lamont Cranston was nowhere near the office door when Beak made that call.

In less than half an hour, however, Cranston received a call of his own.

Weston was there with Mileson, but he had not been able to locate his friend Cranston, who would have made a welcome addition to the conference.

Shaking his head, when Cardona wanted to begin the story over again, Cranston joined the group, saying that he could hear the first details later.

FX-filled, big-screen remake of the life and times of Lamont Cranston and his crimestopper alter-ego years ago.