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McCandless

McCandless may refer to:

McCandless (surname)

McCandless is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Al McCandless (born 1927), U.S. Congressman
  • Billy McCandless (1894–1955), former Northern Irish professional footballer
  • Bruce McCandless (1911–1968), rear admiral in the U.S. Navy and Medal of Honor recipient
  • Bruce McCandless II (born 1937), astronaut who made the first untethered spacewalk
  • Byron McCandless (1881–1967), vexillologist and commodore in the U.S. Navy
  • Christopher McCandless (1968–1992), American hiker and itinerant traveler who starved to death in Alaska, and the subject of the multiple non-fiction books and documentaries, beginning with Into the Wild (1996)
  • Lincoln Loy McCandless (1859–1940), American cattle rancher, industrialist and politician from Hawaii
  • Paul McCandless (born 1947), American jazz woodwind player and composer
  • Ray B. McCandless (1889–1931), American college sports coach
  • Stanley McCandless (1897–1967), widely considered to be the first theatrical lighting educator
  • William McCandless (1834–1884), Union Army officer in the American Civil War and later member of the Pennsylvania State Senate
  • Wilson McCandless (1810-1882), United States Federal Judge from Pittsburgh, PA

Usage examples of "mccandless".

McCandless said, and swerved away to where Colonel Wallace was chivvying his men into formation.

Mounting to her eyes, her vexation seized wherever she turned them to be seized in turn by the unwavering leer of the Masai warrior on the magazine cover displayed, along with Town & Country and a National Geographic, on the coffee table, and she picked up the bird book for refuge in godwits and curlews, sandpipers, snipe, the repose they conjured as quickly gone with another turn of the page and she was up and through the kitchen, tapping on the white door Mister McCandless?

Appah Rao's choice lay between the Muslim usurpers and foreign domination, and McCandless knew only too well of the simmering distrust that lay between Hindus and Muslims.

The Indian escort was armed with lances, sabres and pistols, while McCandless carried a claymore, a horse pistol and a carbine that was holstered on his saddle.