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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:
Of a person:
- Les Crane announcer, talk show host, interviewer
- Bob Crane, American DJ and actor, played Hogan in the sitcom Hogan's Heros
- Brian Crane, creator of the Pickles comic strip
- Caprice Crane screenwriter, author, and producer
- Charles Crane, former mayor of Honolulu
- Darla Crane, porn star
- Dody Crane, Canadian lawyer and New Democratic party candidate
- Hart Crane, American poet
- Louis Crane, quantum gravity theorist
- Matt Crane, American actor, noted for his part in the soap opera Another World
- Phil Crane, American politician, long serving Republican member of the US House of Representitives
- Roy Crane, American cartoonist
- Stephen Crane, American author
- Vincent Crane, founder of rock group Atomic Rooster
- Walter Crane, English artist, part of the Arts and Crafts movement
- William M. Crane, US naval officer
- Winthrop M. Crane, governor of Massachusetts and US senator
Of a fictional character:
- Denny Crane, lawyer on Boston Legal
- Frasier Crane, title character of the sitcom Frasier
- 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
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.