Kane is a surname of English or Irish origin. In England, it is derived from the old English name (k)cana.^[1] In Ireland however, the name is of different origins as an anglicisation of Mac Catháin, and in Scotland, a sept of Clan MacMillan.

Artists

• Adelaide Kane, Australian actress
• Amory Kane, American composer and musician
• Art Kane, fashion and music photographer (who created the 1958 portrait of 57 jazz musicians, A Great Day in Harlem)
• Arthur Kane, American bassist of the New York Dolls
• Barbara Sanchez-Kane, Mexican fashion designer
• Ben Kane, English novelist, specialising in historical fiction.
• Ben Kane (record producer), American record producer
• Big Daddy Kane, American rapper
• Bob Kane, most famous as the creator of Batman
• Candye Kane (1965–2016), American blues and jazz performer
• Carol Kane, American actress
• Chelsea Kane, American actress and singer, originally known as Chelsea Staub
• Chris Kane, Australian guitarist and songwriter of Eye of the Enemy
• Christian Kane, American actor and country musician
• Christopher Kane, Scottish fashion designer
• Clinton Kane (born 1998/1999), Australian singer, songwriter, and musician
• David Kane (pianist), US/Scottish composer and jazz pianist
• Eden Kane (born 1940), British singer
• Gil Kane, comic book artist
• Greg Kane (musician) (born 1966), Scottish musician, and co-member of Hue and Cry
• Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Senegalese writer.
• Harry Kane (illustrator) (1912–1988), American illustrator and artist
• Henry B. Kane (1902–1971), American illustrator, photographer, and author of nature books for children
• Herb Kawainui Kane, artist-historian and author.
• John Kane (artist), Scottish painter
• Joseph Kane, U.S. film director and producer
• Justin Kane, American actor
• Kevin Kane (musician), Canadian songwriter
• Kimberly Kane, American pornographic actress
• Miles Kane, British singer
• Phil Kane, Scottish keyboard player of The Silencers
• Samuel Kane (born 1968), British actor
• Sarah Kane, English playwright
• Thommy Kane, Actor, filmmaker, Songwriter and composer
• Tom Kane, American voice actor

Sportspeople

• Ben Kane (footballer), Australian Australian rules footballer
• Boyd Kane, hockey player for the AHL's Hershey Bears
• DeAndre Kane, American basketball player in the Israeli Premier League and EuroLeague
• Evander Kane, hockey player for the NHL's Edmonton Oilers
• George Francis Kane (born 1948), American chess master
• Harry Kane (born 1993), English footballer
• Harry Kane (baseball) (1883–1932), American baseball player
• Harry Kane (hurdler) (born 1933), British hurdler
• Herbie Kane (born 1998), English footballer
• Jim Kane (disambiguation), multiple people
• Justin Kane, Australian boxer
• Patrick Kane, hockey player for the NHL's Detroit Red Wings
• Rick Kane (1954–2009), NFL running back played for the Detroit Lions and Washington Redskins
• Stanley Kane, English footballer
• Todd Kane, English footballer
• Tony Kane, Irish footballer

Politicians and military people

• Elisha Kent Kane, medical officer in the United States Navy during the first half of the 19th century, member of two arctic expeditions
• James Kane (1895–1964), Australian politician
• Kathleen Kane (born 1966), Pennsylvania lawyer and former attorney general convicted of felony perjury
• Michael N. Kane (1851–1924), American lawyer, judge, and politician
• Richard Rutledge Kane, Resident Commissioner of the Solomon Islands Protectorate
• Thomas L. Kane (1822–1883), American Civil War general and founder of Kane, Pennsylvania

Scholars

• Charles L. Kane, American theoretical physicist
• Daniel Kane (linguist), Australian linguist, expert on Jurchen and Khitan languages
• Daniel Kane (mathematician) (born 1986), American mathematician
• Pandurang Vaman Kane (1880–1972), Sanskrit scholar and an awardee of the Bharat Ratna
• Thomas R. Kane, American academic

Science and medical

• Evan O'Neill Kane (1861–1932), surgeon who performed several self-operations
• Gordon L. Kane, scientific leader in theoretical and phenomenological particle physics
• Jasper H. Kane, (1903–2004), American biochemist
• Katherine Sophia Kane (1811–1886), Irish botanist
• Shanley Kane, American technology writer
• Suzanne Amador Kane, American scientist

Other

• Agnes Kane Callum (1925–2015), American genealogist
• Carol Kane (businesswoman), co-founder and joint CEO of Boohoo.com
• Nichola Kane, Scottish broadcast journalist
• Kane (noble family), a Norwegian noble family
• Vincent Kane, British news reporter

Fictional

• Barry Kane from Saboteur
• Bette Kane, or Betty Kane, the DC Comics Pre-Crisis Bat-Girl
• Billy Kane, a video game character created by SNK Playmore, appearing in the Fatal Fury and The King of Fighters series
• Carter and Sadie Kane, protagonists from the series The Kane Chronicles by Rick Riordan
• Charles Foster Kane from Citizen Kane
• Erica Kane, fictional character from the American television soap opera All My Children
• Fergus K. Kane from Lady in the Lake
• Garrison Kane, comic book character from the Marvel Universe
• Gilbert Kane, character in the film Alien
• Reverend Henry Kane, fictional character from the Poltergeist film trilogy
• John Kane, a fictional character who appeared in a number of episodes of "So Weird", portrayed by Canadian-British actor Mackenzie Gray
• John Michael Kane, one of the aliases of Jason Bourne in the Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum
• Kathy/Kate Kane, Batwoman
• Lucas Kane, protagonist of the video game Fahrenheit a.k.a. Indigo Prophecy
• Marcus Kane from The 100 (TV series)
• Marshall Kane from Community
• Matthew Kane, the protagonist of the computer game Quake 4
• Needles Kane, character in the video game series Twisted Metal originally developed by Singletrac
• Solomon Kane, fictional 16th century Puritan adventurer created by Robert E. Howard
• Will Kane from High Noon

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