Lamport

Lamport

Lamport may refer to:;Places
*Lamport, Buckinghamshire, England.
*Lamport, Northamptonshire, England.
**Lamport Hall is nearby
**Northampton & Lamport Railway also nearby

;People
*Allan A. Lamport, Mayor of Toronto, 1952–1954
*Leslie Lamport, American computer scientist, 1941–

;Other
*Lamport ordering
*Lamport Stadium, an arena in Toronto, Canada
*Lamport's Distributed Mutual Exclusion Algorithm


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