Famous People with Name Lain

Lain Singh Bangdel            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Lain Singh Bangdel: the former Chancellor of Nepal's Royal Academy and a renowned scholar, novelist, painter and art historian. In addition to being a leading authority on Nepalese art, Bangdel was responsible for introducing the modern trend of Western art into Nepal with his pioneering one-man exhibition in Kathmandu in 1962.He spent his youth in a Himalayan village and, later, graduated with a degree in Fine Arts from the Government College of Arts and Crafts in Calcutta in 1945. In 1952, he traveled to Europe where he studied art in Paris, associated with the likes of Pablo Picasso and George Braque and made a name for himself as an artist with his distinctive, non-traditional Nepalese style.

Laine Peters            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Laine Peters: a Canadian curler from Nova Scotia. She currently plays second for Mary-Anne Arsenault.Peters was the long time alternate for the famous Colleen Jones team. Peters won 4 Tournament of Hearts and a World Championship as the alternate for the team. In 2003,

Laine Erik-Kallas            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Laine Erik-Kallas: is a retired female middle distance runner from Estonia, who twice represented the Soviet Union at the Summer Olympics: 1964 and 1968. She set her personal best in the women's 800 metres (2:03.6) on 1967-09-04 at a meet in Kiev.

Lainie Kazan            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Lainie Kazan: an American actress and singer.Kazan made her Broadway debut in The Happiest Girl in the World in 1961, followed by Bravo Giovanni (1962). She served as understudy to Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl, finally getting to go on eighteen months into the run when the star was felled by a serious throat problem. Coincidentally, both had attended the same high school, Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, New York. Kazan's mother alerted the press and, encouraged by rave reviews for her performance, she quit the show and set out to establish herself in a singing career.