Rankine is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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W. J. M. Rankine (1820–1872), Scottish engineer and physicist
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Rankine body an elliptical shape of significance in fluid dynamics, named for Rankine
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Rankine scale, an absolute-temperature scale related to the Fahrenheit scale, named for Rankine
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Rankine cycle, a thermodynamic heat-engine cycle, also named after Rankine
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Rankine Lecture, a lecture delivered annually by an expert in the field of geotechnics
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Alan Rankine (born 1958), Scottish rock musician
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Alexander Rankine (1881–1956), British physicist
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Andy Rankine (1895–1965), Scottish footballer
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Camille Rankine, American poet
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Claudia Rankine (born 1963), American poet and playwright
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Dean Rankine, Australian comics artist
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George Rankine Irwin, (1907–1998) American materials scientist
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James Rankine (1828–1897), South Australian politician
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Jennifer Rankine (born 1953), South Australian politician
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John Rankine (1918–2013), British science fiction author
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John Rankine (Australian politician) (1801–1864), South Australian physician and politician
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John Rankine (governor) (1907–1987), British colonial administrator
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Leila Rankine (1932–1993), Aboriginal Australian poet, co-founder of the Centre for Aboriginal Studies in Music at the University of Adelaide
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Mark Rankine (born 1969), English footballer
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Michael Rankine (born 1985), English footballer
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Scotty Rankine (1909–1995), Canadian Olympic athlete
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Thomas Rankine (born 1978), American musician
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William Rankine Milligan, Lord Milligan (1898–1975), Scottish judge and politician
See also
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Organic Rankine cycle
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Rankin (disambiguation)
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Rankine (crater)
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Rankine power station
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Rankine theory
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Rankine vortex
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Rankine's method
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Rankine–Hugoniot equation
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Trouton–Rankine experiment
