Rankine
Rankine is a family name for the following people:
- Claudia Rankine (* 1963), American writer
- John Rankine (politician) (1801–1864), Australian doctor and politician
- John Rankine (lawyer) (1846–1922), Scottish lawyer
- John Rankine (Governor) (1907–1987), British colonial administrator
- John Rankine , pseudonym of the British science fiction author Douglas R. Mason (1918–2013)
- Scotty Rankine (1909-1995), Canadian long-distance runner
- William John Macquorn Rankine (1820–1872), Scottish physicist and engineer
After William John Macquorn Rankine are named:
- a temperature scale and its unit, see Rankine scale
- the Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC), process of operating steam turbines with a working medium other than water vapor
- the Clausius-Rankine cycle
- the Rankine-Hugoniot condition or Rankine-Hugoniot equation
- Rankine (moon crater)
- Rankine Rock , Nunatak in Queen Elizabeth Land of West Antarctica
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