Lightfoot

Lightfoot may refer to:

  • Lightfoot (lacrosse), Native American lacrosse player
  • Chris Lightfoot (footballer) (born 1970), former English footballer
  • Claude Lightfoot (1910–1986), African-American activist
  • David Lightfoot, Australian film producer
  • Edwin N. Lightfoot, Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
  • Gordon Lightfoot (born 1938), Canadian singer-songwriter
  • Hannah Lightfoot (1730–1759), sometimes erroneously named wife of George III of the United Kingdom
  • Jim Ross Lightfoot (born 1938), former U.S. Representative from Iowa
  • John Lightfoot (1602–1675), English churchman and rabbinical scholar
  • John Lightfoot (biologist), English naturalist
  • Joseph Lightfoot, English theologian and Bishop of Durham
  • Orlando Lightfoot (born 1974), former American professional basketball player
  • Ross Lightfoot (born 1936), Liberal member of the Australian Senate

Lightfoot may also refer to:

  • Lightfoot!, the 1966 debut album by Gordon Lightfoot
  • Lightfoot, Virginia, an area of York County that is west of Williamsburg, VA
  • Operation Lightfoot, part of the Second Battle of El Alamein
  • Ardy Lightfoot, a 1993 Super Nintendo game
  • Sammy Lightfoot, a 1983 console game
  • Lightfoot (Transformers), an Autobot character from the Transformers fictional series
  • Lightfoot (G.I. Joe), a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe
  • Lightfoot House, a Grade II listed building in the UK named after the bishop
  • Lightfoot (Middle-earth), a horse from J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
  • Light-foot, the time it takes light to travel 1 foot

Famous quotes containing the word lightfoot:

    “Even though fathers, grandparents, siblings, memories of ancestors are important agents of socialization, our society focuses on the attributes and characteristics of mothers and teachers and gives them the ultimate responsibility for the child’s life chances.”
    —Sara Lawrence Lightfoot (20th century)

    “For those parents from lower-class and minority communities ... [who] have had minimal experience in negotiating dominant, external institutions or have had negative and hostile contact with social service agencies, their initial approaches to the school are often overwhelming and difficult. Not only does the school feel like an alien environment with incomprehensible norms and structures, but the families often do not feel entitled to make demands or force disagreements.”
    —Sara Lawrence Lightfoot (20th century)

    “Dissonance between family and school, therefore, is not only inevitable in a changing society; it also helps to make children more malleable and responsive to a changing world. By the same token, one could say that absolute homogeneity between family and school would reflect a static, authoritarian society and discourage creative, adaptive development in children.”
    —Sara Lawrence Lightfoot (20th century)