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'Crane' or 'cranes' may be:

★ Crane (bird), large long-necked birds

★ Crane (machine), industrial machinery for lifting

★ Crane (railroad), crane suited to use on railroads

★ Cranes (band), British goth rock band
'Crane' may be a surname: see Crane (surname)
Of a 'fictional character':

★ Alistair Crane, character on the soap opera ''Passions''

★ Denny Crane, lawyer on ''Boston Legal''

★ Frasier Crane, title character of the sitcom ''Frasier''

★ Fancy Crane, character on the soap opera ''Passions''

★ Fox Crane, character on the soap opera ''Passions''

★ Jonathan Crane, a.k.a the Scarecrow, a comic book villain in the Batman series by DC comics

★ Julian Crane, character on the soap opera ''Passions''

★ Ichabod Crane, protagonist in Washington Irving's ''The Legend of Sleepy Hollow''

★ Martin Crane, character on the sitcom ''Frasier''

★ Niles Crane, character on the sitcom ''Frasier''

★ Pretty Crane, character on the soap opera ''Passions''

★ Sheridan Crane, character on the soap opera ''Passions''
'Towns' named Crane:

★ Crane, Indiana

★ Crane, Missouri

★ Crane, Oregon

★ Crane, Texas

★ Crane, Hillingdon
'Crane' may also refer to:

★ Stephen Crane, An American Author

★ Crane Clan, of Samurai in the Legend of the Five Rings games

★ Crane fly, a family of insects

★ Crane Paper Company, supplier of paper for US banknotes

★ Crane shot, in motion pictures, a shot taken with a camera mounted on a crane

★ Crane School of Music, in Potsdam, New York

★ Dallas Crane, alternative rock band from Melbourne, Australia

★ USS Crane (DD-109), Wickes class destroyer, named after William M. Crane

★ In the philosophy of Daniel Dennett, a material process which dispenses with the need for extrinsic explanations or 'skyhooks' (see ''Darwin's Dangerous Idea'').

★ Cessna Crane, a British name for the United States built Cessna AT-17 Bobcat training aircraft

★ Crane Co., an American industrial products company

★ Crane (Bon Comics), a superheroine created by Bon Comics

★ Crane (TV Series) of 30 minute episodes in B&W, a British adventure show from 1963-1965 featuring businessman Richard Crane (Patrick Allen) who gave up life in London for a life of adventure in Morocco (where the series was filmed). Crane bought a beach front bar in Casablanca where he was under the watchful eye of Chief of Police, Colonel Mahmoud (Gerald Flood). He had an accomplice, Orlando O'Connor (Sam Kydd who got a spin off series Orlando). Glamour came in the form of bartender, Hamila (Laya Raki).

★ Crane Beach in Ipswich, Massachusetts
'Crane' may refer to a style or type of martial arts:

★ Fujian White Crane is one of five animal-inspired constituent martial arts of the "Five Ancestors Fist" style

★ Lama (martial art), which contains the practice of "Tibetan White Crane"

★ Persatuan Gerak Badan, an Indonesian martial art whose symbol is a white crane (bird)