George Sherman Lane (28 September 1902 in Wayne County, Iowa – 18 September 1981 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina) was an American linguist.
Lane began his studies in 1922 at the University of Iowa, where he studied under Henning Larsen[1] and received his first award, the Early English Text Society Prize.
[2] In 1926, he graduated first of his class,[3] and in 1927 obtained a Master of Arts in English.
[1] At the University of Chicago he collaborated with Carl Darling Buck on the latter's Dictionary of selected synonyms in the principal Indo-European languages.
[4] His son, Eugene N. Lane (1936–2007), became a professor in classical philology.