McCandless explained

McCandless may refer to:

People

• McCandless (surname)

Places

• McCandless, Pennsylvania, US, a home-rule municipality of 29,000 people
• McCandless Archeological Site, near Elkton, Maryland, US

Other uses

• The McCandless method for stage lighting, authored by Stanley McCandless
• USS McCandless (FF-1084), a US Navy frigate named for Byron McCandless and Bruce McCandless I
• McCandless Lunar Lander, named for Bruce McCandless II

See also

• McCandlish, a less common form of the name
• McCanles Gang (sometimes also rendered McCandless), an alleged outlaw gang in the American West of the early 1860s
• "Mac" McCandless, antagonist (played by Anthony Hopkins) in the film Freejack
• McCandles, protagonist family in the 1971 western film Big Jake
• McCanles, protagonist family in the 1946 western film Duel in the Sun and the Niven Busch novel on which it was based