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Lone Wolf

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ357948 ↗
Source-derived summary

A lone wolf is a wolf not belonging to a pack.

Lone wolf, Lone Wolf, The Lone Wolf, or Lone Wolves, may also refer to:

Law and politics

Lone wolf terrorism, terrorism planned and committed by a single person

Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock, a United States Supreme Court case

Literature

Lone Wolf, a book by Kathryn Lasky, part of the series called Wolves of the Beyond

The Lone Wolf, a 1914 novel by Louis Joseph Vance

Lone Wolf (character) or Michael Lanyard, a character in a series of detective books by Louis Joseph Vance

“Lone Wolf”, the field name of fictional character John Rambo

Lone Wolf, a book by Maryanne Vollers about bomber Eric Robert Rudolph

Lone Wolf (gamebooks), a series of gamebooks created by Joe Dever

Lone Wolf (Shadowrun novel), a 1994 novel with the atmosphere of the role-playing game Shadowrun, published by Roc Books

Lone Wolf (Jabotinsky biography), a 1996 biography of Ze'ev Jabotinsky

Lone Wolf (Muchamore novel), 2014

Lone Wolf (Picoult novel), 2012

Lone Wolf and Cub, a 1970 Japanese graphic novel

Music

Lone Wolf (Hank Williams Jr. album), 1990

Lone Wolf (Michael Martin Murphey album), 1978

"Lone Wolf", a song by Eels from Shootenanny!

"Lone Wolf", a song by Eric Church from Heart & Soul

"Lone Wolf", a song by Corey Hart from Young Man Running

"Lone Wolf", the theme tune for videogame character Guile

"Lone Wolf", a song by Judas Priest from Firepower

"Lone Wolf", a song by Madi Diaz from Fatal Optimist

Lone Wolf Management, a record label run by Karl Wolf

"Lonewolf", a song by Running Wild from Blazon Stone

"Lone Wolves", a song by Paris Hilton

Film, TV, and games

Lone Wolf, a masked character in the video game Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City

Lone Wolf, a pickpocket in the video game Final Fantasy VI

The Lone Wolf, a 1917 American silent film based on the 1914 novel of the same name by Louis Joseph Vance

The Lone Wolf (1924 film), another adaptation of the Vance novel

The Lone Wolf (1952 film), a Mexican western film directed by Vicente Oroná

Lone Wolf (1978 film), a Soviet film

Lone Wolf (2021 film), an Australian science fiction drama thriller film

Lone Wolf (2026 film), a Czech war docudrama.

The Lone Wolf (TV series), a 1954 television series based on Vance's character, featuring Louis Hayward

Lone Wolves (adventure), 1984 tabletop roleplaying game

Lone Wolf: The Roleplaying Game, published in 2005

Lone Wolf McQuade, a 1983 film starring Chuck Norris

Joe Dever's Lone Wolf, a 2013 video game

People

Lone Wolf [the Elder] (1820–1879), Guipago, last Principal Chief of the Kiowa tribe

Lone Wolf the Younger (c. 1843–1923), Kiowa leader

Lone Wolf, the Blackfoot name of artist Hart Merriam Schultz

Ted Lone Wolf (fl.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Lone Wolf” is wikimedia disambiguation page. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Lone, Wolf and Wikimedia, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1914, 1994, 1996, 2014—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Lone, Wolf and Wikimedia is the immediate research focus.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q357948. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1914, 1994, 1996 and 2014.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lone Wolf” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.