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Lando is a masculine given name and surname used in various languages. In popular culture, it is best known as Lando Calrissian, a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise created by George Lucas. Calrissian first appears in The Empire Strikes Back (1980) as the suave administrator of Cloud City, a gambler and pilot who becomes an ally of the Rebel Alliance and Han Solo. Another notable bearer is Lando Norris (born 1999), a British racing driver who competes in Formula One for McLaren.

In technology, Lando refers to an open-source local development environment and workflow tool. Lando helps developers create and manage containerized development environments using Docker. It provides prebuilt configurations called recipes for common web stacks and frameworks, including WordPress, Drupal, Laravel, and Symfony, and can orchestrate databases, caches, and web servers. Lando emphasizes reproducibility and cross-platform compatibility, aiming to simplify setup for multi-project workflows and to integrate with CI pipelines.

The name has other informal uses as a given name or nickname in various regions. It is primarily encountered as a proper noun in the contexts described above.