Finn

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A Finn is usually Finnish (disambiguation page) in one or another sense of that word.

"Finn" may also be used in several different ways:

Contents 1 People 1.1 Legendary people 1.2 Real people 1.3 Fictional people 2 Personal name 3 Things

[edit] People

[edit] Legendary people

• High Kings of Ireland Ailill Finn, Duach Finn, Fiatach Finn, Eber Finn, or Cearmna Finn.
• Fionn mac Cumhail (Finn mac Cumhal; anglicised to Finn McCool) was a legendary warrior of Irish mythology.
• Finn (Frisian) is a Frisian lord who appears in Beowulf and The Fight at Finnsburg.
• Finn is the name of the giant who, according to folk mythology, built the cathedral in Lund.
• Character in The Bayern Books (Shannon Hale)

[edit] Real people

• William Finn, composer
• The band Finn now known as Finn Brothers led by Neil Finn and Tim Finn
• Other musicians Jon Finn, Simon Finn, Jason Finn, and Micky Finn (not Mickey Finn)
• Robert Finn (ambassador)
• Robert Finn (bishop)
• Mike Finn, playwright
• Pat Finn, game show host
• Paul Anthony Finn, Irish singer, songwriter with The Flaws
• John Finn, actor
• Jim Finn, American football Fullback for the New York Giants
• James Henry Fynn VC
• Old Norwegian word for Sami people

[edit] Fictional people

• Huckleberry Finn
• Finn in Jackie Chan Adventures
• Finn Whitman in The Kingdom Keepers
• Phineas Finn
• Riley Finn
• Finn, comics
• Finn (rat)
• The Finn, a character in William Gibson's Sprawl Trilogy
• Finn (Peter O'Finney), friend of Jake, in Iris Murdoch's Under the Net
• Dewey Finn [School of Rock]

[edit] Personal name

• Finn Nielsen, Danish actor
• Finn Kalvik, Norwegian singer and composer
• Finn E. Kydland, Noble Prize winning economics professor

[edit] Things

• Finn (dinghy), an Olympic class of sailing dinghy.
• Finn may be a variant of fin, a colloquial term for the U.S. five dollar bill bearing a portrait of Abraham Lincoln.
• Finn (song), a song by Tori Amos for the Great Expectations (film) soundtrack.