Flood (disambiguation)
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A flood or deluge is an overflow of water upon the land.
[edit] The Worldwide Flood
- Great Flood, a widespread theme in many mythologies
- Biblical flood, of the Hebrew Bible
[edit] As a surname
- Ann Flood, American actress
- Anthony Flood, Irish football player
- Chris Flood, Irish politician
- Clare Flood, Irish badminton player
- Curt Flood, American baseball player
- Daniel J. Flood, U.S. Representative in Congress
- Dennis Flood, mayor of Irvington, New York
- Edward Flood, Australian politician
- Gerald Flood, British actor
- Henry Flood, Irish statesman and member of Parliament
- Jenny Flood, Australian philanthropist
- Liam Flood, Irish poker player
- Lisa Flood, former Olympic Canadian swimmer
- Martin Flood, second winner of the Australian TV show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
- Michael Flood, Australian sociologist
- Mike Flood, Nebraska state senator
- Philip Flood, Australian diplomat
- Sarah Flood-Beaubrun, laywer and politician from Saint Lucia
- Sonny Flood, British actor
- Toby Flood, English rugby player
- W. H. Grattan Flood, Irish musicologist, historian, and author
- Willo Flood, Irish footballer
Also
- Flood (record producer), real name Mark Ellis
[edit] In arts and entertainment
[edit] Literature
- Flood, a 1985 novel by Andrew Vachss
- Flood: A Romance of Our Time, a novel by Robert Penn Warren
[edit] Music
- Flood, the pen name of record producer Mark Ellis
- Flood, a 1990 album by They Might Be Giants
- "Flood," a song by Jars of Clay
- "Flood," a song from the 1993 album Undertow by Tool
- The Flood, a country & western band from Australia
- The Flood, a musical play by Igor Stravinsky
- "Flood I" and "Flood II," two songs from the 1987 album Floodland by The Sisters of Mercy
- "Floods," a song by Pantera
- Flood, a 70-minute song by Japanese metal band Boris
[edit] Games
- Flood, a computer game by Bullfrog Productions
- The Flood, an enemy race from the Halo video game series
[edit] Television
- "Flooded" (Buffy episode), an episode of the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer
[edit] In computing
- Network flood, a class of denial-of-service attacks
- Flood fill, an image-filling algorithm
- Flooding algorithm, an algorithm for distributing material to every part of a network
- Usenet flood, a large number of messages being posted by the same user on the same topic
- IRC flood
[edit] Other contexts
- Flood is a Christian church in San Diego, California
- Flooding (Australian football), a tactic used in Australian rules football
- flooding (psychology), to expose a phobia sufferer to his fear
- Floods are a type of trousers.