Garth

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A garth is an enclosed yard or garden, especially that of a monastery cloister (ME.; ON, garthr; akin to AS. geard)

In addition, Garth may refer to these real people:

• Garth Brooks, top-selling American country music artist
• Garth Ennis, Irish comics writer
• Garth Hudson, Canadian organist for The Band
• Garth Jennings, film director in Hammer & Tongs team
• Garth Kenney, CSA at the Identity and Passport Office
• Garth Nix, Australian fantasy author
• Garth Williams, American children's book illustrator
• Jennie Garth, blonde American Beverly Hills 90210 actress
• Leonard I. Garth, American judge
• Sir Samuel Garth, British physician 1661-1719

Or these fictional characters:

• Garth Algar, dim-witted fictional protagonist portrayed by Dana Carvey in Wayne's World
• Garth of Izar, also known as Lord Garth, Master of the Universe, fictional insane character in Star Trek's "Whom Gods Destroy"
• Garth (Shannara), fictional character in the The Heritage of Shannara series by Terry Brooks
• Tempest (comics), a DC Comics superhero also known as Aqualad
• Garth Marenghi, the fictional horror author
• Garth (comic strip), hero of long-running British newspaper strip, in the 1970s drawn by Frank Bellamy

Or these places or things:

• Garth (Scotland), town in Perthshire
• Garth, Shetland, settlement on the Shetland Islands
• Garth, one of many other minor place names in the United Kingdom
• Garth (comic strip), British comic strip of the 1970s drawn by Frank Bellamy
• Planet Garth, setting of David Brin's novel The Uplift War.
• Garth, pagan local worship group