Ness (disambiguation)

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Contents 1 Places 2 People 3 Organizations 4 See also

Ness is a Nintendo game character.

Ness may also refer to:

[edit] Places

• Ness is an archaic word meaning a headland or cape and comes from nes in Icelandic / Old Norse and for that reason there are many places once under Viking or Norse influence that include the word
• Loch Ness
  • Loch Ness Monster
• River Ness, links the Loch to the North Sea at Inverness, Scotland, UK
• Ness, Western Isles, the most northerly area on Lewis, Scotland, UK
• Bo'ness, a town in Scotland, UK
• Lowestoft Ness, most easterly point of the UK
• Orford Ness, shingle spit and bird sanctuary in Suffolk, England, UK
• Dungeness, shingle promontory and site of a nuclear power station in Kent, England
• Ness, Ellesmere Port and Neston, a village in Cheshire on the The Wirral Peninsula, England, UK
• Ness Botanic Gardens, owned by the University of Liverpool and located on the The Wirral Peninsula, England, UK
• Langness Peninsula, in the Isle of Man
• Ness City, Kansas
• Ness Township, Minnesota

[edit] People

• Ness (Irish mythology), a princess in Irish mythology
• Cornelius P. Van Ness
• Eliot Ness, American treasury agent
• Erik Ness
• Erin Ness
• Evaline Ness
• James Van Ness
• Mike Ness, U.S. guitarist
• Tigilau Ness
• E. Ness
• Arne Næss, a Norwegian philosopher, mountaineer, and founder of deep ecology
• Arne Næss Jr., a Norwegian businessman, mountaineer, former husband of Diana Ross, nephew of Arne Næss
• Leona Naess, a English-born singer/songwriter, daughter of Arne Næss Jr.

[edit] Organizations

• New England Skeptical Society (NESS), a Skeptical organization
• Ness Technologies, a global provider of IT services
• Ness Foundation, a medical research charity near Inverness, Scotland

[edit] See also

• Nes, disambiguation
• NES (disambiguation)