Finn
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For the European ethnic group, see Finns.
For people sharing the surname or given name "Finn", see Finn (name).
Finn (pl. Finns) is commonly used to refer to a member of the Finn ethnic group or a citizen of Finland.
"Finn" may also refer to:
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[edit] Various
- a short form of Finnegan
- Finn (dinghy), an Olympic class of sailing dinghy
- Finn: A Novel, a 2007 novel by Jon Clinch
- Phineas Finn, an 1867 novel by Anthony Trollope and the name of its leading character
- a variant of fin, a colloquial term for the U.S. five dollar bill bearing a portrait of Abraham Lincoln
- "Finn", a song by Tori Amos for the Great Expectations (1998 film) soundtrack.
- Finn (album), a 1995 album by the Finn Brothers.
- Finn: Gaelic, an oak tree; a family or clan native to County Cork, Ireland.
- River Finn in Northern Ireland
- Finn Township, Logan County, North Dakota, in the United States
- "Finn (The Lost World)", an episode in the television series The Lost World
- As a verb, an attempt to pull rank based on how long one has been on IRC[1]
[edit] Legendary people
- several legendary High Kings of Ireland (Finn or Fionn is Irish for "white", "bright" or "fair"):
- Eber Finn, 1700 BC (AFM), 1287-1286 BC (FFE)
- Cearmna Finn, 1533-1493 BC (AFM), 1155-1115 BC (FFE)
- Finn mac Blatha, 952-930 BC (AFM), 725-705 BC (FFE)
- Duach Finn, 904-894 BC (AFM), 679-674 BC (FFE)
- Ailill Finn, 795-786 BC (AFM), 586-577 BC (FFE)
- Fiatach Finn, 36-39 AD (AFM), 25-28 AD (FFE)
- Fionn mac Cumhail (Finn mac Cumhal; anglicised to Finn McCool), a legendary warrior of Irish mythology
- Finn (Frisian), a Frisian King, who appears in Beowulf and The Fight at Finnsburg
- Finn, the giant who, according to folk mythology, built the Lund Cathedral
Jay Finn-The boy who according to Aberdonian folk lore single handedly caught enough fish to last the town 4 months.
[edit] Fictitious people
- Finn (comics), the eponymous hero of a strip written by Pat Mills
- Finn (rat), a fictional rat character in the popular Deptford Mice books by Robin Jarvis
- Huckleberry Finn, the title character of the Mark Twain novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Riley Finn
- Finn Whitman, from the Ridley Pearson novel The Kingdom Keepers
- Finn, a character in the "Jackie Chan Adventures" television series; see List of Jackie Chan Adventures characters
- The Finn, a character in William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy
- Finn, one of the main protagonists of the animated television series, Storm Hawks.
- "Finn", a wizard character in the opera Ruslan and Lyudmila
- Finn is also the name of the main goldfish from the Pepperidge Farm snack crackers.
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