Haven
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Haven is a harbor or anchorage protected from the sea, or, by extension, a place of safety; a refuge or sanctuary.
Haven may also refer to:
[edit] Books and comics
- Haven (Artemis Fowl), a place in the Artemis Fowl series
- Haven (X-Men), a villain in the X-Men comics
- A fictional town in Stephen King's novel The Tommyknockers
- Haven (DC Comics), a miniseries set in the DC Universe
- A character in the 1987 comic book Fusion
- A city in the Dragonlance series
- A city–state in the Forest Kingdom series by Simon Green
- A planet in The War World series by Jerry Pournelle
- A planet in the Foundation series of Isaac Asimov
- Republic of Haven, a star nation in David Weber's Honorverse series
[edit] Games
- Haven: Call of the King, a video game for PlayStation 2
- Haven: City of Violence, a paper and pencil role-playing game
- A "prison book" in the video game Myst IV: Revelation
- A vampire's house in the fantasy role-playing game Vampire: The Masquerade
- A political entity in the fantasy role-playing game Earthdawn
- A planet in the role-playing game Shatterzone
[edit] Music
- Haven (band), an English indie rock band
- Haven (American band), a Christian Metal band signed to R.E.X. Records
- Haven (Dark Tranquillity album)
- Haven (Flook album)
- Haven (JJ Lin album)
[edit] People
[edit] Places
- Haven, Kansas, US
- Haven, Wisconsin, US
- Haven Township, Minnesota, US
- Haven ports, a group of five docks on the East Coast of England
- The Haven, the tidal river of the Port of Boston, Lincolnshire, England
- The Havens, a community, and an electoral ward, in Pembrokeshire, Wales
[edit] Schools
- Haven High Technology College, a secondary school in Boston, Lincolnshire, England
- Haven Institute, a residential learning centre in the Gulf Islands, British Columbia, Canada
- Haven Middle School, Evanston, Illinois, US
[edit] Ships
- M/T Haven, an oil tanker that exploded at sea in 1991
- Haven class hospital ship, a class of U.S. Navy hospital ships
- USS Haven (AH-12), the lead ship of that class
[edit] Television, film, and theatre
- Haven (film), a 2004 movie starring Orlando Bloom and Zoë Saldaña
- Haven (TV miniseries), a 2001 American television miniseries starring Natasha Richardson
- "Haven" (Dark Angel), an episode of Dark Angel
- "Haven" (TNG episode), an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation
- "Haven" (Transformers episode), an episode of Transformers Cybertron
- A planet in the Firefly/Serenity universe, from the 2005 film Serenity
[edit] Other uses
- Haven (graph theory), a mathematical function
- Haven and British Holidays, a company that runs holiday parks in the United Kingdom and Europe
- HavenCo, a data hosting services company
- A nickname for Whitehaven RLFC, a Cumbrian rugby league club
[edit] See also
- New Haven (disambiguation), a common place name in the United States
- Safe haven (disambiguation)
- Corporate haven
- Data haven
- Tax haven
- Fair Haven