Merle

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Merle can be

• Another name for a Blackbird
• Merle (coat colour in dogs)
• A character from Japanese animated series The Vision of Escaflowne
• A Crusader fort near Tantura on the coast of Israel
• MS Merle a ferry formerly operated by Belfast Freight Ferries
• The name of several well-known people, including:
  • Merle Boucher, a North Dakota politician
  • Merle Haggard, a country-western musician
  • Merle Kilgore, a country-western musician
  • Merle Oberon, an actress
  • Merle Travis, a country music singer
  • Robert Merle, a French writer
  • Merle LeSage, a former mayor of Geneseo, IL

[edit] See also

• Merl
• Blue Merle (band) - the band named after lyrics in the Led Zeppelin song, which refer to Robert Plant's Blue Merle dog

Merle is also commonly thought to represent a samaki, the Swahili word for fish.