Nightingale (disambiguation)

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Contents 1 Birds 2 People 3 Music 4 Literature 5 Healthcare 6 Other

Nightingale may refer to:

[edit] Birds

• Nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos), small brown passerine bird known for its melodious song
• Pekin/China "Nightingale", the Red-billed Leiothrix, an accomplished songster
• Virginia(n) "Nightingale", the Northern Cardinal, an accomplished songster

[edit] People

• Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), British pioneer of modern nursing, also known as The Lady with the Lamp
• Annie Nightingale (born 1942), British radio broadcaster
• Maxine Nightingale (born 1952), British soul music singer
• Neil Nightingale, British naturalist and television producer
• 'The Swedish Nightingale', nickname of Jenny Lind (1820–1887), Swedish-born opera singer

[edit] Music

• "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square (song)", a popular British song first published in 1940
• "On The Wings Of A Nightingale", the 1983 Everly Brothers comeback hit
• The Nightingales, a British 1970s punk rock band
• Nightingale (band), a Swedish progressive rock band, formed in 1995
• Nightingale (musical), a musical that premiered in 1982
• Nightingale, name given to Rich Balling of the USA rock bands Rx bandits and The Sound of Animals Fighting
• The Nightingale (opera), an opera by composer Igor Stravinsky
• The Love of the Nightingale (opera), an opera by Richard Mills to a libretto by Timberlake Wertenbaker
• "Know Why the Nightingale Sings", Nightwish a song about this bird and the sing for the album Angels Fall First
• "Nightingale", a song written by the Eagles
• "Nightingale", an orchestral arrangement written by Yanni on Tribute (Yanni album)
• "The Nightingale", a song by Angelo Badalamenti with vocals by Julee Cruise, used in the TV-series Twin Peaks by director David Lynch

[edit] Literature

• Ode to a Nightingale, poem by John Keats
• The Nightingale, fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen
• The Nightingale, poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• "Nightingale", short story by Alastair Reynolds, part of Galactic North
• The Nightingale and the Rose, story by Oscar Wilde, part of The Happy Prince and Other Stories
• "The Nightingale Sings at Night", short fiction by John Crowley
• The Love of the Nightingale, play by Timberlake Wertenbaker
• The Owl and the Nightingale, poem written in Middle English, author unknown
• The Nightingale's Song, political/military biography by Robert Timberg

[edit] Healthcare

• Nightingale ward, a large unpartitioned hospital ward, usually for about 24 to 34 patients
• Florence Nightingale Museum, a museum at St Thomas' Hospital, London, England
• Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, a school within King's College London, with a history from 1860
• C-9A Nightingale, a modified McDonnell Douglas DC-9 used as medical evacuation aircraft by the US Air Force.

[edit] Other

• Nightingales, 1990s British Channel 4 television sitcom
• Nightingale (Voyager episode), an episode of Star Trek: Voyager
• A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square, a disambiguation page
• A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square (film), a 1979 film directed by Ralph Thomas
• Nightingale Island, a small island, one of islands Tristan da Cunha
• Nightingale Corona, a corona on Venus named after Florence Nightingale
• Nightingale stop, blows air through a small pool of water creating a warbling sound, common on French Classical Pipe organs
• MSN-04II Nightingale, a fictional armoured mobile suit, an enhanced MSN-04 Sazabi suit from Gundam Manga and Novels
• Nightingale the Robber, a character in Russian folklore.
• Llwyn-yr-Eos, birthplace of Ivor Novello, means in Welsh "Grove of Nightingales"