Tarn

Tarn may refer to:

Geography and places

• Tarn, the local name for Barnsley, South Yorkshire, formed from different pronunciation of the word town
• Tarn (lake), a mountain lake or pool formed in a cirque excavated by a glacier
• Tarn (department), a département in southwest France
• Tarn River, a river in France
• Tarn Oil Field, an oil field in Alaska
• Mount Tarn, summit on the southern part of the Strait of Magellan

People

• William Woodthorpe Tarn (1869–1957), 20th century British historian and author
• Nathaniel Tarn (born 1928), British-American poet
• Maria Dyer (née Tarn, 1808–1846), British Protestant Christian missionary to the Chinese

Finance

• TARN - Target Redemption Note: an interest rate derivative (see LIBOR market model)

Other

• Tarn, a giant bird of prey sometimes used as a riding animal in the Gor science fiction series
• HMS Tarn (P336), a Second World War British T class submarine

See also

• Tarne, a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). Its only described species, T. dives, is endemic to West Africa
• Tarn Crag (disambiguation)
• Tarn-et-Garonne, a French department in the southwest of France. It is traversed by the Rivers Tarn and Garonne, from which it takes its name
• Tarn Light Railway
• Tarn Taran (disambiguation)
• Tarn Vikings
• Tarn-Vedra, a star system in the fictional Andromeda universe
• Tarnschriften, camouflaged publications were a way to avoid censorship in Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1945