Tristan (disambiguation)

Tristan is a Knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend.

Tristan may also refer to:

Literature and other media:

• Tristan, a 12th-century French poem by Thomas of Britain
• Tristan, another 12th-century French poem by Béroul
• Tristan, a 13th-century German poem by Gottfried von Strassburg
• Tristan (orchestral composition), a composition for piano, tape and orchestra by Hans Werner Henze
• Tristan (novella), a novella by Thomas Mann
• "Tristan" (song), by Patrick Wolf from his second album Wind in the Wires
• Tristan Farnon, a character in the works of James Herriot, based on the real-life Brian Sinclair
• Tristan Ludlow, the protagonist of Legends of the Fall, a 1994 drama film based on the 1979 novella of the same title by Jim Harrison
• Tristan Taylor, the English name of the character Hiroto Honda in the Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise
• Tristan and Iseult, an influential legend of romance and tragedy
  • Tristan & Isolde (film), a 2006 romantic drama film based on the medieval romantic legend
  • Tristan und Isolde, an opera by Richard Wagner, based on the legend
    • The Tristan chord, a variant on the half-diminished chord, so named for its use in Wagner's Opera.
• Tristran, a character in the novel Stardust by Neil Gaiman
• Tristrant, a 13th-century German poem by Eilhart von Oberge
• The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, a character and novel by Laurence Sterne
• Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story, a 2005 film based on the above novel
• The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith, a novel by Peter Carey
• The Prose Tristan, a 13th-century French prose work

Other:

• TRISTAN, a particle accelerator in Japan that was the first site to confirm vacuum polarization around an electron
• Tristan (name), a moderately common male given name
• Tristen Gaspadarek, an American singer/songwriter
• Tristan Albatross (Diomedea dabbenena), a large seabird from the albatross family
• Tristan da Cunha, a group of remote islands in the south Atlantic Ocean
• Tristan Island (Ile Tristan), an island off Douarnenez in Brittany, France
• Tristan Island (Antarctica), a small rocky island west of Yseult Island and north of the west point of Cape Jules
• Tristan rock lobster (Jasus tristani), a species of rock lobster endemic to the Tristan da Cunha
• Tristan (horse), a British Thoroughbred racehorse