Darien
Darien is a masculine name; variants include Darian and Darion. Darien may refer to:
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Places
Panama
- Darién Gap, border area between Panama and Colombia
- Darien scheme, the 17th century failed Scottish colony there
- Darién National Park
- Darién Province
- Gulf of Darién
- Santa María la Antigua del Darién, town in the present-day Chocó Department of Colombia, founded in 1510
- "a peak in Darien", referred to by John Keats in his 1816 poem "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer"
United States
- Darien, Connecticut
- Darien, Georgia
- Darien, Illinois
- Darien, New York
- Darien, Wisconsin
- Darien (town), Wisconsin
People
First name
- Darien Angadi (1949–1984), British actor
- Darien Boswell (born 1938), New Zealand rower
- Darien Brockington (born 1979), American singer
- Darien Fenton (born 1954), New Zealand politician
- Darien Ferrer (born 1983), Cuban volleyball player
- Darien Graham-Smith (born 1975), British journalist
- Darien Sills-Evans (born 1974), American actor
- Darien Niamir (born 1990), Canadian Scientist
Surname
- Georges Darien (1862–1921), French writer
Ships
- SS Darien (1924), a turbo-electric refrigerated cargo ship
- Darien II, World War II refugee ship
Fiction
- Camila Darién, fictional character in the Mexican television series Pasión
- Darien Lambert, fictional character in the television series Time Trax (1993-1994)
- Darien Fawkes, fictional character in the television series The Invisible Man (2000-2002)
- Darien Maugrim, fictional character in The Fionavar Tapestry novels by Guy Gavriel Kay
- Darien Shields, fictional character in the anime series Sailor Moon
Other uses
- Darién, brand of bananas distributed in the U.S. by Turbana (company)
- Darien Pocket Gopher, rodent native to Panama
- Darién Scheme, attempt by Scotland to establish a colony in Panama in the 1690s
- Darien Spirit, a progressive rock band signed to Charisma Records
- An alternative name for the extinct Cueva language spoken by the Cueva people
See also
- Darian (disambiguation)
- Dairen, the Japanese name for Dalian, China
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