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'''Finn''' (''pl.'' Finns) is commonly used to refer to a member of the [[Finns|Finn ethnic group]] or a [[Demographics of Finland|citizen of Finland]].<!-- [[Finns]] and [[Finland]] are included here intentionally to provide these options in the pop-up disambiguation editing tool. -->
"Finn" may also refer to:
==Various==
* a short form of [[Finnegan]]
* a name, meaning "fair"
* [[Finn (dinghy)]], an Olympic class of sailing dinghy
* ''[[Finn: A Novel]]'', a 2007 novel by Jon Clinch
* ''[[Phineas Finn]]'', an 1867 novel by Anthony Trollope and the name of its leading character
* a variant of fin, a colloquial term for the [[U.S. five dollar bill]] bearing a portrait of Abraham Lincoln
* "Finn", a song by [[Tori Amos]] for the [[Great Expectations (1998 film)]] soundtrack.
* [[Finn (album)|''Finn'' (album)]], a 1995 album by the [[Finn Brothers]].
* ''[[Finn: Gaelic]]'', an oak tree; a family or clan native to County Cork, Ireland.
* [[River Finn]] in [[Northern Ireland]]
* [[Finn Township, Logan County, North Dakota]], in the [[United States]]
* "[[Finn (The Lost World)]]", an episode in the television series ''[[List of The Lost World episodes|The Lost World]]''
* As a verb, an attempt to pull rank based on how long one has been on [[Internet Relay Chat|IRC]]<ref>The Free Online Dictionary of Computing, [http://foldoc.org/?finn]</ref>
==Legendary people==
* several legendary High Kings of Ireland (''Finn'' or ''Fionn'' is [[Irish language|Irish]] for "white", "bright" or "fair"):
** [[Eber Finn]], 1700 BC (AFM), 1287-1286 BC (FFE)
** [[Cearmna Finn]], 1533-1493 BC (AFM), 1155-1115 BC (FFE)
** [[Finn mac Blatha]], 952-930 BC (AFM), 725-705 BC (FFE)
** [[Duach Finn]], 904-894 BC (AFM), 679-674 BC (FFE)
** [[Ailill Finn]], 795-786 BC (AFM), 586-577 BC (FFE)
** [[Fiatach Finn]], 36-39 AD (AFM), 25-28 AD (FFE)
* [[Fionn mac Cumhail]] (Finn mac Cumhal; anglicised to Finn McCool), a legendary warrior of Irish mythology
* [[Finn (Frisian)]], a Frisian King, who appears in ''Beowulf'' and ''The Fight at Finnsburg''
* Finn, the giant who, according to folk mythology, built the [[Lund Cathedral]]
Jay Finn-The boy who according to Aberdonian folk lore single handedly caught enough fish to last the town 4 months.
==Fictitious people==
* [[Finn (comics)]], the eponymous hero of a strip written by Pat Mills
* Finn (rat), a fictional rat character in the popular Deptford Mice books by Robin Jarvis
* Huckleberry Finn, the title character of the Mark Twain novel [[Adventures of Huckleberry Finn]]
* [[Riley Finn]]
* [[Finn Whitman]], from the Ridley Pearson novel ''The Kingdom Keepers''
* Finn, a character in the "Jackie Chan Adventures" television series; see [[List of Jackie Chan Adventures characters]]
* The Finn, a character in William Gibson's [[Sprawl trilogy]]
* Finn, one of the main protagonists of the animated television series, [[Storm Hawks]].
* "Finn", a wizard character in the opera ''[[Ruslan and Lyudmila (opera)|Ruslan and Lyudmila]]''
* Finn is also the name of the main goldfish from the [[Pepperidge Farm]] snack crackers.
==See also==
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3APrefixindex&from=Finn&namespace=0 All articles with titles beginning "Finn"]
* [[Fin]]
* [[Fine]]
* [[Flynn]]
==References==
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