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Finn

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Finn (pl. Finns) usually refer to a member of the Finnic ethnic group or a person from Finland.

It may also refer to:

Places

  • Finn Lake, Minnesota, United States
  • Finn Township, Logan County, North Dakota, United States
  • Finnsbu, a Norwegian radio station in SE Greenland
  • Lough Finn, a freshwater lough (lake) in County Donegal, Ireland
  • River Finn (County Donegal), Ireland
  • River Finn, Erne River tributary, Ireland

People

Cultural groups with the name

  • Finn, an old Scandinavian ethnonym for the Sami people

People with the name

  • Finn (given name), including a list of people with the given name
  • Finn (surname), English and German-language surname

Animals

  • Finn, an English police dog and namesake of "Finn's Law" providing legal protection for animals in public service

Mythological figures

  • Finn (Frisian), Frisian king who appears in Beowulf and the Finnesburg Fragment
  • Fionn mac Cumhaill (Old Irish: Finn mac Cumhal; anglicised to Finn McCool), a warrior in Irish mythology
  • Various legendary High Kings of Ireland
    • 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)

Arts entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

  • Finn (comics), the titular character in the eponymous comic strip in the British comic anthology 2000 AD
  • Finn (Misfits), one of the protagonists of the British TV series Misfits
  • Finn (Star Wars), in the Star Wars films
  • Finn, a goldfish mascot in the Goldfish crackers brand
  • Finn, in the Jackie Chan Adventures TV series
  • Finn, the wizard in the 1842 opera Ruslan and Lyudmila
  • Finn, one of the protagonists in the animated TV series Storm Hawks
  • Finn, in the South Korean-Japanese cartoon series Tai Chi Chasers
  • Finn, in The Lego Movie
  • Finn, a character in the novel What I Was by Meg Rosoff
  • Finn Collins, in The 100 TV series
  • Finn DeTrolio, in the TV series The Sopranos
  • Finn Dodd, protagonist of the film How to Make an American Quilt and the novel of the same title it is based on
  • Huckleberry Finn, a protagonist in the novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  • Phineas Finn, protagonist of Anthony Trollope's novels Phineas Finn and Phineas Redux
  • Finn Fish, in the anime/manga Phantom Thief Jeanne
  • Finn Hudson, in the television show Glee
  • Finn McMissile, in the movie Cars 2
  • Finn Nelson, in the British TV series My Mad Fat Diary
  • Finn O'Connor (Hollyoaks), in the British soap opera Hollyoaks
  • Michael "Finn" O'Leary, a playable character in the video game Call of Duty: Black Ops II
  • Finn Sharkey, in the TV series Waterloo Road
  • Finn Whitman, in The Kingdom Keepers children's novel series
  • Finn the Human, one of the protagonists in the animated series Adventure Time
  • The Finn, in William Gibson's science fiction Sprawl trilogy novels

Music

  • Finn (album), a 1995 album by the Finn Brothers
  • "Finn", a song by Tori Amos for the Great Expectations (1998 film) soundtrack

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

  • "Finn", an episode in the television series The Lost World
  • Finn: A Novel, a 2007 novel by Jon Clinch about the father of Huckleberry Finn
  • Finn.no, a Norwegian classified advertisements website

Other uses

  • Finn (dinghy), an Olympic class of sailing dinghy
  • Finn, a variant of fin, a colloquial term for the U.S. five dollar bill
  • The Finn (1912–1925), an American Thoroughbred racehorse

See also

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