Geography

• River Bain
  River Bain
  The River Bain is a river in Lincolnshire, England, and a tributary of the River Witham.The Bain rises in the Lincolnshire Wolds at Ludford, a village on The Viking Way long-distance footpath, and flows through or past the villages of Burgh on Bain, Biscathorpe, Donington on Bain, Goulceby with...
  
   in Lincolnshire, England
• River Bain, North Yorkshire
  River Bain, North Yorkshire
  The River Bain is a river in North Yorkshire, England. It is designated legally as a Main River, so at around two and a half miles long is reputed to be the shortest river in England...
  
  , England
• Bain, alternate name of Ben, Iran
  Ben, Iran
  Ben is a city in and the capital of Ben District, Shahrekord County, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 11,699, in 3,141 families....
  
  , a city

Businesses

• Bain & Company
  Bain & Company
  Bain & Company is a global management consulting firm headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. Bain is considered one of the most prestigious consulting firms in the world, with 47 offices in 30 countries and over 5,500 professionals on staff globally...
  
  , management consulting firm headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts
• Bain Capital
  Bain Capital
  Bain Capital LLC is a Boston-based private equity firm founded in 1984 by partners from the consulting firm Bain & Company. Originally conceived as an early-stage, growth-oriented investment fund, Bain Capital today manages approximately $65 billion in assets, and its strategies include private...
  
  , private equity group

Historic characters

• Donalbain, anglicized version of a nickname of Donald III, King of Scotland 1093–1097

Fictional characters

• Bain (Middle-earth), King of Dale in the fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien
• Bain (Wheel of Time), character from the Wheel of Time novels by Robert Jordan
• Sunset Bain
  Sunset Bain
  Sunset Bain is a fictional villainess in the Marvel Comics universe. She is a shady business-woman who occasionally masquerades as Madame Menace. Although very technologically adept, she personally does not have any super-powers. Publicly she is the CEO of Baintronics. Privately she maintains her...
  
  , character in the Marvel Comics universe
• Sheriff Joe Bain
  Sheriff Joe Bain
  Sheriff Joe Bain is the protagonist of a short series, prematurely abandoned, of crime-investigation mysteries by the American author Jack Vance, better known for his science fiction novels. The series as published comprises The Fox Valley Murders and The Pleasant Grove Murders . An unfinished...
  
  , protagonist of a short series of crime-investigation mysteries by the American author Jack Vance
• Miguel Bain, a character in the 1995 film Assassins
  Assassins (film)
  Assassins is a 1995 American action film written by the Wachowskis and Brian Helgeland, directed by Richard Donner, and starring Sylvester Stallone, Antonio Banderas and Julianne Moore.-Plot:...
  
  , portrayed by Antonio Banderas

Art

• Le Bain (The Bath), original title for the painting Le déjeuner sur l'herbe by Édouard Manet
• Le Bain Turc d'Ingres, or The Turkish Bath
  The Turkish Bath
  The Turkish Bath is an 1862 painting by the 82-year-old Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, showing nude women in a harem. Originally rectangular, it was only converted to its present tondo form by the artist in 1863...
  
  , painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

See also

• Baine (disambiguation)
• Baines
  Baines
  Baines is a surname of English, Scottish or Welsh origin. It shares many of the same roots with the British surname Bains. It shares some roots with the British surname Bain.-Derivation and Variants:...
  
  
• Bains (disambiguation)
• Bane (disambiguation)
  Bane (disambiguation)
  Bane may refer to:Places* Bane, Iran, a city in Kurdistan Province* Bane, Lebanon, a village in Bsharri District* Bane, Nigeria, a village in Nigeria* Bané Department, one of the 13 departments of the Boulgou Province of Burkina FasoMusic...
  
  
• Bein
  Bein
  Bein is a German/Yiddish surname. It may refer to one of the following persons.*Alex Bein, Jewish scholar*Kazimierz Bein, Polish ophthalmologist, the founder and sometime director of the Warsaw Ophthalmic Institute*Uwe Bein, German footballer....
  
  
• Clan MacBain
  Clan MacBain
  -Origins of the clan:There are several possible Gaelic origins for this name but the most likely is ben or ban which means "higher ground" and to a lesser extent bheathain and the step form MacBain which means "life". This could also have been rendered as Mac ic Bheatha which means MacBeth, a name...