Finn
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Finn is commonly used to refer to a member of the Finn ethnic group or a citizen of Finland
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Demographics of Finland
This article is about the demographic features of the population of Finland, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population....
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- Finn (Frisian)Finn (Frisian)Finn, son of Folcwald, was a legendary Frisian lord. He is mentioned in Widsith, in Beowulf, and in the Finnsburg Fragment. There is also a Finn mentioned in Historia Brittonum....
, a Frisian King, who appears in Beowulf and The Fight at Finnsburg - Finn or Fionn is IrishIrish nameA formal Irish-language name consists of a given name and a surname. Surnames in Irish are generally patronymic in etymology, although they are no longer literal patronyms, as Icelandic names are...
for "blonde", "bright" or "fair"):- Fionn mac Cumhail (Finn mac Cumhal; anglicised to Finn McCool), a legendary warrior of Irish mythology
- several legendary High Kings of Ireland
- Eber FinnEber FinnÉber Finn , son of Míl Espáine, was, according to medieval Irish legend and historical tradition, a High King of Ireland and one of the founders of the Milesian lineage, to which medieval genealogists traced all the important Gaelic royal lines.According to the Lebor Gabála Érenn, the ancestors of...
, 1700 BC (AFM), 1287-1286 BC (FFE) - Cearmna FinnCearmna FinnCermna Finn, son of Ebric and a great, great grandson of Míl Espáine, was, according to medieval Irish legend and historical tradition, joint High King of Ireland with his brother Sobairce....
, 1533-1493 BC (AFM), 1155-1115 BC (FFE) - Finn mac Blatha, 952-930 BC (AFM), 725-705 BC (FFE)
- Duach FinnDuach FinnDui Finn, son of Sétna Innarraid, was, according to medieval Irish legend and historical tradition, a High King of Ireland. He took power after killing his predecessor, and his father's killer, Siomón Brecc. He ruled for ten years, before he was killed by Siomón's son Muiredach Bolgrach...
, 904-894 BC (AFM), 679-674 BC (FFE) - Ailill FinnAilill FinnAilill Finn, son of Art mac Lugdach, was, according to medieval Irish legend and historical tradition, a High King of Ireland. In the Lebor Gabála Érenn, he succeeds to the throne when his father is killed by Fíachu Tolgrach and his son Dui Ladrach. He rules for nine years. Two years into his...
, 795-786 BC (AFM), 586-577 BC (FFE) - Fiatach FinnFiatach FinnFiatach Finn mac Dáire, a distant descedant of Óengus Tuirmech Temrach, was, according to medieval Irish legend and historical tradition, a king of the Ulaid, later a High King of Ireland, and the eponymous ancestor of the early Medieval Ulster dynasty of the Dál Fiatach...
, 36-39 AD (AFM), 25-28 AD (FFE)
- Eber Finn
- a short form of Finnegan
- Finn (surname)
toponymy
- River FinnRiver FinnThe River Finn is a river that flows through County Donegal in the Republic of Ireland and County Tyrone in Northern Ireland. It rises in Lough Finn in County Donegal and flows east through a deep mountain valley to Ballybofey and Stranorlar and on to the confluence with the River Mourne at Lifford...
in Ireland - Finn Township, Logan County, North DakotaFinn Township, Logan County, North DakotaFinn Township is one of the nine townships of Logan County, North Dakota, United States. It lies in the northeastern corner of the county, surrounding the city of Gackle, and it borders the following other township within Logan County:...
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- Finn (dinghy)Finn (dinghy)The Finn dinghy is the men's single-handed, cat-rigged Olympic class for sailing. It was designed by Swedish canoe designer, Rickard Sarby, in 1949 for the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki...
, an Olympic class of sailing dinghy - a variant of fin, a colloquial term for the U.S. five dollar bill bearing a portrait of Abraham Lincoln
as a title
- Finn: A Novel, a 2007 novel by Jon Clinch
- Phineas FinnPhineas FinnPhineas Finn is a novel by Anthony Trollope and the name of its leading character. The novel was first published as a monthly serial from October 1867 to May 1868 in St Paul's Magazine. It is the second of the "Palliser" series of novels...
, an 1867 novel by Anthony Trollope and the name of its leading character - "Finn", a song by Tori AmosTori AmosTori Amos is an American pianist, singer-songwriter and composer. She was at the forefront of a number of female singer-songwriters in the early 1990s and was noteworthy early in her career as one of the few alternative rock performers to use a piano as her primary instrument...
for the Great Expectations (1998 film) soundtrack. - Finn (album)Finn (album)Finn is the first album by The Finn Brothers, a music project of New Zealand brothers Tim and Neil Finn.The album was produced by Tchad Blake and the Finn Brothers in Auckland, New Zealand...
, a 1995 album by the Finn Brothers. - an episode in the television series The Lost World
fictional characters called Finn
- Finn, a character from the Cartoon Network show Adventure TimeAdventure TimeAdventure Time was a local children's television show on WTAE-TV 4 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from 1959 to 1975. It was hosted by the late Paul Shannon, with guitarist Joe Negri and puppeteer Jim Martin...
. - Finn HudsonFinn HudsonFinn Hudson is a fictional character from the Fox musical comedy-drama series Glee. The character is portrayed by actor Cory Monteith, and has appeared in Glee from its pilot episode, first broadcast on May 19, 2009. Finn was developed by Glee creators Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan...
, a character in the television show, Glee. - Finn (comics)Finn (comics)Finn was the hero of a comic strip written by Pat Mills. He first appeared in British fortnightly anthology comic Crisis in 1989, and later moved to 2000 AD when Crisis was cancelled in 1991. In Crisis he started as a supporting character called Paul in the strip Third World War, before becoming...
, the eponymous hero of a comic strip of the same name written by Pat Mills - Finn Fish, a character from the anime/manga Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne
- Finn (rat), a fictional rat character in the The Deptford MiceThe Deptford MiceThe Deptford Mice is a trilogy of novels by Robin Jarvis. They follow the story of a group of mice living in Deptford, London as they fight an evil cat god named Jupiter.-The Dark Portal:...
books by Robin Jarvis - Huckleberry Finn, the title character of the Mark Twain novel Adventures of Huckleberry FinnAdventures of Huckleberry FinnAdventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in England in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. Commonly named among the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in major American literature to be written in the vernacular, characterized by...
- Riley FinnRiley FinnRiley Finn is a fictional character created by Joss Whedon for the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Portrayed by Marc Blucas, Riley was introduced in the 1999 season four premiere episode, "The Freshman", and Blucas was part of the series credited cast for the second part of season four...
, a character in the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Finn Whitman, from the Ridley Pearson novel The Kingdom Keepers
- Finn, a character in the Jackie Chan Adventures television series
- The Finn, a character in William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy
- Finn, one of the main protagonists of the animated television series, Storm HawksStorm HawksStorm Hawks is an animated television series created by Asaph "Ace" Fipke and made by Nerd Corps Entertainment in conjunction with Cartoon Network and YTV. It premiered on Cartoon Network on May 25, 2007. It started to air on YTV in September 2007. It started to air on Cartoon Network in the UK on...
- "Finn", a wizard character in the opera Ruslan and Lyudmila
- Finn, the main goldfish from the Pepperidge Farm Goldfish snack crackersGoldfish (snack)Goldfish are snack crackers manufactured by Pepperidge Farm, a division of the Campbell Soup Company. The crackers come in several flavors, and since 1997, the crackers have small imprints of an eye and a smile and some wink at you...
- Finn, what Nick Carraway uses for his house-maid in the novel The Great GatsbyThe Great GatsbyThe Great Gatsby is a novel by the American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. First published in1925, it is set on Long Island's North Shore and in New York City from spring to autumn of 1922....
- Finn, one of the main protagonists in the 2010 animated series Adventure Time with Finn and Jake
- Finn Sharkey, a troublemaker from the television series Waterloo Road.