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North is a noun, adjective, or adverb indicating direction or geography.North is one of the four cardinal directions or compass points. It is the opposite of south and is perpendicular to east and west.By convention, the top side of a map is north....

is a cardinal direction.

North may also refer to:

Music

  • North (band)
    North (band)
    North was an Australian boy band established in 2004. Popular primarily in Asia, the group had top ten singles in Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and India. Their debut single was a cover of Peter Cetera's "Glory Of Love" which reached #1 in both Indonesia and Thailand...

    , an Australian boy band
  • North (Elvis Costello album)
    North (Elvis Costello album)
    North is a 2003 album by Elvis Costello. It reached 44 in the UK album charts, 57 in the US charts and No. 1 in the US Traditional Jazz charts....

  • North (Logh album)
    North (Logh album)
    North is the fourth album by Swedish post-rock band Logh. It was released in 2007.-Track listing:#"Saturday Nightmares" – 3:26#"Weather Island" – 3:32#"The Invitation" – 4:07#"All the Trees" – 3:52#"Death to My Home Town" – 3:22...

  • North (Something Corporate album)
    North (Something Corporate album)
    -Bonus tracks:The Japanese version contained two bonus tracks, "This Broken Heart" and the Björk cover "Unravel," while the British version featured "Unravel" as well as "Watch the Sky."-Personnel:* Andrew McMahon - piano, vocals...

  • North, an album by Imminent
  • "North", a song by Afro Celt Sound System on the album Volume 3: Further in Time
    Volume 3: Further in Time
    Volume 3: Further in Time is the third studio album from Afro Celt Sound System, released June 19, 2001 through Real World Records.-Track listing:# "North" - 6:48# "North 2" - 2:59# "When You're Falling" - 5:14...

  • "North," a b-side by Björk
    Björk b-sides
    This is a list of non-album tracks included on Björk's singles, and collaborations and alternate versions that have not appeared on any of her studio albums.-Pre-Solo:*Afi *Jólakötturinn...

  • "North," a song by Paul Mounsey on the album NahooToo
    NahooToo
    NahooToo is the second album by Scottish musician Paul Mounsey.-Track listing:# "Remembrance" # "Wherever You Go" # "North" # "Infinite Contempt" # "Another Clearance" # "Kaiwa Farewell" # "Psalm"...


Literature

  • North (poetry collection), by Seamus Heaney
  • Dakota North
    Dakota North
    Dakota North is a fictional character that has appeared in various comic book series published by Marvel Comics. Originally the star of her own limited series and later a part of the supporting cast of Daredevil, the character exists in Marvel's main shared universe, known as the Marvel...

    , a Marvel Comics character
  • North, a 1960 novel by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
    Louis-Ferdinand Céline
    Louis-Ferdinand Céline was the pen name of French writer and physician Louis-Ferdinand Destouches . Céline was chosen after his grandmother's first name. He is considered one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century, developing a new style of writing that modernized both French and...

  • North, a 2004 novel by Donna Jo Napoli
    Donna Jo Napoli
    Donna Jo Napoli is an author of children's and young adult books, as well as a prominent linguist who has worked in syntax, phonetics, phonology, morphology, historical and comparative linguistics, Romance studies, structure of Japanese, structure of American Sign Language, poetics, writing for...


People

  • Alan North
    Alan North
    Alan North was an American actor.North was born in the Bronx, New York and joined the United States Navy during the Second World War...

     (1920-2000), American actor
  • Alex North
    Alex North
    Alex North was an American composer who wrote the first jazz-based film score and one of the first modernist scores written in Hollywood ....

     (1910-1991), American composer
  • Alfred John North
    Alfred John North
    Alfred John North was an Australian ornithologist.North was born in Melbourne and was educated at Melbourne Grammar School...

     (1855-1917), Australian ornithologist
  • Baron North
    Baron North
    Baron North, of Kirtling Tower in the County of Cambridge, is an abeyant title in the Peerage of England. It was created on 17 January 1554, for Sir Edward North. He was a successful lawyer, clerk of the Parliament and chancellor of the Court of Augmentations. The barony was created by writ, which...

    , a title in the Peerage of England
  • Billy North
    Billy North
    William Alex North is a former center fielder in Major League Baseball. From 1971 to 1981, he played for the Chicago Cubs , Oakland Athletics , Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants...

     (b. 1948), American baseball player
  • Douglass North
    Douglass North
    Douglass Cecil North is an American economist known for his work in economic history. He is the co-recipient of the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences...

     (b. 1920), American economist
  • Dudley Burton Napier North
    Dudley Burton Napier North
    Sir Dudley Burton Napier North, GCVO, CB, CSI, CMG, RN was an Admiral of the Royal Navy who served during World War I and World War II. He was relieved of his command on the grounds of his failure, while naval commander at Gibraltar, to challenge a Vichy French naval squadron; this after he had...

    , 20th century British Admiral
  • Dudley North, 3rd Baron North
    Dudley North, 3rd Baron North
    Dudley North, 3rd Baron North was an English nobleman.He was the son of Sir John North and of Dorothy, daughter and heiress of Sir Valentine Dale. He succeeded his grandfather, Roger North, 2nd Baron North, at the age of nineteen...

     (1581–1666), English nobleman
  • Dudley North, 4th Baron North
    Dudley North, 4th Baron North
    Dudley North, 4th Baron North K.B. was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1640 and 1660.-Life:...

     (1602-1677), English nobleman
  • Dudley North (economist) (1641–1691), English economist
  • Dug North
    Dug North
    Dug North is an American artist who creates hand-cranked animated sculpture known as 'contemporary automata'. Though his work is much less complex mechanically, North draws inspiration from the masterworks of automatists such as Pierre Jaquet-Droz, Henri Maillardet, and the magic-themed automata...

    , 21st century American artist
  • Eustace North
    Eustace North
    Eustace Herbert Guest North was an English international rugby union forward who played club rugby for Oxford University and Blackheath...

     (1868-1925), England international rugby player
  • Francis North, 1st Baron Guilford
    Francis North, 1st Baron Guilford
    Francis North, 1st Baron Guilford PC KC was the third son of the 4th Baron North, and was created Baron Guilford in 1683, after becoming Lord Keeper of the Great Seal in succession to Lord Nottingham....

     (1637–1685), English nobleman
  • Frederick North, Lord North
    Frederick North, Lord North
    Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford, KG, PC , more often known by his courtesy title, Lord North, which he used from 1752 until 1790, was Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1770 to 1782. He led Great Britain through most of the American War of Independence...

     (1732-1792), British Prime Minister
  • George North
    George North
    George Philip North is a Wales international rugby union player currently playing for the Scarlets in the RaboDirect Pro12, in the position of winger.-Early life:...

     (b. 1992), Welsh rugby union player
  • George North, 3rd Earl of Guilford
    George North, 3rd Earl of Guilford
    George Augustus North, 3rd Earl of Guilford , known as the Honourable George North until 1790 and as Lord North from 1790 to 1792, was a British politician....

     (1757-1802), British nobleman
  • Jay North
    Jay North
    Jay North is an American actor. Beginning a prolific career as a child actor at the age of six, North became a household name during the early 1960s for his role as the well-meaning, but mischievous, Dennis Mitchell on the CBS situation comedy Dennis the Menace, based on the comic strip created...

     (b. 1951), American actor
  • John North (MP)
    John North (MP)
    John Sidney North PC , known as John Doyle until 1838, was a British soldier and Conservative Party politician. He was a Member of Parliament for 33 years.-Political and military career:...

     (1804-1894), British Member of Parliament
  • John Thomas North
    John Thomas North
    John Thomas North was a British investor and businessman. North was born in Leeds, Yorkshire, the son of a coal merchant and a churchwarden. At the age of fifteen he was apprenticed to millwrights and engineers before working for several years as a mechanic. He moved to Chile in South America...

     (1842-1896), British investor and businessman
  • Marcus North
    Marcus North
    Marcus James North is an Australian cricketer, who scored centuries on both his Test and Ashes debuts. He has also played for the Australian Cricket Academy, Western Australia, Australia A, Durham, Derbyshire, Gloucestershire, Lancashire and Hampshire.He is a left-handed batsman and right arm...

     (b. 1979), Australian cricketer
  • Mike North
    Mike North
    Mike North is an American radio sports personality working for Clear Channel Communications as a weekend host on their Fox Sports Radio subsidiary. He was the co-host of the Monsters in the Morning with Dan Jiggetts on Comcast SportsNet Chicago in 2009 and was a sports talk radio show host at WSCR...

    , 20th century American sports talk radio show host
  • Ned North, pen name
    Pen name
    A pen name, nom de plume, or literary double, is a pseudonym adopted by an author. A pen name may be used to make the author's name more distinctive, to disguise his or her gender, to distance an author from some or all of his or her works, to protect the author from retribution for his or her...

     used by Edwin North McClellan
    Edwin North McClellan
    Edwin North McClellan was a United States Marine Corps officer, author, and historian. He was the first director of the Historical Section of Headquarters Marine Corps, a historigraphical organization now known as Marine Corps History Division....

  • Nigel North
    Nigel North
    Nigel North is an English lutenist and guitarist.-Student days:He studied guitar on a scholarship to the junior department of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama , taking up the lute in 1969, at the age of 15. He maintains he was more or less self-taught on the instrument...

     (b. 1954), English lutenist
  • Nolan North
    Nolan North
    Nolan Ramsey North is an American actor and voice actor born in New Haven, Connecticut. He has been described as "the nearest thing the games industry has to a bona fide leading man."-Biography:...

     Voice Actor

  • Oliver North
    Oliver North
    Oliver Laurence North is a retired U.S. Marine Corps officer, political commentator, host of War Stories with Oliver North on Fox News Channel, a military historian, and a New York Times best-selling author....

     (b. 1943), former US military figure, television journalist
  • Oliver Danson North, 20th century automobile designer
  • Peter North (academic)
    Peter North (academic)
    Sir Peter Machin North, CBE QC FBA was Principal of Jesus College, Oxford from 1984–2005 and Vice Chancellor of the University of Oxford, England from 1993–1997...

    , 20th century scholar, former principal of Jesus College, Oxford and Vice Chancellor of the University of Oxford
  • Peter North (pornographer) (b. 1957), pornographic actor
  • Peter North (politician) (b. 1960), Canadian politician
  • Roger North (disambiguation), any of several people of the same name
  • Sheree North
    Sheree North
    Sheree North was an American actress, singer, and dancer. She was known for being 20th Century Fox's answer to Marilyn Monroe from 1954 to 1956...

     (1932-2005), American dancer and actress

See also

  • Northern (country subdivision)
  • The North (disambiguation)
  • Far North (disambiguation)
  • North Region (disambiguation)
  • North River (disambiguation)
    North River (disambiguation)
    -In Canada:*North River, Newfoundland and Labrador, a town*North River *Rivière du Nord -In the United States:*North River *North River , tributary of the St...

  • North Sea
    North Sea
    In the southwest, beyond the Straits of Dover, the North Sea becomes the English Channel connecting to the Atlantic Ocean. In the east, it connects to the Baltic Sea via the Skagerrak and Kattegat, narrow straits that separate Denmark from Norway and Sweden respectively...

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