Finn

Finn (pl. Finns) is commonly used to refer to a member of the Finn ethnic group or a citizen of Finland.

a name

• Finn (Frisian), a Frisian King, who appears in Beowulf and The Fight at Finnsburg
• Finn or Fionn is Irish 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 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)
• a short form of Finnegan
• Finn (surname)

toponymy

• River Finn in Ireland
• Finn Township, Logan County, North Dakota, in the United States

other

• Finn (dinghy), 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 Finn, an 1867 novel by Anthony Trollope and the name of its leading character
• "Finn", a song by Tori Amos for the Great Expectations (1998 film) soundtrack.
• Finn (album), a 1995 album by the Finn Brothers.
• an episode in the television series The Lost World

fictional characters called Finn

• Finn Hudson, a character in the television show, Glee.
• Finn (comics), the eponymous hero of a comic strip of the same name written by Pat Mills, published in 2000 A.D.
• Finn Fish, a character from the anime/manga Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne
• Finn (rat), a fictional rat character in the The Deptford Mice books by Robin Jarvis
• Huckleberry Finn, the title character of the Mark Twain novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Riley Finn, 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 Hawks
• "Finn", a wizard character in the opera Ruslan and Lyudmila
• Finn, the main goldfish from the Pepperidge Farm Goldfish snack crackers
• Finn, what Nick Carraway uses for his house-maid in the novel The Great Gatsby
• Finn the Human, 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.
• Finn, a character on Tai Chi Chasers.