Great Northern may refer to:
- Great Northern (indie band), led by former 30 Seconds to Mars member Solon Bixler
- Great Northern (country band), led by former Mission Mountain Wood Band member Rob Quist
- Great Northern Diver (Gavia immer), a bird also known as the Common Loon
- Great Northern War, a war fought by Russia, Denmark-Norway, and Saxony-Poland against Sweden
- Great Northern?, a novel by Arthur Ransome in the Swallows and Amazons series, named after the diver
- Great Northern bean, a white common bean
- The Great Northern Warehouse, a leisure complex in Manchester, England
- One of a number of railways; see Great Northern Railway (disambiguation)
- Great Northern Route, a group of railway services in the South-East and East of England, UK
Famous quotes containing the word northern:
“There exists in a great part of the Northern people a gloomy diffidence in the moral character of the government. On the broaching of this question, as general expression of despondency, of disbelief that any good will accrue from a remonstrance on an act of fraud and robbery, appeared in those men to whom we naturally turn for aid and counsel. Will the American government steal? Will it lie? Will it kill?—We ask triumphantly.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)