Finn

Ronne, Finn, 1899-1980, Norwegian-American Antarctic explorer. Ronne graduated from college in Norway in 1922 and immigrated to the United States. His first of nine Antarctic expeditions was with Admiral Richard Byrd in 1933. In 1947, Ronne went with his wife, a scientist, on what became the first Antarctic research expedition to include women. The Ronne Ice Shelf in the Weddell Sea bears his name. He wrote Antarctic Conquest (1949) and Antarctica, My Destiny (1979).

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

"Finn" may also refer to:

Various

• a short form of Finnegan
• a name, meaning "fair"
• Finn (dinghy), an Olympic class of sailing dinghy
• Finn: A Novel, a 2007 novel by Jon Clinch
• Phineas Finn, an 1867 novel by Anthony Trollope and the name of its leading character
• a variant of fin, a colloquial term for the U.S. five dollar bill bearing a portrait of Abraham Lincoln
• "Finn", a song by Tori Amos for the Great Expectations (1998 film) soundtrack.
• Finn (album), a 1995 album by the Finn Brothers.
• Finn: Gaelic, an oak tree; a family or clan native to County Cork, Ireland.
• River Finn in Northern Ireland
• Finn Township, Logan County, North Dakota, in the United States
• "Finn (The Lost World)", an episode in the television series The Lost World
• As a verb, an attempt to pull rank based on how long one has been on IRC

Legendary people

• several legendary High Kings of Ireland (Finn or Fionn is Irish for "white", "bright" or "fair"):
• 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)
• Fionn mac Cumhail (Finn mac Cumhal; anglicised to Finn McCool), a legendary warrior of Irish mythology
• Finn (Frisian), a Frisian King, who appears in Beowulf and The Fight at Finnsburg
• Finn, the giant who, according to folk mythology, built the Lund Cathedral
• Finn Blakely son of Jim and Miriam

Jay Finn-The boy who according to Aberdonian folk lore single handedly caught enough fish to last the town 4 months.

Fictitious people

• Finn (comics), the eponymous hero of a strip written by Pat Mills
• Finn (rat), a fictional rat character in the popular Deptford Mice books by Robin Jarvis
• Huckleberry Finn, the title character of the Mark Twain novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Riley Finn
• Finn Whitman, from the Ridley Pearson novel The Kingdom Keepers
• Finn, a character in the "Jackie Chan Adventures" television series; see List of Jackie Chan Adventures characters
• 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 is also the name of the main goldfish from the Pepperidge Farm snack crackers.

See also

• All articles with titles beginning "Finn"
• Fin
• Fine
• Flynn

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