Fionn

Template:Use dmy dates Fionn (Template:IPA, Template:IPA) is a masculine given name in Irish and Scottish Gaelic. In English, it is pronounced "Finn" (Template:IPAc-en Template:Respell) or "Fyun". It is derived from a byname meaning "white" or "fair-haired". It is the original version of a name later anglicized as Find and Finn.

People

Notable people with the name include:

• Fionn Carr (born 1985), Irish rugby union player
• Fionn Dunne, materials scientist
• Fionn Ferreira, Irish inventor and chemist
• Fionn Fitzgerald (born 1990), Irish football player
• Fionn Gibbons, Irish rugby player
• Fionn Griffiths, British mountain bicyclist
• Fionn Hand, Irish cricketer
• Fionn Herlihy, Irish Gaelic footballer
• Fionn MacColla (1906–1975), Scottish novelist
• Fionn mac Cumhaill, figure from Irish mythology
• Fionn McLaughlin (born 2007), Irish kart driver
• Fionn McLoughlin (born 1982), Irish rugby union player
• Fionn O'Shea (born 1997), Irish actor
• Fionn Petch, Scottish translator
• Fionn Regan (born 1981), Irish folk musician
• Fionn Whitehead (born 1997), English actor

Locations

Locations named Fionn include:

• Ballyfin, also known as Baile fionn, a village in Ireland
• Eas Fionn, Scottish waterfall
• Fionn Bheinn, Scottish mountain
• Fionn Loch (Suilven)
• Torphins, also known as Tòrr Fionn, a village in Scotland

Music

• Fionn, a Canadian musical group consisting of sisters Alanna and Brianne Finn-Morris

Miscellaneous

• The Boyhood Deeds of Fionn, Medieval Irish mythical narrative text
• Fenian Cycle, also known as the Fionn Cycle, a grouping of Irish mythological texts

See also

• List of Irish-language given names
• List of Scottish Gaelic given names