Tristan is a Knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend.
Tristan may also refer to:
Places
- Tristan (Guinea), the largest island in the Tristan and Capken Islands
- Tristan da Cunha, a British volcanic island and eponymous archipelago in the mid-south Atlantic, often shortened to "Tristan"
- Tristan Island or the Île Tristan, located at the mouth of the Pouldavid Estuary off the French port of Douarnenez in south-western Brittany
- Tristan hotspot, a volcanic hotspot which is responsible for the volcanic activity which forms the volcanoes in the southern Atlantic Ocean
Literature
- Tristan, a 12th-century French poem by Thomas of Britain
- Tristan, a 12th-century French poem by Béroul
- Tristan, a 13th-century German poem by Gottfried von Strassburg
- Tristan (novella), a 1903 novella by Thomas Mann
- The Tristan Betrayal, a novel by Robert Ludlum
- Prose Tristan (Tristan en prose), an adaptation of the Tristan and Iseult story into a long prose romance
Music
- Tristan (musician) or Tristan Cooke (born 1970), British psytrance and Goa trance DJ and producer
- Tristan (Henze), composition for piano, tape and orchestra by Hans Werner Henze
- "Tristan" (song), by Patrick Wolf from his second album Wind in the Wires
- Tristan und Isolde, an opera by Richard Wagner
- The Tristan chord, a variant on the half-diminished chord
Science and Technology
- Tristan (dinosaur), a Tyrannosaurus rex specimen
- TRISTAN, a particle accelerator at KEK in Japan
Other uses
- Tristan (name), a moderately common male given name
- Tristan (horse), a British Thoroughbred racehorse
See also
- All pages with titles beginning with Tristan
- All pages with titles containing Tristan
- Tristan and Iseult (disambiguation)
- Tristam (disambiguation)
- Tristram (disambiguation)
- Tristrant, a 13th-century German poem by Eilhart von Oberge
- Sir Tristrem
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