Darien Explained

Darien may refer to:

Places

Central America

• Darién Gap, break in the Pan-American Highway between Colombia and Panama
• Darién National Park
• Darién Province
• Gulf of Darién
• "... a peak in Darien", phrase in Keats's poem "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer"

United States

• Darien, Connecticut
  • Darien (Metro-North station)
• Darien, Georgia
• Darien, Illinois
• Darien, Missouri
• Darien, New York
• Darien, Wisconsin
• Darien (town), Wisconsin

People

First name

• Darien Angadi (1949–1984), British actor
• Darien Boswell (1938–2018), New Zealand rower
• Darien Brockington (born 1979), American singer
• Darien Butler (born 2000), American football player
• Darien Fenton (born 1954), New Zealand politician
• Darien Ferrer (born 1983), Cuban volleyball player
• Darien Graham-Smith (born 1975), British journalist
• Darien Sills-Evans (born 1974), American actor

Surname

• Georges Darien (1862–1921), French writer

Ships

• , a turbo-electric refrigerated cargo ship
• , World War II refugee ship

Fictional characters

• Camila Darién, in Mexican telenovela Pasión
• Darien Fawkes, in The Invisible Man television series, 2000–2002
• Darien Lambert, a character in the 1990s television series Time Trax
• Darien Maugrim, a character in The Fionavar Tapestry novels by Guy Gavriel Kay
• Darien Shields (Tuxedo Mask), a protagonist in the anime Sailor Moon

Other uses

• Darién, brand of bananas distributed in the U.S. by Turbana (company)
• Darien pocket gopher, rodent native to Panama
• Darien scheme, 17th century attempt to create a Scottish colony called "Caledonia"
• Darien Spirit, a progressive rock band signed to Charisma Records
• An alternative name for the extinct Cueva language spoken by the Cueva people

See also

• Darian (disambiguation)
• Darion (disambiguation)
• Dairen, the Japanese name for Dalian, China