Tristan (disambiguation) explained

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

• • • Tristan and Iseult (disambiguation)
• Tristam (disambiguation)
• Tristram (disambiguation)
• Tristrant, a 13th-century German poem by Eilhart von Oberge
• Sir Tristrem