Commons (disambiguation)

Commons is a general term for shared resources, typically used in political economic theory.

Commons may also refer to:

Shared resources

 * Common good (disambiguation)
 * Common land, shared areas of land; has a specific legal meaning in the British Isles
 * Global commons, term used for international commons in political economic theory

Computing and Internet

 * Apache Commons, repository of reusable Java programming language components
 * Creative Commons, licensing system for creative works
 * Digital commons (economics), a form of commons involving the distribution and communal ownership of informational resources and technology
 * Digital Commons (Elsevier), a commercial, hosted institutional repository platform owned by RELX Group
 * Wikimedia Commons, a project of the Wikimedia Foundation that serves as an online repository of images, sound, and other media files

Electoral districts

 * Commons (ward), Christchurch, England

Northern Ireland townlands

 * Commons, County Down, in the List of townlands in County Down
 * Commons, County Fermanagh, in the List of townlands in County Fermanagh
 * Commons, County Tyrone, in the List of townlands in County Tyrone

Shopping centers

 * Algonquin Commons, a large outdoor shopping center in Algonquin, Illinois, US, often referred to as "the Commons"
 * Ithaca Commons, a shopping street in Ithaca, New York, US

People

 * John R. Commons (1862–1945), economist and labour historian
 * Jamie N Commons (born 1988), British singer and songwriter
 * Kim Commons (1951–2015), American chess master
 * Kris Commons (born 1983), Scottish footballer
 * Michael Commons (born 1939), American scientist

Media

 * Commons: Journal of Social Criticism, a left-wing Ukrainian magazine
 * Commmons, a Japanese record label
 * The Commons (TV series), a 2020 Australian series on Stan

Political parties

 * Commons (Chilean political party)
 * Commons (Colombian political party)

Other uses

 * House of Commons, the elected lower houses of the parliaments of the United Kingdom and Canada, colloquially referred to as "the Commons"
 * Commons, a concurrency road or other place where multiple roadways share pavement