Tristan (disambiguation)

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