Shannon

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Shannon may refer to:

People

• Shannon (given name)
• Shannon (surname)
• Shannon (American singer), stage name of singer Brenda Shannon Greene (born 1958)
• Shannon (South Korean singer), British-South Korean singer and actress Shannon Arrum Williams (born 1998)
• Shannon, intermittent stage name of English singer-songwriter Marty Wilde (born 1939)
• Claude Shannon (1916–2001) was an American mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptographer known as a "father of information theory"

Places

Australia

• Shannon, Tasmania, a locality
• Hundred of Shannon, a cadastral unit in South Australia
• Shannon, a former name for the area named Calomba, South Australia since 1916
• Shannon River (Western Australia)

Canada

• Shannon, New Brunswick, a community
• Shannon, Quebec, a city
• Shannon Bay, former name of Darrell Bay, British Columbia
• Shannon Falls, a waterfall in British Columbia

Ireland

• River Shannon, the longest river in Ireland
  • Shannon Cave, a subterranean section of the River Shannon
  • Shannon Pot, source of the River Shannon
  • Shannon Estuary
• Shannon, County Clare, Ireland, a town near Shannon Airport
• Shannon Region, unofficial region in Ireland

United States

• Shannon, Alabama
• Shannon, Georgia
• Shannon, Illinois
• Shannon, Kansas
• Shannon, Kentucky
• Shannon, Mississippi
• Shannon, North Carolina
• Shannon, Texas
• Shannon County, Missouri
• Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota, formerly known as Shannon County
• Shannon River (Minnesota)
• Shannon Creek, a stream near North Cascades National Park, Washington
• Lake Shannon, a reservoir in Whatcom County, Washington

Elsewhere

• Shannon, New Zealand
• Shannon Island, Greenland

Arts and entertainment

• Shannon (1961 TV series), starring George Nader (syndicated)
• Shannon (1981 TV series), starring Kevin Dobson (Columbia Broadcasting System)
• "Shannon" (song), a song by Henry Gross

Organisations

• Shannon Development, a development company in Ireland
• Shannon Racing, a defunct motor racing team
• Shannon Racing Cars, a defunct Formula One constructor
• Shannon RFC, a rugby club in Limerick

Transportation

• Shannon Airport, Ireland
• Shannon (locomotive), an 0-4-0WT steam locomotive built in 1857
• Shannon-class lifeboat, a British type of lifeboat

Other uses

• Earl of Shannon, a title in the Irish peerage
• HMS Shannon, several Royal Navy ships
• Shannon (horse) (1941–1955), Australian Hall-of-Fame racehorse
• Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest, an Irish university
• shannon (unit), the information content of one bit
• Shannon, a satellite - see Lynk Global

See also

• Shannon index, a biodiversity index
• Noisy-channel coding theorem, sometimes called Shannon Limit, the theoretical limit to capacity of a communication channel
• Shannan (disambiguation)

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