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Shannon may refer to:
- Shannon (given name)
- Shannon (horse) (1941–1955), Australian Hall-of-Fame racehorse
- Shannon (surname)
- Earl of Shannon, a title in the Irish peerage
- Shannon index, a biodiversity index
- Noisy-channel coding theorem, sometimes called Shannon Limit, the theoretical limit to capacity of a communication channel
- shannon (unit), the information content of one bit
Places
- Shannon, New Zealand
- Shannon Island, Greenland
- Hundred of Shannon, a cadastral unit in South Australia
- Shannon was a former name for the area named Calomba, South Australia since 1916
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 Airport, Ireland
- Shannon Region, unofficial region in Ireland
United States
- Lake Shannon, a reservoir in Whatcom County, Washington
- Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota, formerly known as Shannon County
- Shannon, North Carolina
- Shannon, Alabama
- Shannon, Georgia
- Shannon, Illinois
- Shannon, Kansas
- Shannon, Kentucky
- Shannon, Mississippi
- Shannon, Texas
- Shannon County, Missouri
- Shannon Creek, a stream near North Cascades National Park, Washington
- Shannon Hills, Arkansas
Canada
- Shannon, New Brunswick, a community in Canada
- Shannon, Quebec, Canada
- Shannon Bay, former name of Darrell Bay, British Columbia, Canada
- Shannon Falls, a waterfall in British Columbia
- Shannon Lake, a community of Westbank, British Columbia, Canada
- Shannon Park, Nova Scotia, Canada
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
People
- Shannon (born 1939), on-off stage name of English singer-songwriter Marty Wilde
- Shannon (singer) (born 1958), stage name of singer Shannon Brenda Greene
- Shannon (South Korean singer) (born 1998), British-South Korean singer and actress based in South Korea.
- Claude Shannon (1916–2001), an American mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptographer known as "the father of information theory"
Popular media
- Shannon (1961 TV series), starring George Nader (syndicated)
- Shannon (1981 TV series), starring Kevin Dobson (Columbia Broadcasting System)
- "Shannon", a song by Henry Gross
Transport
- HMS Shannon, several naval ships
- Shannon (locomotive), an 0-4-0WT steam locomotive built in 1857
- Shannon class lifeboat, a British type of lifeboat
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See also
- Shannan (disambiguation)
- Shannon River (disambiguation)
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