Tristan (disambiguation)

Tristan is a Knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend.

Tristan may also refer to:

Literature

• Tristan, a 12th-century French poem by Thomas of Britain
• Tristan, a 12th-century French poem by Béroul
• Tristan (poem), a 13th-century German poem by Gottfried von Strassburg
• Tristan (novella), a 1903 novella by Thomas Mann

Music

• 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 in Japan that was the first site to confirm vacuum polarization around an electron

Other uses

• Tristan (Guinea), the largest island in the Tristan and Capken Islands
• Tristan (name), a moderately common male given name
• Tristan (horse), a British Thoroughbred racehorse
• Tristan da Cunha, a British volcanic island and eponymous archipelago in the mid-south Atlantic, often shortened to "Tristan"

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Tristan
• All pages with titles containing Tristan
• Tristan and Iseult (disambiguation)
• Tristrant, a 13th-century German poem by Eilhart von Oberge
• Sir Tristrem