Thorn

Thorn or Thorns may refer to:

Botany

• Thorns, spines, and prickles, sharp structures on plants
• Thorn, quickthorn or common hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna)

Places

• Thorn, Netherlands
• Thorn, German name of Toruń, Poland
• Thorn, Bedfordshire, England
• Thorn, former name of Thorn Junction, California, U.S.
• Thorn, former name of Whitethorn, California, U.S.

People

• Thorn (surname)

Organisations

• Thorn EMI, a major British company involved in consumer electronics, music, defence and retail
• Thorn Electrical Industries, an electrical engineering business
• Thorn Cycles, British bicycle manufacturer
• Thorn Lighting, luminaire manufacturer, part of Zumtobel Lighting Group
• Thorn: Digital Defenders of Children, previously known as DNA Foundation
• Portland Thorns FC, a soccer team based in Portland, Oregon and playing in the National Women's Soccer League
• Thorn (organization), an anti-human trafficking organization

Arts, entertainment and media

Fiction

• Rose and Thorn, the two personalities of two DC Comics characters
• Thorn (Marvel Comics), a fictional character from Marvel Comics
• Thornn, a fictional character from Marvel Comics
• Thorn Harvestar, a main character in Jeff Smith's Bone series
• Thorn (comic strip), a comic strip which was the precursor to Bone
• Thorn (Inheritance), a dragon from the Inheritance cycle
• Thorns (novel), a 1967 science fiction novel by Robert Silverberg

Music

• Thorns (band), a Norwegian black metal band
• The Thorns, an American acoustic rock band
• Thorn (Tang Dynasty album), 2013
• Thorns (Thorns album), 2001
• Thorns (Beans album), 2007
• Thorns (Icon & The Black Roses album), 2014
• Thorn (EP), a 1984 EP by Siouxsie and the Banshees
• "Thorn", a song by Blind Guardian on their 1998 album Nightfall in Middle-Earth
• "Thorns", a track from Storm the Gates of Hell by Demon Hunter
• Thorn, a 2011 EP by Enslaved
• Thorns, a 2015 EP by Luke Black

Film

• The Thorn, a 1974 American comedy film

Other uses

• Thorn (letter) (Þ, þ), a letter in the Anglo-Saxon and Icelandic alphabets
• Thorn (rune) (ᚦ), a rune of the Anglo-Saxon fuþorc
• Thorn (dog), a dog who received the Dickin Medal for bravery in service during the Second World War

See also

• Thorne (disambiguation)
• Thorn tree (disambiguation)