Flake or Flakes may refer to:

People

Floyd H. Flake Floyd Harold Flake (born January 30, 1945) is an American businessman and former politician who is the senior pastor of the 23,000 member Greater Allen African Methodist Episcopal Cathedral in Jamaica, Queens, New York, and former president of ...

(born 1945), A.M.E. minister, university administrator, former U.S. representative *

Jeff Flake Jeffry Lane Flake (born December 31, 1962) is an American politician and diplomat who is the current U.S Ambassador to Turkey. A member of the Republican Party, Flake served in the United States House of Representatives from 2001 to 2013 and ...

(born 1962), American politician *

Christian "Flake" Lorenz Christian "Flake" Lorenz (; born 16 November 1966) is a German musician and keyboard player for Neue Deutsche Härte band Rammstein, as well as the main composer of the band along with guitarist Richard Kruspe. He was also a member of the East ...

, German musician and member of the band Rammstein *

Jake Flake Franklin Lars "Jake" Flake (August 4, 1935 – June 8, 2008) was an American politician who served as a Senator in the Arizona State Legislature from 2005 until his death. Previous to his term as State Senator, he served as a Representative in t ...

, American politician

Arts, entertainment, and media

Music

Groups

* Flake (band), an Australian psyche/prog rock band from

Sydney Sydney ( ) is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about towards the Blue Mountain ...

, active in the late 1960s and early 1970s * Flake, the original name of the band Flake Music, the predecessor of The Shins

Songs

* "Flake" (song), a song from the 2001 album ''Brushfire Fairytales'' by Jack Johnson * "Flake", an early song by System of a Down, see

System of a Down discography System of a Down is an American rock band formed by musicians of Armenian origin: vocalist Serj Tankian, guitarist Daron Malakian, bassist Shavo Odadjian, and drummer John Dolmayan in the mid-1990s. They have released five studio albums, ni ...

* "Flakes", a song from the 1979 album ''

Sheik Yerbouti ''Sheik Yerbouti'' is a double album by Frank Zappa, released in March 1979 as the first release on Zappa Records (distributed by Phonogram Inc.) It is mostly made up of live material recorded in 1977 and 1978, with extensive overdubs added i ...

'' by Frank Zappa * "Flakes", a song from the 2008 album '' Twenty One'' by the Mystery Jets

Other arts, entertainment, and media

* ''Flakes'' (film), a 2007 film with Aaron Stanford and Zooey Deschanel * ''Flakes'' (manga), a manga anthology by Naoki Yamamoto

Food and food preparation

* Flake (chocolate bar), a brand of chocolate bar manufactured by Cadbury *

Flake (fish) Flake is a term used in Australia to indicate the flesh of any of several species of baby shark, particularly the gummy shark. The term probably arose in the late 1920s when the large-scale commercial shark fishery off the coast of Victoria was es ...

, an Australian term for edible flesh of one of several species of shark * Flake, an individual popped kernel of corn *

Fish flake A fish flake is a platform built on poles and spread with boughs for drying cod on the foreshores of fishing villages and small coastal towns in Newfoundland and Nordic countries. Spelling variations for fish flake in Newfoundland include ', ...

, a platform for drying cod

Science and technology

Flake (software) Flake or a Vector Shape is a programming library that is used in Calligra Suite and the KOffice 2 series. Flake provides the basic concept of a "shape". To the end user a shape appears as some piece of content such as an image or a text. A shape ca ...

, a software library for KDE * Flake tobacco, used in a

smoking pipe A smoking pipe is used to inhale the smoke of a burning substance; most common is a tobacco pipe, which can also accommodate almost any other substance. Pipes are commonly made from briar, heather, corn, meerschaum, clay, cherry, glass, porcela ...

* Flake8, a

Python Python may refer to: Snakes * Pythonidae, a family of nonvenomous snakes found in Africa, Asia, and Australia ** ''Python'' (genus), a genus of Pythonidae found in Africa and Asia * Python (mythology), a mythical serpent Computing * Python (pro ...

wrapper for PyFlakes, pycodestyle, and Ned Batchelder's McCabe script, similar to

Pylint Pylint is a static code analysis tool for the Python programming language. It is named following a common convention in Python of a "py" prefix, and a nod to the C programming lint program. It follows the style recommended by PEP 8, the Python s ...

Lithic flake In archaeology, a lithic flake is a "portion of rock removed from an objective piece by percussion or pressure,"Andrefsky, W. (2005) ''Lithics: Macroscopic Approaches to Analysis''. 2d Ed. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press and may also be refe ...

, a fragment of stone found in archaeology *

Nano flake In a general meaning a Nano flake is a flake (that is, an uneven piece of material with one dimension substantially smaller than the other two) with at least one nanometric dimension (that is, between 1 and 100 nm). A flake is not necessarily p ...

, a novel shape of semiconductor nanostructure * Snowflake, a particle of snow * Snowflake Computing, a cloud data warehouse company.