fen A fen is a type of peat-accumulating wetland fed by mineral-rich ground or surface water. It is one of the main types of wetlands along with marshes, swamps, and bogs. Bogs and fens, both peat-forming ecosystems, are also known as mires ...

is a type of wetland. Fen, Fenn, Fens, Fenns, may also refer to:

People

Fen (name) Fen may be either a Chinese female given name or family name. As a given name, it is represented in simplified Chinese as 芬 (pinyin: Fēn). Fen may also be a surname in countries other than China, such as Uzbekistan where it is represented in C ...

, a Chinese given name and surname * Fen Cresswell (1915–1966), New Zealand cricketer *

Fen McDonald Fenley John "Fen" McDonald (25 May 1891 – 25 April 1915) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton and Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He was a member of the First AIF, and was killed in action during the ...

(1891–1915), Australian rules footballer *

Kees Fens Kees Fens (18 October 1929 in Amsterdam – 14 June 2008) was a Dutch writer, essayist and literary critic.Vitaly Fen Vitaly Vasilievich Fen (russian: Виталий Васильевич Фен; born c. 1947) is an Uzbekistani diplomat who was stationed in South Korea from 1995 to 2013. Career Fen began to play a role in relations between South Korea and Uzbekis ...

(born ), Uzbekistani diplomat

Places

The Fens The Fens, also known as the , in eastern England are a naturally marshy region supporting a rich ecology and numerous species. Most of the fens were drained centuries ago, resulting in a flat, dry, low-lying agricultural region supported by a ...

, a low-lying geographical region of eastern England *

The Fens (Boston, Massachusetts) The Back Bay Fens, often called The Fens, is a parkland and urban wild in Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States. It was established in 1879. Designed by Frederick Law Olmsted to serve as a link in the Emerald Necklace park system, the Fens ...

, a park * Fenns, Indiana, an unincorporated community * Fen Complex, Norway, an area of unusual igneous rocks * Fen Prefecture, a region of Imperial China *

Fen River The Fen River drains the center of Shanxi Province, China. It originates in the Guancen Mountains of Ningwu County in northeast Shanxi, flows southeast into the basin of Taiyuan, and then south through the central valley of Shanxi before turni ...

, in China * Fenn College, predecessor of Cleveland State University *

Fenn Tower Fenn Tower is a 22-story skyscraper in Cleveland, Ohio. It is owned by Cleveland State University. It was built for the National Town and Country Club, but was only used for one event before closing. It was originally known as the National Town an ...

, building on the campus of Cleveland State University * Fenn's Moss, part of a British nature reserve

Other uses

Fen (band) Fen is a British post-black metal band formed in 2006 from the Fens of East Anglia signed to the label Code666. Their Myspace page reports that they "draw the listener into a windswept and desolate landscape, bereft of hope". In 2006 they rec ...

, a British metal band *

Fen (currency) A fen () (Cantonese: sin []), is a unit of currency used in Greater China, including the People's Republic of China, the Republic of China (Island of Taiwan, Taiwan), Hong Kong (called a Cent (currency), cent in English) and Macao (called an ''av ...

, a unit of the renminbi, the currency of China *

Fen (play) ''Fen'' is a 1983 play by Caryl Churchill. While not as well known as Churchill works like ''Cloud 9'' (1979) and ''Top Girls'' (1982), it has been praised by many critics. Reception After viewing the Joint Stock Theatre Group performance at ...

, a play by the British playwright Caryl Churchill *

Far East Network The Far East Network (FEN) was a network of American military radio and television stations, primarily serving U.S. Forces in Japan, Okinawa, the Philippines, and Guam. Overview Now known as the American Forces Network-Japan (AFN-Japan), wit ...

, a network of American military radio and television stations *

Federation of European Neuroscience Societies The Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) is a European federation of scientific societies for basic scientists and physicians whose research is focused on the brain and nervous system (i.e., neuroscience). History The federation ...

(FENS), a scholarly federation *

Fen TV Fen TV ( bg, Фен ТВ) is a Bulgarian music television Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television ...

, a Bulgarian television channel * Fenny Stratford railway station, in England *

Fernando de Noronha Airport Gov. Carlos Wilson Airport is the airport serving the island of Fernando de Noronha, Brazil. It is the easternmost airport of Brazil and the only facility located in the Brazilian oceanic islands. It is operated by Dix Empreendimentos. History ...

, in Brazil *

Festival of New Songs Festival of New Songs ( sl, Festival novih skladb, FENS; previously ) is a festival of new and as yet nonaffirmed musicians from Slovenia and abroad. It is the only festival in Slovenia where not only adults but children and teenagers compete too. ...

, a Slovenian music festival *

Flap endonuclease Flap endonucleases (FENs, also known as 5' durgs in older references) are a class of nucleolytic enzymes that act as both 5'-3' exonucleases and structure-specific endonucleases on specialised DNA structures that occur during the biological proces ...

* Forsyth–Edwards Notation (FEN) for chess positions * Fédération des Étudiants Nationalistes (FEN), a defunct French far-right students' association {{disambiguation