Shannon may refer to:
People
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Shannon (given name)
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Shannon (surname)
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Shannon (American singer), stage name of singer Shannon Brenda Greene (born 1958)
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Shannon (South Korean singer)
Shannon Arrum Williams (born 26 May 1998), known professionally as Shannon, is a British-South Korean singer and voice actress currently based in England. She is known for being a contestant of '' K-pop Star 6: The Last Chance''. Prior to debut ...
, British-South Korean singer and actress Shannon Arrum Williams (born 1998)
* Shannon, intermittent stage name of English singer-songwriter
Marty Wilde
Marty Wilde, (born Reginald Leonard Smith; 15 April 1939) is an English singer and songwriter. He was among the first generation of British pop stars to emulate American rock and roll, scoring several 1950s hit singles including " Endless Sl ...
(born 1939)
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Claude Shannon
Claude Elwood Shannon (April 30, 1916 – February 24, 2001) was an American mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptographer known as a "father of information theory".
As a 21-year-old master's degree student at the Massachusetts Inst ...
(1916-2001) was American mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptographer known as a "father of information theory"
Places
Australia
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Shannon, Tasmania, a locality
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Hundred of Shannon
The County of Musgrave is a cadastral unit in the Australian state of South Australia that covers land on the west coast of Eyre Peninsula. It was proclaimed on 22 June 1876 and named after Anthony Musgrave, the Governor of South Australia ...
, a cadastral unit in South Australia
* Shannon, a former name for the area named
Calomba, South Australia since 1916
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Shannon River (Western Australia)
Canada
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Shannon, New Brunswick
Shannon is a small farming community in the Parish of Wickham in Queens County, New Brunswick, Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean ...
, a community
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Shannon, Quebec
Shannon is a city in Quebec, Canada, along the Jacques-Cartier River northwest of Quebec City.
It was formed in December 1946 when it separated from the territory of Sainte-Catherine-de-Fossambault, following protests of this part of the popul ...
, a city
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Shannon Bay, former name of Darrell Bay, British Columbia
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Shannon Falls
Shannon Falls Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada. It is located from Vancouver and south of Squamish along the Sea to Sky Highway.
The park covers an area of . The main point of interest is Shannon Falls, the thi ...
, a waterfall in British Columbia
Ireland
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River Shannon, the longest river in Ireland
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Shannon Cave
Shannon Cave is an active stream passage cave which straddles the border of County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland and County Cavan in the Republic of Ireland.
At vertical depth, it stands joint sixth with Poulnagree in County Clare in the deepes ...
, a subterranean section of the River Shannon
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Shannon Pot
Shannon Pot () is a pool in the karst landscape in the townland of Derrylahan near Cuilcagh Mountain in County Cavan, Ireland. An aquifer-fed naturally fluctuating pool, it is the traditional source of the River Shannon.
The pool itself is about ...
, source of the River Shannon
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Shannon Estuary
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Shannon, County Clare
Shannon () or Shannon Town (), named after the river near which it stands, is a town in County Clare, Ireland. It was given town status on 1 January 1982. The town is located just off the N19 road, a spur of the N18/M18 road between Limeric ...
, Ireland, a town near Shannon Airport
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Shannon Region
Shannon Development (legally the ''Shannon Free Airport Development Company Limited'' formerly known as SFADCO) was an important regional development body for the Shannon Region of Ireland. Its area in the lower River Shannon basin comprised a ...
, unofficial region in Ireland
United States
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Shannon, Alabama
Shannon is a small unincorporated community located in Jefferson County, Alabama, United States, between Birmingham
Birmingham ( ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Mi ...
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Shannon, Georgia
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Shannon, Illinois
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Shannon, Kansas
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Shannon, Kentucky
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Shannon, Mississippi
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Shannon, North Carolina
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Shannon, Texas
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Shannon County, Missouri
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Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota, formerly known as Shannon County
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Shannon River (Minnesota)
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Shannon Creek
Shannon Creek is a short tributary to the Baker River in Whatcom County, Washington, near the southwest border of North Cascades National Park. It rises in two forks a few miles south of Mount Shuksan; the glacier-fed north fork begins at elevat ...
, a stream near North Cascades National Park, Washington
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Lake Shannon
Lake Shannon is a long, narrow reservoir on the Baker River in Skagit County, Washington in the United States. Formed in the 1920s by the construction of an arch dam just above the town of Concrete, the lake is approximately long and averages w ...
, a reservoir in Whatcom County, Washington
Elsewhere
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Shannon, New Zealand
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Shannon Island
Shannon Island ( da, Shannon Ø) is a large island in Northeast Greenland National Park in eastern Greenland, to the east of Hochstetter Foreland, with an area of . It was named by Douglas Charles Clavering on his 1823 expedition for the Royal N ...
, Greenland
Arts and entertainment
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''Shannon'' (1961 TV series), starring George Nader (syndicated)
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''Shannon'' (1981 TV series), starring Kevin Dobson (Columbia Broadcasting System)
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"Shannon" (song), a song by Henry Gross
Organisations
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Shannon Development
Shannon Development (legally the ''Shannon Free Airport Development Company Limited'' formerly known as SFADCO) was an important regional development body for the Shannon Region of Ireland. Its area in the lower River Shannon basin comprised a ...
, a development company in Ireland
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Shannon Racing, a defunct motor racing team
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Shannon Racing Cars
Shannon Racing Cars was a Formula One constructor from the United Kingdom with Aiden Jones, formerly a mechanic for Prince Bira and Prince Chula, and Paul Emery as the principals. Using a car built by former Emeryson designer Emery and an ...
, a defunct Formula One constructor
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Shannon RFC
Shannon Rugby Football Club is the most successful club in the All Ireland League, having won the competition nine times. They hail from Limerick near the banks of the Shannon river. Shannon RFC is a member of the '' Irish Rugby Football Unio ...
, a rugby club in Limerick
Transportation
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Shannon Airport
Shannon Airport ( ga, Aerfort na Sionainne) is an international airport located in County Clare in the Republic of Ireland. It is adjacent to the Shannon Estuary and lies halfway between Ennis and Limerick. The airport is the third busiest ai ...
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Shannon (locomotive)
''Shannon'' is a steam locomotive, built in 1857 George England and Co. for the Sandy and Potton Railway and now preserved at the Didcot Railway Centre.
History
The locomotive was built in 1857 by George England and Co. of New Cross for t ...
, an 0-4-0WT steam locomotive built in 1857
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Shannon-class lifeboat
The Shannon-class lifeboat (previously FCB2 – Fast Carriage Boat 2) is the latest class of lifeboat currently being deployed to the RNLI fleet to serve the shores of the British Isles. The Shannon class is due to replace the Mersey class carr ...
, a British type of lifeboat
Other uses
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Earl of Shannon
Earl of Shannon is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1756 for the prominent Irish politician Henry Boyle, who served as Speaker of the Irish House of Commons and as Chancellor of the Irish Exchequer. The earldom is named a ...
, a title in the Irish peerage
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Shannon (horse)
Shannon (1941–1955), named Shannon II in America, was an outstanding Australian Thoroughbred racehorse who was inducted into the Hall of Fame. He created new racecourse records in Australia before he was sold to an American buyer who exported ...
(1941–1955), Australian Hall-of-Fame racehorse
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Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest, an Irish university
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shannon (unit)
The shannon (symbol: Sh) is a unit of information named after Claude Shannon, the founder of information theory. IEC 80000-13 defines the shannon as the information content associated with an event when the probability of the event occurring is . I ...
, the information content of one bit
* Shannon, a satellite - see
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See also
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Shannon index
A diversity index is a quantitative measure that reflects how many different types (such as species) there are in a dataset (a community), and that can simultaneously take into account the phylogenetic relations among the individuals distributed a ...
, a biodiversity index
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Noisy-channel coding theorem
In information theory, the noisy-channel coding theorem (sometimes Shannon's theorem or Shannon's limit), establishes that for any given degree of noise contamination of a communication channel, it is possible to communicate discrete data (di ...
, sometimes called Shannon Limit, the theoretical limit to capacity of a communication channel
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Shannan (disambiguation)
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