Taine may refer to:
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Taine Basham (born 1999), Welsh rugby player
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Taine Murray (born 2002), New Zealand basketball player
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Taine Paton
Taine Paton (born 4 January 1989) is a South African field hockey player. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he competed for the national team in the men's tournament, with his brother Wade Paton. He also represented South Africa at the 2014 Commonw ...
(born 1989), South African field hockey player
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Taine Pechet, American thoracic surgeon
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Taine Plumtree
Taine Plumtree (born 9 March 2000) is a Welsh professional rugby union player who plays as a flanker for the Scarlets in the United Rugby Championship. Plumtree began his career with Wellington in the NPC, and played for the Blues in Super Rug ...
(born 2000), Welsh born New Zealand rugby player
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Taine Randell
Taine Randell (born 5 November 1974) is a retired New Zealand rugby union player. He was a versatile loose forward and a former All Blacks captain. He was born in Hastings, New Zealand, and is of Ngāti Kahungunu and Waikato Tainui descent.
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(born 1974), New Zealand rugby player
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Taine Robinson (born 1999), New Zealand rugby player
Surname
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Christophe Taine (born 1973), French footballer
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Hippolyte Taine
Hippolyte Adolphe Taine (, 21 April 1828 – 5 March 1893) was a French historian, critic and philosopher. He was the chief theoretical influence on French naturalism, a major proponent of sociological positivism and one of the first practition ...
(1828–1893), French critic and historian
*John Taine, pen name of
Eric Temple Bell
Eric Temple Bell (7 February 1883 – 21 December 1960) was a Scottish-born mathematician and science fiction writer who lived in the United States for most of his life. He published non-fiction using his given name and fiction as John Tai ...
(1883–1960), Scottish novelist
Fiction
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Charles Foster Taine, fictional character in the DC Comics universe
*Hiram Taine, fictional protagonist in the 1958 novel ''
The Big Front Yard
"The Big Front Yard" is a science fiction short story by American writer Clifford D. Simak which won a 1959 Hugo Award for Best Novelette. It was also included in ''The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two'' (1973) after being voted one of the ...
'' by Clifford Simak
*Roger Taine, fictional protagonist of the novels ''A Rough Shoot'' and ''A Time to Kill'' by
Geoffrey Household
Geoffrey Edward West Household (30 November 1900 – 4 October 1988) was a prolific British novelist who specialized in thrillers. He is best known for his novel '' Rogue Male'' ( 1939).
Personal life
He was born in Bristol; his father Hora ...
*Sydney Taine, fictional character in the ''Nightside'' comic series of
Robert Weinberg
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Antaine
Antaine is the Irish name for many people known in the English language as Tony or Anthony. Notable people with this given name include the following:
First name
*Antaine Ó Braonáin, Irish name for Anthony "Tony" Brennan (born 1944), Irish G ...
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Tain (disambiguation) Tain is a town and royal burgh in the Highland council area of Scotland.
Tain may also refer to:
Places
* Tain, Shekhawati, a village in Rajasthan, India
* Tain, the Romansch name of Davos Wiesen, a village in Switzerland
* Tain A.K, a union c ...
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Tana (disambiguation) Tana may refer to:
Places
Africa
* Lake Tana, a lake in Ethiopia (and a source of the Nile River)
* Tana Qirqos, an island in the eastern part of Lake Tana in Ethiopia, near the mouth of the Gumara River
* Tana River County, a county of Coast Pro ...
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Toine Toine is a Dutch given name and a nickname with both masculine and feminine uses. It is a short form of Antoine and a diminutive form of Antonius, Anton, Antoon, Anthonis, Anthoon, Antonie, and Antonis used in Belgium, Netherlands, Suriname, Sout ...
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