Tarn may refer to:

Places

Tarn (lake) A tarn (or corrie loch) is a Proglacial lake, proglacial mountain lake, pond or pool, formed in a cirque excavated by a glacier. A moraine may form a natural dam below a tarn. Etymology The word is toponymy, derived from the Old Norse word ' ...

, a mountain lake or pool formed in a cirque excavated by a glacier

England

The Tarn The Tarn is a site on Court Road between Mottingham and Eltham, in the Royal Borough of Greenwich, southeast London, United Kingdom, consisting of a public garden, a bird sanctuary nature reserve and a lake amongst woodland. The woodland and lake ...

, a park, nature reserve, and lake in Mottingham, Royal Borough of Greenwich. * Tarn or

Barnsley Barnsley () is a market town in South Yorkshire, England. As the main settlement of the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley and the fourth largest settlement in South Yorkshire. In Barnsley, the population was 96,888 while the wider Borough has ...

, South Yorkshire, England * Tarn Crag (disambiguation), a number of hills in the English

Lake District The Lake District, also known as the Lakes or Lakeland, is a mountainous region in North West England. A popular holiday destination, it is famous for its lakes, forests, and mountains (or ''fells''), and its associations with William Wordswor ...

Tarns, Cumbria Tarns is a small farming settlement in the civil parish of Holme St. Cuthbert in Cumbria, United Kingdom. It is located two miles north-east of the village of Mawbray, and twenty-three miles south-west of Carlisle, Cumbria's county town. The B ...

France

Tarn (department) Tarn ( or ; ) is a Departments of France, department in the Occitania (administrative region), Occitania Regions of France, region in Southern France. Named after the river Tarn (river), Tarn, it had a population of 389,844 as of 2019.

, a department in southwest France **

Lisle-sur-Tarn Lisle-sur-Tarn (; oc, L'Illa d'Albigés) is a commune in the Tarn department in southern France. Geography The city is located halfway between Toulouse and Albi on the A68 motorway, in the Gaillac vineyard, on the banks of the Tarn. Histori ...

, France, a commune in the Tarn department **

Marssac-sur-Tarn Marssac-sur-Tarn (, literally ''Marssac on Tarn''; oc, Marçac de Tarn) is a commune in the Tarn department in southern France. Transport Marssac-sur-Tarn station has rail connections to Toulouse, Albi and Rodez. See also *Communes of the Tar ...

, France, a commune in the Tarn département *

Tarn (river) The Tarn (; oc, Tarn, la, Tarnis, possibly meaning 'rapid' or 'walled in') is a long river in the administrative region of Occitania in southern France. It is a right tributary of the Garonne. The Tarn runs in a roughly westerly direction, fr ...

, a river in France **

Gorges du Tarn The Gorges du Tarn ( oc, Gòrjas de Tarn) is a canyon formed by the Tarn (river) between the Causse Méjean and the Causse de Sauveterre, in southern France. The canyon, mainly located in the Lozère ''département'', and partially in the Aveyron ' ...

, France, a canyon along the course of the Tarn River *

Tarn-et-Garonne Tarn-et-Garonne (; oc, Tarn e Garona ) is a department in the Occitania region in Southern France. It is traversed by the rivers Tarn and Garonne, from which it takes its name. The area was originally part of the former provinces of Quercy and ...

, a department in southwest France

United States

* Tarn Oil Field, an oil field in Alaska, U.S.

Chile

Mount Tarn Mount Tarn is a small mountain located on the southernmost part of the Strait of Magellan, in Brunswick Peninsula, about 70 km south of Punta Arenas, Chile. It is in the southern extreme of continental Chile very close to Cape Froward, s ...

, a summit on the southern part of the Strait of Magellan, Chile

Outer space

* 13032 Tarn, a main-belt minor planet

People

Aleks Tarn Aleksey Vladimirovich Tarnovitski (born 20 February 1955), better known as Aleks Tarn, is a journalist and author who was born in the Russian Far East, Primorsky Krai. He grew up, studied and worked in Leningrad. Since 1989, he has lived in Beit ...

(born 1955), journalist and author * Gary Tarn (born 1962), British filmmaker and composer *

Maria Dyer Maria Dyer (née Tarn) (c. 1803 – 21 October 1846), was a British Protestant Christian missionary to the Chinese in the Congregationalist tradition, who worked among the Chinese in Malaya. Life She was born in London in about 1803. She ...

(née Tarn, 1803–1846), British Protestant Christian missionary to the Chinese *

Michael Tarn Michael Tarn (born 18 December 1953) is a British actor. He is best known for playing Pete in Stanley Kubrick's film '' A Clockwork Orange'' (1971). Tarn was cast as Pete in '' A Clockwork Orange'' and was the only actor in the gang who was ...

(born 1953), British film and television actor *

Nathaniel Tarn Nathaniel Tarn (born June 30, 1928) is a French-American poet, essayist, anthropologist, and translator. He was born in Paris to a French-Romanian mother and a British- Lithuanian father. He lived in Paris until the age of seven, then in Belg ...

(born 1928), British-American poet *

Tarn Adams Tarn Adams (born April 17, 1978) is an American computer game programmer, best known for his work on ''Dwarf Fortress.'' He has been working on the game since 2002 together with his older brother Zach. He learned programming in his childhood, and ...

(born 1978), American co-creator of the video game ''Dwarf Fortress'' *

Tarn Mann Tarn Mann is an Indian writer, producer and director. Born and raised in India, he moved to Canada at a young age. Work Mann worked with Bollywood actor Om Parkash as a child artist before becoming the assistant director of 'Mirza – The Untol ...

, Indian writer, producer and director *

William Woodthorpe Tarn Sir William Woodthorpe Tarn (26 February 1869 – 7 November 1957) was a British classics, classical scholar and a writer. He wrote extensively on the Hellenistic world, particularly on Alexander the Great, Alexander the Great's empire and its su ...

(1869–1957), 20th century British historian and author

Transport

* HMS ''Tarn'' (P336), a Second World War British T class submarine *

Tarn Light Railway The Chemin de Fer Touristique du Tarn (CFTT), or Tarn Light Railway, is a narrow-gauge light railway near the village of Saint-Lieux-lès-Lavaur, in the vicinity of Saint-Sulpice in the department of Tarn, France. It is run as a heritage railw ...

Fiction

* Tarn, a type of large bird ridden by characters in the

Gor Gor () is the fictional setting for a series of sword and planet novels written by philosophy professor John Lange, writing as John Norman. The setting was first described in the 1966 novel ''Tarnsman of Gor''. The series is inspired by science f ...

fiction series by John Norman * Tarn, a

Decepticon The Decepticons are the main antagonists in the fictional continuities of the ''Transformers'' multimedia franchise. They are depicted as a faction of sentient robotic lifeforms led by Megatron, identified by a purple face-like insignia. Capab ...

in the

Transformers ''Transformers'' is a media franchise produced by American toy company Hasbro and Japanese toy company Takara Tomy. It primarily follows the Autobots and the Decepticons, two alien robot factions at war that can transform into other forms, suc ...

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