Flann is both an English
surname
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and an
Irish masculine given name, but has also been used as a feminine given name. It might refer to:
* Flann Fína mac Ossu, another name for King
Aldfrith of Northumbria (died 704 or 705)
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Flann mac Lonáin
Flann mac Lonáin (died 896) was an Irish poet.
Background and career
Flann mac Lonáin was a famed and at times controversial poet. He was the Chief Ollam of Ireland He seems to have been born in the east Clare/west Tipperary region. Distinguish ...
(died 896), Irish poet
*
Flann Sinna (died 916), also called Flann mac Maíl Sechnaill, High King of Ireland
*
Flann Mainistrech (died 1056), Irish scholar
* Flann O'Brien, a pen name used by Irish writer
Brian O'Nolan
Brian O'Nolan ( ga, Brian Ó Nualláin; 5 October 1911 – 1 April 1966), better known by his pen name Flann O'Brien, was an Irish civil service official, novelist, playwright and satirist, who is now considered a major figure in twentieth ce ...
(1911–1966)
FLANN, an acronym for
Fast Library for Approximate Nearest Neighbors, is a
C++ library for approximate
nearest neighbor search in
high-dimensional spaces
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.
[Arul Suju, Hancy Jose]
FLANN: Fast approximate nearest neighbour search algorithm for elucidating human-wildlife conflicts in forest areas
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