Flavin may refer to:

Placename

Flavin, Aveyron Flavin (; oc, Flavinh) is a commune in the Aveyron department in southern France. Population See also *Communes of the Aveyron department The following is a list of the 285 communes of the Aveyron department of France. The communes c ...

, a commune in southern France

Surname

* Adrian Flavin (born 1979), a professional rugby player * Christopher Flavin, president of the Worldwatch Institute *

Dan Flavin Dan Flavin (April 1, 1933 – November 29, 1996) was an American Minimalism, minimalist artist famous for creating sculpture, sculptural objects and installations from commercially available Fluorescent lamp, fluorescent light fixtures. Earl ...

(1933–1996), a minimalist artist famous for using fluorescent light fixtures * Dan Flavin (politician), Louisiana politician *

James Flavin James William Flavin Jr. (May 14, 1906 – April 23, 1976) was an American character actor whose career lasted for nearly half a century. Early life The son of a hotel waiter of Canadian-English descent,Flavin's obituary, distributed by United ...

(1906–1976), an American character actor * Jennifer Flavin (born 1968), a former model and wife of actor Sylvester Stallone *

Martin Flavin Martin Archer Flavin (November 2, 1883 – December 27, 1967) was an American playwright and novelist. Biography Flavin was born on November 2, 1883, in San Francisco, California. He was a Sigma Chi at the University of Chicago, which he atte ...

(1883–1967), an American playwright and novelist *

Martin Flavin (politician) Martin Flavin (1841– 30 December 1916) Cadogan, Tim & Falvey, Jeremiah: ''A Biographical Dictionary of Cork'', Four Courts Press (2006), was an Irish nationalist politician, butter merchant and prominent businessman from Cork. He was a Member ...

(1841–1917), Irish Nationalist politician, Member of Parliament (MP) for Cork, 1891–1892 *

Michael Joseph Flavin Michael Joseph Flavin (1866 – 3 May 1944) was an Irish Nationalist Member of Parliament for North Kerry, 1896–1918. Flavin was born at Ballyduff, near Listowel. He was the son of James Flavin and Joan or Johanna Mangan. He was educated a ...

(1866-1944), Irish Nationalist politician, Member of Parliament (MP) for North Kerry, 1896-1918 *

Mick Flavin Mick Flavin (born 3 August 1950) is an Irish country singer from Ballinamuck in County Longford. Flavin recorded his first album in Athlone in June 1986. His first big hit being "I'm Gonna Make It After All". Flavin has also recorded "Someday ...

, an Irish country singer

Biochemistry

* Flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD), a redox cofactor *

Flavin-containing amine oxidoreductase Flavin-containing amine oxidoreductases are a family of various amine oxidases, including maize polyamine oxidase (PAO), L-amino acid oxidases (LAO) and various flavin containing monoamine oxidases (MAO). The aligned region includes the flavin ...

, a family of amine oxidases *

Flavin-containing monooxygenase The flavin-containing monooxygenase (FMO) protein family specializes in the oxidation of xeno-substrates in order to facilitate the excretion of these compounds from living organisms. These enzymes can oxidize a wide array of heteroatoms, par ...

(FMO), a protein family *

Flavin containing monooxygenase 1 Dimethylaniline monooxygenase -oxide-forming1 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the ''FMO1'' gene. Metabolic N-oxidation of the diet-derived amino-trimethylamine (TMA) is mediated by flavin-containing monooxygenase and is subject to an i ...

, a human gene *

Flavin containing monooxygenase 3 Flavin-containing monooxygenase 3 (FMO3), also known as dimethylaniline monooxygenase -oxide-forming3 and trimethylamine monooxygenase, is a flavoprotein enzyme () that in humans is encoded by the ''FMO3'' gene. This enzyme catalyzes the followi ...

, a human gene *

Flavin group Flavins (from Latin ''flavus'', "yellow") are organic compounds, like their base, pteridine. They are formed by the tricyclic heterocycle isoalloxazine. The biochemical source is the vitamin riboflavin. The flavin moiety is often attached wit ...

, a group of organic compounds *

Flavin mononucleotide Flavin mononucleotide (FMN), or riboflavin-5′-phosphate, is a biomolecule produced from riboflavin (vitamin B2) by the enzyme riboflavin kinase and functions as the prosthetic group of various oxidoreductases, including NADH dehydrogenase, as ...

, a biomolecule produced from riboflavin *

Flavin reductase Flavin reductase a class of enzymes. There are a variety of flavin reductases, (i.e. FRP, FRE, FRG, etc.) which bind free flavins and through hydrogen bonding, catalyze the reduction of these molecules to a reduced flavin. Riboflavin, or vitamin B ...

, an enzyme {{Disambiguation, surname