Tarn may refer to:

Places

Tarn (lake) A tarn (or corrie loch) is a 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 derived from the Old Norse word ''tjörn'' ("a small mount ...

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

France

Tarn (department) Tarn ( or ; ) is a department in the Occitania region in Southern France. Named after the 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. Histo ...

, France, a commune in the Tarn department ** Marssac-sur-Tarn, 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 Aveyro ...

, 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, 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 (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, an ...

(born 1978), American co-creator of the video game ''Dwarf Fortress'' * Tarn Mann, Indian writer, producer and director *

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

(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 fiction series by John Norman * Tarn, a

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in the

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