Tristan is a Knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend.
Tristan may also refer to:
People Tristan (name), a moderately common male given name Tristan l'Hermite, a French political and military figure of the late Middle Ages. François Tristan l'Hermite, a French dramatist.
Places Tristan (Guinea), the largest island in the Tristan and Capken Islands Tristan da Cunha, a British volcanic island and eponymous archipelago in the mid-south Atlantic, often shortened to "Tristan" Tristan Island or the Île Tristan, located at the mouth of the Pouldavid Estuary off the French port of Douarnenez in south-western Brittany Tristan hotspot, a volcanic hotspot which is responsible for the volcanic activity which forms the volcanoes in the southern Atlantic Ocean
Literature Tristan, a 12th-century French poem by Thomas of Britain Tristan, a 12th-century French poem by Béroul Tristan, a 13th-century German poem by Gottfried von Strassburg Tristan (novella), a 1903 novella by Thomas Mann The Tristan Betrayal, a novel by Robert Ludlum Prose Tristan (Tristan en prose), an adaptation of the Tristan and Iseult story into a long prose romance
Music Tristan (musician) or Tristan Cooke (born 1970), British psytrance and Goa trance DJ and producer Tristan Prettyman an American singer Tristan (Henze), composition for piano, tape and orchestra by Hans Werner Henze "Tristan" (song), by Patrick Wolf from his second album Wind in the Wires Tristan und Isolde, an opera by Richard Wagner The Tristan chord, a variant on the half-diminished chord
Science and Technology Tristan (dinosaur), a Tyrannosaurus rex specimen TRISTAN, a particle accelerator at KEK in Japan
Other uses Tristan (horse), a British Thoroughbred racehorse
See also
Tristan and Iseult (disambiguation) Tristam (disambiguation) Tristram (disambiguation) Tristrant, a 13th-century German poem by Eilhart von Oberge Sir Tristrem