swan Swans are birds of the genus ''Cygnus'' within the family Anatidae. The swans' closest relatives include the goose, geese and ducks. Swans are grouped with the closely related geese in the subfamily Anserinae where they form the tribe (biology) ...

is a bird of the genus ''Cygnus'' (true swans) or ''Coscoroba'' (coscoroba swans). Swan, swans, or The Swan may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Film and television

* ''The Swan'' (1925 film), a 1925 silent film * ''The Swan'' (1956 film), a 1956 remake of a 1925 film of the same title * Swan (1976 film), a Bulgarian drama film * ''Swan'', a television ident for BBC Two first aired in early 1998, see

BBC Two '1991–2001' idents The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England. Originally established in 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company, it evolved into its current sta ...

* ''The Swan'' (TV series), a U.S. reality TV series from 2004 * ''Swan'' (2011 film), a Portuguese film directed by Teresa Villaverde

Literature

* ''Swan'' (manga), a shōjo manga by Ariyoshi Kyoko * "The Swan" (Baudelaire), a poem by Baudelaire * ''The Swan'' (newspaper), a student newspaper of St. Hugh's College, Oxford * ''The Swan'' (novel), an English translation edition of 1991 novel by Guðbergur Bergsson * "The Swan" (short story), a 1977 story by Roald Dahl * ''The Swan'', a 1920 play by

Ferenc Molnár Ferenc Molnár ( , ; born Ferenc Neumann; January 12, 1878April 1, 1952), often anglicized as Franz Molnar, was a Hungarians, Hungarian-born author, stage director, dramatist, and poet. He is widely regarded as Hungary's most celebrated and c ...

* ''The Swan'', a 1993 play by Elizabeth Egloff * Trumpet of the Swan by EB White

Music and dance

Swans (band) Swans are an American experimental rock band formed in 1981 by singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Michael Gira. One of the few acts to emerge from the New York City-based no wave scene and stay intact into the next decade, Swans have b ...

, an experimental rock group ** ''Swans'' (EP), a 1982 EP by the band Swans * ''Swan'' (album), a 2011 album by Unwritten Law * "The Swan", a song by Jay Chou from the 2007 album ''

Secret Secrecy is the practice of hiding information from certain individuals or groups who do not have the "need to know", perhaps while sharing it with other individuals. That which is kept hidden is known as the secret. Secrecy is often controver ...

'' * ''The Swan'' (ballet), better known as ''The Dying Swan'' * ''Le Cygne'' (Saint-Saëns), a movement of the musical suite ''The Carnival of the Animals''

Fictional Characters

* Black Swan, a playable character in Honkai: Star Rail

Organisations

* Swan (rolling papers), a subsidiary of Swedish Match * Swans (eyewear), a Japanese eyewear brand * Swan Electronics, a radio gear manufacturer *

Swan Records (jazz label) Swan Records (aka Swan Recording Co. Inc.) was an American record company and label that was founded in 1946 and closed the same year. Sometime before 1959, Swan went out of business. In 1950, Mercury acquired 16 masters once owned by Swan, al ...

Swan Records Swan Records was a mid-20th century United States–based record label, founded in 1957 and based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It had a subsidiary label called Lawn Records. History Swan Records had enjoyed chart success with several U.S. ar ...

, a pop record label

People

* Howard E. Johnson (1908–1991), American swing alto saxophonist, nicknamed Swan *

Joseph Swan Sir Joseph Wilson Swan Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (31 October 1828 – 27 May 1914) was an English physicist, chemist, and inventor. He is known as an independent early developer of a successful incandescent light bulb, and is respon ...

(1828—1914), English physicist, chemist, and inventor (most notably of the filament lightbulb) *

Howard Swan Howard Shelton Swan (March 19, 1906 – September 19, 1995) was an American choral conductor, tenor, music educator, and writer on music. A highly influential figure in American choral music during the 20th century, Swan was sometimes referred to ...

(1906–1995), American choral conductor and music educator *

Swan (surname) Swan is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: Academics * Daniel C. Swan, American cultural anthropologist and museum curator * Donald A. Swan (1935–1981), American anthropologist * Janis Swan, American-New Zealand food ...

, a list of people with the name *

Swan Hennessy Edward Swan Hennessy (24 November 1866 – 26 October 1929) was an Irish-American composer and pianist who lived much of his life in Paris. In his pre-War piano music, he excelled as a miniaturist in descriptive, Program music, programmatic music. ...

(1866–1929), Irish-American composer based in Paris * Swan King (1845–1886), nickname for Ludwig II of Bavaria * Swan of Stowe, nickname for the Catholic saint Hugh of Lincoln * Bunny Swan, Chinese character on Madtv played by

Alex Borstein Alexandrea Borstein (born February 15, 1973) is an American actress, comedian, writer, and producer. She is best known for voicing Lois Griffin in the animated comedy series ''Family Guy'' (1999–present), for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award ...

Places

* The Swan, County Laois, Ireland * Swan River (disambiguation) * Swan Township (disambiguation) * Swan Valley (disambiguation)

Australia

City of Swan The City of Swan is a Local government areas of Western Australia, local government area of Western Australia, in the Eastern Metropolitan Regional Council, eastern metropolitan region of Perth. It is named after the Swan River (Western Austral ...

, Perth **

Division of Swan The Division of Swan is an Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives, Australian electoral division located in Western Australia. Swan is a Swing seat, marginal electorate that has swung between both major List of political parties ...

, an electoral district based on the surrounding area * Swan Bay, Port Phillip, Victoria, Australia *

Swan Hill Swan Hill is a List of cities in Australia, city in the northwest of Victoria, Australia on the Murray Valley Highway and on the south bank of the Murray River, downstream from the junction of the Loddon River, Victoria, Loddon River. At the , ...

, Victoria, Australia

United States

* Swan, Indiana * Swan, Iowa *

Swan, Missouri Swan is an unincorporated community in north central Taney County, in the U.S. state of Missouri Missouri (''see #Etymology and pronunciation, pronunciation'') is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of ...

Swan Range The Swan Range is a mountain range in western Montana in the United States. Its peaks typically rise to around . The range is bounded by the South Fork Flathead River to the east, the Flathead River to the north and northwest, the Swan River t ...

, a mountain range in Montana * Swan, Texas * Swan, Wisconsin * Swan Township, Holt County, Nebraska *

Swan's Island, Maine Swan's Island is an island town in Hancock County, Maine, United States. It is named after Colonel James Swan, of Fife, Scotland, who purchased the island and some surrounding areas and organized their colonization in the eighteenth century. Th ...

In space

* Comet SWAN (disambiguation), the name of several comets *

Cygnus (constellation) Cygnus is a northern constellation on the plane of the Milky Way, deriving its name from the Latinisation of names, Latinized Greek language, Greek word for swan. Cygnus is one of the most recognizable constellations of the northern summer and au ...

, a constellation also known as the Swan

Elsewhere

* The Swan, County Laois, Ireland *

Erasmusbrug The Erasmusbrug (English: "Erasmus Bridge") is a combined cable-stayed and bascule bridge. Construction began in 1986 and was completed in 1996. It crosses the Nieuwe Maas in the centre of Rotterdam, connecting the north and south parts of this ci ...

, a bridge nicknamed "The Swan" in Rotterdam, Netherlands * Swans, Punjab, Pakistan

Science and technology

* Swan's theorem, a concept in mathematics * Solar Wind Anisotropies, an instrument of the

Solar and Heliospheric Observatory The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) is a European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft built by a European industrial consortium led by Matra Marconi Space (now Airbus Defence and Space) that was launched on a Lockheed Martin Atlas IIAS la ...

spacecraft * Syndrome without a name, a term indicating an unknown idiopathic disease *

Swan (nuclear primary) Swan was a United States test nuclear explosive, which was developed into the XW-45 warhead.http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Tests/Redwing.html "Inca .. Yield: 15.2 kt. UCRL test of a multi-application boosted tactical nuclear warhead prototype ...

, a prototype thermonuclear primary

Computing

* Scottish Wide Area Network (SWAN), the secure network for Scotland’s public services * State Wide Area Network, in the National e-Governance Plan of India

Ships and boats

* HMAS ''Swan'', several Royal Australian Navy ships * HMS ''Swan'', several British Royal Navy ships * Nautor's Swan, a line of Finnish luxury sailing yachts *

Swan boat (racing) A swan boat is a very long and narrow human-powered boat used in the team paddling sport of swan boat racing. It is similar to dragon boat and is mainly practiced in Thailand. Swan boats are round-bottomed boats. They come in several lengths tha ...

, a long and narrow human-powered boat * Swan Boats (Boston, Massachusetts), a fleet of pleasure boats * Swan Boats (Magic Kingdom), a ride at the Magic Kingdom, Walt Disney World, (1973–1983) *

Swan Hellenic Swan Hellenic is a British cruise line specialising in expedition tours of historical or cultural interest aimed at the upper end of the cruise market. Swan Hellenic was first established as Swan's Tours in the 1950s as a tour operator carrying ...

, a cruise line * Swan (sternwheeler), a stern-wheel steamboat * USS ''Swan'', several United States Navy ships

Sports

Swan Districts Football Club The Swan Districts Football Club, nicknamed the Swans, is an Australian rules football club playing in the West Australian Football League (WAFL) and WAFL Women's (WAFLW). The club is based at Bassendean Oval, in Bassendean, Western Australia, ...

, an Australian rules football club based in Bassendean, Australia *

Swan Racing Swan Racing was a stock car racing team that competed in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series until the 2014 season. The team was founded as Inception Motorsports which fielded a single No. 30 team in the Cup Series in 2011 and 2012 before being purchase ...

, a NASCAR racing team * Swan United FC, a football club based in Swan Valley, Australia *

Sydney Swans The Sydney Swans are a professional Australian rules football club based in Sydney, New South Wales. The men's team competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), and the women's team in the AFL Women's (AFLW). The Swans also field a Austral ...

, an Australian rules football club

Venues

England

Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon The Swan Theatre is a theatre belonging to the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. It is built on to the side of the larger Royal Shakespeare Theatre, occupying the Victorian Gothic structure that formerly housed the Sh ...

, England, a theatre belonging to the Royal Shakespeare Company * Wycombe Swan, a theatre in High Wycombe * The Swan (theatre), in London *

The Swan, Hammersmith The Swan is a listed building, Grade II listed public house at 46 Hammersmith Broadway, Hammersmith, London. It was built in 1901, by the architect Frederick Miller, and is in the Jacobean architecture, Free Jacobean style. References

...

, a public house in London * The Swan, Little Totham, a pub in Little Totham, Essex, England * The Swan, West Wycombe, a public house in Buckinghamshire * The Swan, York, a pub in York * The Swan (Tetsworth inn), an historic Elizabethan coaching inn in Tetsworth * Swan Inn, Westminster, London

Other venues

* Walt Disney World Swan, a US resort hotel

Other uses

Swan (beer) Swan is a beer brand owned by Lion Nathan. It was originally brewed by the Swan Brewery in Western Australia, but brewing was moved to South Australia in 2013 and to New South Wales in 2021. On 4 August 2022, it was announced that some of the br ...

, a beer label, Western Australia *

Swan (chair) The Swan is a lounge chair and sofa designed by Arne Jacobsen in the Danish modern style in 1958 for the Radisson Collection Hotel, Royal Copenhagen, SAS Royal Hotel in Copenhagen. It is manufactured by Danish furniture manufacturer Fritz Hansen ...

, designed in 1958 by Arne jacobsen * Swan (''Dungeons & Dragons'') * Swan (Exalted), a role-playing game published by White Wolf Publishing * Swan (Fabergé egg), commissioned in 1906 by Tsar Nicholas II *

Swan Bells The Swan Bells are a set of 18 bells hanging in a specially built copper and glass campanile in Perth, Western Australia. The tower is commonly known as The Bell Tower or the Swan Bell Tower. Taking their name from the Swan River, which their ...

, a set of bells in Perth, Australia * Swan diagram, an economics model * Swan Soap, a brand of soap introduced by the Lever Brothers Company * SwanCon, a science fiction convention