Shannon
Shannon stands for:
- Shannon (name) , male and female first name and family name.
-
Claude Elwood Shannon (1916-2001), American information theorist; named after him:
- Shannon (unit) , unit of measure for the information content of a message
- Shannon index for describing biodiversity
- Shannon decomposition , also (Shannon expansion) a way to represent Boolean functions differently.
- Shannon (river) in Ireland
- Shannon (estuary) , the long, bay-like mouth of the Shannon River in Ireland
- Shannon (island) in the Greenland Sea off Greenland
- Shannon (singer) , the American singer Brenda Shannon Greene ( Let the Music Play , 1984)
Places:
in the United States:
- Shannon, Alabama
- Shannon (Arkansas)
- Shannon (Georgia)
- Shannon (Illinois)
- Shannon (Mississippi)
- Shannon, North Carolina
- Shannon (Texas)
- Shannon County, Missouri , administrative division
- Shannon County, Oglala Lakota County , administrative division as of March 2015
- Castle Shannon, Pennsylvania
See also:
- Shannon Hills
- Shannon Point , headland of South Georgia, South Atlantic
- Shannon River
- Shannon International Airport , airport in Ireland
- Sionan (mythology) , Celtic goddess of the River Shannon
- Earl of Shannon
