Orin

Orin, or variants thereof, may refer to one of the following.

Geography

• Orin, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, a commune in southwestern France
• Orin, Iran, a village in Tehran Province, Iran
• Orin, Nigeria, a town or administrative division in Ekiti State, Nigeria
• Orrin, North Dakota, an unincorporated community in North Dakota, United States
• Orin, Wyoming, a town in east central Wyoming, United States
• River Orrin, a river in Ross, Scotland

People

Given name

• Orin is the English or Americanized phonetic spelling of the Irish given name Odran (traditionally spelled Odhran and more recently Oran). Irish pronounce Odran as o-rawn and o-rin. The name means one of the following in Old Irish: 1). dark-haired** - derived from the word "otteran" meaning otter in Irish; 2). little pale green one; 3). white; or 4). river [(**generally accepted as the correct meaning; defn. 3) is likely Scottish; and defn. 4) is probably confused with the name Aran which has a similar pronunciation.)]
• Orrin is a given name meaning pale-skinned or white in Scottish.
• Oren is the English phonetic spelling of the given name meaning "pine tree" in Hebrew. "Oren" in Hebrew is spelled "אורין"
• Oran is a given name meaning "song" in Scottish.

Surname

• Deborah Orin

First name

Orin or Orrin (or Orren, Oren, Oran or Orran) is a personal name and may refer to:

• Orrin Henry Ingram (1830–1918), American lumber baron and philanthropist from Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
• Orrin Henry Ingram, Sr. (a.k.a. Hank Ingram) (1904-1963), American heir and businessman from Eau Claire, Wisconsin and Nashville, Tennessee.
• Orrin H. Ingram II (born 1960), American heir, businessman, and philanthropist from Nashville, Tennessee.
• Orin Smith, chairman and former President and CEO of Starbucks
• Orin E. Laney, Business owner & consultant in Mountain View, CA
• Orin Starn, Professor and Chair of the Cultural Anthropology Department at Duke University
• Orrin Bacon, American politician
• Orrin N. Carter, American jurist
• Orrin Evans, American Jazz pianist
• Orrin Hatch, United States Senator from Utah
• Orrin Keepnews, American writer and record producer
• Orrin Woodward, Leadership Guru, Founder of LIFE

Fictional characters

• Orin Scrivello, DDS, a character from the musical Little Shop of Horrors
• Orrin Pike, a character (the local Game Warden and boyfriend of Bobbie-Jo) played by Jonathan Daly from the 1960s television program Petticoat Junction
• Orin Hanner Jr. and Sr., characters from the movie Fire Down Below (1997 film)
• Orin Aquaman and King Orin, characters in DC Comics, is a name used repeatedly by the Atlantean Royal Family.
• Orin Aquaman,better known as AC (Arthur Curry) on the hit television show Smallville
• Orin, a character in the animated film Starchaser: The Legend of Orin
• Orin Incandenza, brother of Hal Incandenza from the book Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
• Orrin Sackett, a character featured in a number of western novels, short stories and historical novels by American writer Louis L'Amour
• Rin Kaenbyou, stage 5 boss from Touhou Project 11, (火焔猫 燐 Kaenbyō Rin?, nickname: Orin)
• Orin, a character from the comedy television series Parks and Recreation
• Orin, a character from the movie Prison Break
• Orin, a character from the movie Bad Company
• Orin, a character from the TV series Stargate: Atlantis
• Orin, a character from the movie The Enchanted Treehouse
• Orin Mannon, a character from the movie Mourning Becomes Electra
• Orin Helgesson, a character from the movie Cedar Rapids
• Orin Tallant, a character from the movie The Arizonian
• Orin Zento, a character from the TV series Babylon 5
• Orin Scannell, a character from the TV series Doctor Who
• Orin Boyd, a character from the movie Exit Wounds
• Orin Nordholm Jr, Sr., and III, characters from the movie The World Changes
• O-Ren Ishii, a character played by Lucy Liu in the movie Kill Bill vol 1
• Oran Jones, a character from the movie The Proud Family
• Oran Doherty, a character from the movie Omagh
• Orren Boyle, a character from the movie Atlas Shrugged: Part I
• Orrin, a character from the movie Astro Boy
• Orrin Pike, a character from the TV series Petticoat Junction
• Orrin Gateway, a character from the movie Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
• Orrin Sanderson, a character from the movie Beverly Hills Cop III
• Sir Orrin Neville-Smythe, a character from the movie The Flight of Dragons
• University President Orrin Price, a character from the movie Revenge of the Nerds III: The Next Generation
• Orrin C. Quentin, a character from the movie The Oscar
• Oren, a character from the movie Legend of the Devil
• Oren, a character from the movie Coma
• Oren, a character from the movie Ha-Hofesh Ha'Acharon
• Oren Aikawa, a character from the movie Robo no ishi
• Oren Goodchild, a character from the movie Æon Flux
• Oren Terwilliger, a character from the movie Mathnet
• Oren Monash, a character from the movie Deep Impact
• Oren Little, a character from the movie And So It Goes
• Oren Bergman, a character from the movie Race to Witch Mountain
• Oren Slausen, a character from the movie Lawman
• Oren Koolie, a character from the TV Series Ally McBeal
• Oren Trask, a character from the movie Working Girl
• Oren Pierre Alfonso, a character from the movie Kamen Rider Gaim
• Captain Oren Hayes, a character from the movie The Over-the-Hill Gang
• Judge Oren Travis, a character from the movie The Magnificent Seven

Other

• ORiN, an abbreviation of "Open Robot/Resource interface for the Network"
• Odran (disciple of Saint Patrick), charioteer of Saint Patrick and was the first Irish Christian Martyr
• Orin, is a kind of apple that was hybridized in Japan. The name in Japanese is pronounced 'oh-rin', written 王林 which means "king of apples". It's the third most popular apple variety in Japan after Fuji and Tsugaru.

See also

• All pages beginning with "Orin", including persons with the forename
• All pages beginning with "Orrin", including persons with the forename
• All pages with titles containing Orin
• All pages with titles containing Orrin