Shannon may refer to:
People
Shannon (given name) Shannon (surname) Shannon (American singer), stage name of singer Brenda Shannon Greene (born 1958) Shannon (South Korean singer), British-South Korean singer and actress Shannon Arrum Williams (born 1998) Shannon, intermittent stage name of English singer-songwriter Marty Wilde (born 1939) Claude Shannon (1916-2001) was an American mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptographer known as a "father of information theory"
Places
Australia
Shannon, Tasmania, a locality
Hundred of Shannon, a cadastral unit in South Australia
Shannon, a former name for the area named Calomba, South Australia since 1916
Shannon River (Western Australia)
Canada
Shannon, New Brunswick, a community
Shannon, Quebec, a city
Shannon Bay, former name of Darrell Bay, British Columbia
Shannon Falls, a waterfall in British Columbia
Ireland
River Shannon, the longest river in Ireland
Shannon Cave, a subterranean section of the River Shannon
Shannon Pot, source of the River Shannon
Shannon Estuary
Shannon, County Clare, Ireland, a town near Shannon Airport
Shannon Region, unofficial region in Ireland
United States
Shannon, Alabama
Shannon, Georgia
Shannon, Illinois
Shannon, Kansas
Shannon, Kentucky
Shannon, Mississippi
Shannon, North Carolina
Shannon, Texas
Shannon County, Missouri
Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota, formerly known as Shannon County
Shannon River (Minnesota) Shannon Creek, a stream near North Cascades National Park, Washington Lake Shannon, a reservoir in Whatcom County, Washington
Elsewhere
Shannon, New Zealand
Shannon Island, Greenland
Arts and entertainment
Shannon (1961 TV series), starring George Nader (syndicated) Shannon (1981 TV series), starring Kevin Dobson (Columbia Broadcasting System) "Shannon" (song), a song by Henry Gross
Organisations
Shannon Development, a development company in Ireland
Shannon Racing, a defunct motor racing team
Shannon Racing Cars, a defunct Formula One constructor
Shannon RFC, a rugby club in Limerick
Transportation
Shannon Airport, Ireland
Shannon (locomotive), an 0-4-0WT steam locomotive built in 1857
Shannon-class lifeboat, a British type of lifeboat
Other uses
Earl of Shannon, a title in the Irish peerage
, several Royal Navy ships
Shannon (horse) (1941–1955), Australian Hall-of-Fame racehorse
Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest, an Irish university
shannon (unit), the information content of one bit
Shannon, a satellite - see Lynk Global
See also
Shannon index, a biodiversity index
Noisy-channel coding theorem, sometimes called Shannon Limit, the theoretical limit to capacity of a communication channel Shannan (disambiguation)