Nightingale (disambiguation)

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The common nightingale is a songbird found in Eurasia.

Nightingale may also refer to:

Birds

• Thrush nightingale, a songbird found in Eurasia
• Red-billed leiothrix, a songbird of the Indian Subcontinent

Literature

• Nightingale (comics), a fictional superhero in the Marvel Comics universe
• "Nightingale" (story), a short story by Alastair Reynolds, in the 2006 collection Galactic North
• "The Nightingale" (fairy tale), a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen
• The Nightingale (novel), a novel by Agnes Sligh Turnbull
• Nightingale the Robber, a character in Russian folklore
• The Nightingale: A Conversation Poem, a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Nightingales, a poem by Robert Bridges
• The Nightingale, a 1988 novel by Kara Dalkey
• The Nightingale (journal) - the first nursing journal published in 1886
• The Nightingale, a work of historical fiction by Kristin Hannah, published in 2015

Music

• Nightingale (ballet), a 1940 Russian ballet composed by M. Kroshner and choreographed by Aleksey Yermolayev
• Nightingale (musical), a 1982 stage musical by Charles Strouse
• The Nightingale (opera), a 1914 opera by Igor Stravinsky
  • Le chant du rossignol (AKA The Song of the Nightingale), a 1917 symphonic poem written by Igor Stravinsky based on the opera
• The Nightingale, a composition by James B. Adams
• The Nightingale (musical), a stage musical by Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik on the 2012-13 La Jolla Playhouse schedule

Performers

• Nightingale (band), a Swedish rock band
• The Nightingales, a British post-punk band
• The Dixie Nightingales or The Nightingales, a 1958-1972 African-American male vocal group
• Jacks (1960s Japanese band), originally Nightingale, a 1960s Japanese psychedelic rock group
• Nightingales, a Norwegian vocal quartet including Christine Guldbrandsen

Albums

• Nightingale (Erland and the Carnival album), a 2011 album by Erland and the Carnival
• Nightingale, album by Gilberto Gil
• Nightingale (Yoshikazu Mera album)

Songs

• "Nightingale" (Carole King song), a 1974 song by Carole King
• "Nightingale" (Demi Lovato song), a song by Demi Lovato from Demi
• "Nightingale", a song by the Eagles from The Eagles
• "Nightingale", a song by Saves the Day
• "Nightingale", a song by Lisa Ekdahl from Sings Salvadore Poe
• "Nightingale", a song by Norah Jones from Come Away With Me
• "Nightingale", a song by Oscar Peterson from Tristeza on Piano
• "Nightingale", a song by Yanni from Tribute
• "Nightingale", a song by Xavier Cugat, George Rosner and Fred Wise
• "The Nightingale", a song by Angelo Badalamenti from Soundtrack from Twin Peaks
• "Nightigales" (Соловый), a Russian song of the WW2, by Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi and Alexey Fatyanov.
• "Nightingales", a song by Prefab Sprout from From Langley Park to Memphis
• "On the Wings of a Nightingale", a song by Paul McCartney, recorded in 1984 by The Everly Brothers
• "Nightingale", a song by Roxy Music on the 1975 album Siren (Roxy Music album)

People

• Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing
• Nightingale (surname)

Places

• Nightingale, Alberta, Canada, a hamlet
• Nightingale Islands, a group of three islands in the South Atlantic Ocean
  • Nightingale Island, an island in the group
• Nightingale Mountains, a range in Nevada, U.S.
• Nightingale Valley, a geological site near Portishead, North Somerset, England

Television and film

• Nightingales (UK TV series), a 1990-1993 sitcom
• Nightingales (U.S. TV series), a 1989 medical drama
• "Nightingale" (Star Trek: Voyager), an episode of Star Trek: Voyager
• The Nightingale Company, a Canadian media production company
• The Nightingale (1914 film), a 1914 silent film starring Ethel Barrymore in her screen debut
• The Nightingale (2013 film), a 2013 Chinese-French film
• Nightingale (film), a 2014 American film

Ships

• USS Nightingale (1851), a clipper ship, slave ship, and US Navy ship, named for Jenny Lind
• SS Nightingale, a number of ships with this name

Other uses

• Nightingale (software), a media player for Linux, Windows, and Mac
• Nightingale Academy, a secondary school in Edmonton, London, England
• Nightingale Battalion, a subunit under command of the Abwehr special Nazi operation unit Lehrregiment "Brandenburg" z.b.V. 800.
• Nightingale Corona, a large corona on Venus
• Nightingale House, a historic Victorian-era home in San Francisco, California, U.S.
• Nightingale Informatix Corporation, a company headquartered in Markham, Ontario, Canada
• Nightingale Primary School, a school in Wood Green, London, England
• C-9A Nightingale or McDonnell Douglas C-9, a United States Air Force aircraft
• C-70 Nightingale, a variant of the Howard DGA-15 flown by the U.S. Army Air Forces