Mermaid (disambiguation)

A mermaid is a mythical half-woman, half-fish creature. The word may also refer to:

Film

• Mermaids (film), 1990 film starring Cher, Winona Ryder, and Christina Ricci
  • Mermaids (soundtrack)
• Mermaid (1997 film) aka Rusalka, animated short by Aleksandr Petrov
• Mermaid (2000 film), directed by Peter Masterson
• Mermaids (2003 film), starring Erika Heynatz
• Mermaid (2007 film) (Russian: Русалка, Rusalka), 2007 film directed by Anna Melikian
• The Mermaid, Chinese language film by Chang Cheh

Music

• "The Mermaid" (ballad), from the 18th century
• "The Mermaid" (song), by Shel Silverstein
• "Mermaid" (song), a 2005 single by Hitomi Shimatani
• "Mermaid", a song by SMAP
• "Mermaid...", a song by SS501

Places

• Mermaid Theatre, London, England
• Mermaids (casino), Las Vegas, Nevada
• Mermaid Cave, Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia
• Mermaid Beach, Queensland, Australia
• Mermaid Waters, Queensland, Australia
• Mermaid Reef, one of three reefs that make up Rowley Shoals, Western Australia
• Mermaid Quay, a shopping and leisure complex in Cardiff Bay, Wales

see also The Mermaid Inn (disambiguation)

Vessels

• HMS Mermaid, various ships in the British Royal Navy
  • Mermaid class destroyer, a class of two Royal Navy destroyers in the First World War
  • Mermaid class frigate, a class of six sailing warships built in the eighteenth century
• HMAS Mermaid (A 02), a Royal Australian Navy survey motor launch
• Mermaid, Kenichi Horie's first solo voyage sailboat
• CZAW Mermaid
• Dublin Bay Mermaid, class of sailing dinghy originated by Dublin Bay Sailing Club, Ireland
• Mermaid (dinghy), a sailing dinghy designed by Roger Hancock

Other uses

• Mermaid (Stafy), character from the Densetsu no Stafy video game
• Mermaid Syndrome or Sirenomelia, a congenital deformity that gives an appearance of a mermaid*
• The Feejee Mermaid, a hoax presented by PT Barnum
• Mermaid (Ninurta), in Sumerian mythology, one of the Heroes slain by Ninurta

See also

• The Little Mermaid (disambiguation)