Flood (disambiguation)

A flood or deluge is an overflow of water upon the land and may refer to:

The Worldwide Flood

• Great Flood, a widespread theme in many mythologies
• Biblical flood, of the Hebrew Bible

Regional floods

• See: Category:Floods by country

Flood may also refer to:

People

• Flood (producer) (Mark Ellis), British record producer
• Ann Flood (born 1930), American actress
• Anthony Flood (born 1984), Irish football player with Dundalk F.C.
• Chris Flood (born 1947), Irish Fianna Fáil politician
• Clare Flood, Irish badminton player
• Curt Flood (1938 - 1997), American Major League Baseball player
• Daniel J. Flood (1903 - 1994), member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
• Dennis Flood, mayor of the Village of Irvington, New York, since 1994
• Edward Flood, Australian politician
• Gerald Flood (1927 - 1989), British actor
• Henry Flood (1732 - 1791), Irish statesman and member of Parliament
• Jenny Flood, Australian philanthropist
• Liam Flood, Irish bookmaker and poker player
• Lisa Flood (born 1971), Canadian Olympic swimmer
• Martin Flood (born 1964), second winner of the Australian television show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
• Michael Flood, Australian sociologist
• Mike Flood (born 1975), Nebraska state senator and Speaker of the Legislature
• Philip Flood, Australian diplomat
• Sarah Flood-Beaubrun (born 1969), Saint Lucian lawyer and politician
• Sonny Flood (born 1989), British actor
• Toby Flood (born 1985), English rugby union player
• W. H. Grattan Flood (1857 - 1928), Irish musicologist, historian, and author
• Willo Flood, Irish footballer for Dundee United

Arts and entertainment

Music

• Flood (album), a 1990 album by They Might Be Giants
• Flood (Boris album), a 2000 album by Japanese metal band Boris
• "Flood" (song), a song by Jars of Clay from the 1995 album Jars of Clay
• A song by Tool from the 1993 album Undertow
• "Flood I" and "Flood II", songs by The Sisters of Mercy from the 1987 album Floodland
• "Floods" (song), a song by Pantera from the 1996 album The Great Southern Trendkill
• "Floods" (Fightstar song), a song by Fightstar from the 2007 album One Day Son, This Will Be All Yours
• The Flood (band), an Australian country & western band
• "The Flood" (song), a song by thrash metal band The Haunted from the 2006 album The Dead Eye
• The Flood, a 1962 musical play by Igor Stravinsky

Television

• "Flooded" (Buffy episode), an episode of the American television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• "Flood" (Young Ones episode), an episode of the British television series The Young Ones

Film

• Flood (film), a 2007 film based on the novel by Richard Doyle and starring Robert Carlyle

Literature

• Flood, a 1985 novel by Andrew Vachss in the Burke series
• Flood: A Romance of Our Time, a 1964 novel by Robert Penn Warren
• Flood, a 2002 thriller by British author Richard Doyle

Computers and games

• Flood (computer game), a 1990 computer game
• Flood (Halo), The Flood, an enemy race from the Halo video game series
• Flood fill, an image-filling algorithm
• Flood (Apache project), a profile-driven HTTP load tester, an Apache HTTP Server project
• Flooding algorithm, an algorithm for distributing material to every part of a network
• IRC flood, a method of disconnecting users from, or slowing down, an IRC server, like a denial-of-service attack (see next)
• Network flood, a denial-of-service attack, an attempt to make a computer resource unavailable to its intended users
• Usenet flood, a large number of messages being posted by the same user on the same topic

Other

• Flood (Church) is a Christian church in San Diego, California
• Flooding (Australian football), a tactic used in Australian rules football
• flooding (psychology), to expose a phobia sufferer to his fear

See also

• Deluge