Ness

Ness may refer to:

Companies

• Ness Technologies, NASDAQ: NSTC www.ness.com

People

• Cornelius P. Van Ness (1782 - 1852), American politician
• Eliot Ness (1903 – 1957), American treasury agent
• Erin Ness (born 1978), U.S. poker player
• Evaline Ness (1911 - 1986), U.S. illustrator
• James Van Ness(1808 - 1872), American politician
• Mike Ness (born 1962), U.S. guitarist
• Norman F. Ness Bartol Research Institute, University of Delaware, Newark, USA, discoverer of the Heliospheric current sheet
• Tigilau Ness, New Zealand musician
• Arne Næss (born 1912), a Norwegian philosopher, mountaineer, and founder of deep ecology
• Arne Næss Jr. (1937 – 2004), a Norwegian businessman, mountaineer, former husband of Diana Ross, nephew of Arne Næss
• Leona Naess (born 1974), a British singer/songwriter, daughter of Arne Næss Jr.

Places

• Ness is an archaic word meaning a headland or cape and comes from nes in Icelandic / Old Norse and for that reason there are many places once under Viking or Norse influence that include the word
• Loch Ness
  • Loch Ness Monster
• Ness: East Ness & West Ness, Ryedale, North Yorkshre
• River Ness, links the Loch to the North Sea at Inverness, Scotland, UK
• Ness, Western Isles, the most northerly area on Lewis, Scotland, UK
• Bo'ness, a town in Scotland, UK
• Lowestoft Ness, most easterly point of the UK
• Orford Ness, shingle spit and bird sanctuary in Suffolk, England, UK
• Dungeness, shingle promontory and site of a nuclear power station in Kent, England
• Ness, Cheshire, a village in Cheshire on the Wirral Peninsula, England, UK
• Ness Botanic Gardens, owned by the University of Liverpool and located on the Wirral Peninsula, England, UK
• Langness Peninsula, in the Isle of Man
• Ness City, Kansas
• Ness Township, Minnesota
• Sheerness, an English town in Kent
• Caithness, a Scottish county

Organizations

• New England Skeptical Society (NESS), a Skeptical organization
• Ness Foundation, a medical research charity near Inverness, Scotland
• Nottingham Exchange Students Society, a student-run society at the University of Nottingham
• Ness Technologies Ltd, an Information Technology company.

Fiction

• Ness, the main character from the video game EarthBound
• Ness (Irish mythology), a princess in Irish mythology

See also

• Nes, disambiguation
• NES (disambiguation)