Flood (disambiguation)
Appearance
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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
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