Orin

For other uses, see Orin (disambiguation).

Orin, or Orrin, is an anglicised spelling of the Irish given name "Odran", traditionally spelled "Odhran" and more recently spelled "Oran").

People

• Saint Orin (fl. 430), charioteer of Saint Patrick and the first Christian martyr in Irish history
• Saint Orin, abbot of Meath (died 548), chosen by the Vikings in 1096 as the principal patron of the diocese of Waterford, Ireland to watch over the Viking warriors buried there.
• Orin William Angwall (1890–1974), American politician and commercial fisherman
• Orrin Bacon (1821–1893), American politician
• Orrin Dubbs Bleakley (1854–1927), American politician
• Orrin N. Carter (1854–1928), American jurist
• Orrin Evans (born 1976), American jazz pianist
• Orrin C. Evans (1902–1971), pioneering African-American journalist and comic book publisher
• Orin Fowler (1791–1852), American politician
• Orin Hargraves (born 1953), American lexicographer and writer
• Orrin Hatch (born 1934), United States Senator from Utah
• Orrin Henry Ingram (1830–1918), American lumber baron and philanthropist
• Orrin Henry Ingram, Sr. (a.k.a. Hank Ingram) (1904–1963), American heir and businessman
• Orrin H. Ingram II (born 1960), American heir, businessman, and philanthropist
• Orrin Grimmell Judd (1906–1976), American federal judge and lawyer
• Orrin Keepnews (1923–2015), American jazz writer and record producer
• Orin Kerr (born 1971), American law professor and lawyer
• Orin Grant Libby (1864–1952), American historian
• Orrin Larrabee Miller (1856–1926), American politician
• Orrin P. Miller (1858–1918), member of the presiding bishopric of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• Orin G. Murfin (1876–1956), US Navy admiral
• Orin O'Brien (born 1935), American female double bassist
• Orrin H. Pilkey (born 1934), Professor Emeritus of Earth and Ocean Sciences
• Orrin W. Robinson (1834–1907), American politician and businessman
• Orrin Porter Rockwell (1813–1878), bodyguard of Joseph Smith
• Orin C. Smith (born 1942), chairman and former President and CEO of Starbucks
• Orin Starn, Professor and Chair of the Cultural Anthropology Department at Duke University
• Robert Orrin Tucker (1911–2011), American bandleader
• Orin de Waard (born 1983), footballer from Curaçao
• Orin Wilf (born 1973/74), American real estate developer

Fictional characters

• Orin Incandenza, in the book Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
• Orrin Sackett, featured in a number of western novels, short stories and historical novels by American writer Louis L'Amour
• Orin Scrivello, DDS, a character from the musical Little Shop of Horrors
• Orrin Pike, in the 1960s television program Petticoat Junction
• Orin Hanner Jr. and Sr., from the 1997 movie Fire Down Below
• Orin Aquaman and King Orin, DC Comics characters, of Atlantis
• Orin Aquaman, better known as AC (Arthur Curry), on the television show Smallville
• Orin, title character of Starchaser: The Legend of Orin, a 1985 American animated science-fiction adventure film
• Orin Boyd, protagonist of the movie Exit Wounds.
• Orin Mannon, one of the lead characters of Eugene O'Neill's 1931 play Mourning Becomes Electra
• Rin Kaenbyou, stage 5 boss from Touhou Project 11, (火焔猫 燐 Kaenbyō Rin?, nickname: Orin)
• Orin, in the comedy television series Parks and Recreation
• Sir Orrin Neville-Smythe, a protagonist from the children's fantasy film Flight of Dragons (1982)
• Orrin, the King of Surda, in Christopher Paolini's The Inheritance Cycle

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Orin
• All pages with titles beginning with Orrin
• All pages with titles containing Orin
• All pages with titles containing Orrin
• Oren