Ling

Ling may refer to:

Places

• Ling County, in Shandong, China
• Ling, County Londonderry, a townland in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland

Fictional characters

• Ling, an ally of James Bond's from the film You Only Live Twice
• Gesar of Ling, mythical Tibetan culture-hero
• Ling Bouvier, a fictional character from The Simpsons
• Bàba, Māma, and Gwen Ling, characters from American Dad!
• Ling Woo, a fictional character from Ally McBeal
• Ling Xiaoyu, a fictional character from the Tekken series
• Ling Yao, a character from the manga series Fullmetal Alchemist and its 2009 anime adaption Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

Fish

• Atlantic cod, formerly called ling when salted
• Blue ling (Molva dypterygia)
• Burbot (Lota lota) or freshwater ling
• Cobia (Rachycentron canadum)
• Common ling (Molva molva)
• Pink cusk-eel (Genypterus blacodes), pink ling or northern ling

Plants

• Calluna, a genus of flowering plants known as ling or heather
• Water caltrop or ling nut (Chinese: 菱 líng )

Other uses

• Ling (surname), a surname of various origins
• Ling, an abbreviation of linguistics
• County magistrate or xian ling (Chinese: 縣令), a government official in imperial China
• Lingam or ling, a representation of the Hindu deity Shiva

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Ling
• -ling, an English diminutive suffix
• Ling-Ling (disambiguation)
• Linga (disambiguation)
• Lingchi, "death by a thousand cuts"
• Linh, the Vietnamese pronunciation of the Chinese character 靈 (líng)