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Thorn has several meanings:
- Thorn (botany), a sharp structure on plants
- Thorn tree
- Common hawthorn, Crataegus monogyna
- Thorn (letter) (Þ, þ), a letter in the Anglo-Saxon and Icelandic alphabets
- Thurisaz (rune) (runic ?), the name of the th-rune in the Anglo-Saxon rune poem
Places- Thorn, Netherlands
- Torun, Poland (known as Thorn in German and sometimes also in English)
United Kingdom- Thorn, Bedfordshire
- Thorn, Devon
- Thorn, Herefordshire
- Thorn, Powys
USA- Thorn, California, San Bernardino County
- Thorn, California, former name of Whitethorn, California
- Thorn, California, former name of Thorn Junction, California
- Thorn, Mississippi, Chickasaw County
- Thorn, Utah, Salt Lake County
Persons, Characters- Andy Thorn
- Brad Thorn, Australian/New Zealand rugby league and rugby union footballer
- Damien Thorn
- Erin Thorn
- Gaston Thorn (1928-2007), Luxembourg politician
- George Thorn
- Colonel Herman Thorn (1783–1859), called "the millionaire of New York", brother of Jonathan Thorn
- Jan Thorn-Prikker
- Jesse Thorn, America's Radio sweetheart
- John Thorn
- John Thorn (musician)
- Jonathan Thorn
- Matt Thorn
- Nautica Thorn
- Philip Thorn
- Robyn Thorn
- Rod Thorn
- Stuart Thorn, President of the Fat People United Group
- Tracey Thorn
- Vanaro Thorn
- Victor Thorn
- Vikki Thorn, one-third of The Waifs
- Viktor Thorn
- Rose and Thorn is a character with a split personality in DC comics
- Thorn, the
Companies- Thorn EMI
- THORN Electrical Industries
- Thorn Cycles, British bicycle manufacturer
- Thorn guitars, guitar manufacturer
- Thorn Lighting, luminaire manufacturer, part of Zumtobel Lighting Group
Other uses- Thorns (novel), a 1967 science fiction novel by American writer Robert Silverberg
- Thorn (horse), racehorse that won the Kentucky Futurity in 1897
- Thorn (Inheritance) is the name of the red dragon on the cover of the book Eldest.
- Thorn (comics) is a DC Comics character.
- Thorns (band), a Norwegian black metal band.
- ThOrnS (band), an American Christian Metal Band.
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