Tristan is a Knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend. Tristan may also refer to: Places Tristan (Guinea), the largest island in the Tristan and Capken Islands Tristan da Cunha, a British volcanic island and eponymous archipelago in the mid-south Atlantic, often shortened to "Tristan" Tristan Island or the Île Tristan, located at the mouth of the Pouldavid Estuary off the French port of Douarnenez in south-western Brittany Tristan hotspot, a volcanic hotspot which is responsible for the volcanic activity which forms the volcanoes in the southern Atlantic Ocean Literature Tristan, a 12th-century French poem by Thomas of Britain Tristan, a 12th-century French poem by Béroul Tristan, a 13th-century German poem by Gottfried von Strassburg Tristan (novella), a 1903 novella by Thomas Mann The Tristan Betrayal, a novel by Robert Ludlum Prose Tristan (Tristan en prose), an adaptation of the Tristan and Iseult story into a long prose romance Music Tristan (musician) or Tristan Cooke (born 1970), British psytrance and Goa trance DJ and producer Tristan D (born Tristan Dorian, 1988), British Trance DJ and EDM Tristan (Henze), composition for piano, tape and orchestra by Hans Werner Henze "Tristan" (song), by Patrick Wolf from his second album Wind in the Wires Tristan und Isolde, an opera by Richard Wagner The Tristan chord, a variant on the half-diminished chord Science and Technology Tristan (dinosaur), a Tyrannosaurus rex specimen TRISTAN, a particle accelerator at KEK in Japan Other uses Tristan (name), a moderately common male given name Tristan (horse), a British Thoroughbred racehorse See also Tristan and Iseult (disambiguation) Tristam (disambiguation) Tristram (disambiguation) Tristrant, a 13th-century German poem by Eilhart von Oberge Sir Tristrem