Bain

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Bain may refer to:

Natural features

• River Bain in Lincolnshire, England
• River Bain, North Yorkshire, England

Businesses

• Bain & Company, management consulting firm
• Bain Capital, private equity group

Historic characters

• Donalbain, anglicized version of a nickname of Donald III, King of Scotland 1093–1097

People with the surname Bain

• Addison Bain, retired NASA scientist
• Alexander Bain (1818–1903), Scottish philosopher and educationalist
• Alexander Bain (inventor) (1811–1877), Scottish instrument inventor, technician, and clockmaker
• Aly Bain (born 1946), Shetland fiddler
• Andrew Geddes Bain (baptised 1797–1864), South African geologist, road engineer, palaeontologist and explorer
• Atu Emberson Bain, Fijian political leader
• Barbara Bain (born 1931), American actress
• Bill Bain (disambiguation), several persons
• Bonar Bain (born 1923), Canadian actor and identical twin brother of Conrad Bain
• Conrad Bain (born 1923), Canadian actor and identical twin brother of Bonar Bain
• Dan Bain (1874–1962), Canadian athlete and merchant
• David Bain (born 1972), New Zealander associated with one of that country's most notable murder cases
• Donald Bain (disambiguation), several persons
• Edgar Bain (1891–1971), metallurgist
• Ewen Bain, Scottish cartoonist
• F. W. Bain (1863–1940), British writer
• George Bain (disambiguation), several persons
• James Bain (disambiguation), several persons
• Jimmy Bain, Scottish bassist
• Joe S. Bain (1912–1991), American economist
• Mary Monnett Bain (1833–1885), American Methodist
• Raymone Bain, spokeswoman from the public relations firm Davis, Bain & Associates Inc.
• Robin Bain, American actress
• Sam Bain, British television writer
• Thomas Bain (1834–1915), Canadian parliamentarian
• Wilfred Conwell Bain (1908–1997), American music educator
• William Bain (disambiguation), several persons

Fictional characters

• Bain (Middle-earth), King of Dale in the fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien
• Bain (Wheel of Time), character from the Wheel of Time novels by Robert Jordan
• Sunset Bain, character in the Marvel Comics universe
• Sheriff Joe Bain, protagonist of a short series of crime-investigation mysteries by the American author Jack Vance
• Miguel Bain, a character in the 1995 film Assassins, portrayed by Antonio Banderas

Other

• Bain & Company, management consulting firm headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts

See also

• Baines
• Bains
• Bane
• Bein
• Clan MacBain

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