Dawn

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Dawn is the time at which the sun is 6 degrees below the horizon in the morning.

Dawn may also refer to:

• Dawn (name), a given name

As an acronym

• DC Anti-War Network (DAWN), a Washington, D.C.-based anti-war organization
• Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) a US government program to collect statistics on emergency room mentions of drugs

Fictional characters

• Dawn Summers, a character in the popular television and comic book series Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Dawn (Pokémon), a character in Pokémon
• Dawn (comics), a comic book character
• Dawn Schafer, a character in the The Baby-sitters Club and California Diaries series
• Dawn Swann, a character in the popular BBC soap opera EastEnders
• Dawn Tinsley, the receptionist in the British situation comedy The Office
• Prairie Dawn, a muppet character in Sesame Street
• Dawn Woods, a character in Emmerdale
• Mythic Dawn, a religious cult in the video game The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
• Eos, referred to in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey as "rosy-fingered Dawn," rose from Oceanus (the encircling ocean) to herald her brother Helios (the sun); her process of rising and bringing out the sun was the ancient Greeks' personification of dawn.

News media

• Dawn (newspaper), a well-known English-language newspaper in Pakistan
• The Dawn (magazine), a religious magazine published by the Dawn Bible Students Association

Literature

• Dawn, 1929 book by S. Fowler Wright
• Dawn (novel), 1961 book by Elie Wiesel
• Dawn (Andrews novel), a 1990 novel started by V.C. Andrews and finished by Andrew Neiderman after her death
• Hellsing: The Dawn, a prequel of the manga Hellsing
• The Dawn (book), a 1881 philosophical book written by Friedrich Nietzsche
• Dawn (SF novel), a 1980 science fiction novel by Dean McLaughlin
• Dawn (Warriors), the third in the Warriors: The New Prophecy novel series by Erin Hunter
• Dawn, a science fiction novel by Octavia E. Butler, the first part of the Xenogenesis Trilogy
• Breaking Dawn, the fourth and last instalment in the Twilight saga, by Stephenie Mayer
• European Dawn, a book by Johnny Munkhammar

Film and television

• "Dawn" (Enterprise episode), a second season episode of Star Trek: Enterprise
• Dawn News, a 24-hour English language news channel in Pakistan
• The Dawn (film), the first Irish-made feature film with sound
• Dawn..., a BBC Three documentary series presented by Dawn Porter

Music

• Tony Orlando and Dawn, pop music group from the 1970s
• Dawn Records, a 1970s British record label launched by Pye Records
• Dawn Angelique Richard (born 1983), a member of the musical girl group Danity Kane
• Dawn (Go Away), a 1964 song by The Four Seasons
• Dawn, a Swedish black metal band
• The Dawn, a Filipino rock band
• "Dawn," song by Bif Naked
• Dawn, third album by American rock band Danger Danger
• Dawn, third album by Mount Eerie
• Dawn, fifth album by German progressive rock band Eloy
• Dawn, fourth album by Japanese rock band Guitar Vader

People

With the given name (first name) Dawn

• Dawn Black (born 1943), politician in British Columbia, Canada
• Dawn Butler (born 1969), Labour Member of Parliament for Brent South
• Dawn Burrell (born 1973), American long jumper
• Dawn DeFeo (1956-1974), sister and victim of murderer Ronald DeFeo, Jr., whose crimes inspired The Amityville Horror book and movies
• Dawn Ellerbe (born 1974), American hammer thrower
• Dawn Evelyn Paris (1918-1993), Oscar-nominated American actress
• Dawn Fraser (born 1937), Australian champion swimmer
• Dawn French (born 1957), British comedian
• Dawn Langstroth (born 1979), Canadian singer/songwriter and painter
• Dawn Penn (born 1952), Jamaican singer
• Dawn Porter (born 1979), British television presenter
• Dawn Powell (1896-1965), American writer of satirical novels
• Dawn Primarolo (born 1954), British Member of Parliament for Bristol South
• Dawn Angelique Richard (born 1983), member of the musical girl group Danity Kane
• Dawn Robinson (born 1968), former lead singer of supergroup En Vogue and Lucy Pearl
• Dawn Rossi-Key (born 1971), radio personality heard on the The Rob Arnie and Dawn Show
• Dawn Silva (born 1954), American funk vocalist
• Dawn Staley (born 1970), US-American basketball player and coach
• Dawn Steel (1946-1997), first woman to run a major Hollywood film studio

With the surname (family name) Dawn

• Elizabeth Dawn (born 1939), British actress
• Marva Dawn (born 1948), Christian theologian, author, musician and educator

Places

• Dawn, Ohio, an unincorporated community in the United States
• Dawn, Texas, a community in the United States
• Dawn, Conwy, a village in North Wales.

Politics

• Dawn (political party), a Slovakian political party formed in May 2005 as a split from the Communist Party of Slovakia

Products

• Dawn doll, a small fashion doll that was made by Topper between 1970 and 1973
• Dawn (demo), a forest fairy technology demo by nVidia
• Dawn, a dishwashing detergent manufactured by Procter & Gamble

Religion

• Dawn, the Al-Falaq invocation, the 113th Sura of the Qur'an
• Temple of the Dawn, the Wat Arun, a large monastery in Bangkok, Thailand

Ships

• USS Dawn, the name of more than one United States Navy ship

Space exploration

• Dawn (spacecraft), a space orbiter launched in 2007 to the asteroid Vesta and the dwarf planet Ceres

See also

• Dawn chorus (disambiguation)
• Golden Dawn (disambiguation)
• Red dawn (disambiguation)
• Dusk and Dawn (disambiguation)

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