Cain (disambiguation)

Cain is the first mentioned son of Adam and Eve in the Bible.

Cain may also refer to:

Persons with the given name Cain

• Cain Velasquez (born 1982), Mexican American mixed martial arts fighter and 2010 UFC Heavyweight Champion

Persons with the surname Cain or Caïn

• Arthur Cain (1921–1999), British evolutionary biologist and ecologist
• Bill Cain (as of November 2018, living), American playwright and Jesuit
• Chris Cain (born 1955), jazz and blues guitarist
• Dean Cain (born 1966), American actor
• Deon Cain (born 1996), American football player
• Elizabeth Cain (born 1962), Australian ice skater
• Henri Caïn (1857–1937), French playwright and librettist
• Herb Cain (1913–1982), Canadian professional ice hockey player
• Herman Cain (born 1945), American businessman, talk show host and candidate for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination
• Jackie Cain (1928–2014), American jazz vocalist
• James M. Cain (1892–1977), American crime writer
• Johnny Cain (1908–1977), American football player, college sports coach, and administrator
• Jonathan Cain (born 1950), musician
• LeRoy E. Cain (born 1964), American aerospace engineer who worked for NASA
• Lorenzo Cain (born 1986), American baseball center fielder
• Matt Cain (born 1984), American baseball pitcher
• Matt Cain (writer), British writer and broadcaster
• Michael Cain (born 1966), pianist composer
• Myrtle Cain (1894-1980), American politician
• Nyoshia Cain (born 1994), Trinidad and Tobago Paralympic athlete
• Patrick Cain (born 1962), American football player
• Robert Henry Cain (1909–1974), British soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Roy Franklin Cain (Cain, born 1906), a Canadian bryologist and mycologist; See Coniochaetaceae
• Stephen Cain (poet) (born 1970), Canadian poet
• Stephen Cain (athlete) (born 1984), Australian decathlete; See List of decathlon national champions (men)
• Susan Cain (born 1968), American author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
• Syd Cain (1918–2011), British production designer
• Timothy Cain, American video game programmer
• Tyler Cain (born 1988), American basketball player

Fictional characters

• Cain, the decoy assassin in Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Identity
• Cain and Abel (comics), most notably seen in The Sandman series and House of Mystery
• Cain Dingle, Emmerdale character
• Cain Marko, name of the Marvel character Juggernaut
• Ciaphas Cain, fictional character from the Warhammer 40,000 universe
• Commander Cain, of the Battlestar Pegasus in Battlestar Galactica
• David Cain (comics), a fictional character from DC Comics and father to the previous Batgirl:
  • Cassandra Cain
• Helena Cain, Admiral in Battlestar Galactica
• Valkyrie Cain, main character from the Skulduggery Pleasant novels
• Cain C. Hargreaves, a fictional character from Kaori Yuki's work: Godchild
• Cain, main antagonist from the 1990 film RoboCop 2
• Cain, alter ego of Cogliostro, a supporting character in Todd McFarlane's Spawn comic series
• Deckard Cain, a character in the Diablo video game series
• Strider Cain, a character from the Strider franchise; See Strider Hiryu
• Lt. pierce, a character from the “lucifer” show by Fox.
• Cain, classified as SCP-073, an object held by the SCP Foundation.

Places

• Sool, Sanaag and Cayn, previous name of the Khatumite state
• Mount Cain, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
• Cain's Ballroom, a music venue in Tulsa, Oklahoma, US

Other uses

• Cain (band), an Italian black metal band
• Cain (novel), final novel by Nobel Prize-winning author José Saramago
• Cain (play), an 1821 play by Lord Byron
• Cain (software), network packet analyzing software
• Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN), a website documenting the Northern Irish 'Troubles'
• Cocaine (slang Cain), a recreational drug
• Cain (cigar brand), a cigar brand made by Oliva Cigar Co.
• Caín (film), a 1984 Colombian drama film directed by Gustavo Nieto Roa

See also

• Caine (disambiguation)
• Cane (disambiguation)
• Kain (disambiguation)
• Kane (disambiguation)