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Nairn ( ; Gaelic: Inbhir Narann) is a town and former burgh in the Highland council area of Scotland. It is an ancient fishing port and market town around east of Inverness. It was the county town of the wider county of Nairn also known as Nairnshire.
The town is now best known as a seaside resort, with two golf courses, award winning beaches, a community centre/mid-scale arts venue (Nairn Community & Arts Centre), a small theatre (called The Little Theatre) and one small museum, providing information on the local area and incorporating the collection of the former Fishertown museum.
Nairn is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Allan Nairn (b. 1956), American investigative journalist
- Gary Nairn (b. 1951), former Australian politician
- Ian Nairn (1930–1983), British architectural critic
- James Nairn (1859–1904), Scottish painter
- Kristian Nairn (b. 1975), an actor and disc jockey
- Nick Nairn (b. 1959), Scottish celebrity chef
- Rob Nairn, South African Buddhist teacher and author
- Tara Spencer-Nairn (b. 1978), Canadian actress
- Thomas McIntyre Nairn (1830–1888), Ontario businessman and political figure
- Tom Nairn (b. 1932), Scottish theorist of nationalism
- Walter Nairn (1878–1958), Australian politician
Nairn may refer to:
- Nairn, a town in Scotland
- Nairn (district) abolished in 1975 and formerly a county
- Nairn, California, an unincorporated community
- Nairnshire (UK Parliament constituency)
- Nairn, Middlesex County, Ontario
- Lord Lieutenant of Nairn
- Nairn (surname)
- Nairn Transport Company, a pioneering motor transport company that operated a trans-desert route from Beirut, Haifa and Damascus to Baghdad, and back again, from 1923.
- The Nairn Way, the former transportation route of the Nairn Transport Company.
Nairn was a burgh constituency that elected one commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland and to the Convention of Estates.
After the Acts of Union 1707, Nairn, Forres, Fortrose and Inverness formed the Inverness district of burghs, returning one member between them to the House of Commons of Great Britain.
Usage examples of "nairn".
They had stopped at the battlefield of Culloden and after that they had branched off on to the road to Grantown-on-Spey, but soon left it for a narrow road from Balloch which crossed the River Nairn and brought them within reach of the three Clava cairns.
On the sixteenth day of April, the duke of Cumberland, having made the proper dispositions, decamped from Nairn early in the morning, and after a march of nine miles perceived the highlanders drawn up in order of battle, to the number of four thou-sand men, in thirteen divisions, supplied with some pieces of artillery.
Emperor would be arrayed against the world, but Nairn was dead, his old bones flensing in a French grave.
Major General Nairn, with his engaging indiscretion, had told Sharpe that Farthingdale had hopes of high command.
Nairn seemed to have forgotten the toasting fork, that lay on the hearth, and instead had plucked another piece of paper from the table.
He sat opposite Nairn and wondered whether his right hand was shaking as he reached for a slice of twice-baked bread.