Cain (disambiguation)
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Cain is the first mentioned son of Adam and Eve in the Bible.
Cain may also refer to:
People[]
Given name[]
- Cain Madden (born 1996), American football player
- Cain Velasquez (born 1982), Mexican American mixed martial arts fighter and 2010 UFC Heavyweight Champion
Surname[]
- Arthur Cain (1921–1999), British evolutionary biologist and ecologist
- Bill Cain (born late 1950s), American playwright and Jesuit
- Bill Cain (athletic director) (born 1933)
- 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 (1945–2020), 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
- John Cain (34th Premier of Victoria) (1882–1957), Australian politician
- John Cain (41st Premier of Victoria) (1931–2019), Australian politician
- 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
- Paul Cain (author) (1928–1966), American writer
- Paul Cain (minister) (1929–2019), American Pentecostal minister
- Randy Cain (1945–2009), American soul singer, member of the vocal group The Delfonics
- Robert Henry Cain (1909–1974), British soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross
- Roy Franklin Cain (standard author abbreviation Cain, for citation with botanical names, born 1906), a Canadian bryologist and mycologist; See Coniochaetaceae
- Stanley A. Cain (1902–1995), American botanist and plant ecologist
- Stephen Cain (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
- Tim Cain, American video game programmer
- Tyler Cain (born 1988), American basketball player
Characters[]
- Cain, the decoy assassin in Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Identity
- Cain, the Green Planet mage from The King of Braves GaoGaiGar
- Cain, main antagonist from the 1990 film RoboCop 2
- Cain and Abel (comics), most notably seen in The Sandman series and House of Mystery
- Cain C. Hargreaves, a character from Kaori Yuki's manga: Godchild
- Cain Dingle, Emmerdale character
- Cain Marko, name of the Marvel character Juggernaut
- Cassandra Cain, name of the DC Comics character Batgirl
- Ciaphas Cain, character from the Warhammer 40,000 universe
- Cogliostro, born as Cain, brother and killer of Abel, a supporting character in Todd McFarlane's Spawn comic series
- Commander Cain, of the Battlestar Pegasus in Battlestar Galactica
- David Cain (character), father of the DC Comics character Batgirl/Cassandra Cain
- Strider Cain, a character from the Strider franchise; See Strider Hiryu
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 (American band), an American Christian country band
- Cain (Italian 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, a cigar brand made by Oliva Cigar Co.
- Cain (1918 film), a 1918 German silent film
- Caín (film), a 1984 Colombian drama film directed by Gustavo Nieto Roa
See also[]
- All pages with titles beginning with Cain
- All pages with titles containing Cain
- Caine (disambiguation)
- Cane (disambiguation)
- Kain (disambiguation)
- Kane (disambiguation)
Categories:
- Disambiguation pages
- Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists
- Disambiguation pages with given-name-holder lists
- English-language surnames