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Contents 1 In mythology 2 As a surname 3 In arts and entertainment 4 In computing 5 Other contexts 6 See also

A flood or deluge is an overflow of water upon the land.

[edit] In mythology

• The Great Flood, a widespread theme in many mythologies, including:
  • The great flood of the Hebrew Bible; see Noah.

[edit] As a surname

• Ann Flood, American actress
• Anthony Flood, Irish football player
• Chris Flood, Irish politician
• Clare Flood, Irish badminton player
• Curt Flood, American baseball player
• Daniel J. Flood, U.S. Representative in Congress
• Dennis Flood, mayor of Irvington, New York
• Edward Flood, Australian politician
• Gerald Flood, British actor
• Henry Flood, Irish statesman and member of Parliament
• Jenny Flood, Australian philanthropist
• Liam Flood, Irish poker player
• Lisa Flood, former Olympic Canadian swimmer
• Martin Flood, second winner of the Australian Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
• Michael Flood, Australian sociologist
• Mike Flood, Nebraska state senator
• Philip Flood, Australian diplomat
• Sarah Flood-Beaubrun, laywer and politician from Saint Lucia
• Toby Flood, English rugby player
• W. H. Grattan Flood, Irish musicologist, historian, and author
• Willo Flood, Irish footballer

Also

• Flood (record producer), real name Mark Ellis

[edit] In arts and entertainment

• Flood, the penname of record producer Mark Ellis
• Flood (album), by They Might Be Giants
• Flood (computer game), by Bullfrog Productions
• "Flood" (song), by Jars of Clay
• Flood (novel), by Andrew Vachss
• Flood: A Romance of Our Time (novel), by Robert Penn Warren
• "Floods" (song), by Pantera
• "Flood I" and "Flood II", two songs by The Sisters of Mercy from their 1987 album Floodland
• "Flood", a song by Tool from their 1993 album Undertow

• The Flood (band), a Country and Western band from Australia
• The Flood (Halo), an enemy race from the Halo video game series
• The Flood (Stravinsky), a musical play by Igor Stravinsky

[edit] In computing

• Network flood, a class of denial-of-service attacks
• Flood fill, an image-filling algorithm
• Flooding algorithm, an algorithm for distributing material to every part of a network
• Usenet flood, a large number of messages being posted by the same user on the same topic
• IRC flood

[edit] Other contexts

• Flooding (Australian football), a tactic used in Australian rules football
• flooding (psychology), to expose a phobia sufferer to his fear

[edit] See also

• Deluge

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