Black Swan (disambiguation)

Black Swan is the common name for "Cygnus atratus", an Australian waterfowl. It is the state emblem of Western Australia.

Black Swan may also refer to:

Arts, literature and entertainment

*Black Swan Records, a record label
*"The Black Swan", nickname of 19th century singer Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield
*"The Black Swan" (book), a book about randomness and uncertainty by epistemologist Nassim Nicholas Taleb
*"The Black Swan" (film), a 1942 swashbuckler film adaptated from the novel by Rafael Sabatini
*"The Black Swan" (novella), 1954, a short book by Thomas Mann (Die Betrogene: Erzählung, in German)
*"The Black Swan" (novel), a fantasy novel by Mercedes Lackey
*The Black Swans, an indie rock band

ongs and albums

*"Black Swan" (song), is the title of a track on Thom Yorke's 2006 album "The Eraser"
* "Black Swan" (Megadeth song), is a song used as a bonus track on some versions of Megadeth's 2007 album "United Abominations"
*"The Black Swan" (Bert Jansch album), by the folk singer-songwriter Bert Jansch
*"The Black Swan" (Story of the Year album), an album from the band Story of the Year.
*"The Black Swan" (The Triffids album), by the Australian rock band The Triffids

Fictional people and places

*Black Swan (comics), the name of a German Marvel Comics mercenary and enemy to Deadpool and Agent X
*The Black Swan (pub), a fictional pub in the UK soap opera "Family Affairs"
*The Black Swan, a mysterious Russian-born air pirate and femme fatale in the 2000 PC game Crimson Skies.

Maritime

*Black Swan class sloop, a class of sloops built by the United Kingdom during World War II
*Black Swan Project, code name of a shipwreck recovery project, possibly the richest-ever

Mathematics

*Black swan theory, a term developed by Nassim Taleb to label unexpected, rare events
**"The Black Swan" (book), Taleb's book on the theory

Publishing and printing

*Black Swan is an imprint of Transworld Publishers, UK.
*Inverted Swan, a famous stamp featuring a printing error

ee also

*Black Swan emblems and popular culture