Common

Common may refer to:

Places

• Common, a townland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
• Boston Common, a central public park in Boston, Massachusetts
• Cambridge Common, common land area in Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Clapham Common, originally common land, now a park in London, UK
• Common Moss, a townland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
• Lexington Common, a common land area in Lexington, Massachusetts
• Salem Common Historic District, a common land area in Salem, Massachusetts

People

• Common (rapper) (born 1972), American hip hop artist, actor, and poet
• Andrew Ainslie Common (1841–1903), English amateur astronomer
• Andrew Common (1889–1953), British shipping director
• John Common, American songwriter, musician and singer
• Thomas Common (1850–1919), Scottish translator and literary critic

Arts, entertainment, and media

• Common (film), a 2014 BBC One film, written by Jimmy McGovern, on the UK's Joint Enterprise Law
• Dol Common, a character in The Alchemist by Ben Jonson
• Harvard Common Press of Boston, Massachusetts, a publisher of cookbooks and parenting books
• The Common Room, a former interactive TV show on ITV Play
• ”Common”, a song by Zayn from his 2018 album Icarus Falls

Religion

• Common (liturgy), a part of certain Christian liturgy
• Common, translation of tum'ah, a biblical term for ritual impurity, used by some common English translations of the bible

Science and technology

• COMMON, the largest association of users of mid-range IBM computers
• COMMON, a Fortran statement
• Common or vernacular, the layman's but not scientific name of a plant or animal

Other uses

• Common (behavior), vulgar behavior or attitude of a common person
• Common (company), an American coliving company founded in 2015
• Common (horse), a British thoroughbred racehorse
• Common Application, an undergraduate college admission application
• Common land or town common, land on which multiple entities share certain traditional rights, such as grazing livestock or collecting firewood
• Common language, also known as lingua franca, a language shared by speakers of different mother tongues
• Common Room (university) or combination room, organized groups of students and the academic body that provide representation in the organisation of college or dormitory life, to operate certain services within these institutions such as laundry or recreation, and to provide opportunities for socialising
• Common room, shared space in a building
• Common (script), name for generic script characters, ISO code Zyyy
• Common chameleon

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Common
• All pages with titles containing Common
• Common Good (disambiguation)
• Common knowledge (disambiguation)
• Commoner (disambiguation)
• Commons (disambiguation)
• The Common (disambiguation)