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Proper noun

1. An Ulster princess and the mother of Conchobar mac Nessa and Findchoem in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology. Daughter of Eochaid Sálbuide. Also the mother of Cormac Cond Longas by incest with Conchobar mac Nessa. (See Wikipedia article for more.)
2. Loch Ness

People

• Cornelius P. Van Ness (1782 - 1852), American politician
• Eliot Ness (1903 – 1957), American treasury agent
• Erin Ness (born 1978), U.S. poker player
• Evaline Ness (1911 - 1986), U.S. illustrator
• James Van Ness(1808 - 1872), American politician
• Mike Ness (born 1962), U.S. guitarist
• Norman F. Ness Bartol Research Institute, University of Delaware, Newark, USA, discoverer of the Heliospheric current sheet
• Tigilau Ness, New Zealand musician
• Arne Næss (born 1912), a Norwegian philosopher, mountaineer, and founder of deep ecology
• Arne Næss Jr. (1937 – 2004), a Norwegian businessman, mountaineer, former husband of Diana Ross, nephew of Arne Næss
• Leona Naess (born 1974), a British singer/songwriter, daughter of Arne Næss Jr.

Places

• Ness is an archaic word meaning a headland or cape and comes from nes in Icelandic / Old Norse and for that reason there are many places once under Viking or Norse influence that include the word
• Loch Ness
  • Loch Ness Monster
• Ness: East Ness & West Ness, Ryedale, North Yorkshre
• River Ness, links the Loch to the North Sea at Inverness, Scotland, UK
• Ness, Western Isles, the most northerly area on Lewis, Scotland, UK
• Bo'ness, a town in Scotland, UK
• Lowestoft Ness, most easterly point of the UK
• Orford Ness, shingle spit and bird sanctuary in Suffolk, England, UK
• Dungeness, shingle promontory and site of a nuclear power station in Kent, England
• Ness, Cheshire, a village in Cheshire on the Wirral Peninsula, England, UK
• Ness Botanic Gardens, owned by the University of Liverpool and located on the Wirral Peninsula, England, UK
• Langness Peninsula, in the Isle of Man
• Ness City, Kansas
• Ness Township, Minnesota
• Sheerness, an English town in Kent
• Caithness, a Scottish county

Organizations

• New England Skeptical Society (NESS), a Skeptical organization
• Ness Foundation, a medical research charity near Inverness, Scotland
• Nottingham Exchange Students Society, a student-run society at the University of Nottingham

Fiction

• Ness, the main character from the video game EarthBound
• Ness (Irish mythology), a princess in Irish mythology

See also

• Nes, disambiguation
• NES (disambiguation)