# Mermaid (disambiguation)

A mermaid is a mythical creature with the upper body of a woman and the lower body of a fish.
Mermaid may also refer to:

## Places
### Australia

* Mermaid Beach, Queensland, a suburb of the Gold Coast
* Mermaid Reach, a reach of the Brisbane River, Queensland
* Mermaid Reef, one of three reefs that make up Rowley Shoals, Western Australia
* Mermaid Waters, Queensland, a suburb of the Gold Coast
* Mermaids Cave, Blue Mountains, New South Wales, a site where an unknown creature was found

### United Kingdom

* Mermaid Quay, a shopping and leisure complex in Cardiff Bay, Wales
* The Mermaid (river), a watercourse in Norfolk, England

## Arts, entertainment, and media
### Literature

* The Mermaid, alternative title for "The Little Mermaid" (Den lille havfrue) by Hans Christian Andersen

### Films

* The Mermaid (1910 film), a 1910 film by the Thanhouser Company
* The Mermaid (1965 film), a 1965 Hong Kong film
* Mermaids (1990 film), 1990 film starring Cher, Bob Hoskins, Winona Ryder, and Christina Ricci
** Mermaids (soundtrack)
* Mermaid (1996 film), originally Rusalka, a 1996 animated short film by Aleksandr Petrov
* Mermaid (2000 film), directed by Peter Masterson
* Mermaids (2003 film), starring Erika Heynatz
* Mermaid (2007 film) (Russian: Русалка, Rusalka), 2007 film directed by Anna Melikian
* Mermaids: The Body Found, a 2012 documentary-style television film
* The Mermaid (2016 film), a 2016 Chinese film

### Music
#### Classical

* The Mermaid (ballad), from the 18th century
* Die Seejungfrau or The Mermaid, by Alexander von Zemlinsky
* The Mermaid, a choral song by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958)

#### Songs

* "Mermaid" (Hitomi Shimatani song)
* "Mermaid" (Train song), from their 2012 album California 37
* "Mermaid", a song by Jay Chou from the 2014 album Aiyo, Not Bad
* "Kanshō/Mermaid", a 2003 song by Aya Ueto
* "The Mermaid" (Shel Silverstein song), by Shel Silverstein
* "The Mermaid", recorded by the American quintet Bounding Main and released on their 2005 album Maiden Voyage

### Visual artworks

* Mermaid (Lichtenstein), a 1979 Roy Lichtenstein outdoor sculpture in Miami Beach
* Mermaid (Carl-Nielsen), a 1921 bronze sculpture
* The Mermaids (Kramskoi), an 1871 oil painting

### Other arts, entertainment, and media

* Mermaid (Stafy), character from the Densetsu no Stafy video game
* Mermaid Series, editions of English Renaissance and Restoration dramatists (named after the Mermaid Tavern, above)
* The Idle Mermaid, a 2014 South Korean romantic comedy television series
* Cure Mermaid, a character in Go! Princess PreCure

## Brands and enterprises

* Mermaids Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada
* Mermaids (charity), a UK charity which supports transgender youth
* The Mermaid Inn (disambiguation)

## Science

* MERMAID, a marine scientific instrument platform, short for Mobile Earthquake Recorder for Marine Areas by Independent Divers

## Vessels

* Mermaid (dinghy), a sailing dinghy designed by Roger Hancock
* Mermaid, Kenichi Horie's first solo voyage sailboat
* CZAW Mermaid, an amphibious flying boat aircraft
* Dublin Bay Mermaid, a class of sailing dinghy originated by Dublin Bay Sailing Club, Ireland
* HMAS Mermaid (A 02), a 1989 Royal Australian Navy survey motor launch
* HMS Mermaid, various ships in the British Royal Navy
** Mermaid-class destroyer, a class of two Royal Navy destroyers in the First World War
** Mermaid-class frigate, a class of six sailing warships built in the eighteenth century.
* Seaview Mermaid, a class of racing keelboat based at the Sea View Yacht Club, Isle of Wight

## Other uses

* Mermaid (Ninurta), in Sumerian mythology, one of the Heroes slain by Ninurta
* Mermaid, a hybrid tea rose cultivar
* Fiji mermaid, a hoax presented by PT Barnum
* Mermaid Syndrome or Sirenomelia, a congenital deformity that gives an appearance of a mermaid
* Mermaiding, wearing a costume mermaid tail, often while swimming
* Mermaid is the ICAO radio callsign of Air Alsie, a small airline and charter company based in Sonderborg, Denmark
* Mermaid (software) is a JavaScript based diagramming and charting tool that renders Markdown-inspired text definitions to create and modify drawings dynamically