Maroon (disambiguation)

Maroon is a dark shade of red. Maroon, marooning, or marooned also may refer to:

Common meanings

• Maroon (people), escaped slaves and their descendants in the Americas and West Indies who formed independent settlements
• Marooning, the act of leaving someone in a deserted area

Places

• Maroon Bells, Colorado, United States, two peaks in the Elk Mountains: Maroon Peak and North Maroon Peak
• Maroon Dam, Queensland, Australia
• Maroon Town, Jamaica
• Maroon Town, Sierra Leone
• Mount Maroon, Queensland, Australia

Persons

• Maroon (surname)

Art, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

• R. K. Maroon, owner of Maroon Cartoons studio in the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Film

• Marooned (documentary), documentary which followed Páidí Ó Sé as he led Westmeath to the 2004 Leinster Senior Football Championship
• Marooned (film), a 1969 film starring Gregory Peck and Richard Crenna, based on the novel

Literature

• Marooned (novel), a 1964 novel by Martin Caidin

Music

Groups

• Maroon (band), a German band
• Maroon 5, an American pop rock band
• Marooned (band), a United States maritime-folk group

Albums

• Maroon (Barenaked Ladies album), a 2000 album by Canadian rock band Barenaked Ladies
• Maroon (Muslimgauze album), a 1995 album by Muslimgauze
• Maroon, an album by The Webb Brothers

Songs

• "Marooned" (instrumental), a 1994 track by Pink Floyd on their album The Division Bell
• "Marooned", a song from the album Death or Glory by Running Wild

Periodicals

• The Chicago Maroon, a student newspaper of the University of Chicago

Television

• "Marooned" (Red Dwarf episode), a 1989 episode of the television show Red Dwarf

Other

• Maroon (rocket), a loud rocket used for signaling

See also

• Maroons (disambiguation)