Flying Dutchman (disambiguation)
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The Flying Dutchman is a legendary ghost ship.
Flying Dutchman may also refer to:
Transportation
- Flying Dutchman (train), a Great Western Railway (GWR) express passenger train service that ran from 1849 until 1892
- Flying Dutchman, a GWR 3031 Class steam locomotive, built in 1892 and withdrawn from service in 1912
- Flying Dutchman Funicular, an inclined railway at Cape Point, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa
- Flying Dutchman (sternwheeler), a 19th-century Canadian trading vessel
Fiction
- Flying Dutchman (Pirates of the Caribbean), ghost ship in the films Dead Man's Chest and At World's End
- The Flying Dutchman (1995 film), a 1995 Dutch comedy
- The Flying Dutchman (1957 film), a 1957 Dutch biographical film
- The Flying Dutchman (novel), by Michael Arlen
- Flying Dutchman (SpongeBob SquarePants), character in the animated TV series SpongeBob SquarePants
Music
- The Flying Dutchman (opera), originally Der fliegende Holländer, an 1843 opera based on the legend, by Richard Wagner
- Flying Dutchman Records, a jazz record label
- The Flying Dutchman, a 2005 album by André Rieu
- "Flying Dutchman", a song from Jethro Tull's 1979 album Stormwatch
- "Flying Dutchman", a 1992 song by Tori Amos, B-side to China
Nickname
Flying Dutchmen is or was a nickname of:
- People
- The Flying Dutchman (nickname), a list of people
- Other
- Guilderland High School in Guilderland Center, New York, US
- Hofstra University in Hempstead, Long Island, New York, US, until 2004
- Hope College in Holland, Michigan, US
- Lebanon Valley College in Annville, Pennsylvania, US
Other uses
- Flying Dutchman, name given to a drift bottle that traveled 16,000 miles (1929-1935)
- Flying Dutchman, KLM frequent flyer program, now merged into the Flying Blue program
- Flying Dutchman (dinghy), a high-performance racing sailboat class
- Flying Dutchman (Efteling), a roller coaster in amusement park Efteling, Netherlands.
- The Flying Dutchman (horse) (1846–1870), English Thoroughbred racehorse and sire
- Flying Dutchman (pigeon), a pigeon who received the Dickin Medal in 1945
- Flying Dutchman (tobacco), for pipes distributed by Royal Theodorus Niemeyer Ltd., a Dutch company
See also
- Dennis Bergkamp (born 1969), aerophobic Dutch footballer nicknamed the "Non-Flying Dutchman"
- Frying Dutchman (disambiguation)
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