Great Northern may refer to:
- Great Northern (indie band), led by former 30 Seconds to Mars member Solon Bixler
- Great Northern (country band), led by former Mission Mountain Wood Band member Rob Quist
- Great Northern Diver (Gavia immer), a bird also known as the Common Loon
- Great Northern War, a war fought by Russia, Denmark-Norway, and Saxony-Poland against Sweden
- Great Northern?, a novel by Arthur Ransome in the Swallows and Amazons series, named after the diver
- Great Northern bean, a white common bean
- The Great Northern Warehouse, a leisure complex in Manchester, England
- One of a number of railways; see Great Northern Railway (disambiguation)
- Great Northern Route, a group of railway services in the South-East and East of England, UK
Famous quotes containing the word northern:
“The note of the white-throated sparrow, a very inspiriting but almost wiry sound, was first heard in the morning, and with this all the woods rang. This was the prevailing bird in the northern part of Maine. The forest generally was alive with them at this season, and they were proportionally numerous and musical about Bangor. They evidently breed in that State.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)