Creole

Creole may refer to:

Anthropology

• Alaskan Creole people, people descended from the inhabitants of colonial Alaska before it became a part of the United States during the period of Russian rule
• Creole peoples, ethnic groups which originated from linguistic, cultural, and often racial mixing of colonial-era emigrants from Europe with non-European peoples
• Criollo people, the historic name of people of full or nearly full Spanish descent in Colonial Hispanic America and the Spanish East Indies
• Creole language, a language that originated as a pidgin. Many creole languages are known by their speakers as some variant of "creole", for example spelled Kriol.
• List of creole languages
• English-based creole languages, sometimes abbreviated English creoles
• French-based creole languages, also termed Bourbonnais creole or Mascarene creole in western Indian Ocean islands

Music

• Creole music, a genre of folk music in Louisiana, the United States

Performers and record labels

• La Compagnie Créole, French music group
• Kid Creole and the Coconuts, American music group
• The Kidd Creole (b. 1960), American rapper
• Creole Records, a record label

Works

• La créole, an 1875 opéra comique, with music by Jacques Offenbach
• Creole (album), a 1998 album by David Murray released on the Justin Time label
• "Creole" (song), a 2006 song from the album B'Day by Beyonce
• King Creole (soundtrack) a 1958 soundtrack album and song by Elvis Presley for his film of the same name

Ships

• French ship Créole, various ships of the French Navy
• Creole, an American slave ship involved in the Creole case

Other uses

• Creole marble, a marble from quarries in Pickens County, Georgia, United States
• Creole (markup), a common wiki markup language to be used across different wikis

• Creole Petroleum Corporation, an American oil company formed in 1920 and nationalized by Venezuela in 1976

See also

• Broken English (disambiguation)
• Creola (disambiguation)
• Criollo (disambiguation)
• Crioulo (disambiguation)
• Krio (disambiguation)
• Pidgin, a simplified language originating from a blend of languages
• List of English-based pidgins
• Pidgin (disambiguation)
• Isle Brevelle
• Brevelle Bayou
• Cane River
• Natchitoches Parish