Commons is a general term for shared resources, typically used in political economic theory.

As an Irish surname, it is anglicised from Irish Gaelic surname Ó Comáin.

Commons may also refer to:

Shared resources

  • Common good (disambiguation)
  • Common land, shared areas of land; has a specific legal meaning in the British Isles
  • Global commons, term used for international commons in political economic theory

Computing and Internet

  • Apache Commons, repository of reusable Java programming language components
  • Commons (news website), Taiwan-based Hong Kong news website established in 2021
  • Creative Commons, licensing system for creative works
  • Digital commons (economics), a form of commons involving the distribution and communal ownership of informational resources and technology
  • Digital Commons (Elsevier), a commercial, hosted institutional repository platform owned by RELX Group
  • Wikimedia Commons, a project of the Wikimedia Foundation that serves as an online repository of images, sound, and other media files

Places

Electoral districts

  • Commons (ward), Christchurch, England

Northern Ireland townlands

  • Commons, County Down, in the List of townlands in County Down
  • Commons, County Fermanagh, in the List of townlands in County Fermanagh
  • Commons, County Tyrone, in the List of townlands in County Tyrone

Shopping centers

  • Algonquin Commons, a large outdoor shopping center in Algonquin, Illinois, US, often referred to as "the Commons"
  • Ithaca Commons, a shopping street in Ithaca, New York, US

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People

  • John R. Commons (1862–1945), economist and labour historian
  • Jamie N Commons (born 1988), British singer and songwriter
  • Kim Commons (1951–2015), American chess master
  • Kris Commons (born 1983), Scottish footballer
  • Michael Commons (born 1939), American scientist

Media

  • Commons: Journal of Social Criticism, a left-wing Ukrainian magazine
  • Commmons, a Japanese record label
  • The Commons (TV series), a 2020 Australian series on Stan

Political parties

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  • Comunes (Chile)
  • Commons (Colombian political party)

Other uses

  • House of Commons, the elected lower houses of the parliaments of the United Kingdom and Canada, colloquially referred to as "the Commons"
  • House of Commons of Canada
  • House of Commons of the United Kingdom
  • Commons, a concurrency road or other place where multiple roadways share pavement

See also

  • Common (disambiguation)
  • Common good (disambiguation)
  • Commoner (disambiguation)
  • The Common (disambiguation)
  • Commonlands, an area in the game EverQuest 1 and 2