# Ling

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**Ling** may refer to:

## Fictional characters

- Ling, an [ally of James Bond](/source/List_of_James_Bond_allies#Film_allies)'s from the film *You Only Live Twice*
- Ling, a fictional character from the *[Mulan](/source/Mulan_(franchise))* series
- Ling, a playable character from the mobile game *[Mobile Legends: Bang Bang](/source/Mobile_Legends:_Bang_Bang)*
- [Ling Bouvier](/source/Ling_Bouvier), a fictional character from *The Simpsons*
- [Ling Woo](/source/Ling_Woo), a fictional character from *Ally McBeal*
- [Ling Xiaoyu](/source/Ling_Xiaoyu), a fictional character from the *Tekken* series
- [Ling Yao](/source/List_of_Fullmetal_Alchemist_characters#Lin_Yao), a character from the manga series *Fullmetal Alchemist* and its 2009 anime adaptation *Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood*
- Bàba, Māma, and Gwen Ling, [characters from *American Dad!*](/source/List_of_American_Dad!_characters#Francine's_relatives)

## Fish

- [Atlantic cod](/source/Atlantic_cod), formerly called *ling* when salted
- [Blue ling](/source/Blue_ling) (*Molva dypterygia*)
- [Burbot](/source/Burbot) (*Lota lota*) or freshwater ling
- [Cobia](/source/Cobia) (*Rachycentron canadum*)
- [Common ling](/source/Common_ling) (*Molva molva*)
- [Pink cusk-eel](/source/Pink_cusk-eel) (*Genypterus blacodes*), pink ling or northern ling

## Plants

- *[Calluna](/source/Calluna)*, a flowering plant in the heather family
- [Water caltrop](/source/Water_caltrop) or ling nut

## Religion

- [Ling (Chinese religion)](/source/Ling_(Chinese_religion)), the notion of the sacred in Chinese religions
- [Lingam](/source/Lingam) or ling, a representation of the Hindu deity Shiva

## Other uses

- [Ling (surname)](/source/Ling_(surname)), a surname of various origins
- [Ling (bell)](/source/Ling_(bell)), a form of bell
- [County magistrate](/source/County_magistrate) or *xian ling*, a government official in imperial China
- [Lings Wood Nature Reserve](/source/Lings_Wood_Nature_Reserve), or Lings, Northampton, England

## See also

- [-ling](/source/-ling), an English diminutive suffix
- [Ling-Ling (disambiguation)](/source/Ling-Ling_(disambiguation))
- [Gesar of Ling](/source/Gesar_of_Ling), mythical Tibetan culture-hero
- [Linga (disambiguation)](/source/Linga_(disambiguation))
- [Linh (Vietnamese religion)](/source/Linh_(Vietnamese_religion)), is the notion of the sacred in Vietnamese religions, and the Vietnamese pronunciation of the Chinese character [靈](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E9%9D%88)
- [Linh](/source/Linh), a Vietnamese surname
- [Luing](/source/Luing), an island of the Inner Hebrides of Scotland - [Luing cattle](/source/Luing_cattle) which originate from the island

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