Tristan is a Knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend. Tristan can also refer to:

Tristram Shandy, a character and novel by Laurence Sterne

Tristrant, a 13th century German poem by Eilhart von Oberge

The Unusual Life Of Tristan Smith, a novel by Peter Carey

Tristan Tzara, a Dadaist poet

Tristan, another 12th century French poem by Béroul

Tristan, a 13th century German poem by Gottfried von Strassburg

Tristan und Isolde, an opera by Richard Wagner, based on the latter's legend

Tristan (horse), British Thoroughbred racehorse

Tristan da Cunha, an Atlantic island

The Prose Tristan, a 13th century French prose work

Tristan Louis, an internet entrepreneur and writer

Tristán de Luna y Arellano, a Spanish conquistador

Tristan, a 12th century French poem by Thomas of Britain

Tristan (name), a common given name

Tristan (novella), a novella by Thomas Mann

Tristan, a composition for piano, tape and orchestra by Hans Werner Henze

Tristan Ludlow, the protagonist of Legends of the Fall, a 1979 novella by Jim Harrison

Tristan Island or Ile Tristan, an island off Douarnenez in Brittany, France