title: Great Famine
text: # Great Famine
  
  Great Famine may refer to:
  
  ## China
  
  * Great Chinese Famine (1958–1961)
  
  ## Greece
  
  * Great Famine (Greece) (1941–1944)
  
  ## India
  
  * Great Bengal famine of 1770
  * Great Rajputana Famine (1869)
  * Great Famine of 1876–1878
  
  ## Ireland
  
  * Great Famine (Ireland) (1845–1852), occasion for the great exodus of Irish and the Irish diaspora
  
  ## Japan
  
  * Kan'ei Great Famine (1640–1643)
  * Great Tenmei famine (1782–1788)
  * Tenpō famine or Great Tenpō famine (1833–1837)
  
  ## Lebanon
  
  * Great Famine of Mount Lebanon (1915–1918)
  
  ## North Korea
  
  * North Korean famine (1994–1998)
  
  ## Northern Europe
  
  * Great Famine of 1315–1317
  * Great Famine of 1695–1697
  
  ## Ukraine
  
  * Holodomor or the Great Famine of 1932–1933
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * The Great Famine, a 2011 documentary about the Russian famine of 1921
  