title: Tallis
text: # Tallis
  
  Tallis may refer to:
  
  ## People
  
  * Tallis (name)
  * Often Thomas Tallis (c. 1505 – 1585). English composer
  
  ## Arts, entertainment, and media
  
  ### Fictional entities
  
  * Tallis, a world in Kathy Tyers' Firebird series
  * Tallis family (Briony, Cecilia, Emily, Jack and Leon), a fictitious wealthy family central to the plot of Atonement
  * Canon Tallis, a recurring character in both the "Kairos" and "Chronos" series by Madeleine L'Engle
  * Tallis, a character in the Dragon Age media franchise
  
  ### Music
  
  * Tallis, a rock band formed by former Jethro Tull members John Evan and David Palmer
  * Tallis Festival, a choral event hosted in London every 12 to 18 months
  * The Tallis Scholars, British early music ensemble named after Thomas Tallis
  * Thomas Tallis, 16th century English choral composer, regarded as one of the greatest composers in English history
  
  ### Other arts, entertainment, and media
  
  * Tallis, a publishing company formed by Edgar Wallace to promote his novel The Four Just Men
  * Tallis Directory, a gazetteer of Gravesend, England published in 1839
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Thomas Tallis School in Greenwich, London, England
  * Tallit, a Jewish religious garment
  