Clan MacKinnon

Clan Mackinnon
Clann MhicFhionghain
Motto	AUDENTES FORTUNA JUVAT (translation from Latin: "Fortune assists the daring" or "Fortune favours the bold").
Slogan	Cuimhnich bàs Alpein (translation from Gaelic: "Remember the death of Alpin").
Profile
Plant badge	Scots Pine.
Chief
Madam Anne Gunhild Mackinnon of Mackinnon
38th Chief of the Name and Arms of Mackinnon. (Mac Fhionghain)
Historic seat	Caisteal Maol
Septs of Clan Mackinnon Love, Mcinnon, MacKinning, MacKinven, MacMorran, MacSherrie, Sherrie, Sherry
Clan branches Mackinnon of Borreraig Mackinnon of Corriechatachan Mackinnon of Elgol Mackinnon of Gambell, Skye Mackinnon of Keanouchrach (Chinn Uachdaraich), Scalpay, Inner Hebrides Mackinnon of Kyle Mackinnon of Mishnish, on Mull
Allied clans Clan Maclean Clan Macdonald of Sleat
Rival clans Clan MacLeod Clan Campbell

Clan Mackinnon or Clan Fingon (Scottish Gaelic: Clann MhicFhionghain [ˈkʰl̪ˠãũn̪ˠ miçˈkʲiŋɣɛn]) is a Highland Scottish clan associated with the islands of Mull and Skye, in the Inner Hebrides.

Popular tradition gives the clan a Dalriadic Gaelic origin. The 19th-century historian W. F. Skene named the clan as one of the seven clans of Siol Alpin, who according to Skene could all trace their ancestry back to Alpin, father of Cináed mac Ailpín. Popular tradition has been until recently to consider Cináed mac Ailpín the first King of Scots and a Gael, however recent research speculates Cináed was a Pictish king and possibly even a Pict himself. Sir Iain Moncreiffe of that Ilk speculated that Clan Mackinnon belonged to the kindred of Saint Columba, noting the Mackinnon Arms bore the hand of the saint holding the Cross, and the several Mackinnon abbots of Iona.