Helios (disambiguation)

Helios (disambiguation)

Helios is the personification of the sun in Greek mythology. It may also refer to:

Arts & literature

Literature

*Hélios, a French magazine
*Helios, a character in the anime "Sailor Moon"
*"Helios (comic)", a 30 issue comic book series published by Dakuwaka Productions, starting in 2004
*Helio (comics), a fictional character in the Marvel Universe
*Helios (Helios Eclipse character), from Helios Eclipse drawn by Kaoru and serialiized in Gempak.

Music

*The Helio Sequence, an indie electronica/shoegazer band
*Helio Alves (born São Paulo, 1966), jazz pianist and son of pianists
*Helios (artist), the moniker of ambient and experimental music producer and songwriter Keith Kenniff
*Helios (overture), an overture by Carl Nielsen

Business & industry

*Helios (chemical producer), a Slovenian chemical producer group, with its market comprising of Russia, Italy, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, Serbia and Montenegro and Poland
*Helios (cinemas), a multiplex cinema operator in Poland
*Helios (lens brand), a brand of lens, made in the USSR, supplied with Zenit cameras, often usable with other M42 lens mount cameras
*HELIOS, a humanitarian Supply Chain Management project

Military

*USS Helios (ARB-12), a World War II repair ship

cience & technology

*Heliotropism, the diurnal motion of plant parts (flowers or leaves) in response to the direction of the sun

Aviation

*Helio Courier, a light C/STOL utility aircraft designed in 1949
*Helios Prototype, a series of NASA solar- and fuel cell system-powered unmanned aircraft/planes
*Helios Airways, former low-cost airline operating scheduled and charter flights between Cyprus and many European destinations
**Helios Airways Flight 522, a Helios Airways Boeing 737-31S flight that crashed on August 14, 2005 into a mountain north of Marathon and Varnavas, Greece

Electronics

* HΞLIO, U.S. wireless carrier, launched May 2006, joint venture between SK Telecom (South Korea) and Earthlink
*HeliOS, a Unix-like computer operating system

Video games

*Helios, a boss in the videogame
*Helios, an AI in the computer game "Deus Ex", the sum of the merged Daedalus and Icarus AIs
*Helios, a "persona" in the Playstation games ""

pace

*Helios probes, deep space probes were launched in the mid 1970s by the Federal Republic of Germany and NASA
*895 Helio, a minor planet orbiting the Sun
*Hélios 1B and Helios 2A, French military satellites
*Sun, a star
*Helios (propulsion system), a nuclear pulse propulsion system for spacecraft invented by Freeman Dyson, a precursor to his Project Orion

ports & recreation

*Helios, a wrestler for Chikara (professional wrestling)
*FC Helios Kharkiv, a football (soccer) team from Ukraine
*KK Helios Domžale, a basketball club from Slovenia.
*Hélio Castroneves, Brazilian race car driver in the Indy Racing League series
*Hélio Gracie, Co-founder of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu

Other

Helios (Yacht), A super yacht


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