Icarus (disambiguation)

Icarus, Ikarus, or Ikaros, is a proper noun with a variety of meanings, most deriving from its use in Greek mythology:

* Icarus (mythology), the son of Daedalus according to Greek mythology

Geographic features

* Ikaros (town), a settlement in Elis Prefecture, Greece
* Failaka Island, named "Ikaros" by the Ancient Greeks, an island in Kuwait
* 1566 Icarus, one of the Apollo asteroids
* Icarus (crater), a lunar impact crater

Institutions and companies

* Icarus School, the official name of the Hellenic Air Force Academy
* Ikarus Bus, a Hungarian manufacturer of city buses
* Ikarus Prva srpska industrija aeroplana, automobila i strojeva, a Yugoslav - Serbian aircraft manufacturer
* The Icarus Project, a mental-health organization

Music

* "Icarus" (2003 album), a 2003 musical album by The Forms, a Steve Albini recording project
* "Icarus" (1973 album), a 1973 musical album by the Paul Winter Consort
* Icarus (band), a drum'n'bass band from London, UK
* "Flight of Icarus", a 1983 song by British heavy metal band Iron Maiden
* "Icarus Dream Suite", from the 1984's "instrumental" album Rising Force by Swedish guitar virtuoso Yngwie J. Malmsteen
* "Icarus", a 2001 song by Swiss band Flutlicht
* "Icarus", a song by post-hardcore band Alesana
* "Icarus", a 2008 song by Santogold from her "Top Ranking" mixtape
* "La Chûte d'Icare", a piece for solo clarinet and small ensemble by Brian Ferneyhough
* "Icarus", a 2007 song by The Hours

Games

* Icarus (game), an electronic game manufactured by Mandarin Software for the Acorn Electron
* "Kid Icarus", a 1986 video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System
* Pit, the hero of the above game (often confused with the title due to his diminutive stature).
* "Icarus", an AI character in the computer game "Deus Ex" (see Deus Ex characters)
* Icarus: Sanctuary of the Gods, is a computer game published by JC Research
* Ikarus (chess), a chess engine
* Icarus was the name of the mother ship in the game "WarHawk" for the first Sony Playstation.

Other media

* Icarus Theatre Collective
* "Icarus" (magazine), a literary magazine based in Trinity College, Dublin
* "Icarus", a film for which Banks and Wag composed music
* Icarus (comics), a character in Marvel's "New X-Men" comic book
* "Icarus" (journal), a scientific journal focusing on studies of the Solar System
* The Icarus Agenda, thriller novel by Robert Ludlum.
*"Icarus", a character in the animated feature ""
* "Icarus", a character in Disney's ""
* "Icarus", the name of the drug-enhanced racehorse owned by Max Zorin in the James Bond film "A View to a Kill"

Fictional ships

* "Icarus" (The Matrix), a fictional hovercraft ship in the film "The Matrix Reloaded"
* "Icarus", an orbital superweapon in the James Bond film "Die Another Day"
* "Icarus" (fictional spacecraft), the acquired name of the spacecraft featured in the original 1968 "Planet of the Apes" film
* "Icarus I" and "Icarus II", spacecraft sent from Earth to the Sun in the film "Sunshine"

oftware

* Ikarus (knowledge management), knowledge management software
* Ikarus (software), a piece of German typography software
* Ikarus (Scheme implementation), a free software optimizing incremental native-code compiler for R6RS Scheme.
* Icarus Verilog, an open source Verilog simulator.
* Icarus (camera calibration and tracking), defunct camera calibration and tracking software from the Applied Interfaces Group at Manchester University.

Other uses

* "Icarus Cup" (French: "Coupe Icare"), an annual festival of free flight held at St Hilaire du Touvet - Lumbin (Isère, France)
* "Icarus", the first Greek state-run airline, created in 1930 and quickly insolvent; see History of Olympic Airlines
* Icarus, professional wrestler with the Chikara Pro Wrestling organization starting in 2003
* Icaros, shamanic medicine songs from the Peruvian Amazon
* Operation Ikarus, a World War II German plan to invade Iceland which was never executed
* Ikarus C42, a microlight aircraft
* Icarus affair, an incident involving the murder of two British sailors in Nagasaki in 1867
* Icaro Air, an Ecuadorian airline