Achilles (disambiguation)
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Achilles is the name of the Greek mythological hero of the Trojan War.
Achilles may also refer to:
- Achilles (play), a trilogy of plays written by the Greek tragedian Aeschylus
- Achilles tendon, a tendon of the posterior leg
- Achilles Tatius of Alexandria, a Roman era Greek writer
- Achilles Alferaki, Russian-Greek composer and statesman
- Achilles de Flandres, the antagonist in Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game series
- 588 Achilles, the first Trojan asteroid to be discovered
- HMS Achilles, the name of seven ships of the British Royal Navy
- Achilles, Kansas, a ghost town in Rawlins County, Kansas, USA
- Achilles, Virginia, USA
- Achilles, a variant of the US M10 Wolverine tank destroyer
- Achilles (1873 - 1892), one of the ten South Devon Railway Buffalo class steam locomotives
- Saint Achilles, one of the four Saints Nereus and Achilleus, Domitilla and Pancratius