Beowulf (disambiguation)

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Beowulf is the hero of an Old English epic poem. The name Beowulf may refer to:

• Beowulf (hero), the main character of the epic poem
• Beowulf, the name given to the epic poem
• the Nowell Codex, the manuscript volume containing the epic poem

The name may also refer to two different metal bands from the Los Angeles area:

• Beowülf (Venice band), a 1980s crossover thrash band based in Venice, California.
• Beowulf (Los Angeles band), a 1980s heavy metal band based in Los Angeles, California.

The name may also refer to:

• Beowulf (computing), a high-performance design for clustering computer systems for parallel processing
• Beowulf (1999 film), a 1999 motion picture starring Christoper Lambert, directed by Graham Baker
• Beowulf (Dune), a character in the Dune cycle
• Beowulf & Grendel, a 2006 motion picture starring Gerard Butler, directed by Sturla Gunnarsson
• Beowulf (2007 film), a 2007 motion picture starring Ray Winstone and Angelina Jolie, directed by Robert Zemeckis
• Beowulf - The Legend, a 2005 board game designed by Reiner Knizia
• Beowulf (comics), a 1970s comic book published by DC Comics.
• Beowulf Shaeffer, a fictional character created by Larry Niven in 1966 and
• Beowulf, a fictional character from the novel Blart.

featured in several short stories in his Known Space universe

• .50 Beowulf, a high-power round used mainly in modified AR-15 rifles.
• Beowulf (Honorverse), a fictional planet in the works of David Weber.

There are references to Beowulf in:

• Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening, in which a beast called Beowulf is a boss character
• Fire Emblem: Seisen no Keifu, a video game which has a character by that name
• Final Fantasy Tactics, a game which contains a character named Beowolf
• Buck Rogers XXVC, a TSR game setting in which characters in an organization may use that nickname
• Beowulfmon, the Fusion form of Koji Minamoto from Digimon Frontier, is based off of Beowulf
• Super Robot Taisen Original Generation 2, where Kyosuke Nambu's Shadow Mirror counterpart is known as Beowulf.

It is sometimes misspelled Beowolf.