Icarus

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Not to be confused with Ikaros or Ikarus.

Icarus (sometimes spelled Ikarus in Europe), 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
• Icarus (album), a 2003 musical album by The Forms, a Steve Albini recording project
• Icarus (album), a 1972 musical album by the Paul Winter Consort, produced by George Martin
• Icarus (band), an electronica band
• Icarus (comics), a character in Marvel's New Mutants comic book
• Icarus (film), a film for which Banks and Wag composed music
• Icarus (game), an electronic game manufactured by Mandarin for the Acorn Electron
• Icarus (journal), a scientific journal focusing on studies of the Solar System
• Icarus (song), a 2001 song by Swiss band Flutlicht, courtesy of Drizzly Records
• Icarus (The Matrix), a fictional hovercraft ship in the film The Matrix Reloaded
• "Icarus Cup" (French: Coupe Icare), an annual festival of free flight held at St Hilaire du Touvet - Lumbin (Isère, France)
• 1566 Icarus, one of the Apollo asteroids
• Kid Icarus, a 1986 video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System
• "Icarus", the first Greek state-run airline, created in 1930 and quickly insolvent; see History of Olympic Airlines
• "Icarus", an AI character in the computer game Deus Ex (see Deus Ex characters)
• "Icarus", a character in Disney's Hercules: The Animated Series
• "Icarus", the name of the drug-enhanced racehorse owned by Max Zorin in the James Bond film A View to a Kill
• "Icarus", an orbital superweapon in the James Bond film Die Another Day
• Icarus, the acquired name of the spacecraft featured in the original 1968 Planet of the Apes film
• Icarus, professional wrestling trained at the Texas Wrestling Academy wrestling out of Texas and Alabama starting in 2001.
• Icarus, professional wrestler with the CHIKARA wrestling organization starting in 2003.