Castor
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Castor may refer to:
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[edit] Historical people
- Julius Caesar Drusus, son of the Emperor Tiberius, nicknamed "Castor"
- Castor of Rhodes, a Greek grammarian and rhetorician
- Saint Castor, name of several Christian saints, such as Castor of Apt
- A family name, see List of people by name: Cas-Caz
[edit] Fictional people
- Castor (mythology), one of the Gemini twins
- Castor Oyl, a fictional character in the Popeye cartoons and brother of Olive Oyl.
- the villain in the movie Face/Off, Castor Troy, portrayed by Nicolas Cage before the surgery and John Travolta after the surgery.
[edit] Science and Technology
- Castor (star), α Geminorum
- Castor (software), a data binding framework for Java
- Castor bean, a poisonous spurge seed
- Castor oil, the oil of the castor bean
- Castor angle, alignment in the vertical longitudinal plane of a motor vehicle's wheels
- CASTOR at CERN is the acronym for CERN Advanced STORage manager, a data storage system used at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland. CERN is the European Laboratory for the Research in Particle Physics.
- CASTOR is the acronym for Cask for storage and transport of radioactive material (containers used to transport highly nuclear waste)
- Castor, the genus name of (and French word for) the beaver
- the Castor (rocket stage)
- a variant spelling of caster, a type of wheel
- on the Saturnian moon Janus (moon)
- a South Devon Railway 4-4-0ST steam locomotive of the South Devon Railway Eagle class
[edit] Music
- Castor (band), an independent rock band from Champaign, IL
- Castor Cracking Group, a demo group from Sweden active on ZX Spectrum
[edit] Places
- Castor Creek in Louisiana, United States
- Castor (mountain), in the Pennine Alps
- Castor River (Missouri)
- Castor River (Ontario)
- Castor, Alberta, Canada
- Castor, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
- Castor, Louisiana, United States
- an old name for Caistor St. Edmund, in Norfolk, United Kingdom
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