Hercules (disambiguation)
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Hercules is a mythical hero and son of the king of the Greek gods, Zeus.
Hercules may also refer to:
[edit] Animals
- Hercules the Scottish wrestling bear
[edit] Bands
- Hercules (band), a hardcore/punk band from Omaha, NE
[edit] Companies and Corporations
- Hercules (corporation), a multi-national computer product manufacturer
- Hercules Inc., a chemical company in Wilmington, DE
- Hercules Cycle and Motor Company, a former major British bicycle manufacturer
[edit] Drama, film and television
- Hercules (music drama) by George Frideric Handel
- Hercules (1958 film), starring Steve Reeves
- Hercules (1983 film), starring Lou Ferrigno
- Hercules (1997 film), the Disney movie
- Hercules (2005 film), a NBC television movie
- Hercules in New York, Arnold Schwarzenegger's 1969 film debut
- Hercules: The Animated Series, based on the Disney movie
- Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, TV-series
- The Mighty Hercules, a 1963 animated television series
- The Sons of Hercules, a 1970s television series
- Young Hercules, a 1998 television series
- Hercules, a superhero in the 1970s Filmation animated cartoons Space Sentinels and The Freedom Force
[edit] Fictional
- Hercules (Disney Character) a fictional character from the Disney movie Hercules
- Hercules (jurisprudence), the name of the ideal judge of legal philosopher Ronald Dworkin. A construct accorded tremendous knowledge and wisdom, Judge Hercules can determine the right answer for all hard legal cases by finding the answer that best "fits" and "justifies" the law. This is part of Dworkin's law as integrity theory.
- Stack No. 6 - Hercules a fictional character from children's series TUGS
- Hercules (comics), any of the various versions of that mythical hero in comics
- Hercules (DC Comics), the DC Comics version of the hero
- Hercules (Marvel Comics), the Marvel comics version of the hero
- Berserker (Fate Stay/Night), The Moon Light, Visual Game and Anime character is despicted as Hercules or Heracles
- Hercule Poirot, Agatha Christie's Belgian detective.
[edit] People
- Hercules, Former WWF wrestler
- Hercules Brabazon Brabazon (1821-1906), an English artist
[edit] Places
- Hercules, California, a small town named after an explosive used by the former California Powder Works company
- Hercules (constellation), a constellation
- Hercules (crater), a lunar impact crater
- Băile Herculane, a spa town in Romania where Hercules supposedly rested during his travels
[edit] Teams
- Hércules CF A football team based in Alicante, Spain
[edit] Technology
- Bristol Hercules, an aircraft engine
- Hercules emulator, an IBM mainframe emulator
- Hercules Graphics Card
- Hercules (robot), a bomb-detecting robot at Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport
- Nike-Hercules Missile
[edit] Vehicles
- Hercules (1907), a 1907 built steam tug now preserved in San Francisco, California
- Hercules Motorcycles, built by aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss
- HMS Hercules, several ships of the Royal Navy
- C-130 Hercules, a transport aircraft
- Hughes H-4 Hercules, or "Spruce Goose", the largest flying boat ever built
- M88 Hercules, armored battlefield recovery vehicle
- Hercules (vehicles) a Greek manufacturer of farm vehicles
- Hercules (1872 - 1889), one of the ten South Devon Railway Buffalo class steam locomotives
- de Havilland Hercules, a 1920s British airliner/mailplane.