Hermes (disambiguation)

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Hermes can refer to:

Persons and fictional characters

• Hermes, the divine messenger of the Olympian gods in Greek mythology.
• Hermes Trismegistus ("Hermes the thrice-greatest"), the Latin name for the Egyptian god Thoth.
• Saint Hermes, name of several Christian martyrs
• Johann Timotheus Hermes, a German novelist (1738-1821)
• Georg Hermes, a German Roman Catholic philosopher and theologian
• Hans Hermes (1912-2003), a German mathematician
• Hermes, Percy Weasley's owl in the Harry Potter stories.
• Hermes Conrad, a character in the television show Futurama.

The place Hermes, Oise, a French commune.

Objects

• Hermes (shuttle), a design of space shuttle proposed by the European Space Agency.
• HMS Hermes, eleven ships of the British Royal Navy.
• Hermes (UAV), a line of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) manufactured by Elbit and recently chosen for the British Army's Watchkeeper program.
• Hermes, a talking motorcycle in the anime Kino no Tabi, or Kino's Journey.
• Hermes (BBS), a Macintosh based Bulletin Board System that was similar to MS-DOS based WWIV.
• Hermes-A1, an American copy of the German Wasserfall missile.
• WLAN Chipset by Agere, see ORiNOCO.
• HTC Hermes, the production code-name for the HTC TyTN.
• Handley Page Hermes, a 1950s British four-engined transport aircraft.

HERMES may mean:

• HERMES experiment - Fixed target experiment at HERA.
• HERMES method - General project management method developed by the Swiss government.

Other

• Hermès, a trademark of the Paris-based luxury goods manufacturer and retailer.
• 69230 Hermes, a binary near-Earth asteroid rediscovered in 2003.
• Hermes cover, a German export credit guarantee scheme.
• Hermes Hockey Team, a Finnish ice hockey team from Kokkola.
• Hermes magazine at University of Sydney.
• Hermes, a bus company in the Netherlands, operating in the southeast of the country.