Apollo (disambiguation)

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Contents 1 Space 2 Transportation 3 Religion 4 Organizations 5 Locations 6 Products 7 Fiction and entertainment 7.1 Television 7.2 Music 7.3 Record labels 8 Other uses

Apollo is the Greek and Roman god of the sun.

The name Apollo may also refer to:

[edit] Space

• Apollo program, a series of American space missions
• Apollo (crater), a basin on the far side of the moon
• 1862 Apollo, a near-Earth asteroid discovered in 1932
• Apollo asteroid, one of a group of near-Earth asteroids named after 1862 Apollo
• APOLLO, the Apache Point Observatory Lunar Laser-ranging Operation, lunar observatory in New Mexico

[edit] Transportation

• HMS Apollo, ships of the Royal Navy
• USS Apollo (AS-25), a submarine tender of the United States Navy
• Ducati Apollo, a prototype motorcycle of 1964
• Buick Apollo, an American compact car built from 1973 to 1975
• Apollo (1906 automobile), an American car made from 1906 to 1907
• Apollo (1910 automobile), a German car built from 1910 to 1927
• Apollo (1962 automobile), an American sports car built from 1962 to 1964
• Apollo (1971 automobile), a custom-built British sports car
• Armstrong Whitworth Apollo, a prototype airliner
• Apollo, a steam locomotive of the West Cornwall Railway
• Apollo Bicycle, a manufacturer of bicycles
• Apollo Pedal Car, a successful design of racing pedal car which competes in the British Pedal Car Championship

[edit] Religion

• Apollo Quiboloy, a Davao City-based Filipino televangelist

[edit] Organizations

• Apollo Theater, a theater in New York City
• Apollo Theatre, a theater in London
• Apollo Cinemas, a chain of cinemas in the United Kingdom
• Apollo Hospitals, a healthcare group in India
• Apollo Alliance, a coalition working on a clean energy revolution in America
• Apollo Management, L.P., private equity firm
• Operation APOLLO, a military operation of the Canadian Navy in Afghanistan
• Apollo Computer, Inc. a workstation manufacturer, acquired in 1989 by Hewlett-Packard
• Apollo Group, a company specialising in adult education

[edit] Locations

• Apollo, Pennsylvania, United States
• The Apollo (Glasgow), a former music venue in Glasgow, Scotland
• Hammersmith Apollo, an entertainment venue in Hammersmith, London
• Most Apollo (Apollo bridge), a road bridge over the Danube in Bratislava
• Apollo, a town near Johannesburg, South Africa, location of static inverter plant of Cahora Bassa (HVDC)

[edit] Products

• Apollo/Domain, a series of workstations made by Apollo Computer, Inc.
• Apollo Reservation System, the computerised central reservation system developed by United Airlines
• Gumpert Apollo, a German racing and high-performance sports car
• Apollo, a scent variety of Axe (Lynx)

[edit] Fiction and entertainment

• Apollo (ballet), 1928 ballet by George Balanchine
• Apollo (Saint Seiya), a character in the fictional universe of Masami Kurumada's manga, Saint Seiya
• Apollo (comics), a member of in Wildstorm Comics' The Authority
• Apollo Creed, a boxer played by Carl Weathers in the 1976 feature film, Rocky
• Apollo, a character in The Amory Wars comic book series
• Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney, the fourth in the series of Ace Attorney games for the Nintendo DS

[edit] Television

• Captain Apollo, a character in the original Battlestar Galactica television series
• Lee "Apollo" Adama, a character in the 2004 re-imagining of Battlestar Galactica
• EAS Apollo, an EarthForce destroyer from the Babylon 5 television series
• Apollo Candy, a fictional candy bar in the Lost television series
• Apollo, a class of ship in the Star Trek television series
• Apollo, an X-304 (Daedalus class cruiser) in the Stargate Universe
• Apollo, a member of a race of god-like beings, played by Michael Forest in the 1967 Who Mourns for Adonais? episode of the Star Trek television series

[edit] Music

• Apollon musagète (musical composition), or Apollo, 1928 ballet score by Igor Stravinsky
• Apollo (band), a Brit-inspired rock band from Southeast Michigan
• Apollo (disco band), a Motown disco band from the late 1970s
• Apollo 100, a British synthpop band of the same era as the above
• Apollo 440, a British electronic rock band from 1990s-present
• Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks, 1983 album by Brian Eno
• Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness, 2005 album by Coheed and Cambria
• Apollo 18 (album), 1992 album by They Might Be Giants
• Apollo, 2006 album by Stoner rock group Nebula (band)

[edit] Record labels

• Apollo Records (1921) - a US based company
• Apollo Records (1928) - a US based company
• Apollo Records (1944) - a US based company
• Apollo Records (Belgium)
• Apollo Records (Seattle)

[edit] Other uses

• Apollo (butterfly)
• Apollo (submarine communications cable), a cable crossing the Atlantic ocean
• Apollo (magazine), a British arts magazine
• Apollo (Adobe), a cross-OS runtime system
• Apollo, a Coptic ascetic and martyr: see Abib and Apollo
• Apolo, the Puerto Rican professional wrestler, Germán Figueroa (b. 1975)
• Apollo (programming language), an esoteric computer programming language
• Apollo, an IRCd server