Galileo (disambiguation)

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Galileo can mean:

• People
  • Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), astronomer, philosopher, and physicist.

• Business
  • GALILEO an Argentine company of the Sideco Group
  • Galileo CRS, an airline reservation system.
  • Galileo Galilei International Airport, an airport located in Pisa, Italy
  • SS Galileo Galilei, a cruise liner

• Culture
  • Rocket Ship Galileo, a 1947 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein.
  • Galileo (magazine), a 1970s science fiction magazine.
  • Life of Galileo, or Galileo, a play by Bertolt Brecht
  • Galileo (film), an adaptation of Brecht's play.
  • Galileo (song), a pop song by Amy Grant.
  • Galileo (song), a pop song by the Indigo Girls.
  • Galileo Galilei (opera), an opera by Philip Glass.
  • Galileo extrem, a German documentary television series.
  • Galileo (Japanese television drama), a Japanese drama based on Detective Galileo (探偵ガリレオ, Tantei Garireo^?) by Keigo Higashino (東野 圭吾,, Higashino Keigo^?).
  • Galileo (The West Wing), an episode of The West Wing.

• Education
  • Galileo University is a centre of higher education in Guatemala.
  • Galileo Academy of Science and Technology is a school in San Francisco, California.
  • Georgia Library Learning Online (GALILEO), a virtual library operated by the University System of Georgia.

• Science and technology
  • Galileo (unit), a variant name of the gal, a CGS measure of acceleration.
  • Galileo (satellite navigation), a European satellite navigation system, currently in development.
  • Galileo (spacecraft), a space probe that visited Jupiter.

• Other
  • Galileo (horse), a European Champion Thoroughbred racehorse