Helios (disambiguation)

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Helios may refer to:

  • Helios, the personification of the sun in Greek mythology
    • Heliotropism, the diurnal motion of plant parts (flowers or leaves) in response to the direction of the sun
  • Helios Prototype, a series of NASA solar- and fuel cell system-powered unmanned aircraft/planes
  • Helios probes, deep space probes were launched in the mid 1970s by the Federal Republic of Germany and NASA
  • 895 Helio, a minor planet orbiting the Sun
  • Hélios 1B and Helios 2A, French military satellites
  • HeliOS, a Unix-like operating system
  • HΞLIO, U.S. wireless carrier, launched May 2006, joint venture between SK Telecom (South Korea) and Earthlink
  • Helios Airways, former low-cost airline operating scheduled and charter flights between Cyprus and many European destinations
    • Helios Airways Flight 522, a Helios Airways Boeing 737-31S flight that crashed on August 14, 2005 into a mountain north of Marathon and Varnavas, Greece
  • Helios, an AI in the computer game Deus Ex, the sum of the merged Daedalus and Icarus AIs
  • Helios, a character in the anime Sailor Moon
  • Helios (overture), an overture by Carl Nielsen
  • Helios, a "persona" in the Playstation games Persona 2: Innocent Sin and Eternal Punishment
  • Sun, a star
  • Helios (comic), a 30 issue comic book series published by Dakuwaka Productions, starting in 2004
  • Helios (cinemas), a multiplex cinema operator in Poland
  • Helios (propulsion system), a nuclear pulse propulsion system invented by Freeman Dyson, a precursor to his Project Orion
  • Helios (chemical producer), a Slovenian chemical producer group, with its market comprising of Russia, Italy, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, Serbia and Montenegro and Poland
  • Helios (lens brand), a brand of lens, made in the USSR, supplied with Zenit cameras, often usable with other M42 lens mount cameras
  • Helios, a wrestler for Chikara (professional wrestling)
  • FC Helios Kharkiv, a football (soccer) team from Ukraine
  • KK Helios Domžale, a basketball club from Slovenia.
  • Helio (comics), a fictional character in the Marvel Universe
  • The Helio Sequence, an indie electronica/shoegazer band
  • Helio Alves (born São Paulo, 1966), jazz pianist and son of pianists
  • Hélio Castroneves, Brazilian race car driver in the Indy Racing League series
  • Helio Courier, a light C/STOL utility aircraft designed in 1949
  • Hélio Gracie, Co-founder of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
  • USS Helios (ARB-12), a World War II repair ship
  • Helios (artist), the moniker of ambient and experimental music producer and songwriter Keith Kenniff
  • Helios (Helios Eclipse character), from Helios Eclipse drawn by Kaoru and serialiized in Gempak.