Icarus (disambiguation)

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Icarus, Ikarus, or Ikaros, is a proper noun with a variety of meanings, most deriving from its use in Greek mythology:

• Icarus (mythology), the son of Daedalus according to Greek mythology

Contents 1 Geographic features 2 Institutions and companies 3 Music 4 Games 5 Other media 6 Fictional ships 7 Software 8 Other uses

[edit] Geographic features

• Ikaros (town), a settlement in Elis Prefecture, Greece
• Failaka Island, named "Ikaros" by the Ancient Greeks, an island in Kuwait
• 1566 Icarus, one of the Apollo asteroids
• Icarus (crater), a lunar impact crater.

[edit] Institutions and companies

• Icarus School, the official name of the Hellenic Air Force Academy
• Ikarus Bus, a Hungarian manufacturer of city buses
• Ikarus Prva srpska industrija aeroplana, automobila i strojeva, a Yugoslav - Serbian aircraft manufacturer
• Ikarus is a German manufacturer of radio controlled model aircraft.

[edit] Music

• Icarus (2003 album), a 2003 musical album by The Forms, a Steve Albini recording project
• Icarus (1973 album), a 1973 musical album by the Paul Winter Consort, produced by George Martin
• Icarus, a drum'n'bass band from London, UK
• Flight of Icarus, a 1983 song by British heavy metal band Iron Maiden
• Icarus, a 2001 song by Swiss band Flutlicht

[edit] Games

• Icarus, an electronic game manufactured by Mandarin for the Acorn Electron
• Kid Icarus, a 1986 video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System
• Pit, the hero of the above game (often confused with the title due to his diminutive stature).
• "Icarus", an AI character in the computer game Deus Ex (see Deus Ex characters)
• Icarus: Sanctuary of the Gods, is a computer game published by JC Research
• Ikarus (chess), a chess engine

[edit] Other media

• Icarus Theatre Collective
• Icarus (magazine), a literary magazine based in Trinity College, Dublin
• Icarus, a film for which Banks and Wag composed music
• Icarus (comics), a character in Marvel's New X-Men comic book
• Icarus (journal), a scientific journal focusing on studies of the Solar System
• "Icarus", a character in the animated feature Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland
• "Icarus", a character in Disney's Hercules: The Animated Series
• "Icarus", the name of the drug-enhanced racehorse owned by Max Zorin in the James Bond film A View to a Kill

[edit] Fictional ships

• Icarus (The Matrix), a fictional hovercraft ship in the film The Matrix Reloaded
• "Icarus", an orbital superweapon in the James Bond film Die Another Day
• Icarus, the acquired name of the spacecraft featured in the original 1968 Planet of the Apes film
• "Icarus I" and "Icarus II", spacecraft sent from Earth to the Sun in Danny Boyle's film Sunshine
• Icarus is the name of a shuttlecraft on the game Star Trek: Bridge Commander

[edit] Software

• Ikarus (knowledge management), knowledge management software
• Ikarus (software), a piece of German typography software
• Ikarus (Scheme implementation), a free software optimizing incremental native-code compiler for R6RS Scheme.
• Icarus Verilog, an open source Verilog simulator.

[edit] Other uses

• "Icarus Cup" (French: Coupe Icare), an annual festival of free flight held at St Hilaire du Touvet - Lumbin (Isère, France)
• "Icarus", the first Greek state-run airline, created in 1930 and quickly insolvent; see History of Olympic Airlines
• Icarus, professional wrestling trained at the Texas Wrestling Academy wrestling out of Texas and Alabama starting in 2001.
• Icarus, professional wrestler with the Chikara Pro Wrestling organization starting in 2003.
• Icaros, shamanic medicine songs from the Peruvian Amazon
• Operation Ikarus, a World War II German plan to invade Iceland which was never executed
• Ikarus C42, a microlight aircraft.
• Icarus affair, an incident involving the murder of two British sailors in Nagasaki in 1867.
• Icaro Air, an Ecuadorian airline