Blitz

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Blitz, German for "lightning", may refer to:

In warfare

• The Blitz, the German aerial campaign against Britain in the Second World War

People

• Andy Blitz (born 1971), writer, actor and comedian
• David Blitz, philosopher
• Maurice Blitz (1891–1975), Belgian Olympic water polo player
• Gérard Blitz (entrepreneur) (1912–1990), founder of Club Med
• Gérard Blitz (swimmer) (1901–1979), swimming and waterpolo Olympic medalist
• Jeffrey Blitz, American film director and screenwriter
• Jekuthiel Blitz, translator of Bible into Yiddish 1678
• Johnny Blitz, punk rock drummer
• Julien Paul Blitz (1885–1951), Belgian-American conductor
• Phil Blitz (born 1984), professional wrestler
• Rayner Blitz (born 1968), cricketer
• Simon Blitz, British entrepreneur
• Urban Blitz (born 1951), British rock musician
• Wilhelm Biltz (1877–1943), German chemist and scientific editor
• Bobby Ellsworth, American thrash metal musician known as Blitz

Computing

• Blitz BASIC, a dialect of the BASIC programming language
• BlitzMail, the internal e-mail network at Dartmouth College
• Blitz++, a C++ class library for scientific computing
• Blitz (software), a cloud-based load-and performance-testing service (SaaS)

Video games

• Blitz (video game), a bombing game for the Commodore Vic-20
• Blitz: The League, a 2005 American football game series developed by Midway Games
• Cray Blitz, chess program for the Cray supercomputer
• Blitz, one of the 25 unlockable characters in Maxis's Action RPG Darkspore

Sports

American football

• Blitz (American football), a type of defensive maneuver
• Bakersfield Blitz, former arena football team
• Chicago Blitz, a United States Football League team in the 1980s
• London Blitz (American football), a London-based team
• Montreal Blitz, a women's team
• Syracuse Blitz, former Professional Indoor Football League team
• The Blitz (ESPNEWS), a TV show on ESPNEWS
• Blitz (mascot), the mascot of the Seattle Seahawks

Other sports

• Blitz, a Japanese tuning company which competes in the D1 Grand Prix
• SV Blitz Breslau, former German soccer team
• Utah Blitzz, former professional soccer team

Music

• Blitz, a band formed in 1993 by former Ultravox members John Foxx and Robin Simon
• Blitz (band), a British punk rock band
• Blitz (Brazilian band), a new wave Brazilian band from the 1980s
• Blitz (album), 2009 KMFDM studio album
• Blitz! (musical), by Lionel Bart based on The Blitz
• The Blitz (Krokus album), 1984
• The Blitz (Thebandwithnoname album), 2002

Toys and games

• Blitz chess, fast chess in which each player is allotted only five minutes
• Blitz (game), a card game
• Blitz, an American football themed Beanie Baby

Characters

• Blitz, the alter-ego of the character George in the web comic Bob and George
• Blitz (character), a fictional anthropomorphic doberman from the action/comedy cartoon Road Rovers
• Blitz, a robot dog from the cartoon, C.O.P.S.
• Zorin Blitz, character from the Manga Hellsing
• Blitz (comics), a Flash-based Big Bang Comics hero
• Blitz, the villain in the 2011 film of the same name
• the Blitz, a character in the "Blitzgiving" episode of the TV show How I Met Your Mother

Companies

• Blitz Games, British computer games company
• Blitz Research, New Zealand software company

Other

• SMS Blitz (1882), an Imperial German Navy light cruiser
• Blitz (film), a 2011 film
• Blitz, a 1980s night club in London (see Blitz Kids)
• Blitz (movement), a radical youth movement in Norway
• Blitz (newspaper), a Portuguese music newspaper
• Weekly Blitz, a weekly Bangladeshi newspaper
• Opel Blitz, a German lorry built by Opel

See also

• Bristol Blitz, the German bombing raids on Bristol, England in 1940 and 1941
• Hull Blitz, the German Second World War bombing campaign targeting Kingston upon Hull
• Rotterdam Blitz, the German bombing raid on Rotterdam, Netherlands in 1940

• Blitzkrieg ("lightning war"), a military strategy developed by Nazi Germany
• Blitzy, a fictional dog character from Mona the Vampire

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