Helios (disambiguation)

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Helios is the personification of the sun in Greek mythology. It may also refer to:

The arts

Helio (comics), a character in the Marvel Comics universe
Helios, a character in Helios Eclipse drawn by Kaoru and serialized in Gempak
Helios, a character in the anime Sailor Moon
Helios, the name of a Bakugan in the Bakugan Battle Brawlers series
Victor Helios, an alias for Victor Frankenstein, a character from the Dean Koontz's Frankenstein series

Helios, a boss in the 2007 game Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
Helios, a god in 2010 game God of War III; decapitated by Kratos
Helios, a high-end solar-system scanner ship in the 2003 game Eve Online
Helios, a "persona" in the PlayStation games Persona 2: Innocent Sin and Eternal Punishment
Helios, a series of weapons in the 2003 space-simulation game Freelancer
Helios, an artificial intelligence (AI) in the 2000 game Deus Ex; the sum of the merged Daedalus and Icarus AIs
Helios One, a solar-power plant in the 2010 video game Fallout: New Vegas

Helio (Cambridge Glass), a short-lived glassware range
Helio (wireless carrier), a defunct American wireless communications provider (2005–2010); originally a joint venture between SK Telecom and EarthLink, purchased by Virgin Mobile USA in 2008
Helios, a German motorcycle made by Bayerisch Flugzeugwerke before the company merged with BMW in 1922
Helios AG, a former German electrical engineering company; based in Cologne
Helios (cinemas), a multiplex cinema operator in Poland
Helios (lens brand), a defunct brand of camera lens manufactured in the U.S.S.R.

Helio Aircraft Company, a aircraft manufacturing company
Helio Courier, a light C/STOL utility aircraft designed in 1949
Helios Airways, a 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 Prototype, a series of NASA solar- and fuel-cell-system-powered unmanned aerial vehicle

Heliotropism, the diurnal motion of plant parts (flowers or leaves) in response to the direction of the Sun
Zinc finger protein Helios, encoded by the IKZF2 gen.
Helios, a supercomputer in Rokkasho, Aomori for simulating plasma physics.

895 Helio, a minor planet orbiting the Sun
Hélios 1B and Helios 2A, French military satellites
Helios (propulsion system), nuclear pulse propulsion system for spacecraft invented by Freeman Dyson, a precursor to his Project Orion
Helios probes, deep space probes launched in the mid-1970s by the Federal Republic of Germany and NASA
Helios Prototype, a NASA solar powered aircraft
Sun, the star at the center of the Solar System

HELIOS, an acronym for the helical orbit spectrometer, a nuclear spectrometer at the Argonne National Laboratory

HeliOS, a Unix-like operating system
Helios, the project name for the Eclipse software version 3.6 release
HELIOS (Humanitarian SCM System), a supply chain management software designed and used specifically by humanitarian organizations.

Helios, professional wrestler also known as Ricochet
Hélio Castroneves (born 1975), Brazilian race-car driver in the Indy Racing League series
Hélio Gracie (1913–2009), co-founder of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu