Zephyr

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Zephyr may refer to:

• A light wind or west wind
• Zephyrus, one of the Anemoi and the Greek god of the west wind
• Zephyranthes, a plant genus whose species include the zephyr lily
• Zephyr (artist), well-known graffiti artist from New York City
• Zephyr (Wooldridge), a 1998 stainless steel sculpture by Steve Wooldridge on the IUPUI campus
• Zephyr, codename of the Soviet spy Mikhail Mukasei, active from the 1940s through the 1970s
• Zephyr, North Carolina
• Zephyr, Texas
• Zephyr, Ontario
• Zephyr Glacier

Computing

• Xephyr, a KDrive-based X server which targets a window on a host X Server as its framebuffer
• Zephyr (protocol), an instant messenger protocol and application-suite

Transport

Aviation

• Advanced Aviation Zephyr, ultralight, homebuilt aircraft
• ATEC Zephyr, Czech ultralight aircraft manufactured by ATEC
• Addyman Zephyr, a one-off, single seat sailplane
• Bartlett Zephyr, light, civil aircraft of the 1940s
• Fouga Zéphyr, a carrier-capable jet trainer for the French Navy, based on the Fouga Magister
• RAE Zephyr, 1923 pusher biplane
• Qinetiq Zephyr, a solar powered unmanned air vehicle

Maritime

• HMS Zephyr, eight ships of the British Royal Navy
• RV Zephyr, research vessel
• USS Zephyr (PC-8), United States Navy ship
• Zephyr (dinghy), sailing dinghy
• Zephyr Seaport Liberty Cruise, sightseeing service operated by Circle Line Downtown in New York
• Zephyr (schooner), an 1842 opium clipper
• Zephyr (steamboat), a sternwheel steamboat of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet

Rail

• California Zephyr, a diesel-powered passenger train, originally famous for its use of Vista-Dome cars
• Denver Zephyr, passenger service between Denver and Chicago
• Kansas City Zephyr, passenger train service between Kansas City and Chicago
• Pioneer Zephyr, a diesel-powered railroad train set built in 1934 for the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
• Texas Zephyr, passenger service between Denver and Dallas
• Ak-Sar-Ben Zephyr, a passenger train operated by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
• General Pershing Zephyr, the ninth of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad's Zephyr streamliners
• Illinois Zephyr, a 258-mile (415 km) passenger train operated by Amtrak that runs between Chicago and Quincy, Illinois
• Mark Twain Zephyr, an early articulated trainset that was similar to the Pioneer Zephyr in style
• San Francisco Zephyr, the name adopted in June 1972 for the Amtrak passenger train between Chicago, Illinois and the San Francisco Bay Area in California
• Twin Cities Zephyr, a streamlined passenger train service of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (CB&Q)
• American Royal Zephyr, a streamlined passenger train service operated by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad between Chicago and Kansas City
• Minnesota Zephyr, a heritage railroad operating out of Stillwater, Minnesota
• Nebraska Zephyr, a named passenger train of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (CB&Q, commonly known by the shorter name of "Burlington")
• Rio Grande Zephyr, a passenger train operated by Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad (D&RGW or Rio Grande) between Denver, Colorado and Ogden, Utah in the Western United States
• Sam Houston Zephyr, a named passenger train operated by the Burlington-Rock Island Railroad, a subsidiary of both the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad and the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad. It was the first streamlined passenger train in Texas
• Silver Streak Zephyr, a train service of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad in the American midwest. It ran from 1940 through 1959
• Zephyr Rocket, a passenger train operated jointly by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad and Rock Island Railroad

Road

• Ford Zephyr, a car
• Kawasaki Zephyr, a model of motorbike
• Lincoln-Zephyr, an automobile produced 1936–1942
• Lincoln MKZ, an automobile currently in production, initially named the Lincoln Zephyr
• Mercury Zephyr, an automobile

Businesses

• Zephyr cloth, a fabric made in Belgium
• Zephyr Technology, medical technology company

Music

• Zephyr (band), a blues-based hard rock band formed in 1968 in Boulder, Colorado and their eponymous album
• Zephyr (Basement Jaxx album), a 2009 EP by Basement Jaxx
• Zephyr (musical project), music by composer Elizabeth Henshaw
• The Zephyrs, an Edinburgh, Scotland-based indie band
• "The Zephyr Song", the second single from the Red Hot Chili Peppers' album By the Way
• KZFR, a community radio station in Chico, California
• WMTI, an alternative rock station (formerly known as 106.1 the Zephyr) in New Orleans, Louisiana
• "Zephyr", a song from the Mary Chapin Carpenter album The Age of Miracles
• WZPH-LP, 96.7 FM The Zephyr is a Classic Oldies station located in Zephyrhills, Florida.www.wzphfm.com
• Zephyr Quartet, a string quartet based in Adelaide, South Australia
• Zephyr National, Tom Fogerty's third solo album
• King Zephyr (Saxophone), Saxophone made in Elkhart Ind. by the H.N. White Company

Sports

• Muskegon Zephyrs, former ice hockey team
• New Orleans Zephyrs, an AAA Pacific Coast League minor league baseball team
• Chicago Zephyrs, former name of the NBA franchise currently known as the Washington Wizards
• Zephyr skateboard team, famous 1970s skateboard team a.k.a. Z-boys
• Zephyr (garment), a garment used in competitive rowing

Fiction

• Zephyr (film), a 2010 Turkish film
• Zephyr (Queer as Folk)
• Zephyr (comics)
• The Zephyr, a prototype battery capable of perpetual energy output in the 2010 action/comedy film Knight and Day

See also

• Zephir (disambiguation)
• Zefir (disambiguation)

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