Apollo (disambiguation)

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Apollo is a Greek and Roman god of music, healing, light, prophecy and enlightenment.

Apollo may also refer to:

Astronomy

• Apollo, the ancient Greek name for the planet Mercury, when observed just before dawn as a morning star
• Apollo asteroids, a type of asteroids

People

• Appolo, also called the Nzema people, an Akan people who live in southwestern Ghana
• Apollo, a Coptic ascetic and martyr: see Abib and Apollo
• Apollo Kironde (1915–2007), Ugandan ambassador
• Apollo Korzeniowski (1820–1869), Polish writer, and father of Joseph Conrad
• Apollo M. O. Smith (1911–1997), American rocket scientist
• Apollo Papathanasio (born 1969), vocalist of Greek power metal band Firewind
• Apollo Perelini (born 1969), New Zealand rugby player
• Apollo Robbins (born 1973), United States sleight of hand artist and self-described gentleman thief
• Apollo Soucek (1897–1955), United States Navy vice admiral and notable test pilot
• Apollo Quiboloy (born 1950), Filipino televangelist based in Davao City
• Apolo Ohno (born 1982), United States short track speed skating competitor and an eight-time medalist
• Dale "Apollo" Cook, American kickboxer

Places

• Apollo, Pennsylvania, United States
• Apollo Bay, Victoria, Australia
• Most Apollo (Apollo bridge), a road bridge over the Danube in Bratislava
• Apollo, a town near Johannesburg, South Africa, location of static inverter plant of Cahora Bassa

Animals

• Parnassius, a genus of swallowtail butterflies commonly known as the Apollos; in particular
  • Parnassius apollo, a Parnassius butterfly found in Europe commonly known as the Apollo
  • Parnassius autocrator, a Parnassius butterfly found in Afghanistan and Tajikistan also commonly known as the Apollo
• Great Dane (dog breed), commonly referred to as the "Apollo of all breeds", owing to its giant size
• Apollo (horse) (1879–1887), an American Thoroughbred racehorse
• Appollo (dog) (1992–2006), a German Shepherd search and rescue dog

Space and aviation

• Apollo program, a series of American space missions that landed men on the Moon and returned them to Earth
  • Apollo spacecraft
  • Apollo Command/Service Module
  • Apollo Lunar Module
• Apollo (crater), a basin on the far side of the Moon
• 1862 Apollo, a near-Earth asteroid discovered in 1932
• Apollo asteroid, one of a group of near-Earth asteroids named after 1862 Apollo
• The Apache Point Observatory Lunar Laser-ranging Operation (APOLLO), lunar observatory in New Mexico
• Apollo Ultralight Aircraft, a Hungarian microlight aircraft manufacturer

Transportation

• Apollo-class cruiser of the Royal Navy
• HMS Apollo, ships of the Royal Navy
• USS Apollo
  • USS Apollo (AS-25), a submarine tender of the United States Navy
• The Apollo, a former passenger ferry, 1960s founding flagship of the Sea Organization of the Church of Scientology
• Gumpert Apollo, a German racing and high-performance sports car
• Ducati Apollo, a prototype motorcycle of 1964
• Buick Apollo, an American compact car built from 1973 to 1975
• Apollo (1906 automobile), an American car made from 1906 to 1907
• Apollo (1910 automobile), a German car built from 1910 to 1927
• Apollo (1962 automobile), an American sports car built from 1962 to 1964
• Apollo (1971 automobile), a custom-built British sports car
• Armstrong Whitworth Apollo, a prototype airliner
• Apollo, a steam locomotive of the West Cornwall Railway
• Holden Apollo, an automobile manufactured by Toyota and sold by Holden in Australia from 1989 to 1997
• ST Apollo, a tugboat
• Volkswagen Apollo, an automobile which was sold in Brazil between 1990 and 1992
• Apollo-class frigate, Royal Navy sailing frigates
• Apollo (storeship), a historic storeship

Other technology

• Apollo (cable system), a cable crossing the Atlantic ocean
• Apollo (software), a web-based project-management and CRM tool
• Apollo/Domain, a series of workstations made by Apollo Computer
• Apollo Reservation System, the computerized central reservation system developed by United Airlines
• Adobe Integrated Runtime, a cross-OS runtime system originally codenamed "Apollo"
• The code name of Apple's Macintosh Classic II
• The code name of Windows Phone 8, Microsoft's smartphone operating system

Companies and organizations

• Apollo Alliance, an American think tank
• Apollo Computer Inc., a workstation manufacturer, acquired in 1989 by Hewlett-Packard Company
• Apollo Diamond, an American diamond-manufacturing company
• Apollo Hospitals, a healthcare group in India
• Apollo Global Management LLC, private equity investment firm
• Apollo Group, a company specializing in adult education
• Carrington College (US), a privately held higher education organization, known before June 2010 as "Apollo College"

Products

• Apollo, a scent variety of Axe
• Brand used by Idemitsu Kosan for various oil and gasoline products
• Apollo, a brand name used by the Accles & Pollock company for steel golf club shafts
• Apollo, a store brand of bicycles sold in Halfords

Arts

Film and television

• Apollo 11 (film)
• Apollo 13 (film)
• Apollo 18 (film)
• Apollo Candy, a fictional candy bar in the Lost television series
• Apollo Creed, a boxer played by Carl Weathers in the Rocky film series
• Apollo (Battlestar Galactica), the name of several characters in the Battlestar Galactica universe
  • Captain Apollo, a character in the original Battlestar Galactica television series
  • Lee Adama, a character in the 2004 re-imagining of Battlestar Galactica
• EAS Apollo, an EarthForce omega class destroyer starship in the Babylon 5 universe
• Apollo class starship of Star Trek
• Apollo (Star Trek), an extraterrestrial alien taken by ancient Greeks as a god in the Star Trek episode "Who Mourns for Adonais?"
• Apollo, a battleship in Stargate SG-1
• Apollo, the main character of the anime series Genesis of Aquarion
• Apollo, one of the four characters in Jim Henson's Pajanimals

Music

• Apollo (band), a Brit-inspired rock band from Southeast Michigan
• Apollo (quintet), a quintet that recorded for Motown Records in the late 1970s
• Apollo 100, a British synthpop band of the same era as the above
• Apollo 440, a British electronic rock band from 1990s-present
• Apollo (Nebula album), an album by the group Nebula
• Apollo (Stockholm Syndrome album), an album by the group Stockholm Syndrome
• Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks, 1983 album by Brian Eno
• "Apollo" (song), a 1999 song by Porno Graffitti
• Apollo Up!, a Nashville-based indie rock band
• "Apollo", an electronic dance music song by Hardwell feat. Amba Shepherd

Comics

• Apollo (comics), a member of in Wildstorm Comics' The Authority
• Apollo (Marvel Comics), a comic book character
• Apollo, a character in The Amory Wars comic book series
• Apollo (Saint Seiya), a character in the fictional universe of Masami Kurumada's manga, Saint Seiya
• Apollo, a character in the Zatch Bell! anime/manga series

Record labels

• Apollo Records (1921), a US-based company
• Apollo Records (1928), a US-based company
• Apollo Records (1944), a US-based company
• Apollo Records (Belgium)
• Apollo Records (Seattle)

Theatres, cinemas and music venues

• Apollo Theater, a theatre in New York City
• Apollo Theatre, a theatre in London
• Apollo Cinemas, a chain of cinemas in the United Kingdom
• Apollo Theatre (disambiguation), listing other theaters of this name
• The Apollo (Glasgow), a former music venue in Glasgow, Scotland
• Hammersmith Apollo, an entertainment venue in Hammersmith, London

Other arts and entertainment

• Apollo Belvedere, a statue of the god Apollo from classical antiquity
• Apollo (ballet), a 1928 ballet choreographed by George Balanchine to Stravinsky's Apollon musagète
• Apollo (magazine), a British arts magazine
• Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney, the fourth in the series of Ace Attorney games for the Nintendo DS
• Prix Tour-Apollo Award, (1972–1990) an annual French award given to the best science fiction novel published in French
• Apollo 55, professional wrestling tag team
• Liacouras Center, a sports venue in Philadelphia originally known as The Apollo of Temple
• Apollo (Michelangelo), a marble sculpture by Michelangelo

Other uses

• Operation Apollo, a military operation of the Canadian Navy in Afghanistan
• Apollo oil refinery, a Nazi Germany facility in the Bratislava oil district, see Oil Campaign of World War II
• Apollo Junior High School of Richardson, Texas

See also

• Apollon (disambiguation)
• Apolo (disambiguation)