Orca (disambiguation)
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Orca is a name for the killer whale, a large marine mammal.
Orca may also refer to:
People
- Quintus Valerius Orca (fl. 50s–40s B.C.), Roman praetor and officer under Julius Caesar
Places
- Orca Basin, a mini-basin in the northern Gulf of Mexico
- Orca Bay (Alaska), a bay near the town of Cordova
- Orca Inlet, serves as an inlet to Prince William Sound from the Gulf of Alaska
- Orcas Island, the largest of the San Juan Islands in Washington state
- Orcas Island Airport, the correspondent airport of the island
- Orcas Village, Washington (sometimes just called Orcas), a community on the island
- Sandford Orcas, a village and parish in north west Dorset, England
Arts and entertainment
Fictional characters and vehicles
- Orca (comics), a villain in Batman comic books
- Orca (.hack), a character in the .hack video game series
- Orca (Jaws boat), a fictional fishing vessel in Jaws
Film
- Orca (film), a 1977 horror film
Literature
- Orca (novel), a 1996 fantasy novel by Steven Brust
Music
- Orcas (duo), a Pacific Northwest duo
- Orca (C-Bo album), 2012
- Orca Symphony No. 1, an album by Serj Tankian
- "Orca", a song by Deadmau5, as part of his compilation album At Play Vol. 2
Organizations
- Opinion Research Center of Afghanistan
- Organization for Respect and Care for Animals, an animal welfare organization
- Orca Air, a defunct Egyptian regional airline
- Orca Airways, a small scheduled and charter airline based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Orca Engineering, a Swiss sports car manufacturing company
- Orca wetsuits and sports apparel, a New Zealand wetsuit and sports apparel manufacturer
Technology and computing
- Orca (assistive technology), free and open source, assistive technology of the GNOME desktop environment
- Orcas, the Microsoft pre-release codename for Visual Studio 2008, as a reference to the above island
- Orca.exe, the Microsoft database table editor for creating and editing Windows Installer packages and merge modules.
- ORCA (Online Representations and Certifications Application), a U.S. e-procurement system
- Project ORCA, a Get Out The Vote application created by Mitt Romney's 2012 U.S. presidential campaign
- ORCA Platform, an open source electronic payments processing platform
- ORCA (Quantum Chemistry Program)
Transportation
- Orca (supercar), a Swiss supercar
- ORCA Card, a smart card for public transit in the central Puget Sound region of Washington State, USA
- Orca-class patrol vessel, a class of training vessels for the Canadian Navy
- USS Orca, several United States Navy ships
Other
- Orca (dog), a golden retriever and winner of the PDSA Gold Medal
See also
- All pages with titles containing "Orca"
- Orka (comics), a villain in the Marvel comic books
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