Dragon (disambiguation)

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A dragon is a legendary creature, typically with serpentine or reptilian traits.

Dragon may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Music

• Dragon Records, a Swedish jazz record label
• Dragon (band), a New Zealand/Australian rock group
• Dragons (band), an English group
• The Dragons (band), an American rock group
• Dragon (Loudness album)
• Dragon (Jake Shimabukuro album)
• The Dragon (Vangelis album)
• "Dragon", a song by The Sugarcubes on the album Life's Too Good
• "Dragon", a song by Miriam Bryant
• "Dragons", a song by Caravan Palace on the album Caravan Palace

Literature

• Dragon (Cussler novel), a 1990 novel by Clive Cussler
• Dragon (Brust novel), a 1998 novel by Steven Brust
• Dragon (fantasy series), fantasy novels by Laurence Yep (1982–1992)
• The Dragon (theatre play), by Evgeny Shvarts (1944)
• The Dragon (fairy tale)
• "Dragon: the Old Potter's Tale", a short story by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1919)
• Dragon (poem), by Aleksey Tolstoy (1875)
• "The Dragon" (short story), by Ray Bradbury (1955)
• "Dragon" (Kalapugama short story), by Anandasiri Kalapugama (1975)
• Dragon Magazine (Fujimi Shobo), a Japanese light novel magazine (1988-current)
• The Dragons, a 1996 fantasy novel by Douglas Niles

Film and television

• Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, a 1993 biographical film
• Dragon (2006 film), an action/fantasy film
• Dragon (2011 film), a Hong Kong-Chinese martial arts thriller
• Dragons 3D, a 2013 IMAX film starring Max von Sydow
• Dragon (TV series), a Canadian children's TV program
• Dragon Television, a Chinese provincial satellite TV station

Fictional characters

• The Dragon (Beowulf)
• Dragon (Middle-earth), by J. R. R. Tolkien
• Dragons (Pern), by Anne McCaffrey
• Dragons (Dragon Prince), by Melanie Rawn
• Dragon (Shrek)
• Dragon Shiryū, a Saint Seiya character
• Richard Dragon, a comic book character

Gaming

• Dragon, a version of the video game Mega Man Star Force
• Dragon (Dungeons & Dragons)
• Dragon (magazine), a Dungeons & Dragons magazine
• Sicilian Defence, Dragon Variation, a chess opening
• Dragon tiles, a type of honor tile in mahjong

Roller coasters

• Dragon (Adventureland), Iowa, United States
• Dragon Challenge, Orlando, Florida
• Dragon Coaster (Playland), Rye, New York
• The Dragon, Ocean Park, Hong Kong

Theatre

• Dragon, a 2013 co-production by Vox Motus, National Theatre of Scotland and Tianjin Children’s Art Theatre.

Sports teams

Africa

• AS Dragons, a soccer team in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• AS Dragons FC de l'Ouémé, a soccer team in Benin
• Dragón FC, a soccer team in Equatorial Guinea

Asia

• China Dragon, an ice hockey team in China
• Jiangsu Dragons, a Chinese Basketball Association team
• Sichuan Dragons, a baseball team in China
• Chunichi Dragons, a baseball team in Japan
• Welcoat Dragons, a basketball team in the Philippines
• Chunnam Dragons, a football team in South Korea
• Jeonnam Dragons, a football team in South Korea

Australia and Oceania

• Darwin Dragons SC, a soccer team
• Engadine Dragons, a junior rugby league team
• Northcote Football Club, aka the Northcote Dragons, an Australian rules Football team
• St. George Dragons, a rugby league team
• St. George Illawarra Dragons, a rugby league football club
• Shellharbour City Dragons, a rugby league team
• South Dragons, a former team in the Australasian National Basketball League (2006-2009)
• A.S. Dragon (Tahiti), a soccer team

Europe

• RC Dragon Brno, a rugby union team in the Czech Republic
• Catalans Dragons, a rugby league club in France
• Dragons de Rouen, an ice hockey team in France
• Dublin Dragons, an American football team in Ireland
• Dudelange Dragons, an American football team in Luxembourg
• Delft Dragons, an American football team in the Netherlands
• Barcelona Dragons, an American football team in Spain
• Glamorgan Dragons, a cricket team in the United Kingdom
• Celtic Dragons, a netball team in Wales, U.K.
• Newport Gwent Dragons, a rugby union team in Wales, U.K.
• AS Dragon (Guadeloupe), a soccer team

North America

• Dragon Racing, an American auto racing team
• Verdun Dragons, an ice hockey team in Canada
• C.D. Dragón, a soccer team in El Salvador
• Chesapeake Dragons, a soccer team in the U.S.
• Dayton Dragons, a baseball team in the U.S.
• Drexel Dragons, the sports teams of Drexel University in the U.S.
• Jersey Dragons, a soccer team in the U.S.
• Lane College Dragons, the sports teams of Lane College in the U.S.
• Los Angeles Dragons, an American football team in the U.S.
• Moorhead Dragons, the sports teams of Minnesota State University Moorhead in the U.S.
• New York Dragons, an Arena Football League team in the U.S.
• Phoenix Dragons, an inline hockey team in the U.S.
• San Antonio Dragons, an ice hockey team in the U.S.
• San Francisco Dragons, a field lacrosse team in the U.S.
• Thomasville Dragons, a women's soccer team in the U.S.
• Tiffin Dragons, the sports teams at Tiffin University in the U.S.
• Wisconsin Dragons, a women's tackle football team in the U.S.
• Dragons, nickname of sports teams at Lake Orion High School in Lake Orion, Michigan in the U.S.

Mathematics and computing

• AMD Dragon, a platform engineered for gamers
• Dragon (cipher)
• Dragon (remote sensing)
• Dragon chip, a line of Chinese CPUs
• Dragon curve, a family of fractal curves
• Dragon Data, a Welsh computer manufacturer
  • Dragon 32/64, two 1980s home computers
• Dragon NaturallySpeaking, a speech recognition software package
• Comodo Dragon (web browser)

Science

Astronomy

• Draco (constellation), constellation of north hemisphere

zoology

• Komodo dragon, a large species of lizard found in the Indonesian islands of Komodo
• Salamander Drago, a popular name of olm
• Draco volans, commonly known as the flying dragon, is a species of lizard endemic to Southeast Asia.
• Pogona, a genus of Australian lizards commonly called "bearded dragons"

Transport

Land

• Dragon (Russian car company)
• Dragon Automobile Company, an American manufacturer (1906-1908)
• Dennis Dragon, a bus
• Kaiser Dragon, a 1950s American car
• Dragon (1848–1872), a GWR Iron Duke Class locomotive
• Dragon (1873–1892), a South Devon Railway Buffalo class locomotive
• Dragon (1880–1892), a GWR Rover class locomotive
• Dragon (1891-1915), a GWR 3031 Class locomotive
• Dragon (2009-present) Newag E6ACT, an electric freight locomotive

Water

• Dragon boat, a narrow canoe-style boat, used for the sport of dragon boat racing
• Dragon (keelboat), a sailing yacht, used in racing

Air

• de Havilland Dragon, a small commercial aircraft
• Douglas B-23 Dragon, a twin-engined bomber aircraft

Space

• Dragon (spacecraft), used by SpaceX to transport cargo to and from the International Space Station
• Dragon (rocket), a French research sounding rocket

Military

• dragon (pistol), the short version of the blunderbuss
• HMS Dragon, the name of several ships of the English/British Navy
• USS Dragon (1861), a Union Navy steamer during the American Civil War
• "Dragons" (a USMC helicopter squadron), see: VMM-265
• M47 Dragon, an American anti-tank missile system

People

• Carmen Dragon (1914–1984), American conductor and composer
• Daryl Dragon (born 1942), American musician and member of Captain & Tennille
• Bruce Lee (1940–1973), Chinese actor and martial artist, nicknamed "The Dragon"
• Vlad II Dracul (1390–1447), duke of Wallachia, nicknamed "Vlad the Dragon"
• Lyoto Machida (born 1978), Brazilian martial artist, nicknamed "The Dragon"
• Ricky Steamboat (born 1953), American professional wrestler, nicknamed "The Dragon"
• Don "The Dragon" Wilson (born 1954), American champion kickboxer and actor
• Tatsumi Fujinami (born 1953), Japanese professional wrestler, nicknamed "The Dragon"

Places

• "The Dragon", a section of U.S. Route 129 near Deals Gap, North Carolina
• Dragon, Utah, United States, a ghost town
• Dragon Hill, Uffington, England
• Dragon Cone, a volcano in British Columbia, Canada
• The Dragon, a grouping of galaxies in the field of Abell 370

Companies

• Dragonair, an airline
• Dragon Models Limited, a toy manufacturer
• Dragon Petroleum, a Welsh fuel company

Other

• Dragon (zodiac), in the Chinese zodiac
• The Dragon Academy, a private school in Ontario, Canada
• Dragon School, a British preparatory school in Oxford, England
• Dragon reactor, a gas-cooled nuclear reactor in England
• Dragon Throne, the throne of the Emperor of China
• Order of the Dragon
• Welsh Dragon, the flag of Wales

See also

• Matthew Stevens, snooker player, nicknamed "The Welsh Dragon"
• Draco (disambiguation)
• Dracaena (disambiguation)
• Dragone (disambiguation)
• DRAKON, (Russian: ДРАКОН, "dragon"), a programming language used in flight controllers for rockets and space vehicles