Excelsior

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Excelsior may refer to:

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USS Excelsior (NCC-2000), a starship in Star Trek
Excelsior class starship, in Star Trek
Excelsior (comics), in Runaways, a support group for former teenage superheroes

Longfellow's poem, set to music as a duet for tenor and baritone by Michael William Balfe
Ballet by Luigi Manzotti, first staged in Milan in 1881

"Excelsior" (motto), the official motto of the state of New York (seen on its seal)
“Excelsior!”, the catchphrase of Stan Lee, who used it at the end of every "Bullpen Bulletins" column in Marvel Comics
The Al Gore character's catchphrase in South Park episodes, such as "ManBearPig"
"Excelsior", the characteristic sign-off of Detroit radio personality Mark Scott
"Excelsior, you fathead", the full catchphrase of radio personality Jean Shepherd
Motto of the Special Jaegers

Excelsior Mouscron, a former Belgian association football club
SBV Excelsior, a Dutch association football club
Excelsior AC Roubaix, a French association football club
SV Excelsior, a Surinamese association football club
Birmingham Excelsior F.C., a defunct English association football club
SS Excelsior (football club), a club from Réunion Island established in 1940
AS Excelsior, an association football club from Saint-Joseph, Réunion Island
F.C. Excelsior, Mexican football club that plays in the Segunda División Profesional
Excelsior Maassluis, a football club from Maassluis, the Netherlands
Excelsior Stadium, the home of Airdrie United F.C. of the Scottish Football League Second Division

Excelsior (chess problem), a chess problem by Sam Loyd
Excelsior Handicap, an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually
Excelsior Rugby Club, an amateur rugby team that plays in the ILT Southland Wide Premier Division
Excelsior of Brooklyn, an amateur baseball team that played in Brooklyn, New York

Wood wool, commonly known as excelsior, a wood sliver material used for packaging, for the pads in evaporative coolers, and for other applications
Project Excelsior, a high-altitude skydiving project in the 1950s
Excelsior Diamond, a famous diamond, once the largest known
Fraxinus excelsior, the Linnaean name for the European Ash tree
Excelsior tank, a British experimental heavy assault tank
Excelsior JET, a Java compiler
St Croix Excelsior, ultralight aircraft

Excelsior-Henderson Motorcycle (Belle Plaine, MN), founded in 1993
Excelsior Motor Manufacturing & Supply Company (Chicago, IL), a U.S. motorcycle manufacturer operating in Chicago from 1907 to 1931
- Henderson Motorcycle, a division of the above company from 1919 to 1931
- Excelsior Super X, a motorcycle made by the above company from 1925 to 1931
Motorwagenfabrik Excelsior, a Swiss car maker in business between 1896 and 1919
Compagnie Nationale Excelsior, a Belgian car manufacturer existing between 1904 and 1932
Excelsior Motor Company, a British bicycle, motorcycle and car maker
- Excelsior Manxman, a motorcycle made by the above company
Excelsior Academy, a school in Newcastle upon Tyne, England
Excelsior College, in Albany, New York
Excelsior, a common high school and grammar school name
- Excelsior High School (Norwalk, California) (1903–1981)
- Excelsior Public School (Excelsior, Minnesota) (1904–1964)
- Excelsior School, a non-denominational school in Pasadena, California)
- Excelsior High School, Washougal, Washington
Excelsior (restaurant), a former restaurant located in Hotel de l'Europe, Amsterdam
Excelsior, a common hotel name
- Hotel Excelsior, Berlin (1908–1945)
- Excelsior Hotel Ernst, Cologne (est. 1863)
- The Excelsior (Hong Kong), a hotel in Causeway Bay
TV Excelsior, a defunct Brazilian television network
Excelsior Amusement Park, located on Lake Minnetonka in the town of Excelsior, Minnesota

Excelsior (smack), the last surviving fishing smack of the Lowestoft fishing fleet and a member of the National Historic Fleet
SS Excelsior (ship), one of several steam-powered ships named Excelsior
Excelsior Brass Band, a brass band from New Orleans. It was one of the earliest recognized brass bands on the New Orleans jazz scene
Excelsior Brigade, a New York infantry brigade in the Union Army in the American Civil War
Excelsior Editions, a trade imprint of the book publisher SUNY Press
Excelsior Eight-eight, a species of butterfly of the Nymphalidae family found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, and Bolivia
Excelsior Recordings, an independent record label from the Netherlands
Excelsior (typeface), a serif typeface well-suited to newsprint
Fixedsys Excelsior, an unofficial pan-Unicode extension of the popular Microsoft font Fixedsys
Xcelsior (bus), a transit bus manufactured by New Flyer Industries