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:

People

• Individuals:
  • Apollo (4th century C.E.), Coptic ascetic and martyr associated with Abib
  • Apollo Korzeniowski (1820–1869), Polish writer, and father of Joseph Conrad
  • Apollo Soucek (1897–1955), US Navy test pilot & vice admiral
  • Apollo M. O. Smith (1911–1997), US rocket scientist
  • Apollo Kironde (1915–2007), Ugandan ambassador
  • Steve Apollo (born 1949), pseudonym of illustrator Jim Starlin
  • Apollo Quiboloy (born 1950), Filipino televangelist
  • Dale "Apollo" Cook (born 1958), American kickboxer

• Apollo Papathanasio (born 1969), vocalist of Greek power metal band Firewind

• Apollo Perelini (born 1969), New Zealand rugby player
• Apollo Robbins (born 1973), US sleight of hand artist and self-described gentleman thief
• Apolo Ohno (born 1982), US skating medalist
• Apollo Crews (born 1987), US professional wrestler

• Appolo speakers among the Nzima of SW Ghana

Places

• Apollo, Pennsylvania, United States
• Apollo Bay, Victoria, Australia
• 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

Science

• Acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis, referred to colloquially in Ghana as "Apollo"

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
• Apollo (horse) (1879–1887), an American Thoroughbred racehorse
• Appollo (dog) (1992–2006), a German Shepherd search and rescue dog

Space-related

• Apollo program, a series of American space missions that ultimately landed men on the Moon
• Apollo (crater), a basin on the far side of the Moon
• 1862 Apollo, a near-Earth asteroid discovered in 1932
• Apollo asteroids, a group of near-Earth asteroids
• Apache Point Observatory Lunar Laser-ranging Operation (APOLLO), an observatory in New Mexico
• Apollo, the ancient Greek name for the planet Mercury, when observed just before dawn as a morning star

In the military

• Apollo-class cruiser of the Royal Navy
• Apollo-class frigate, Royal Navy sailing frigates
• HMS Apollo, various Royal Navy ships
• USS Apollo (AS-25), a United States Navy submarine tender
• Operation Apollo, a military operation of the Canadian Navy in Afghanistan

Transportation

• The Apollo, a former passenger ferry, 1960s founding flagship of the Sea Organization of the Church of Scientology
• Apollo Automobil, a German sports car manufacturing company
  • Gumpert Apollo, a racing and high-performance sports car produced by Apollo Automobil
• 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 (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, founded in 1980, and acquired in 1989 by Hewlett-Packard Company
• Apollo Diamond, an American diamond-manufacturing company
• Apollo Hospitals, a healthcare group in India
• Apollo Global Management, private equity investment firm
• Apollo Group, a company specializing in adult education
• Apollo-Optik, an optics company
• Apollo Tyres, an Indian tyre manufacturer
• Apollo Ultralight Aircraft, a Hungarian microlight aircraft manufacturer
• Apollo University Lodge, the principal Masonic Lodge of the University of Oxford
• Carrington College (US), a privately held higher education organization, known before June 2010 as Apollo College
• Games by Apollo, a third-party video game developer for the Atari 2600

Arts

Film and television

• 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
• Apollo class starship of Star Trek
• Apollo (Star Trek), an alien in the Star Trek episode "Who Mourns for Adonais?"
• USS Apollo, several fictional starships (and one real naval vessel)
• Apollo, a character in the musical TV series Pajanimals.
• Apollo Gauntlet, an American animated television series on Adult Swim

Music

• "Apollo", the Swiss entrant for Eurovision Song Contest 2017.
• Apollo (Finnish band), a 1970s band from Finland
• Apollo (quintet), a quintet that recorded for Motown Records in the late 1970s
• 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", a 1984 song by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark from the album Junk Culture
• "Apollo", an electronic dance music song by Hardwell featuring Amba Shepherd, and in 2016, the song is remixed by hardstyle DJ, Dr. Phunk

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 (Belgium)
• US-based:
  • Apollo Records (1921)
  • Apollo Records (1928)
  • Apollo Records (1944)
  • Apollo Records (Seattle), starting 1990s

Entertainment venues

• Apollo Theatre [or Theater] (disambiguation)
• Others, in UK:

• Apollo Cinemas, chain
• The Apollo (Glasgow), for music
• Hammersmith Apollo, in the eponymous west London district

Other arts and entertainment

• Titled works:
  • Apollo (Michelangelo), marble sculpture
  • Apollo (ballet), 1928 George Balanchine choreography for Stravinsky Apollon musagète
  • Apollo (magazine), British arts magazine
  • Apollo of Temple, now Philadelphia sports venue Liacouras Center

• Apollo Justice, character in Nintendo Ace Attorney video-game series
• Prix Apollo Award (late 20th cen.), for French for science-fiction
• Apollo 55, professional wrestling tag team

Other uses

• Apollo, a deodorant by Lynx
• 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)
• Apollos