Dragon (disambiguation)

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A dragon is a legendary creature, typically scaled or fire-spewing and with serpentine, reptilian or avian traits.

Dragon may also refer to:

Places

Dragon, Utah, United States, a ghost town
Dragon Cone, a volcano in British Columbia, Canada
Dragon Hill, Uffington, England, United Kingdom
"The Dragon", a section of U.S. 129 between Deals Gap, North Carolina, and Punkin Center, Tennessee, in the United States
The Dragon, a grouping of galaxies in the field of Abell 370

People

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

Arts, entertainment and media

Fictional entities

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

Film

Dragon (2006 film), an action/fantasy film
Dragon (2011 film), a Hong Kong-Chinese martial arts thriller
Dragon (2017 film), an upcoming Indian, Hindi superhero film.
Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, a 1993 biographical film
Dragons 3D, a 2013 IMAX film starring Max von Sydow

Gaming

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

Literature

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

Music

Groups

Dragon (band), a New Zealand/Australian rock group
Dragons (band), an English group
The Dragons (band), an American rock group

Labels

Dragon Records, a Swedish jazz record label

Albums

Songs

"Dragon", a song by Miriam Bryant
"Dragon", a song by Martin Garrix on the album Break Through the Silence (EP)
"Dragon", a song by The Sugarcubes on the album Life's Too Good
"Dragons", a song by Caravan Palace on the album Caravan Palace

Roller coasters

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

Television

Dragon (TV series), a Canadian children's TV program
Dragon Television, a Chinese provincial satellite TV station
DreamWorks Dragons, a TV series based on How to Train Your Dragon

Theatre

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

Companies

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

Education

Dragon School, a British preparatory school in Oxford, England
The Dragon Academy, a private school in Ontario, Canada

Mathematics and computing

Dragon (cipher)
Dragon (remote sensing)
AMD Dragon, a platform engineered for gamers
Comodo Dragon (web browser)
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

Military

Dragon (pistol), the short version of the blunderbuss
HMS Dragon, the name of several ships of the English/British Navy
M47 Dragon, an American anti-tank missile system
USS Dragon (1861), a Union Navy steamer during the American Civil War
"Dragons" (a USMC helicopter squadron), see: VMM-265
The Dragons, a display team consisting of 4 x Hawker Hunters of No. 4 Flying Training School RAF during 1973

Nobility and royalty

Dragon Throne, the throne of the Emperor of China
Order of the Dragon (literally "Society of the Dragonists"), was a monarchical chivalric order for selected nobility

Science

Astronomy

Draco (constellation), a constellation in the far northern sky

Biology

DRAGON (protein), a membrane receptor protein
Draco volans, commonly known as the flying dragon, a species of lizard endemic to Southeast Asia
Komodo dragon, a large species of lizard found in the Indonesian islands of Komodo
Pogona, a genus of Australian lizards commonly called "bearded dragons"

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

Australia and Oceania

A.S. Dragon (Tahiti), a soccer team
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)

Europe

AS Dragon (Guadeloupe), a soccer team
Barcelona Dragons, an American football team in Spain
Catalans Dragons, a rugby league club in France
Celtic Dragons, a netball team in Wales, U.K.
Delft Dragons, an American football team in the Netherlands
Dragons (rugby union), a rugby union team in Wales, U.K.
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
Glamorgan Dragons, a cricket team in the United Kingdom
RC Dragon Brno, a rugby union team in the Czech Republic

North America

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.
Dragon Racing, an American auto racing team
Dragons, nickname of sports teams at Jefferson High School in Jefferson, Georgia in the U.S.
Dragons, nickname of sports teams at Lake Orion High School in Lake Orion, Michigan 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.
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.
Verdun Dragons, an ice hockey team in Canada
Wisconsin Dragons, a women's tackle football team in the U.S.

Transport

Air

de Havilland Dragon, a small commercial aircraft
Douglas B-23 Dragon, a twin-engined bomber aircraft
Independence Dragon, a German paraglider design

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

Space

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

Other uses

Satan is referred to several times in the book of Revelation (et al.) as the 'Dragon'
Dragon (zodiac), in the Chinese zodiac
Dragon reactor, a gas-cooled nuclear reactor in England
Welsh Dragon, the flag of Wales