Firefly (disambiguation)

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Firefly is a common name for a bioluminescent beetle in the Lampyridae family.

Firefly or fireflies may also refer to:

Media and fiction

Stage, film and television

Firefly (TV series), a 2002 science fiction TV program created by Joss Whedon
- Firefly (franchise), a science fiction franchise stemming from the TV program created by Joss Whedon
Firefly (film), a 2005 independent film directed by Pete Marcy
Fireflies (film), a 2014 film
Fireflies (TV series), a 2004 Australian TV series
The Firefly (operetta), by Rudolf Friml
The Firefly (film), the 1937 film adaptation of the Rudolf Friml operetta starring Allan Jones
"The Firefly" (Fringe), a 2011 episode of the television series Fringe

Books

Firefly, a science-fiction novel by Piers Anthony
Fireflies, a memoir by David Morrell
Fireflies (novel), a 1970 novel by Shiva Naipaul
The Firefly, a novel by P. T. Deutermann

Games

Firefly Role-Playing Game, a role-playing game by Margaret Weis Productions

Characters

Firefly (DC Comics), a Batman villain
Firefly (Archie Comics), a character in the Archie comic book universe
Firefly (G.I. Joe), a villain in the G.I. Joe universe, member of Cobra
The Firefly family, a group of characters created by Rob Zombie
Rufus T. Firefly, a character played by Groucho Marx in the 1933 film Duck Soup

Music

Firefly Music Festival, an annual American music festival held in Dover, Delaware
The Firefly (operetta), a 1912 operetta by Rudolf Friml

Artists

Fire Flies, an American rock band based in New York City
The Fireflies, an American doo wop group
Firefly (band), the Filipino Indie rock bands

Albums

Firefly (Emily Remler album), 1981
Firefly (Jeremy Steig album), 1977
Firefly (TNT album), 1997
Firefly (Uriah Heep album), 1977
Firefly (Sara Storer album), 2005
Firefly, a 2001 album by Garnet Rogers
Fireflies (Faith Hill album), 2005
Fireflies (Rubygrass album), 1998
Fireflies (Frodus album), 1995

Songs

"Firefly" (Christina Metaxa song), the Cypriot entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 2009, sung by Christina Metaxa
"Firefly" (Cy Coleman song), recorded by Tony Bennett in 1958
- "Firefly", a song recorded by Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga on their 2014 album Cheek to Cheek
"Firefly" (InMe song), 2002
"Fireflies" (Leona Lewis song), 2012
"Fireflies" (Owl City song), 2009
"Fireflies" (Zendaya song), 2013
"Fire Fly", a song by Mike Oldfield on his 2002 Tr3s Lunas album
"Fire Fly", a song by Childish Gambino on his 2011 Camp album
"Firefly", a song by Blackfield on their 2013 album, Blackfield IV
"Firefly", a song by A*Teens on their 2001 Teen Spirit album
"Firefly", a song by Saves the Day on their 2001 Stay What You Are album
"Firefly", a song by BeForU on their 2003 self-titled album
"Firefly", a song by Breaking Benjamin on their 2004 We Are Not Alone album
"Fireflies", a song by Fleetwood Mac on their 1980 album Live
"Fireflies", a song by Patti Smith from her 1996 album Gone Again
"Fireflies", a song by JJ Grey & MOFRO on their 2004 album Lochloosa
"Fireflies", a song by Finch on their 2005 Say Hello to Sunshine album
"Fireflies", a song by Rhett Miller on his 2006 The Believer album
"Fireflies", a song by Richard Rawson featuring Tom Parker
"Euphoria (Firefly)", a song by Delerium

Transportation

Aviation

Fairey Firefly, a 1940s British, naval, reconnaissance and fighter aircraft
Fairey Firefly I, a cancelled, 1920s British biplane fighter project
Fairey Firefly II, a 1930s British, biplane fighter
Firefly (airline), a subsidiary of Malaysia Airlines
Globe KD2G Firefly, an American target drone
Kolb Firefly, ultralight aircraft
MBB Lampyridae, /'Firefly' was a German stealth fighter project during the 1980s
Ryan AQM-91 Firefly, an American unmanned reconnaissance aircraft
Slingsby T67 Firefly, a British-built, light, training aircraft
Sikorsky Firefly, an all-electric helicopter built for research purposes by Sikorsky Aircraft

Spacecraft

Firefly (spacecraft), an asteroid-searching spacecraft proposed by Deep Space Industries

Maritime

USS Firefly (1814), a brig formerly named Volant
Firefly (dinghy), a sailing dinghy
HMS Firefly, several ships of the Royal Navy
HMT Firefly, a British trawler that operated between 1930 and 1961

Rail

Firefly (train), a U.S. passenger train operated by the St. Louis - San Francisco Railway
GWR Firefly Class, a class of steam locomotive on the Great Western Railway
Firefly, a steam locomotive operated by the Orange and Alexandria Railroad

Land

Firefly (car rental), an international car hire company owned by Hertz
Pontiac Firefly, a subcompact automobile based on the Suzuki Cultus
Sherman Firefly, a British variant of the M4 Sherman military tank

Technology

Fireflies (computer graphics), a rendering artifact
Firefly (mobile phone), a simplified cellphone designed for young children
Firefly algorithm, a metaheuristic algorithm
Firefly (computer), a supercomputer
Firefly Media Server, an open source media server for the Roku SoundBridge and iTunes
Firefly (website), an online community developed in the late 1990s
DEC Firefly, the first successful multiprocessor workstation architecture implementation
- Firefly (cache coherence protocol), a method of caching used in the above
Firefly Studios, a London-based computer game developer
Firefly (computer program), an ab initio computational chemistry software
Firefly (key exchange protocol), a security protocol used in telephony
Firefly, an Earth remote sensing application of CubeSat
Firefly PC Remote, a remote control by SnapStream Media used to control Windows-based computers
Firefly Learning, an educational technology company based in London, England

Organizations

Firefly AB, a Swedish manufacturer of fire and dust explosion protection systems
Firefly Arts Collective, a New England regional burning event
Firefly Brigade, a Philippine environmentalist group advocating the use of bicycles
Firefly Distillery, a distillery based in South Carolina that manufactures a line of vodka products
Firefly Space Systems, a private aerospace firm based in Austin, Texas
Firefly Tonics, an English producer of fruit juice drinks with added herbal extracts

Other uses

Firefly Estate, Jamaica
Firefly REV-8, a 2005 Nerf Blaster released under the N-Strike series