Midas (disambiguation)

Midas, king of Lydia is a figure from Greek mythology. It may also refer to:

Arts and fiction

• Midas, the name of two fictional characters in the Marvel Universe.
• Midas (fictional planet), in the Colony Wars franchise

Film, TV and theatre

• Midas (TV series), a 2011 South Korean TV series
• Midas (Shelley play), an 1820 play by Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Midas (Lyly play), an Elizabethan stage play by John Lyly
• Midas, a rich patron of the arts in the operetta Die schöne Galathée, by Franz von Suppé

Music

• Midas (English band), an English indie rock band
• Midas (Japanese band), a Japanese progressive rock band
• Midas (DJs), a British happy hardcore duo

Places

• Other name for Midès oasis in Tunisia, the Ancient Numidian city Mades, now a Latin Catholic titular see

United States

• Midas, California, in Placer County, California
• Midas, Nevada, a ghost town in Elko County, Nevada

Companies and transport

• MIDAS Trial, a randomized controlled trial for drugs and alcohol misuse
• Midas Interactive Entertainment, a console games publisher
• Midas Consoles, a manufacturer of audio consoles
• Midas (automotive service), a chain of automotive service centers
• Midas Cars, a British car manufacturer
• MS Midas, a Finnish cargo ship

Finance

• Midas formula, a financial-analysis formula
• Midas (banking system), a core-banking solution from Misys International Banking systems
• Midas List, an annual list of dealmakers in high-tech and life science

Acronyms

• MIDAS (operating system) (Microsoft Interrupt Driven Asynchronous System), an operating system designed by Marc McDonald of Microsoft in 1979
• Motorway Incident Detection and Automatic Signalling, a distributed network of traffic sensors
• Mixed-data sampling, an econometric regression or filtering method
• Minibus Driver Awareness Scheme, a training and registration scheme for drivers of minibuses
• Multitier Distributed Application Services Suite, a COM-based software technology now known as DataSnap
• MiDAS, the Missile Defense Alarm System, an American early-warning missile-launch detection system functioning from 1960 to 1966
• Maximum Integrated Data Acquisition System, an open source data acquisition system used in particle and nuclear physics
• Multics Intrusion Detection and Alerting System, see Intrusion detection system
• Migraine Disability Assessment Test
• Micro-Imaging Dust Analysis System

Other

• European Association of Daily Newspapers in Minority and Regional Languages (MIDAS), a politically independent, non-profit association for minority press
• 1981 Midas, an asteroid discovered in 1973
• Midas Touch, originally Midas Touch Golden Elixir, a beer produced by Dogfish Head Brewery
• MidasWWW, one of the first web browsers
• Midas, NATO reporting name for Ilyushin Il-78 aerial refueling tanker

See also

• The Midas Touch (disambiguation)
• Midus, a type of Lithuanian mead