Minotaur (disambiguation)

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The Minotaur is a mythological monster, half-man and half-bull.

Minotaur may also refer to:

In military

• Minotaur (rocket family), an American rocket designed to launch small satellites
• HMS Minotaur, a historical shipname of the Royal Navy
• MI AC Disp F1 Minotaur mine, a French scatterable anti-tank mine
• Minotaur class battleship, enlarged versions of HMS Achilles with heavier armament and armour, and more powerful engines
• Minotaur class cruiser (disambiguation), two classes of cruisers of the Royal Navy
• USS Minotaur (ARL-15), an Achelous-class landing craft repair ship

In popular culture

In film

• Minotaur (film), a 2006 horror film
• Minotaur, the Wild Beast of Crete the English title for Teseo contro il minotauro

In games

• Minotaur (Dungeons & Dragons), a race of monstrous humanoids
• Minotaur: The Labyrinths of Crete, a 1992 computer game
• Alistar the Minotaur, a playable champion in the moba game League of Legends

In literature

• Minotaur (1981 novel), a novel by Benjamin Tammuz
• Minotaur (New-Gen), a fictional character, a superhero that appears in the NEW-GEN comic books published by Marvel Comics
• The Minotaur (novel) (2005), a 2005 novel by Barbara Vine (Ruth Rendell)
• Minoan, an imprint of Toby Press that used a Minotaur logo
• Minotaur, a fictional bordello in Émile Zola's Nana and 1983 film incarnation.
• Minotaur, a chapter in the Tanglewood Tales of Nathaniel Hawthorne

In music

• The Minotaur, a Moog instrumental single by Dick Hyman, 1969
• Minotaur, a track from Modus Operandi (Photek album), 1997
• Minotaur (Pixies album), 2009
• Minotaur (The Clientele album), 2010

In opera

• The Minotaur (opera), a 2008 opera by Harrison Birtwistle

In people

• "The Minotaur", the ringname of professional wrestler Steve DiSalvo (born 1949) during his run in World Championship Wrestling
• "Minotauro", the ringname of Brazilian mixed martial artist Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira (born 1976)

In other uses

• Minotaur International, an international distributor of British television programmes owned by Virgin Media
• Minotaur, the early development name of the application which became Mozilla Thunderbird
• Minotaure, a French surrealist magazine
• Minotaur, a competitive robot in BattleBots.
• Minotaur beetle (Typhaeus typhoeus)