Siren

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Siren or sirens may refer to:

Most common uses

• Siren (mythology), a creature in Greek mythology
• Siren (alarm), a loud acoustic alarm used to alert people to emergencies

Animals

• Hestina, a genus of brush-footed butterfly commonly called the Sirens
• Siren (genus), a genus of aquatic salamanders in the Sirenidae family
• Sirenia, an order of aquatic mammals including sea cows, Dugongs, and Manatees
• Sirenidae, a family of aquatic salamanders
• Mermaid, a mythical aquatic half human half fish creature

Geography

• Siren (town), Wisconsin
• Siren, Wisconsin, a village
• Siren Bay, Victoria Land, Antarctica
• Siren Rock, Ellsworth Land, Antarctica

Art

• The Siren, 1888 painting by Edward Armitage
• The Siren (Waterhouse painting), a 1900 painting by John William Waterhouse
• The Siren (sculpture), a 2005 sculpture by Norman J. Gitzen
• Siren (statue), a 2008 life-size statue by Marc Quinn

Games

• Siren (video game series)
  • Siren (video game), 2003
• Sirens, video game characters in Borderlands

Film and television

• The Siren (1917 film), a lost Fox film starring Valeska Suratt
• Sirens (1994 film), a 1994 comedy-drama
• Sirens (1999 film), starring Dana Delany
• SiREN, a 2016 horror film
• Sirens (1993 TV series), an American crime drama series
• Sirens (2002 TV serial), a two-part British serial
• Siren (2010 film), horror film starring Eoin Macken.
• Sirens (2011 TV series), a British television programme broadcast on Channel 4
• Sirens (2014 TV series), an American comedy program based on the Channel 4 series
• "Siren" (Millennium), television series episode
• Siren Visual, an Australian-based DVD distribution company
• "Sirens", an episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force
• "The Siren", an episode of Mako: Island of Secrets
• Siren, a character in Ice Age: Continental Drift
• Siren, a minor character in Passions
• The Siren, a television series character in Batman
• Siren (Transformers), a character from The Transformers: Headmasters

Music

• Acme Siren, a varying-pitch wind instrument, often found in the percussion section of orchestras
• The Sirens, Op. 33, by Reinhold Glière (1875-1956)
• Sirènes ("Sirens"), a movement in the Debussy suite Nocturnes
• The Siren (musical), a 1911 Broadway musical
• Siren FM, a community radio station based at the University of Lincoln in the United Kingdom
• Siren Music Festival, an annual outdoor concert held at Coney Island, New York, from 2001 to 2010

Artists

• Sirens (American band), metalcore band from Terre Haute, Indiana
• Sirens (British band), a Newcastle upon Tyne based girl group
• Alexander Brandon (born 1974), American musician, known as "Siren" in the demoscene
• Siren, a rock band featuring Kevin Coyne

Albums

• Siren (Roxy Music album), 1975
• Siren (Heather Nova album), 1998
• Siren (Susumu Hirasawa album), 1996
• Sirens (Savatage album), 1983
• Sirens (On the Might of Princes album), 2003
• Sirens (Astarte album), 2004
• Sirens (It Dies Today album), 2006
• Sirens (S. J. Tucker album), 2006
• Sirens (Nine Black Alps album), 2012
• Sirens (May Jailer album)
• Sirens (Gorgon City album), 2014
• Sirens (The Weepies album), 2015
• Sirens, by Ben Abraham (artist), an Australian indie folk solo artist, 2016
• Sirens (Sublime with Rome album)
• Sirens (Nicolas Jaar album), 2016

Songs

• "Siren" (Malcolm Lincoln song)
• "Siren" (Asian Kung-Fu Generation song), 2004
• "Siren" (Ruby Gloom song), 2008
• "Siren", by Tori Amos on the soundtrack of the 1998 film Great Expectations
• "Siren", by Theater of Tragedy on the 1998 album Aégis
• "Sirens" (Jeff Lynne song), 1990
• "Sirens" (Dizzie Rascal song), 2007
• "Sirens" (Pearl Jam song), 2013
• "Sirens" (Cher Lloyd song), for her album Sorry I'm Late
• "Sirens", by Angels & Airwaves on the 2007 album I-Empire
• "Sirens", the title track of the album Sirens by Savatage
• "Sirens", by The String Cheese Incident on the album Untying the Not
• "Sirens", 2012 song by Nell Bryden, also covered by Cher for the album Closer to the Truth
• "The Siren" (song), by Nightwish
• "The Siren", by Graveyard on the 2011 album Hisingen Blues
• "The Siren", a song on the album A Violent Emotion by Aesthetic Perfection
• "The Sirens", song by George and Ira Gershwin from A Dangerous Maid 1921

In the military

• HMS Siren, several Royal Navy ships
• USS Siren, several US Navy ships
• SS-N-9 Siren, NATO reporting name for the P-120 Malakhit, a Russian anti-ship missile

In sports

• Sirens F.C., a football club in Malta
  • Sirens Stadium, the club's home ground
• Sacramento Sirens, a woman's football team
• Saskatoon Sirens, an expansion team in the Legends Football League

People

• Siren (surname)
• Siren Sundby (born 1982), Norwegian Olympic sailor
• Siren, stage name of female bodybuilder Shelley Beattie on the TV show American Gladiators
• Siren, stage name of Valerie Waugaman on the 2008 revival of American Gladiators

Other uses

• Siren (fragrance), a perfume endorsed by Paris Hilton
• Siren (codec), an audio codec
• Siren (play), a 1990 play by David Williamson
• Siren (magazine), a bimonthly Canadian magazine
• Siren (DC Comics), the name of two DC Comics characters
• Siren, a book by Tara Moss
• The Siren (1869 court case), an 1869 United States Supreme Court case
• The Siren (1871 court case), an 1871 United States Supreme Court case
• SIREN code, a number of 9 digits given to all French businesses

See also

• All pages beginning with "siren"
• All pages with a title containing siren
• Sirene (disambiguation)
• Sirena (disambiguation)
• Syreen, an alien race in the computer game series Star Control
• Syren (disambiguation)
• FSO Syrena, a Polish automobile