Ulysses

Look up Ulysses in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Ulysses is the Latin name for Odysseus, a hero in ancient Greek literature.

Ulysses may also refer to:

Geography

• Ulysses, Kansas
• Ulysses, Kentucky
• Ulysses, Nebraska
• Ulysses Township, Butler County, Nebraska
• Ulysses, New York
• Ulysses Township, Potter County, Pennsylvania

People

• Ulysses (given name)
• Ulysses Gomez (born 1983), Mexican-American mixed martial arts fighter
• Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885), American general and 18th President of the United States (1869–1877)

Arts and entertainment

Literature

• "Ulysses" (poem), by Alfred Lord Tennyson
• Ulysses (novel), by James Joyce
• HMS Ulysses (novel), by Alistair Maclean
• Ulysses (comics), two members of a fictional group in the Marvel Comics universe
• Ulysses Klaw, a character in the Marvel Comics universe

Film and television

• Ulysses (1954 film), starring Kirk Douglas based on the story of Homer's Odyssey
• Ulysses (1967 film), based on Joyce's novel
• Ulysses (2011 film), a 2011 Chilean film
• Ulysses (broadcast), a dramatised radio broadcast of Joyce's novel
• Ulysses 31, a French-Japanese anime television program

Music

• Ulysse (Rebel), French opera by Jean-Fery Rebel (1666-1747)
• Ulisse (1960–68), an Italian opera by Luigi Dallapiccola
• Ulysses, English-language cantata by Mátyás Seiber
• Ulysses (band), an American band
• Ulysses (EP), by Shimamiya Eiko
• "Ulysses" (song), by Franz Ferdinand
• "Ullyses", a song by Dead Can Dance on the album The Serpent's Egg (album)

Video games

• Ulysses 1994XF04, a fictional asteroid in the video game Ace Combat
• Ulysses, an assumed name of the primary antagonist of the Fallout: New Vegas DLC Lonesome Road.

Science and technology

• ULYSSES (cable system), a submarine communications cable network
• Ulysses (robot), a bomb-detecting robot
• Ulysses (spacecraft), a space probe designed to study the Sun
• Ulysses (text editor), a software product for creative writing
• Ulysses butterfly (Papilio ulysses) a butterfly endemic to Australasia
• 5254 Ulysses, an asteroid

Vehicles

• Ulysses (spacecraft), a space probe designed to study the Sun
• Ulysses (motorcycle), manufactured by the Buell Motorcycle Company
• HMS Ulysses, any of several ships of the British Royal Navy
• MV Ulysses, any of several ships
• SS Ulysses, any of several ships
  • SS Ulysses (1914), a World War I-era steel-hulled screw steamer
• USS Ulysses, any of several ships of the U.S. Navy
  • USS Ulysses (ARB-9), a battle damage repair ship of the U.S. Navy
• Ulysses (later Grierson), a GWR 3031 Class locomotive on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915

Other uses

• Ulysses Club, an international motorcycling club

See also

• All pages beginning with "Ulysses"