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Icarus is a character in Greek mythology.
Icarus or Ikarus may also refer to:
People
- Roger Squires (born 1932), crossword compiler who has used the pseudonym Icarus
- Icarus (wrestler) (born 1982), wrestler with the Chikara organization
Places
- Icarus (island), in the Aegean Sea
- Ikaros (Failaka Island), in the Persian Gulf
- Icarus (crater), on the Moon
- Icarus (star)
- 1566 Icarus, an asteroid
Aviation
Aircraft
- Icarus I, Icarus II and Icarus V, series of rigid-wing hang gliders designed by Taras Kiceniuk, Jr.
- Ikarus C42, a microlight aircraft
- Ikarus IK-2, the most notable indigenous Yugoslav aircraft of the 1930s and World War II era
- Icarus, a prototype space rescue vehicle tested by Aleksandr Serebrov
Aviation businesses and organizations
- Ikarus Drachen Tomas Pellicci, a German hang glider manufacturer
- Icaro Air, an Ecuadorian airline
- Icarus School, a military aviation academy
- Icarus, a Greek airline that preceded Olympic Airlines
- Ikarus, a Yugoslav aircraft manufacturer later renamed Ikarbus
Other uses in aviation
- Coupe Icare ("Icarus Cup"), a flight festival
Other businesses and organizations
- Icarus Project, a mental health organization
- Icarus Theatre Collective, a British theatre company
- Ikarus (Hungarian company), a Hungarian bus manufacturer
- Ikarbus, a Serbian bus manufacturer formerly known as Ikarus
- Icarus Films, an American documentary film distributor
Arts and entertainment
Film and television
- Icarus (Planet of the Apes), a spacecraft in the Planet of the Apes franchise
- Icarus Base, a place in the series Stargate Universe
- Icarus, an orbital superweapon in the James Bond film Die Another Day
- Icarus I, and Icarus II, spacecraft in Sunshine
- Icarus (2010 film) (also The Killing Machine), an action film
- Icarus (2017 film), a documentary film by Bryan Fogel
- "Icarus" (Scandal), an episode of the TV series Scandal
- "Icarus", the eleventh episode of Smallville, Season 10
- "Icarus", the seventh episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Literature
- Summertime on Icarus, a short story by Arthur C Clarke
Fictional characters
- Icarus (comics), a Marvel Comics character
- Icarus, a mecha in Chōjin Sentai Jetman
- Icarus, a Deus Ex character
- Icarus, a character in Hercules: The Animated Series
- Icarus, a character in Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland
- Ikaros, a character in Heaven's Lost Property
- Icarus, a primary character based on the Greek myth in the Cirque du Soleil show Varekai
Music
- Icaros, shamanic medicine songs
- Icarus (band), a band from London, England
Albums
- Icarus (The Forms album), 2003
- Icarus (Chicosci album), 2004
- Icarus (Paul Winter Consort album), 1972
- Icarus EP, a 2011 EP by Periphery
- Icaro, an album by Renato Zero
Songs
- "Icarus" (Greeeen song), 2015
- "Icarus" (Madeon song), 2012
- "Icarus" (R3hab song), 2016
- "Icarus", a song by Alesana on the album On Frail Wings of Vanity and Wax
- "Icarus", a song by Flutlicht
- "Icarus", a song by Santigold on the album Top Ranking
- "Icarus", a song by Jason Webley on the album Only Just Beginning
- "Ikarus", a song by Unheilig on Phosphor
- "Icarus", a song by Bastille on the album Bad Blood
- "Icarus", a song by Ralph Towner on the album Diary
- "Icarus - Borne On Wings of Steel", a song by Kansas on the album Masque
- "Icarus", a song by JJ Project on the EP Verse 2, 2017
- "Icarus", a song by Eden on the album vertigo
- "Icarus", a song by Monkey3 on the album The 5th Sun, 2013
- "Ikarus", a song by Diary of Dreams on the album Grau im Licht, 2015
- "Icarus", a song by Emma Blackery
Other media
- Icarus (magazine), a Trinity College student publication
- Icarus (sculpture), 1973 by Michael Ayrton
Software and video games
- Ikarus (typography software), a type design and production software developed by URW foundry
- Ikarus (Scheme implementation), a free software optimizing incremental compiler for R6RS Scheme
- Icarus Verilog, an implementation of the Verilog hardware description language
- BioShock Infinite, codenamed "Project Icarus" during development
- Ikarus (chess), a computer chess program
Science and technology
Space
- 1566 Icarus, an asteroid
- ICARUS experiment, a neutrino detector at Gran Sasso National Laboratory, Italy
- Icarus (journal), a planetary science journal
- Icarus (star), most distant individual star detected (as of April 2018)
- IKAROS, an interplanetary unmanned solar sail spacecraft
- Project Icarus (interstellar), a design study of an interstellar spacecraft based on Project Daedalus
- Project Icarus (photography) (2009), a project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Other uses in science and technology
- Icarus (plant), a fern genus
- ICARUS Initiative, an international project studying the migration routes of flying animals
- IKZF1, a protein in humans that is encoded by the IKZF genes of the Ikaros family zinc finger group
Other uses
- HMS Icarus, the name of several ships
- USCGC Icarus (WPC-110), a patrol boat of the United States Coast Guard
- Ikarus, a restaurant in Hangar-7 in Salzburg, Austria
- Icarus affair, an incident involving the 1867 murder of two British sailors in Nagasaki
- Operation Ikarus, a World War II German plan to invade Iceland
See also
- All pages with titles beginning with Icarus
- All pages with titles containing Icarus
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