Icarus (disambiguation)

Icarus is a character in Greek mythology.

Icarus or ikarus may also refer to:

Aviation

• Icarus I, Icarus II and Icarus V, series of rigid-wing hang gliders designed by Taras Kiceniuk, Jr.
• Icarus School, a military aviation academy
• Ikarus C42, a microlight aircraft
• Ikarus Drachen Thomas Pellicci, a German hang glider manufacturer
• Ikarus Funflyer, a German hang glider design
• Ikarus Doppel, a German hang glider design
• Ikarus Grasshopper, a German hang glider design
• Ikarus Imagine, a German hang glider design
• Icaro Air, an Ecuadorian airline
• Coupe Icare ("Icarus Cup"), a flight festival
• Icarus, a Greek airline that preceded Olympic Airlines
• Ikarus, a Yugoslav aircraft manufacturer later renamed Ikarbus
  • Ikarus IK-2, the most notable indigenous Yugoslav aircraft of the 1930s and World War II era

Businesses and organizations

• Icarus Project, a mental health organization
• Icarus Theatre Collective, a British theatre company
• Ikarus Bus, a Hungarian bus manufacturer
• Ikarbus, a Serbian bus manufacturer formerly known as Ikarus
• Icarus Films, an American documentary film distributor

In fiction

• Icarus (The Matrix), a ship in the Matrix franchise
• 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 (film) (also The Killing Machine), action film of 2010
• "Icarus", the eleventh episode of Smallville, Season 10
• "Icarus", the seventh episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Music

• Icarus (band), a band from London, England
• Icarus (The Forms album), 2003
• Icarus (Chicosci album), 2004
• Icarus, an album by the Paul Winter Consort
• Icaro, an album by Renato Zero
• Icaros, shamanic medicine songs
• "Icarus" (Madeon song), 2012
• "Icarus" (Greeeen song), 2015
• "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 There's Know Place Like Home
• "Icarus", a song by R3hab, 2016

People and fictional characters

• Icarus (comics), a Marvel Comics character
• Roger Squires (born 1932), crossword compiler who has used the pseudonym Icarus
• Icarus (wrestler) (born 1982), wrestler with the Chikara organization
• 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

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
• Kid Icarus, the Nintendo video game series
• BioShock Infinite, codenamed "Project Icarus" during development
• Ikarus (chess)

Space and astronomy

• Icarus (crater), on the Moon
• Icarus (journal), a planetary science journal
• 1566 Icarus, an asteroid
• IKAROS, an interplanetary unmanned 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)
• ICARUS Initiative, an international project studying the migration routes of flying animals

Other uses

• Ikarus, a restaurant in Hangar-7 in Salzburg, Austria
• Icarus (magazine), a Trinity College student publication
• 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
• Ikaros gene, encodes essential regulator of lymphocyte differentiation with Kruppel-type zinc fingers
  • IKZF1, a protein that in humans is encoded by the IKZF1 gene
  • IKZF2, a protein that in humans is encoded by the IKZF2 gene
  • IKZF3, a protein that in humans is encoded by the IKZF3 gene
  • IKZF4, a protein that in humans is encoded by the IKZF4 gene
• ICARUS (experiment), a neutrino detector at Gran Sasso National Laboratory, Italy

See also

• HMS Icarus