Helios (disambiguation)

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Helios is the personification of the sun in Greek mythology.

Helios or Helio may also refer to:

People

• Helius (freedman) (died 69), freedman of the emperor Claudius
• Helio Alves (born 1966), Brazalian jazz pianist and son of pianists
• Hélio Castroneves (born 1975), Brazilian race-car driver
• Hélio Gracie (1913–2009), co-founder of Brazilian jiu-jitsu
• Eadweard Muybridge (1830–1904), an English-American photographer
• Keith Kenniff, an American ambient musician
• Helios, professional wrestler also known as Ricochet

Arts, entertainment and media

Art

• Helios (statue) Statue in White City, London

Books

• Helios (encyclopedia), a Greek general-knowledge reference work
• Victor "Helios" Frankenstein, a character from the Dean Koontz's Frankenstein series of novels

Film and television

• Helios (film), a 2015 Hong Kong/Chinese/Taiwanese/South Korean action heist film
• Helios, a character in the anime Sailor Moon
• Helios Aerospace, a private aerospace company in For All Mankind TV series.

Music

• Helios (album), a 2014 album by The Fray
• Helios, a 1991 album by Phillip Boa
• Helios Overture, a 1903 composition by Danish composer Carl Nielsen

Video games

• Helios, an artificial intelligence in Deus Ex
• Helios, a character in God of War III based on the mythological character.
• Helios, the Japanese name for "Aeolus", a character in Mega Man ZX Advent
• Helios, a space station in the Borderlands series

Business and industry

• Helios (cinemas), a multiplex cinema operator in Poland
• Helios (lens brand), a defunct brand of camera lens manufactured in the U.S.S.R.
• Helios (mixing console), a British brand from 1969 to 1979
• Helios AG, a former German electrical engineering company; based in Cologne
• Helios Investment Partners, a London-based investment firm
• Helios, a German motorcycle; see History of BMW motorcycles

Aviation

• Helios Airways, a former low-cost airline operating scheduled and charter flights between Cyprus and many European destinations
• Helios Prototype, a NASA developed solar and fuel-cell-system-powered unmanned aerial vehicle
• High Energy Laser with Integrated Optical-dazzler and Surveillance, a laser weapon system developed by the US military

Science

Computing

• HeliOS, a Unix-like computer operating system
• Helios, the project name for the Eclipse software version 3.6 release
• Helios, a supercomputer in Rokkasho, Aomori for simulating plasma physics
• Helios Voting, an electronic voting system

Space

• Helios (propulsion system), nuclear pulse propulsion system for spacecraft invented by Freeman Dyson, a precursor to his Project Orion
• Helios (spacecraft), pair of probes launched in the mid-1970s by the Federal Republic of Germany and NASA
• Hélios 1B and Helios 2 (satellite), French military satellites
• The Sun, known as Helios in Greek
• 895 Helio, a minor planet orbiting the Sun

Other uses in science

• Helical orbit spectrometer, a nuclear spectrometer at the Argonne National Laboratory
• Zinc finger protein Helios, encoded by the IKZF2 gene

Sports teams

• FC Helios Kharkiv, a Ukrainian association-football team
• KK Helios Domžale, a Slovenian basketball team
• SpVgg Helios München, a German association-football team from Munich
• Võru FC Helios, an Estonian association-football team

Other uses

• Helios (building), an apartment building in Seattle, Washington, United States
• USS Helios, a U.S. Navy World War II repair ship
• FV Helios, a French fishing vessel in service during the 1950s

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with helio

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This page was last edited on 1 April 2024, at 14:56