Apollo (disambiguation)

Apollo is a Greek and Roman god of music, healing, light, prophecy and enlightenment.

Apollo may also refer to:

Animals

 * Apollo (dog) (1992–2006), a German Shepherd search and rescue dog
 * Apollo (horse) (1879–1887), an American Thoroughbred racehorse
 * Apollo (parrot) (hatched 2020), an African grey parrot
 * Parnassius, a genus of swallowtail butterflies commonly known as the Apollos; in particular
 * Parnassius apollo, a Parnassius butterfly found in Europe commonly known as the Apollo
 * Parnassius autocrator, a Parnassius butterfly found in Afghanistan and Taj

Fictional entities

 * In the Battlestar Galactica universe:
 * Lee Adama, a character in the 2004 re-imagining of Battlestar Galactica
 * Captain Apollo, a character in the original Battlestar Galactica television series
 * Apollo (comics), a member of in Wildstorm Comics' The Authority
 * Apollo (Marvel Comics), a comic book character
 * Apollo (Saint Seiya), a character in the fictional universe of Masami Kurumada's manga Saint Seiya
 * Apollo (Star Trek), an alien in the Star Trek episode "Who Mourns for Adonais?"
 * Apollo, a character in the musical TV series Pajanimals
 * Apollo, a character in The Amory Wars comic book series
 * Apollo, a character in the Zatch Bell! anime/manga series
 * Apollo Candy, a fictional candy bar in the Lost television series
 * Apollo Creed, a boxer played by Carl Weathers in the Rocky film series
 * Apollo Justice, character in Capcom's Ace Attorney video-game series
 * USS Apollo, a BC-304 class deep space carrier in Stargate: Atlantis, see List of Earth starships in Stargate
 * USS Apollo (NCC-1725), a starship in the video game  Starfleet Academy
 * USS Apollo (NCC-17706), a starship in Star Trek: Legacy and Star Trek: The Next Generation Role-playing Game

Groups and labels

 * Apollo (band), an American R&B/disco group that recorded for Motown Records in the late 1970s
 * Apollo Records (1921), US label
 * Apollo Records (1928), US label
 * Apollo Records (1944), US label
 * Apollo Records (Belgium), Belgian label

Albums

 * Apollo (Nebula album), an album by the group Nebula
 * Apollo (Stockholm Syndrome album), an album by the group Stockholm Syndrome
 * Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks, 1983 album by Brian Eno

Songs

 * "Apollo" (Porno Graffitti song), 1999
 * "Apollo" (Timebelle song), the Swiss entrant in the Switzerland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017
 * "Apollo" (Hardwell song), 2012
 * "Apollo", a 1984 song by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark from the album Junk Culture

Literature

 * Apollo (journal), Arabic journal
 * Apollo (magazine), British arts magazine

Other uses in arts, entertainment and media

 * Apollo (ballet), 1928 George Balanchine choreography for Stravinsky's Apollon musagète
 * Showtime at the Apollo, an American music television series
 * Apollo (Michelangelo), marble sculpture
 * Apollo Gauntlet, an American animated television series on Adult Swim
 * Prix Apollo Award (late 20th century), for French for science-fiction literature
 * Apollo (System Copernicus), a stained glass window

Brands and enterprises

 * Apollo, a deodorant product by Axe/Lynx
 * Apollo (candy), a South Korean candy brand
 * Apollo oil refinery, a Nazi Germany facility in the Oil campaign of World War II
 * Apollo Cinemas, chain
 * Apollo Computer Inc., a workstation manufacturer, founded in 1980, and acquired in 1989 by Hewlett-Packard Company
 * Apollo Diamond, an American diamond-manufacturing company
 * Apollo Global Management, private equity investment firm
 * Apollo Education Group, a company specializing in adult education
 * Apollo Hospitals, a healthcare group in India
 * Apollo Theatre (disambiguation), several uses, including "Apollo Theater"
 * Apollo Tyres, an Indian tyre manufacturer
 * Apollo Ultralight Aircraft, a Hungarian microlight aircraft manufacturer
 * Apollo-Optik, an optics company
 * Games by Apollo, a third-party video game developer for the Atari 2600
 * Hammersmith Apollo, entertainment venue in London

Education

 * Apollo Junior High School of Richardson, Texas
 * Carrington College (US), a privately held higher education organization, known before June 2010 as Apollo College

Organizations

 * Apollo University Lodge, the principal Masonic Lodge of the University of Oxford

Military

 * Apollo-class cruiser of the Royal Navy
 * Apollo-class frigate, Royal Navy sailing frigates
 * HMS Apollo, various Royal Navy ships
 * USS Apollo (AS-25), a 1943 United States Navy submarine tender

People

 * Apollos (1st-century A.D.), Alexandrian Jewish-Christian
 * Apollo (4th century A.D.), Coptic ascetic and martyr associated with Abib
 * Apollo (monk), Egyptian Christian monk
 * Steve Apollo (born 1949), pseudonym of illustrator Jim Starlin
 * Dale Cook (born 1958), known as Apollo, American kickboxer
 * Apollo Crews (born 1987), American professional wrestler
 * Apollo Kironde (1915–2007), Ugandan ambassador
 * Apollo Korzeniowski (1820–1869), Polish writer, and father of Joseph Conrad
 * Apolo Ohno (born 1982), American skating medalist
 * Apollo Papathanasio (born 1969), vocalist of Greek power metal band Firewind
 * Apollo Perelini (born 1969), New Zealand rugby player
 * Apollo Quiboloy (born 1950), Filipino televangelist
 * Apollo Robbins (born 1974), American sleight-of-hand artist and deception specialist
 * Apollo M. O. Smith (1911–1997), American rocket scientist
 * Apollo Soucek (1897–1955), American test pilot and vice admiral

Extraterrestrial

 * Apollo (crater), a basin on the far side of the Moon
 * 1862 Apollo, a near-Earth asteroid discovered in 1932
 * Apollo asteroids, a group of near-Earth asteroids

Terrestrial

 * Apollo, a town near Johannesburg, South Africa, location of static inverter plant of Cahora Bassa
 * Apollo, Georgia, United States
 * Apollo, Pennsylvania, United States
 * Apollo Bay, Victoria, Australia
 * Apollo Bay, Tasmania, Australia
 * Apollo Beach, Florida
 * Apollo Bridge, a road bridge over the Danube in Bratislava
 * Apollo Temple, a summit in the Grand Canyon, U.S.

Science and technology

 * Apache Point Observatory Lunar Laser-ranging Operation (APOLLO), an observatory in New Mexico
 * Apollo program, a series of American space missions that ultimately landed men on the Moon
 * Acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis, referred to colloquially in Ghana as "Apollo"
 * Apollo (cable system), a cable crossing the Atlantic Ocean
 * Apollo, the code name of Apple's Macintosh Classic II
 * Apollo, the code name of Windows Phone 8, Microsoft's smartphone operating system
 * Adobe Integrated Runtime, a cross-OS runtime system originally codenamed "Apollo"
 * Apollo/Domain, a series of workstations made by Apollo Computer
 * Apollo Reservation System, the computerized central reservation system developed by United Airlines
 * Apollo (app), a third-party Reddit client for iOS and iPadOS

Sports

 * Apollo 55, professional wrestling tag team
 * Apollo of Temple, now Philadelphia sports venue Liacouras Center
 * Orlando Apollos, an American football team in the Alliance of American Football

Automobiles

 * Apollo (1906 automobile), an American car made from 1906 to 1907
 * Apollo (1910 automobile), a German car built from 1910 to 1927
 * Apollo (1962 automobile), an American sports car built from 1962 to 1964
 * Apollo Automobil, a German sports car manufacturing company
 * Gumpert Apollo, a racing and high-performance sports car produced by Apollo Automobil
 * Apolong, or Baidu Apollo project, a driverless vehicle developed by Baidu
 * Holden Apollo, an automobile manufactured by Toyota and sold by Holden in Australia from 1989 to 1997
 * Volkswagen Apollo, a rebadged version of the Ford Verona automobile sold in Brazil between 1990 and 1992
 * Buick Apollo, an American compact car built from 1973 to 1975

Ships

 * Apollo (1812 EIC ship)
 * Apollo (storeship), an historic storeship
 * ST Apollo, a tugboat
 * HMS Royal Scotsman, later renamed Apollo, a passenger ferry repurposed in the 1960s as founding flagship of the Sea Org of the Church of Scientology
 * MV Apollo, a vehicle and passenger ferry in Canada

Other

 * Apollo, a steam locomotive of the West Cornwall Railway
 * Ducati Apollo, a prototype motorcycle of 1964
 * Armstrong Whitworth Apollo, a prototype airliner