Charon (disambiguation)

Charon, in Greek mythology, is the ferryman who carried the souls of the dead to the underworld.

Charon may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

 * Caronte (album) (Charon), a 1971 album by Italian band The Trip
 * Charon (band), a Finnish gothic metal band
 * Charon (CrossGen), a comic book character from CrossGen Entertainment's Sigilverse
 * Charon (Dungeons & Dragons), a lord of the Yugoloths whose primary function is to provide passage across the River Styx for a steep price
 * Charon (Marvel Comics), a villainous wizard
 * Charon (The Three Worlds), a fictional human species from Ian Irvine's arc of novels, The Three Worlds Cycle
 * Charon, an Eve Online freighter
 * Charon, a summon from a password-enhanced Golden Sun: The Lost Age and Golden Sun: Dark Dawn
 * Charon V, a fictional submarine in Michael Crichton's novel Sphere
 * Commander Charon, one of the Galactic Commanders from Pokémon Platinum

People with the name

 * Charon, a Theban military commander (fl. mid-4th century BC); see Androcydes
 * Charon of Naucratis, a historian
 * Charon of Carthage, a historian
 * Charon of Lampsacus, a historian
 * Alexios Charon, early 11th-century Byzantine official
 * Charon Asetoyer (born 1951), Comanche activist and women's health advocate
 * Carl Charon (born 1940), former American football player
 * Jacques Charon (1920–1975), French actor and film director
 * Jean-Émile Charon (1920–1998), French nuclear physicist, philosopher and writer.
 * Joel M. Charon (1939–2018), professor emeritus of sociology at Minnesota State University at Moorhead
 * Rita Charon (born 1949), physician and literary scholar
 * Viala Charon (1794–1880), French soldier, Governor General of Algeria, Senator of France

Places

 * Charon (moon), a moon of the dwarf planet Pluto
 * Charon, Louisiana, United States, an unincorporated community in Vermilion Parish

Science and technology

 * Charon (gun), an open source 3D-printable gun
 * Charon (arachnid), a genus of whipspider
 * Charon (software), a legacy hardware emulator for VAX, Alpha, HP 3000, PDP-11, and SPARC systems
 * Charon (web browser), a web browser for the Inferno operating system
 * Blue Origin Charon, the first flight test vehicle of Blue Origin

Other uses

 * Charon (horse), a racehorse
 * HMS Charon, several ships of the British Royal Navy