Helios (disambiguation)

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

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
 * Helios, an artist pseudonym for Keith Kenniff's downtempo music

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

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