Icarus (disambiguation)

Icarus is a character in Greek mythology.

Icarus or Ikarus may also refer to:

People

 * Roger Squires (1932–2023), crossword compiler who has used the pseudonym Icarus
 * Icarus (wrestler) (born 1982), wrestler with the Chikara organization

Places

 * Icarus (island), in the Aegean Sea
 * Ikaros (Failaka Island), in the Persian Gulf

Aircraft

 * Hartman Ikarus, a 1950s British human-powered ornithopter
 * Icarus I, Icarus II and Icarus V, series of rigid-wing hang gliders designed by Taras Kiceniuk, Jr.
 * Ikarus C42, a microlight aircraft
 * Ikarus IK-2, the most notable indigenous Yugoslav aircraft of the 1930s and World War II era
 * Icarus, a prototype space rescue vehicle tested by Aleksandr Serebrov

Aviation businesses and organizations

 * Ikarus Drachen Tomas Pellicci, a German hang glider manufacturer
 * Icaro Air, an Ecuadorian airline
 * Icarus School, a military aviation academy
 * Icarus, a Greek airline that preceded Olympic Airlines
 * Ikarus, a Yugoslav aircraft manufacturer later renamed Ikarbus

Other uses in aviation

 * Coupe Icare ("Icarus Cup"), a flight festival

Other businesses and organizations

 * Icarus Project, a mental health organization
 * Icarus Theatre Collective, a British theatre company
 * Ikarus (Hungarian company), a Hungarian bus manufacturer
 * Ikarbus, a Serbian bus manufacturer formerly known as Ikarus
 * Icarus FC, an association football kit and sportswear brand

Film and television

 * 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 (2010 film) (also The Killing Machine), an action film
 * Icarus (2017 film), a documentary film by Bryan Fogel
 * "Icarus" (Scandal), an episode of the TV series Scandal
 * "Icarus", the eleventh episode of Smallville, Season 10
 * "Icarus", the seventh episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Fictional characters

 * Icarus (comics), a Marvel Comics character
 * Icarus, a mecha in Chōjin Sentai Jetman
 * 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

Music

 * Icaros, shamanic medicine songs
 * Icarus (band), a band from London, England

Albums

 * Icarus (The Forms album), 2003
 * Icarus (Chicosci album), 2004
 * Icarus (Paul Winter Consort album), 1972
 * Icarus, 2011 EP by Periphery
 * Icaro, album by Renato Zero
 * Icarus (Cryalot EP), 2022

Songs

 * "Icarus" (Greeeen song), 2015
 * "Icarus" (Madeon song), 2012
 * "Icarus" (R3hab song), 2016
 * "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 Masque
 * "Icarus", a song by JJ Project on the EP Verse 2, 2017
 * "Icarus", a song by Eden on the album vertigo
 * "Icarus", a song by Emma Blackery from the 2018 album Villains
 * "Icarus", a song by Starset on the album Horizons, 2021

Other media

 * Icarus (magazine), a Trinity College student publication
 * Icarus (sculpture), 1973 by Michael Ayrton

Software and video games

 * Icarus (video game), a sci-fi survival video game developed by RocketWerkz
 * 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
 * BioShock Infinite, codenamed "Project Icarus" during development
 * Ikarus (chess), a computer chess program

Space

 * 1566 Icarus, an asteroid
 * ICARUS experiment, a neutrino detector at Gran Sasso National Laboratory, Italy
 * Icarus (crater), on the Moon
 * Icarus (journal), a planetary science journal
 * Icarus (star), most distant individual star detected (as of April 2018)
 * IKAROS, an interplanetary uncrewed solar sail 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)

Other uses in science and technology

 * Icarus (plant), a fern genus
 * ICARUS Initiative, an international project studying the migration routes of flying animals
 * IKZF1, a protein in humans that is encoded by the IKZF genes of the Ikaros family zinc finger group

Other uses

 * HMS Icarus, the name of several ships
 * USCGC Icarus (WPC-110), a patrol boat of the United States Coast Guard
 * Ikarus, a restaurant in Hangar-7 in Salzburg, Austria
 * 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