Kingfisher (disambiguation)

The kingfisher is a bird in the family Alcedinidae.

Kingfisher can refer to:

Arts and entertainment

 * The Kingfisher, an 1886 painting by Vincent Van Gogh
 * Kingfisher, an album by the band Prawn
 * "Kingfisher", a song on the 2010 album Have One on Me by Joanna Newsom
 * "The Kingfishers", a poem by Charles Olson

Business

 * Kingfisher Airlines, an airline based in India in operation from 2005 to 2012
 * Kingfisher (beer), an Indian beer
 * Kingfisher Books, a British children's book publisher
 * Kingfisher plc, a British retail group
 * Kingfisher International Pty Ltd an Australian fiber optic test equipment manufacturer
 * Kingfisher Shopping Centre, Reddich, Worcestershire, England

Military uses

 * HMS Kingfisher, various British Royal Navy ships
 * Kingfisher-class sloop, a patrol sloop class of the British Royal Navy
 * USS Kingfisher, several United States Navy ships
 * Operation Kingfisher, a Vietnam War United States Marine Corps operation
 * Operation Kingfisher (World War II), a planned but never implemented operation to rescue prisoners of war from the Japanese
 * Project Kingfisher, an American weapons development program 1944–1956
 * Vought OS2U Kingfisher, an American observation floatplane
 * Lockheed AQM-60 Kingfisher, a United States Air Force target drone
 * CC-295 Kingfisher, a search-and-rescue variant of the EADS CASA C-295 transport aircraft

Ships

 * Kingfisher (sloop), a 1860s merchant trader in British Columbia, Canada
 * Kingfisher (clipper), a 1863 California clipper
 * Kingfisher (yacht), a racing vessel used by Ellen MacArthur
 * Kingfisher 2, a catamaran MacArthur captained in the 2003 Jules Verne Trophy competition

Places

 * Kingfisher County, Oklahoma
 * Kingfisher, Oklahoma, United States, a city and the county seat
 * Kingfisher First Nation, a reservation in northern Ontario, Canada
 * Kingfisher 2A, a First Nations reserve in Ontario
 * Kingfisher 3A, a First Nations reserve in Ontario, on Kingfisher Lake
 * Kingfisher Country Park, East Birmingham, West Midlands, England

Sports

 * Eisvögel USC Freiburg (Kingfishers), a German women's basketball team
 * Kingfisher East Bengal F.C., a football team based in Kolkata, India
 * Kingfisher (horse) (1867–1890), an American Thoroughbred racehorse

Other uses

 * Kingfisher College, Kingfisher, Oklahoma, a school from 1895 to 1922
 * Kingfisher Tower, a folly on the eastern shore of Otsego Lake, New York, United States
 * LNER Class A4 4483 Kingfisher, a UK steam locomotive
 * T. Kingfisher, pen name of Ursula Vernon (born 1977), American freelance writer, artist and illustrator