Midas (disambiguation)

Midas, king of Phrygia, also a figure from Greek mythology.

Midas may also refer to:

Arts and fiction

 * Midas (comics), the name of two fictional characters in the Marvel Universe
 * Midas (fictional planet), in the Colony Wars franchise

Film, TV and theatre

 * Midas (burletta), a 1760 "mock opera" by Kane O'Hara
 * Midas (Lyly play), an Elizabethan stage play by John Lyly
 * Midas (Shelley play), an 1820 play by Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley
 * Midas (TV series), a 2011 South Korean TV series
 * Midas, a rich patron of the arts in the operetta Die schöne Galathée, by Franz von Suppé

Music

 * Midas (DJs), a British happy hardcore duo
 * Midas (English band), an English indie rock band
 * Midas (Japanese band), a Japanese progressive rock band

Places

 * Midas, California, an unincorporated community in Placer County, California, United States
 * Midas, Kentucky, an unincorporated community in Floyd County, Kentucky, United States
 * Midas, Nevada, an unincorporated community in Elko County, Nevada, United States
 * Other name for Midès oasis in Tunisia, the Ancient Numidian city Mades

Companies and transport

 * Midas (automotive service), a chain of automotive service centers
 * Midas Cars, a British car manufacturer
 * Midas Consoles, a manufacturer of audio consoles
 * MIDAS Trial, a randomized controlled trial for drugs and alcohol misuse
 * MS Midas, a Finnish cargo ship
 * Midas, NATO reporting name for Ilyushin Il-78

Finance

 * Midas (banking system), a core-banking solution from Misys International Banking systems
 * Midas formula, a financial-analysis formula
 * Midas List, an annual list of dealmakers in high-tech and life science

Acronyms

 * Maximum Integrated Data Acquisition System, an open source data acquisition system used in particle and nuclear physics
 * Micro-Imaging Dust Analysis System
 * MIDAS (operating system) (Microsoft Interrupt Driven Asynchronous System), a 1979 operating system
 * MIDAS Heritage a Monument Inventory Data Standard for recording historic sites
 * Missile Defense Alarm System (MiDAS), 1960–1966 American early-warning missile-launch detection system
 * Migraine Disability Assessment Test
 * Minibus Driver Awareness Scheme, a training and registration scheme for drivers of minibuses
 * Mixed-data sampling, an econometric regression or filtering method
 * Motorway Incident Detection and Automatic Signalling, a distributed network of traffic sensors
 * Multics Intrusion Detection and Alerting System, see Intrusion detection system

Other

 * 1981 Midas, an asteroid discovered in 1973
 * European Association of Daily Newspapers in Minority and Regional Languages (MIDAS)
 * Midas, NATO reporting name for Ilyushin Il-78 aerial refueling tanker
 * Midas Touch, originally Midas Touch Golden Elixir, a beer produced by Dogfish Head Brewery
 * MidasWWW, one of the first web browsers