Orion

Orion may refer to:

Common meanings

 * Orion (constellation), named after the mythical hunter
 * Orion (mythology), a hunter in Greek mythology
 * Orion (spacecraft), NASA crew vehicle first launched in 2022

Characters and species

 * Orion (character), a DC Comics character
 * Orion (Star Trek), a sentient alien species
 * Orion, code name of Stephen J. Bartowski on the television show Chuck
 * Orion, in the fighting game Brawlhalla
 * Orions, a race in the Starfire board game and book series
 * Orion, a character from Power Rangers Super Megaforce
 * Captain Orion, in the Japanese series X-Bomber

Vessels

 * Orion, a spaceplane in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey
 * Orion, a spaceship in Raumpatrouille Orion (Space Patrol Orion in English), the first German science fiction television series
 * "Orion"-class spaceship, on the television series Ascension

Literature

 * Orion, an 1843 poem by Richard Henry Horne
 * Orion, a 1978 novel by Gail Brewer-Giorgio
 * Orion and King Arthur, a 2012 novel series by Ben Bova
 * The Orion, an 1893 book on sociology by Bal Gangadhar Tilak
 * Dead at Daybreak, a 1998 novel by Deon Meyer, originally published as Orion

Albums and long-form compositions

 * Orion (Ryan Adams album)
 * Orion (X Ambassadors album)
 * Orion, a 1979 orchestral work by Claude Vivier
 * Orion (Lacoste), an opera by the French composer Louis Lacoste
 * Orion, a 2004 Philip Glass composition
 * Orion, an album by the band she
 * Orion & Pleiades (1984), a symphonic work by Toru Takemitsu

Songs

 * "Orion" (Girl Next Door song)
 * "Orion" (Mika Nakashima song)
 * "Orion", a song by 12012
 * "Orion", a song in the boxed set Dead Can Dance (1981–1998)  by Dead Can Dance
 * "Orion", a song on the album Stormwatch by Jethro Tull
 * "Orion" (Metallica song), an instrumental piece on the album Master of Puppets
 * "Orion", a 2017 non-album single by Kenshi Yonezu

Other uses in music

 * Orion Records (1960s–'80s), a classical record label
 * Jimmy "Orion" Ellis, American singer

Periodicals

 * Orion (manga), by Masamune Shirow
 * Orion (magazine), a magazine on nature, environment and culture
 * Orion (1840s magazine), an American literary magazine that ran from 1842 to 1844
 * ORiON, the journal of the Operations Research Society of South Africa
 * Ginga Densetsu Weed: Orion, a manga by Yoshihiro Takahashi
 * The Orion (California State University, Chico), a student newspaper

Other uses in arts and media

 * Orion (film), a Canadian film
 * Orion (sculpture), work by Mark di Suvero
 * Miss Riboet's Orion (1925–42), a theatrical troupe active in the Dutch East Indies

Buildings

 * The Orion (skyscraper) in New York City
 * Orion Assembly, a General Motors assembly plant in Orion Township, Michigan
 * Orion Building, a residential building in Birmingham, England
 * Orion, the movie theater of Finland's National Audiovisual Archive
 * Orion Theatre, largest avant-garde theatrical/artist stage in Stockholm, Sweden
 * Orion Mall, Bangalore, India; a shopping mall

Arts and media

 * Orion Pictures, an American film production company, now a subsidiary of MGM
 * Orion Publishing Group, a UK-based book publisher
 * Orion Records (1960s–'80s), a classical record label
 * Orion Broadcasting, a broadcasting company in Louisville, Kentucky

Electrical power and electronics

 * Orion Electric, a Japanese electronics company
 * Orion Electronics, a Hungarian company
 * Orion Energy Systems, an American power technology company
 * Orion New Zealand Limited, a New Zealand electricity distribution company

Food and beverage

 * Orion Breweries, the fifth-largest beer brewery in Japan
 * Orion (chocolate), a Czech chocolate confectionery, subsidiary of Nestlé since 1999
 * Orion Corporation (South Korean company), a South Korean confectionery company

Transport carriers

 * Orion Airways, a UK airline that operated from 1979 to 1989
 * Orion Air, a Seychelles airline
 * Orion Expedition Cruises, an Australian cruise line
 * Orionair, a Spanish charter airline
 * Orionair, name used by Luxembourg airline Lionair when operating flights to the United States

Vehicle manufacturers

 * Orion Bus Industries, a Canadian bus manufacturer
 * Orion Space, a Nepalese company producing the Nepal PQ-1 picosatellite
 * Orionette, also known as Orion AG für Motorfahrzeuge, a German motorcycle manufacturer

Other companies

 * Orion Telescopes & Binoculars, an American company
 * Orion Corporation (pharmaceutical company), a Finnish pharmaceutical company
 * Orion Group (Bangladesh), a Bangladeshi industrial conglomerates
 * Orion Pharma (Bangladesh), a Bangladeshi pharmaceutical company
 * Orion Group (recruitment company), Scottish international recruiting company

People

 * Orion (name)
 * Orion, industry name of record producer Darren Tate (born 1972)
 * Orion, stage name of Tomasz Wróblewski (born 1980), Polish musician
 * Jimmy "Orion" Ellis (1945–1998), American rockabilly singer

United States

 * Orion, Alabama, an unincorporated community
 * Orion, Illinois, a village
 * Orion Township, Fulton County, Illinois
 * Orion High School, in Orion, Illinois
 * Orion, Wisconsin, a town
 * Orion (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
 * Orion Township, Michigan
 * Orion Township, Minnesota

Elsewhere

 * Orion, Alberta, Canada, a hamlet
 * Orion, Bataan, the Philippines, a municipality
 * Orion, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France, a commune
 * Orion, Queensland, Australia, a village in the Central Highlands Region
 * Orion Passage, a narrow sailing route on the northwestern tip of Antarctica

Astronomy

 * Orion (constellation), named after the mythical hunter
 * Orion Arm, a galactic spiral arm with apparent location near the constellation
 * Orion Nebula, in the constellation

Biology

 * Orion (beetle), a genus of beetles
 * Orion (grape), a white wine grape variety
 * Historis odius, the Orion, a butterfly in the genus Historis

Computing

 * ORION (research and education network), the provincial research network of Ontario, Canada
 * Orion (system-on-a-chip), used in network-attached storage
 * Ferranti Orion, a mid-range mainframe computer introduced in 1959
 * HLH Orion, a series of minicomputers produced in the 1980s
 * Orion Application Server, a Java EE application server
 * Orion quantum computing system, developed by D-Wave Systems
 * Orion, a browser-based IDE and open tool integration platform from Eclipse
 * Orion, IT admin software by SolarWinds

Other technologies

 * Orion (laser), a large laser installation in the UK
 * Orion (space telescope), two research instruments on crewed 1970s Soviet spacecraft

Football (soccer)

 * A.D. Orión, a Panamanian football club
 * Orión F.C., a Costa Rican football club
 * Orion F.C., a Scottish football club

Other sports

 * Goyang Orion Orions, a South Korean basketball team
 * Orions, former name of the Chiba Lotte Marines, a Japanese baseball team

Air

 * Lockheed P-3 Orion, a maritime patrol aircraft, with several variants
 * Lockheed Model 9 Orion, a passenger aircraft introduced in 1931
 * Aurora Flight Sciences Orion, a long-endurance uncrewed aircraft
 * Bristol Orion, a cancelled two-shaft turboprop aero engine developed by Bristol Siddeley
 * Kronshtadt Orion, Russian UCAV drone

Land

 * Ford Orion, a car
 * Orion, a South Devon Railway Comet-class steam locomotive
 * Orion, a GWR 3300-class steam locomotive
 * Mitsubishi Orion engine, a series of internal combustion engines produced by Mitsubishi Motors

Military vessels

 * USS Orion, several U.S. Navy vessels
 * HMS Orion, several Royal Navy vessels
 * Orion-class battleship, a series of super-dreadnoughts of the Royal Navy
 * HMAS Orion, an Oberon-class of the Royal Australian Navy
 * HSWMS Orion (A201), a Swedish ELINT vessel
 * FRENCH SHIP Orion, a Téméraire-class of the French Navy
 * GERMAN AUXILIARY CRUISER Orion, World War II merchant raider
 * BAE Orion (H-101), Ecuadorian Navy ship, originally USS Mulberry (AN-27)
 * NRP Oríon (P1156), a Portuguese Navy Centauro-class fiscalization boat

Other vessels

 * Orion, a ship which sank off Portpatrick, Scotland in 1850
 * MV Orion, a cruise ship
 * RMS Orion, an ocean liner of the Orient Steam Navigation Company
 * SS Orion, a Swedish steel steamship decommissioned in 1979, now a museum ship
 * Orion 50, an American sailboat design
 * Orion (ship, 1904), built as a whale-catcher, she later served as a fireboat in Vancouver

Rockets

 * Orion (rocket), a US sounding rocket
 * Orión (rocket), an Argentine sounding rocket
 * Orion (rocket stage), a series of rocket motors used in the Pegasus rockets
 * Project Orion (nuclear propulsion), a 1958 US nuclear pulse propulsion study project

Space vehicles

 * Blok DM-03, a variant of the Russian upper stage rocket
 * Orion (spacecraft), NASA crew vehicle first flown in 2022
 * Orion (space telescope), two instruments flown aboard Soviet spacecraft
 * Orion, the Lunar Module used in the Apollo 16 mission
 * Orion (satellite), a series of reconnaissance satellites
 * A series of satellites operated by Orion Network Systems, now part of Telesat
 * Orion 3, an off-course communication satellite (1999)

Other uses

 * Orion (dog), a rescue dog
 * Orion (roller coaster), a steel roller coaster at Kings Island, in Mason, Ohio, US
 * Orion, the flagship wine of American winemaker Sean Thackrey
 * Our Race is Our Nation, a slogan used by the Ku Klux Klan and other white nationalists