Owl (disambiguation)

An owl is a bird of prey.

Owl, Owls, or OWL may also refer to:

Fictional entities

 * Owl (comics), the name of several comics characters
 * Owl (Winnie the Pooh)
 * Ordinary Wizarding Level, a test of magical aptitude in the Harry Potter novel series

Film and television

 * Owl (film), a 2003 Japanese black comedy
 * The Owl (1927 film), a German silent film
 * The Owl (1991 film), an American television film
 * The Owl (TV series), a French series of animated shorts for children
 * OWL/TV, a Canadian children's educational television series 1985–1994
 * "Owls" (Millennium), a television episode

Literature

 * "The Owl" (fairy tale), a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm
 * OWL (magazine), a Canadian children's educational magazine; basis of the OWL/TV series
 * The Owl (magazine): A Wednesday Journal of Politics and Society, a satirical society newspaper published in London 1864–1870

Music

 * Owl (band), a Los Angeles–based hard-rock band, and their self-titled 2009 album
 * Owls (band), a Chicago-based rock band
 * Owls (album), 2001
 * Of Wondrous Legends, or O.W.L., an American psych folk band, and their self-titled 1971 album
 * The Owl (album), by the Zac Brown Band, 2019
 * Owl, an album by Qwel & Maker, 2010
 * "Owl", a song by the Cat Empire from the album Where the Angels Fall, 2023

Other uses in arts and entertainment

 * Owl (sculpture), a public statue in Canberra, Australia
 * NASPA Word List, or OWL, the official word list for Scrabble in North America

Businesses and organizations

 * Office Workstations Limited, a British software company
 * Older Women's League, an American organization
 * Order of Owls, an American fraternal order
 * Owl Labs, a company that builds remote conferencing devices
 * The Owl Drug Company, an American drug retailer

Languages

 * Owl (hieroglyph), an Egyptian language uniliteral
 * Old Welsh, ISO 639 language code owl

Military

 * HMS Owl, the name of a British ship and a shore establishment
 * USS Owl, the name of two American ships
 * CSS Owl, a Confederate States Navy blockade runner in the American Civil War
 * Curtiss O-52 Owl, an American observation aircraft before and during World War II

People

 * Owl Chapman, a short-board surfer
 * Owl Fisher (born 1991), an Icelandic journalist
 * Owl Goingback (born 1959), American author

Places

 * Owl Creek (disambiguation)
 * Owl Mountains, Poland
 * Owl Peak, Wyoming, U.S.
 * Owl River (disambiguation)
 * Olympic–Wallowa Lineament (OWL), a physiographic feature in Washington State, U.S.
 * Ostwestfalen-Lippe (OWL), an area in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Astronomy

 * NGC 457, an open star cluster also known as the Owl Cluster
 * Owl Nebula, in the constellation Ursa Major
 * Overwhelmingly Large Telescope, a proposed optical telescope

Computing

 * Object Windows Library, a C++ object-oriented application framework
 * Online Watch Link, a commercial web application for Neighbourhood Watch schemes
 * Openwall Project (Owl), a security-enhanced Linux distribution
 * Owl (AOL), a user-generated content site created by AOL in 2010
 * Owl Scientific Computing, a software system for scientific and engineering computing
 * Web Ontology Language, a family of knowledge representation languages

Sports

 * Bielawa Owls, an American football team based in Bielawa, Poland
 * Chicago Owls, a defunct professional American football team based in Chicago
 * Clinton Owls, a defunct minor league baseball team, based in Clinton, Iowa (1937–1938)
 * Dayton Owls, a minor league ice hockey team in the International Hockey League for the 1977–1978 season
 * Florida Atlantic Owls, the athletics teams of Florida Atlantic University
 * Forest City Owls, a baseball team in the Coastal Plain League, a collegiate summer league
 * Grand Rapids Owls, a defunct International Hockey League team
 * Owls, the athletic teams of Keene State College
 * Kennesaw State Owls, the athletic teams of Kennesaw State University
 * Owls, the athletic teams of the University of Maine at Presque Isle
 * Orem Owlz, a minor league baseball team
 * Rice Owls, the athletic teams of Rice University
 * Temple Owls, the athletic teams of Temple University
 * Topeka Owls, a defunct Western Association minor league baseball team based in Topeka, Kansas
 * Uni-Norths Owls, an Australian rugby union club
 * Owls, the athletic teams of Westfield State University
 * Sheffield Wednesday F.C., an English football club nicknamed "The Owls"
 * OWLS AC Leicester, an English athletics club
 * Guildford Owls, an Australian rugby league club
 * Overwatch League, a professional esports league

Transportation

 * OWLS, a mnemonic used by general aviation airplane pilots
 * Owl service, or public transport night service
 * Night Owl (train), between Boston and Washington, D.C.
 * Owl a train on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad and later Erie Lackawanna Railway
 * Owl Limited a train of the Southern Pacific Transportation Company
 * Aspark Owl, a Japanese electric sports car

Other uses

 * Owl butterfly, a member of the genus Caligo
 * Olympic–Wallowa Lineament, a geological feature in the state of Washington
 * Online Writing Lab, an extension of a university writing center
 * Our Whole Lives, a comprehensive sexuality curriculum from the Unitarian Universalist Association and the United Church of Christ