Polaris (disambiguation)

Polaris is a star, also known as the North Star.

Polaris may also refer to:

Geography

 * Polaris, California, in Nevada County, United States
 * Polaris, Montana, in Beaverhead County, United States
 * Polaris mine, Little Cornwallis Island, Nunavut, Canada

Fictional entities

 * Polaris (Marvel Comics), a Marvel Comics superhero
 * Polaris galaxy, featured in the video game Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction
 * Polaris, the ultimate antagonist of the video game Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2
 * Polaris Hilda, character from the Saint Seiya anime and manga/comics
 * Doctor Polaris, a DC Comics villain
 * Polaris P. Polanski, an alias of Byakuya Togami in the novel Danganronpa Togami, by Yuya Sato

Video games

 * Polaris (1980 video game), a 1980 arcade game
 * Polaris (2024 video game), a 2024 video game

Role-playing games

 * Polaris (1997 role-playing game)
 * Polaris (2005 role-playing game)

Literature

 * Polaris (novel), by Jack McDevitt
 * "Polaris" (short story), by H. P. Lovecraft

Groups

 * Polaris (Australian band), an Australian metalcore band
 * Polaris (American band), an American rock band

Albums and EPs

 * Polaris (Kangta album), 2001
 * Polaris (Stratovarius album), 2009
 * Polaris (Tesseract album), 2015
 * Polaris (EP), 2020 EP by Aitch

Compositions and songs

 * Polaris (composition), 2010 composition by Thomas Adès
 * "Polaris" (song), from the album Twilight of the Innocents by Ash
 * "Polaris", from the album Futures by Jimmy Eat World
 * "Rust in Peace... Polaris", from the album Rust in Peace by Megadeth
 * "Polaris" (ポラリス), from the album Karma by MUCC
 * "Polaris", from the single Silent Bible by Nana Mizuki
 * "Polaris", from the album Nocturne by The Human Abstract
 * "Polaris", from the album Simple Things by Zero 7
 * "Polaris", the sixth opening theme for My Hero Academia and the first for season 4, by Blue Encount
 * "Polaris", from the album After the Magic by Parannoul

Prizes

 * Polaris Music Prize

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

 * Polaris (2016 film), a 2016 film directed by Soudabeh Moradian
 * Polaris (2022 film), a 2022 film directed by Kirsten Carthew
 * Polaris (periodical), produced by Visual Collaborative
 * Polaris Tower, a giant Ferris wheel at Kumdori Land, Yuseong-gu, Daejon, Korea
 * Polaris, a subsidiary of Disney Digital Network specialising in video game culture

Brands and enterprises

 * Polaris drinking water, a Thai bottled water brand
 * Polaris Entertainment, South Korean record label
 * Polaris Fashion Place, Columbus, Ohio, a two level shopping mall and surrounding retail plaza
 * Polaris Inc., American snowmobile, ATV, and motorcycle manufacturer
 * Polaris Motor, an Italian ultralight trike manufacturer
 * Polaris Pro Grappling, a British grappling tournament running since 2015

Computing

 * Polaris (poker bot)
 * Polaris (processor)
 * Polaris, the GPU architecture featured in AMD's Radeon RX 400 and RX 500 series
 * Polaris, an integrated library system from Innovative Interfaces, Inc.
 * Polaris, a port of Solaris to PowerPC
 * Polaris, the development codename for Windows Media Player 11
 * Polaris Office, office suite that runs on mobile platforms

Military

 * Polaris spacecraft, or TecSAR, Israeli reconnaissance satellite
 * Polaris-1, a North Korean submarine-launched ballistic missile, which is commonly known as KN-11 by the West and Pukkuksong-1 (Pukkuksong means Polaris in Korean) in North Korea
 * UGM-27 Polaris, an early United States submarine-launched ballistic missile that was also used by United Kingdom
 * Polaris (UK nuclear programme), a British nuclear weapons programme for Resolution-class ballistic missile submarines

Transport

 * Polaris (train), manufactured in China
 * Polaris program, a commercial human spaceflight project
 * Polaris Dawn, a private spaceflight mission planned for 2024

Aviation

 * Airbus CC-150 Polaris, a Canadian military plane
 * B&F Fk14 Polaris, a German ultralight aircraft
 * Polaris, United Airlines business class product
 * Polaris Award, awarded to airline crews

Ships

 * Polaris (ship), a list of ships
 * Polaris (icebreaker), a 2015 Finnish icebreaker
 * MS Polaris, a Russian-owned passenger ship built in Denmark in 1968
 * RV Polaris, listed on the National Register of Historic Places listings in San Mateo County, California
 * USS Amber (PYc-6), known as Polaris, a 1930 motor yacht that later became a patrol vessel
 * USS Polaris (1871), a steamer sunk in 1872 on an Arctic expedition
 * USS Polaris (AF-11), a freighter built in 1938

Other uses

 * Polaris (convention), an annual science fiction and fantasy convention
 * POLARIS (seismology), an underground experiment to observe seismic signals
 * Polaris expedition, an American attempt to reach the North Pole which resulted in Commander Charles F. Hall's suspicious death
 * Project Polaris, a U.S.-Canadian military aerial survey of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago
 * Polaris Project, an American anti-human-trafficking organization