Apollo (disambiguation)

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Apollo is a Greek and Roman god of music, healing, prophecy and enlightenment.
The name Apollo may also refer to:

Contents [show] 1 Space and aviation 2 Transportation 3 Religion 4 Organisations 5 Locations 6 Products 7 Arts 7.1 Film and television 7.2 Dance and music 7.3 Publishing 7.4 Record labels 7.5 Theatres, cinemas and music venues 8 Other uses

[edit] Space and aviation

• Apollo program, a series of American space missions that landed men on the moon and returned them to Earth

• The Apollo spacecraft with the Command/Service Module and Lunar Module

• Apollo, the ancient Greek name for planet Mercury when it appeared before dawn
• Apollo (crater), a basin on the far side of the moon
• 1862 Apollo, a near-Earth asteroid discovered in 1932
• Apollo asteroid, one of a group of near-Earth asteroids named after 1862 Apollo
• The Apache Point Observatory Lunar Laser-ranging Operation (APOLLO), lunar observatory in New Mexico
• Apollo M. O. Smith, American rocket scientist
• Apollo Soucek, United States Navy vice admiral and notable test pilot

[edit] Transportation

• Apollo class cruiser of the Royal Navy
• HMS Apollo, ships of the Royal Navy
• USS Apollo
  • USS Apollo (AS-25), a submarine tender of the United States Navy
• Gumpert Apollo, a German racing and high-performance sports car
• Ducati Apollo, a prototype motorcycle of 1964
• Buick Apollo, an American compact car built from 1973 to 1975
• Apollo (1906 automobile), an American car made from 1906 to 1907
• Apollo (1910 automobile), a German car built from 1910 to 1927
• Apollo (1962 automobile), an American sports car built from 1962 to 1964
• Apollo (1971 automobile), a custom-built British sports car
• Armstrong Whitworth Apollo, a prototype airliner
• Apollo, a steam locomotive of the West Cornwall Railway
• Apollo Bicycle, a manufacturer of bicycles
• Apollo Pedal Car, a successful design of racing pedal car which competes in the British Pedal Car Championship
• Holden Apollo, an automobile manufactured by Toyota and sold by Holden in Australia from 1989 to 1997.
• ST Apollo, a tugboat

[edit] Religion

• Apollo Quiboloy, a Filipino televangelist based in Davao City.

[edit] Organisations

• Apollo Hospitals, a healthcare group in India
• Apollo Alliance, a coalition working on a clean energy revolution in America
• Apollo Management, L.P., private equity firm
• Operation APOLLO, a military operation of the Canadian Navy in Afghanistan
• Apollo Computer, Inc. a workstation manufacturer, acquired in 1989 by Hewlett-Packard
• Apollo Group, a company specializing in adult education
• Apollo College, a privately-held higher education organization, known since June 2010 as Carrington College

[edit] Locations

• Apollo, Pennsylvania, United States
• Apollo Bay, Victoria, Australia
• Most Apollo (Apollo bridge), a road bridge over the Danube in Bratislava
• Apollo, a town near Johannesburg, South Africa, location of static inverter plant of Cahora Bassa (HVDC)

[edit] Products

• Apollo/Domain, a series of workstations made by Apollo Computer, Inc.
• Apollo Reservation System, the computerised central reservation system developed by United Airlines
• Apollo, a scent variety of Axe (Lynx)
• Bryggeriet Apollo, a Danish brewpub situated in central Copenhagen
• Brand used by Idemitsu Kosan for various oil and gasoline products
• Apollo, a brand name used by the Accles & Pollock company for steel golf club shafts

[edit] Arts

[edit] Film and television

• Apollo Candy, a fictional candy bar in the Lost television series
• Apollo Creed, a boxer played by Carl Weathers in the Rocky film series
• Captain Apollo, a character in the original Battlestar Galactica television series
• EAS Apollo, an EarthForce omega class destroyer starship in the Babylon 5 universe
• Lee "Apollo" Adama, a character in the 2004 re-imagining of Battlestar Galactica
• Live at the Apollo (TV series), a British stand-up comedy television series
• Showtime at the Apollo, a syndicated television show produced by the Apollo Theater in New York
• Apollo class starship of Star Trek
• Apollo, a battleship in Stargate SG-1

[edit] Dance and music

• George Balanchine's 1928 Apollo (ballet) to Stravinsky's Apollon musagète
• Apollo (band), a Brit-inspired rock band from Southeast Michigan
• Apollo 100, a British synthpop band of the same era as the above
• Apollo 440, a British electronic rock band from 1990s-present
• Apollo (Nebula album), an album by the group Nebula
• Apollo (Stockholm Syndrome album), an album by the group Stockholm Syndrome
• Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks, 1983 album by Brian Eno
• Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness, 2005 album by Coheed and Cambria
• Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World For Tomorrow, 2007 album also by Coheed and Cambria
• Apollo 18 (album), 1992 album by They Might Be Giants
• Apollo, 2006 album by Stoner rock group Nebula (band)
• Apollo Sunshine, an alternative rock band with an album of the same name
• "Mr. Apollo", a song by the Bonzo Dog Band on their album Tadpoles
• Apollo Poetry (until 2007, M.C. Apollo), spoken word poet, hip hop artist

[edit] Publishing

• Apollo (magazine), a British arts magazine
• Apollo (comics), a member of in Wildstorm Comics' The Authority
• Apollo, a character in The Amory Wars comic book series
• Apollo (Saint Seiya), a character in the fictional universe of Masami Kurumada's manga, Saint Seiya

[edit] Record labels

• Apollo Records (1921) - a US based company
• Apollo Records (1928) - a US based company
• Apollo Records (1944) - a US based company
• Apollo Records (Belgium)
• Apollo Records (Seattle)

[edit] Theatres, cinemas and music venues

• Apollo Theater, a theatre in New York City
• Apollo Theatre, a theatre in London
• Apollo Cinemas, a chain of cinemas in the United Kingdom
• Apollo Theatre (disambiguation) - listing other theaters of this name
• The Apollo (Glasgow), a former music venue in Glasgow, Scotland
• Hammersmith Apollo, an entertainment venue in Hammersmith, London
• Apollo (nightclub), a nightclub in central Helsinki, Finland

[edit] Other uses

• Apollo (butterfly), a species of butterfly (Parnassius apollo) that resides in the mountains of Europe.
• Apollo (submarine communications cable), a cable crossing the Atlantic ocean
• Apollo oil refinery, a Nazi Germany facility in the Bratislava oil district.
• Apollo (Adobe), a cross-OS runtime system
• Apollo (horse), an American Thoroughbred racehorse
• Apollo, a Coptic ascetic and martyr: see Abib and Apollo
• Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney, the fourth in the series of Ace Attorney games for the Nintendo DS
• Apollo, also called the Nzema are an Akan people who live in southwestern Ghana
• Apollo (comics)
• Apollo (Marvel Comics)
• Apollo (Battlestar Galactica)
• Great Dane (dog breed) commonly referred to as the "Apollo of all breeds", owing to its giant size.

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