Charon (disambiguation)

Charon, in Greek mythology, is the ferryman who carried the souls of the dead to the underworld.

Charon may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

• Caronte (album) (Charon), a 1971 album by Italian band The Trip
• Charon (band), a Finnish gothic metal band
• Charon (CrossGen), a comic book character from CrossGen Entertainment's Sigilverse
• Charon (Dungeons & Dragons), a lord of the Yugoloths whose primary function is to provide passage across the River Styx for a steep price
• Charon (Marvel Comics), a villainous wizard
• Charon (The Three Worlds), a fictional human species from Ian Irvine's arc of novels, The Three Worlds Cycle
• Charon, an Eve Online freighter
• Charon, a summon from a password-enhanced Golden Sun: The Lost Age and Golden Sun: Dark Dawn
• Charon V, a fictional submarine in Michael Crichton's novel Sphere
• Commander Charon, one of the Galactic Commanders from Pokémon Platinum

People with the name

• Charon, a Theban military commander (fl. mid-4th century BC); see Androcydes
• Charon of Naucratis, a historian
• Charon of Carthage, a historian
• Charon of Lampsacus, a historian
• Alexios Charon, early 11th-century Byzantine official
• Charon Asetoyer (born 1951), Comanche activist and women's health advocate
• Carl Charon (born 1940), former American football player
• Jacques Charon (1920–1975), French actor and film director
• Jean-Émile Charon (1920–1998), French nuclear physicist, philosopher and writer.
• Joel M. Charon (1939–2018), professor emeritus of sociology at Minnesota State University at Moorhead
• Rita Charon (born 1949), physician and literary scholar
• Viala Charon (1794–1880), French soldier, Governor General of Algeria, Senator of France

Places

• Charon (moon), a moon of the dwarf planet Pluto
• Charon, Louisiana, United States, an unincorporated community in Vermilion Parish

Science and technology

• Charon (gun), an open source 3D-printable gun
• Charon (arachnid), a genus of whipspider
• Charon (software), a legacy hardware emulator for VAX, Alpha, HP 3000, PDP-11, and SPARC systems
• Blue Origin Charon, the first flight test vehicle of Blue Origin

Other uses

• Charon (horse), a racehorse
• HMS Charon, several ships of the British Royal Navy

See also

• Caron (disambiguation)
• Eugenie Margeurite Honoree Charen (1786–1855), French painter
• Mona Charen (born 1957), American columnist, political analyst and writer
• Charron (disambiguation)
• Charun (disambiguation)
• Chaeron (disambiguation)