Icarus (disambiguation)

Icarus is a character in Greek mythology.

Icarus or Ikarus may also refer to:

People

• Roger Squires (1932–2023), crossword compiler who has used the pseudonym Icarus
• Icarus (wrestler) (born 1982), wrestler with the Chikara organization

Places

• Icarus (island), in the Aegean Sea
• Ikaros (Failaka Island), in the Persian Gulf

Aviation

Aircraft

• Hartman Ikarus, a 1950s British human-powered ornithopter
• Icarus I, Icarus II and Icarus V, series of rigid-wing hang gliders designed by Taras Kiceniuk, Jr.
• Ikarus C42, a microlight aircraft
• Ikarus IK-2, the most notable indigenous Yugoslav aircraft of the 1930s and World War II era
• Icarus, a prototype space rescue vehicle tested by Aleksandr Serebrov

Aviation businesses and organizations

• Ikarus Drachen Tomas Pellicci, a German hang glider manufacturer
• Icaro Air, an Ecuadorian airline
• Icarus School, a military aviation academy
• Icarus, a Greek airline that preceded Olympic Airlines
• Ikarus, a Yugoslav aircraft manufacturer later renamed Ikarbus

Other uses in aviation

• Coupe Icare ("Icarus Cup"), a flight festival

Other businesses and organizations

• Icarus Project, a mental health organization
• Icarus Theatre Collective, a British theatre company
• Ikarus (Hungarian company), a Hungarian bus manufacturer
• Ikarbus, a Serbian bus manufacturer formerly known as Ikarus
• Icarus FC, an association football kit and sportswear brand

Arts and entertainment

Film and television

• Icarus (Planet of the Apes), a spacecraft in the Planet of the Apes franchise
• Icarus Base, a place in the series Stargate Universe
• Icarus, an orbital superweapon in the James Bond film Die Another Day
• Icarus I, and Icarus II, spacecraft in Sunshine
• Icarus (2010 film) (also The Killing Machine), an action film
• Icarus (2017 film), a documentary film by Bryan Fogel
• "Icarus" (Scandal), an episode of the TV series Scandal
• "Icarus", the eleventh episode of Smallville, Season 10
• "Icarus", the seventh episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Fictional characters

• Icarus (comics), a Marvel Comics character
• Icarus, a mecha in Chōjin Sentai Jetman
• Icarus, a Deus Ex character
• Icarus, a character in Hercules: The Animated Series
• Icarus, a character in Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland
• Ikaros, a character in Heaven's Lost Property
• Icarus, a primary character based on the Greek myth in the Cirque du Soleil show Varekai

Music

• Icaros, shamanic medicine songs
• Icarus (band), a band from London, England

Albums

• Icarus (Paul Winter Consort album), 1972
• Icarus (The Forms album), 2003
• Icarus (Chicosci album), 2004
• Icarus, 2011 EP by Periphery
• Icaro, album by Renato Zero
• Icarus (Cryalot EP), 2022
• Icarus, 2024 EP by Khary and Abhi the Nomad

Songs

• "Icarus", a 1969 song written by Ralph Towner, included on Icarus (Paul Winter Consort album)
• "Icarus - Borne on Wings of Steel", a song by Kansas on the album Masque, 1975
• "Icarus", a song by Santigold on the album Top Ranking
• "Icarus", a song by Jason Webley on the album Only Just Beginning
• "Ikarus", a song by Unheilig on Phosphor
• "Icarus", a song by Bastille on the album Bad Blood
• "Icarus II", a song by Kansas on the album Somewhere to Elsewhere, 2000
• "Icarus", a song by Eden on the album vertigo
• "Icarus" (Madeon song), 2012
• "Icarus" (Greeeen song), 2015
• "Icarus" (R3hab song), 2016
• "Icarus", a song by JJ Project on the EP Verse 2, 2017
• "Icarus", a song by Emma Blackery from the 2018 album Villains
• "Icarus", a song by Starset on the album Horizons, 2021

Other media

• Icarus (magazine), a Trinity College student publication
• Icarus (sculpture), 1973 by Michael Ayrton

Software and video games

• Icarus (video game), a sci-fi survival video game developed by RocketWerkz
• Ikarus (typography software), a type design and production software developed by URW foundry
• Ikarus (Scheme implementation), a free software optimizing incremental compiler for R6RS Scheme
• Icarus Verilog, an implementation of the Verilog hardware description language
• BioShock Infinite, codenamed "Project Icarus" during development
• Ikarus (chess), a computer chess program

Science and technology

Space

• 1566 Icarus, an asteroid
• ICARUS experiment, a neutrino detector at Gran Sasso National Laboratory, Italy
• Icarus (crater), on the Moon, named for the Ralph Towner composition by the Apollo 15 Astronauts
• Icarus (journal), a planetary science journal
• Icarus (star), most distant individual star detected (as of April 2018)
• IKAROS, an interplanetary uncrewed solar sail spacecraft
• Project Icarus (interstellar), a design study of an interstellar spacecraft based on Project Daedalus
• Project Icarus (photography) (2009), a project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Other uses in science and technology

• Icarus (plant), a fern genus
• ICARUS Initiative, an international project studying the migration routes of flying animals
• IKZF1, a protein in humans that is encoded by the IKZF genes of the Ikaros family zinc finger group

Other uses

• HMS Icarus, the name of several ships
• USCGC Icarus (WPC-110), a patrol boat of the United States Coast Guard
• Ikarus, a restaurant in Hangar-7 in Salzburg, Austria
• Icarus affair, an incident involving the 1867 murder of two British sailors in Nagasaki
• Operation Ikarus, a World War II German plan to invade Iceland

See also

• Project Icarus (disambiguation)
• Icaros (disambiguation)
• Ikaros (disambiguation)
• Ikaris, a Marvel Comics character
  • Ikaris (Marvel Cinematic Universe), the Marvel Cinematic Universe adaptation

• All pages with titles beginning with Icarus
• All pages with titles containing Icarus