Rigel (disambiguation)

Rigel is a blue supergiant star in the Orion constellation, also known as Beta Orionis.

Rigel may also refer to:

• Rigel (comics), a character in a series published by Panini Comics
• Rigel (dog), a Newfoundland dog said to have helped rescue survivors from the sinking of the Titanic
• Rigel (microprocessor), a VAX microprocessor chip set developed and fabricated by Digital Equipment Corporation
• Rigel (rocket), an Argentinian sounding rocket
• MS Rigel, a Norwegian and German vessel
• USS Rigel (AD-13), a ship built in 1918 as Edgecombe
• USS Rigel (AF-58), a ship laid down in 1954
• SSM-N-6 Rigel, a proposed cruise missile system
• Rigel, a composition for trumpet and piano by Hale A. VanderCook
• Rigel, a genus of megalyrid wasps from Chile
• Rigel, a fictional nation in Fire Emblem Gaiden and Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia

People with the surname

• Henri-Joseph Rigel, a German-born French composer

See also

• Rygel, the Farscape character
• Riegel (disambiguation), several meanings
• Rigil Kentaurus, a Sun-like star in the Centaurus constellation also known as Alpha Centauri A, distance only about 4.37 light-years
• USS Rigel, a list of US Navy ships