Blaze may refer to:

Places

* Blaze, Kentucky * Blaze Island, Nunavut, Canada

People

;Given name *

Blaze Bayley Blaze Bayley (born Bayley Alexander Cooke, 29 May 1963) is an English heavy metal singer. He was the lead singer of Wolfsbane from 1984 to 1994 (and currently since 2010, following reunions in 2007 and 2009). He was also the lead singer of Ir ...

(born 1963), English singer, former Wolfsbane and Iron Maiden vocalist * Blaze Berdahl (born 1980), American actress, singer, rapper, voice-over actor, announcer and narrator * Blaze Jordan (born 2002), American professional baseball player *

Blaze Foley Michael David Fuller (December 18, 1949 – February 1, 1989), better known by his stage name Blaze Foley, was an American country music singer-songwriter, poet, and artist active in Austin, Texas. Background Foley was born Michael David Fuller ...

, stage name of former American country singer and songwriter Michael David Fuller (1949–1989) *

Blaze Starr Blaze Starr (born Fannie Belle Fleming; April 10, 1932 – June 15, 2015) was an American stripper and burlesque star. Her vivacious presence and inventive use of stage props earned her the nickname "The Hottest Blaze in Burlesque". She ...

, an American stripper and burlesque artist ;Surname * Alundra Blayze, later stage name for former female professional wrestler Debrah Miceli (born 1964), also known as

Madusa Debrah Ann Miceli (born February 9, 1964), better known as Madusa, is an Italian-born American monster truck driver and former professional wrestler. She is currently working for National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) as a producer. In 2015, she has ...

* Bobby Blaze (born 1963), former American professional wrestler *

Louis Edmund Blaze Louis Edmund Blaze, JP, OBE, BA (Calcutta), (29 September 1861 – 4 August 1951) was a Sri Lankan educationist and the founder and the first principal of Kingswood College, Kandy (1891–1923). Biography Louis Edmund Blaze was born on 29 S ...

(1861–1951), Sri Lankan Burgher educationist and founder of Kingswood College, Kandy, Sri Lanka * Sonny Blayze, former manager of professional wrestling tag-team The Powers of Pain ;Mononym *

Blaaze Lakshmi Narasimha Vijaya Rajagopala Sheshadri Sharma Rajesh Raman (born 15 October 1975), professionally known as Blaaze (), is an Indian Tamil language playback singer and rapper in Indian cinema who specializes in writing and performing rap m ...

(born 1975), Indian rapper and playback singer *

Blaze Ya Dead Homie Chris Rouleau, also known as Blaze Ya Dead Homie or simply Blaze (born April 27, 1976), is an American rapper from Mt. Clemens, Michigan. A representative of the hip hop subgenres gangsta rap and horrorcore, his stage persona is a resurrected ...

(also known simply as Blaze, born 1976), American rapper

Arts, entertainment and media

Fictional entities

* Blaze (''Mortal Kombat''), a character from the ''Mortal Kombat'' video game series * Blaze, a character in the cartoon ''

Beverly Hills Teens ''Beverly Hills Teens'' is an American animation, animated children's television program produced by DIC Entertainment, DIC Animation City. Distributed by Access Syndication and originally airing in first-run syndication in the United States from ...

'' * Blaze, a Red Monster Truck character in '' Blaze and the Monster Machines'' * Blaze, a horse featured in a series of children's books by C.W. Anderson * Blaze, a firefly featured as a major character in ''

Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure ''Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure'' is a 2009 American computer-animated adventure film directed by Klay Hall (in his feature directorial debut) and the second installment in the ''Disney Fairies'' franchise. Produced by DisneyToon Studios, it ...

'' * Blaze, a special ability of some Pokémon that have the Fire-type * Blaze, a mob from the ''

Minecraft ''Minecraft'' is a sandbox game developed by Mojang Studios. The game was created by Markus "Notch" Persson in the Java (programming language), Java programming language. Following several early private testing versions, it was first made pub ...

'' video game * Blaze, the player character's callsign in the video game '' Ace Combat 5'' * Blaze, Method Man's nickname in the video game '' Def Jam: Fight for NY'' * Blaze, a wizard class from the video game ''Maplestory'' *

Blaze the Cat The ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' video game franchise began in 1991 with the game ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' for the Sega Genesis, which pitted a blue anthropomorphic hedgehog named Sonic against a rotund male human villain named Doctor Eggman (or Doctor ...

, a fictional pyrokinetic princess cat from the ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' video game series * Blaze and Satanus, comic book villains from DC Comics, enemies of Superman and Captain Marvel * Blaze Fielding, a character from the '' Streets of Rage'' video game series

Films

* ''Blaze'' (1989 film), a 1989 film starring Paul Newman and Lolita Davidovich * ''Blaze'' (2018 film), a 2018 film based on the life of country musician Blaze Foley * ''Blaze'' (2022 film), a 2022 film starring

Simon Baker Simon Lucas Baker (born 30 July 1969) is an Australian actor in television and film, as well as a director. He is known for his lead roles in the CBS television series ''The Mentalist'' as Patrick Jane and ''The Guardian'' as Nicholas Fallin ...

Music

Groups

Blaze (group) Blaze is an American house music group formed in New Jersey in 1984. History The group was formed by Josh Milan, Kevin Hedge and Chris Herbert, when Herbert introduced Milan, a member of his church choir, to Hedge, his childhood friend. Herber ...

, a house-music production team formed in 1984 in New Jersey, USA *

Blaze (Japanese band) Danger Crue Records is a Japanese visual kei independent record label located in Tokyo, Japan. It was originally the record label of the Danger Crue music office, both founded in 1981. According to D'erlanger drummer Tetsu, Danger Crue was formed ...

, a band known for its song "Fire", which appears in the Yu-Gi-Oh! movie ''Pyramid of Light'' * Blaze Bayley (band), band of the like-named English singer * The Blaze (band), a French electronica duo

Albums

* ''Blaze'' (Lagwagon album), 2003 * ''Blaze'' (Herman's Hermits album)

Songs

* "Blaze" (song), a 2008 single by J-pop singer Kotoko * "Blaze", a single by Japanese singer

Kinya Kotani , also known as KINYA, is a male singer and actor from Saitama Prefecture, Japan. He sang the theme songs for the anime '' Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle'' and various songs for ''Gravitation''. Discography Albums Singles DVDs * ''LI ...

Other arts, entertainment, and media

* ''Blaze'' (novel), a 2007 novel by Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman * Blaze (toy), a rocking-horse riding toy produced by Mattel in the 1960s * Blaze (TV channel), a British television channel * '' Blaze and the Monster Machines'', a 2014 Nickelodeon cartoon *

Blaze Europe Blaze Europe was a developer and distributor of accessories and software for video game consoles, handheld media devices and personal computers. The company is well known for releasing handheld versions of home consoles such as handheld versio ...

, video games accessory manufacturer and distributor in the UK

Sports and games

Mascots

* Blaze (UAB mascot), the dragon mascot of the University of Alabama at Birmingham athletic teams * Blaze the Phoenix, the mascot of the 1996 Summer Paralympics * Blaze the Trail Cat, mascot of the Portland Trail Blazers professional basketball team * Blaze the Vulcan, the mascot of the California University of Pennsylvania Vulcans

Teams

* Baton Rouge Blaze, a former team in the arenafootball2 league who played their home games in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA *

Coventry Blaze Coventry Blaze are an ice hockey team based in Coventry, England. They currently compete in the British Elite Ice Hockey League (EIHL) and play their home games at SkyDome Arena. The club was founded in 1965 as the ''Solihull Barons'' and ren ...

, an ice hockey team in England, known as Solihull Blaze before relocation to Coventry * Gold Coast Blaze, an Australian professional basketball team based in Queensland, Australia *

Utah Blaze The Utah Blaze was a professional arena football team based in Salt Lake City, Utah and competed in the West Division of the Arena Football League. Home games were played at the EnergySolutions Arena. In 2013, the team did not submit proper ...

, an Arena Football League team playing their home games in Salt Lake City

Other uses in sports and games

* Blaze (dinghy), a high-performance racing dinghy designed by Ian Howlett and John Caig * Blaze, a

non-standard poker hand Non-standard poker hands are hands which are not recognized by official poker rules but are made by house rules. Non-standard hands usually appear in games using wild cards or bugs. Other terms for nonstandard hands are special hands or freak ha ...

Other uses

*Blaze, a name for an active

conflagration A conflagration is a large fire. Conflagrations often damage human life, animal life, health, and/or property. A conflagration can begin accidentally, be naturally caused (wildfire), or intentionally created (arson). A very large fire can produc ...

*Blaze, a

C++ C++ (pronounced "C plus plus") is a high-level general-purpose programming language created by Danish computer scientist Bjarne Stroustrup as an extension of the C programming language, or "C with Classes". The language has expanded significan ...

Math library *

Blaze (horse marking) Markings on horses are usually distinctive white areas on an otherwise dark base coat color. Most horses have some markings, and they help to identify the horse as a unique individual. Markings are present at birth and do not change over the co ...

, equine coat marking * Blaze (software), a tool to automate software building and testing *

Blaze Pizza Blaze Pizza is a Pasadena, California-based fast-casual dining restaurant chain that serves pizza. Founded in 2011 by Elise and Rick Wetzel of Wetzel's Pretzels, Blaze Pizza was modeled after Chipotle's made-to-order approach to serving custom ...

, a fast-casual pizza chain