Beryl Beryl ( ) is a mineral composed of beryllium aluminium Silicate minerals#Cyclosilicates, silicate with the chemical formula Be3Al2(SiO3)6. Well-known varieties of beryl include emerald and Aquamarine (gem), aquamarine. Naturally occurring Hex ...

is a mineral. Beryl may also refer to:

People

Beryl (given name) Beryl is a given name with reference to the mineral beryl. Although more commonly a feminine given name, it has been used in the past as a masculine name, predominantly in the United States. Use as a male name likely comes from a variant spelling o ...

, and persons with the name * Beryl (surname)

Fictional characters

Beryl the Peril Beryl the Peril (or simply Beryl) is a fictional character created by David Law, the creator of Dennis the Menace, for issue 1 of '' The Topper'' comic (dated 7 February 1953) published by DC Thomson & Co. Limited. Like Dennis, she had black ...

, in UK comics *

Beryl (dragon) This is a list of characters in the ''Dragonlance'' series of fantasy novels and related fantasy role-playing game materials. It includes accounts of their early lives in the series. Characters Alhana Starbreeze Alhana Starbreeze, Silvanesti E ...

or Beryllinthranox, in ''Dragonlance'' series * Queen Beryl, in the ''Sailor Moon'' franchise * Beryl Chatterley, one of the characters in '' Kiff''

Places

* Beryl, Utah, US *

Beryl Junction, Utah Beryl Junction ( ) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Iron County, Utah, Iron County, Utah, United States. The population was 197 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census. Beryl Junction Airport, a small, private airport, is located here ...

, Iron County, US *

Beryl, West Virginia Beryl was an unincorporated community and coal town located in Mineral County, West Virginia, United States. Homes and properties were slowly purchased over the years by Westvaco NewPage was a leading producer of printing and specialty papers ...

, Mineral County, West Virginia, US *

1729 Beryl 1729 Beryl, provisional designation , is a stony background asteroid from the Florian region in the inner asteroid belt, approximately in diameter. It was discovered on 19 September 1963, by astronomers at Indiana University during the Indiana A ...

, an asteroid named for Beryl H. Potter

Ships and aircraft

* * ''Beryl'', a

steam yacht A steam yacht is a class of luxury or commercial yacht with primary or secondary steam propulsion in addition to the sails usually carried by yachts. Origin of the name The English steamboat entrepreneur George Dodd (1783–1827) used the term ...

completed in 1903 as * , a WWII Australian minesweeper * Piel Beryl, a French 2-seater aircraft

Music and television

* "Beryl", a song by Mark Knopfler from the '' Tracker'' album * ''Beryl'', a 2014 play by

Maxine Peake Maxine Peake (born 14 July 1974) is an English actress and narrator. She is known for her roles as Twinkle in ''Dinnerladies (TV series), dinnerladies'', a sitcom on BBC One (1998–2000), as List of Shameless (British TV series) characters#Vero ...

about cyclist Beryl Burton * "Beryl" (''The Crown''), a TV episode

Technology

FB Beryl The karabinek szturmowy wzór 96 "Beryl" (English: ''assault rifle pattern 1996 "Beryllium"'', abbreviated kbs wz. 96) is a Polish 5.56mm assault rifle, designed and produced by the FB "Łucznik" Radom, Fabryka Broni Radom. The rifle r ...

, a Polish rifle *

FB Mini-Beryl The FB Mini-Beryl is a Polish compact assault rifle (carbine) derived from the FB Beryl service rifle and chambered for 5.56×45mm. It was developed in parallel with the wz. 96 Beryl by the FB "Łucznik" Radom, Fabryka Broni in Radom and int ...

, a Polish rifle *

Metropolitan-Vickers Beryl The Metropolitan-Vickers F.2 is an early turbojet engine and the first British design to be based on an axial-flow compressor. It was an extremely advanced design for the era, using a nine-stage axial compressor, annular combustor, and a two- ...

, a jet engine *

Beryl (window manager) Compiz () is a compositing window manager for the X Window System, using 3D graphics hardware to create fast compositing desktop effects for window management. Effects, such as a minimization animation or a cube workspace, are implemented as loa ...

, part of Compiz software

Other uses

Beryl (company) Beryl (a trading name of SMIDSY Limited) is a British company which produces Bicycle-sharing system, bicycle sharing systems and Bicycle lighting, bicycle lights. Company The company's founder, Emily Brooke, initially marketed her lights using ...

, a UK cycle light manufacturer *

Béryl incident The "Béryl incident" was a French nuclear test, conducted on 1 May 1962, during which nine soldiers of the 621st Groupe d'Armes Spéciales unit were heavily contaminated by radioactivity. The test took place at In Eker, Algeria, then a French d ...

, a 1962 French nuclear test *

List of storms named Beryl The name Beryl has been used for eight tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean, two in the Australian Region and for one in the South-West Indian Ocean. Atlantic Ocean * Tropical Storm Beryl (1982) – passed just south of Brava Island, Cape Verd ...