Beryl Beryl ( ) is a mineral composed of beryllium aluminium silicate with the chemical formula Be3Al2Si6O18. Well-known varieties of beryl include emerald and aquamarine. Naturally occurring, hexagonal crystals of beryl can be up to several ...

is a mineral. Beryl may also refer to:

People

Beryl (given name) Beryl is a given name that has overwhelmingly been borne by females with reference to the mineral beryl. It is deemed unisex due to occasional American usage as a male name, likely a variant spelling of the surname Burrell whose seeming root is t ...

, 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 El ...

or Beryllinthranox, in ''Dragonlance'' series *

Queen Beryl The is a group of fictional characters in the ''Sailor Moon'' manga series by Naoko Takeuchi. They are the chief villains of the first story arc in every version of the series, and were first introduced in the first chapter of the manga, "Usagi ...

, in the ''Sailor Moon'' franchise

Places

Beryl, Utah Beryl ( ) is an unincorporated community in west-central Iron County, Utah, United States. Description The community has one school, Escalante Valley Elementary, and it is part of the Iron County School District. Originally established as a ...

, US *

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

, 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 paper company. By the late 1900s, all the residents were gone, an ...

, 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 As ...

, an asteroid named for Beryl H. Potter

Ships and aircraft

* HMAS ''Beryl II'', a WWII Australian minesweeper * ''Beryl''-class container ship * Piel Beryl, a French 2-seater aircraft

Music and television

* "Beryl", a song by Mark Knopfler from the ''

Tracker Tracker may refer to: Arts and entertainment Fictional characters * Tracker (''G.I. Joe''), in the ''G.I. Joe'' universe * Tracker (''PAW Patrol''), in the animated television series ''PAW Patrol'' * Tracker Cameron, in the television series '' ...

'' 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 the BBC One sitcom '' dinnerladies'' (1998–2000), Veronica Ball in the hit Channel 4 comedy drama '' Shameless'' (2004–2007), Ma ...

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

Technology

FB Beryl The karabinek szturmowy wzór 1996 Beryl (English: ''assault rifle model 1996 beryllium'') is a Polish 5.56mm assault rifle, designed and produced by the Łucznik Arms Factory in the city of Radom. The rifle is to replace the 7.62×39mm AKM an ...

, a Polish rifle *

FB Mini-Beryl The karabinek wz. 1996 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. 1996 Beryl by the "Łucznik" Arms Factory in Radom a ...

, a Polish rifle * Metropolitan-Vickers Beryl, 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 lo ...

, part of Compiz software

Other uses

Beryl (company) Beryl (a trading name of SMIDSY Limited) is a British company which produces bicycle sharing systems and bicycle lights. Company The company's founder, Emily Brooke, initially marketed her lights using the brand "Blaze" but changed to "Beryl" ...

, a UK cycle light manufacturer *

Béryl incident The "Béryl incident" was a French nuclear test, conducted on May 1, 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 ...

, a 1962 French nuclear test *

Tropical Storm Beryl The name Beryl has been used for seven tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean and for one in the South-West Indian Ocean. In the Atlantic: * Tropical Storm Beryl (1982), passed just south of Brava Island, Cape Verde and dissipated north of the Win ...

, several cyclones