Apollo is a Greek and Roman god of music, healing, light, prophecy and enlightenment. Apollo may also refer to:

Animals

* Appollo (dog) (1992–2006), a German Shepherd search and rescue dog *

Apollo (horse) Apollo (1879–1887) was a champion American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 1882 Kentucky Derby. He was the only horse to have won the Derby without racing at age two until Justify equalled the achievement in 2018. Apollo went on to race 21 ...

(1879–1887), an American Thoroughbred racehorse *'' Parnassius'', a genus of swallowtail butterflies commonly known as the Apollos; in particular **''

Parnassius apollo The Apollo or mountain Apollo (''Parnassius apollo''), is a butterfly of the family Papilionidae. Etymology The species is named in the classical tradition for the deity Apollo. Subspecies Subspecies include: * ''Parnassius apollo apollo'' ...

'', a Parnassius butterfly found in Europe commonly known as the Apollo **''

Parnassius autocrator ''Parnassius autocrator'' is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae. It is found in Afghanistan and Tajikistan. ''Parnassius autocrator'' is a high-altitude butterfly (up to 3,000 m). The preferred larval food plant is ''Corydalis ...

'', a Parnassius butterfly found in Afghanistan and Taj

Arts, entertainment and media

Fictional entities

Apollo (Battlestar Galactica) Apollo is the name of two characters in the Battlestar Galactica universe: Original Continuity Apollo is the son of Commander Adama & Ila. He is played by Richard Hatch (who also portrays Tom Zarek in the 2004–2009 series ''Battlestar Galactic ...

, the name of several characters in the Battlestar Galactica universe ** Lee Adama, a character in the 2004 re-imagining of ''Battlestar Galactica'' **

Captain Apollo Captain Apollo is a fictional character in the ''Battlestar Galactica'' franchise. He was first played by Richard Hatch, who would also later appear as the character of Tom Zarek in the reimagined ''Battlestar Galactica'' series in 2005. Apol ...

, a character in the original ''Battlestar Galactica'' television series * Apollo (comics), a member of in Wildstorm Comics' ''The Authority'' * Apollo (Marvel Comics), a comic book character * Apollo (Saint Seiya), a character in the fictional universe of Masami Kurumada's manga ''Saint Seiya'' *

Apollo (Star Trek) Apollo, grc, Ἀπόλλωνος, Apóllōnos, label=genitive , ; , grc-dor, Ἀπέλλων, Apéllōn, ; grc, Ἀπείλων, Apeílōn, label=Arcadocypriot Greek, ; grc-aeo, Ἄπλουν, Áploun, la, Apollō, la, Apollinis, label ...

, an alien in the ''Star Trek'' episode "Who Mourns for Adonais?" *Apollo, a character in the musical TV series '' Pajanimals'' *Apollo, a character in ''The Amory Wars'' comic book series *Apollo, a character in the ''Zatch Bell!'' anime/manga series * Apollo Candy, a fictional candy bar in the ''Lost'' television series * Apollo Creed, a boxer played by Carl Weathers in the ''Rocky'' film series * Apollo Justice, character in Capcom's ''Ace Attorney'' video-game series * ''USS Apollo'', a BC-304 class deep space carrier in ''Stargate: Atlantis'', see List of Earth starships in ''Stargate'' * ''USS Apollo'' (NCC-1725), a starship in the video game '' Starfleet Academy'' * ''USS Apollo'' (NCC-17706), a starship in '' Star Trek: Legacy'' and '' Star Trek: The Next Generation Role-playing Game''

Music

Groups and labels

* Apollo (band), an American R&B/disco group that recorded for Motown Records in the late 1970s *

Apollo Records (1921) Rialto Records was a record label based in Chicago, Illinois in the 1920s. It was owned by the Rialto Music House (330 S State St), sold at their stores at promotional prices. The records themselves were pressed by Marsh Recording Laboratories ...

, US label *

Apollo Records (1928) Apollo Records was a Pathe Records subsidiary, based in the United States, briefly issuing records around 1928. See also * List of record labels * Apollo Records (disambiguation) Apollo Records may refer to: * Apollo Records (1921), US based ...

, US label *

Apollo Records (1944) Apollo Records was a record company and label founded in New York City by Hy Siegel and Ted Gottlieb in 1944. A year later it was sold to Ike and Bess Berman. Apollo was known for blues (Doc Pomus), doo-wop (The Larks), gospel (Mahalia Jackson) ...

, US label * Apollo Records (Belgium), Belgian label

Albums

* ''Apollo'' (Nebula album), an album by the group Nebula * ''Apollo'' (Stockholm Syndrome album), an album by the group Stockholm Syndrome *'' Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks'', 1983 album by Brian Eno

Songs

* "Apollo" (Porno Graffitti song), 1999 * "Apollo" (Timebelle song), the Swiss entrant in the Switzerland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 * "Apollo" (Hardwell song), 2012 *"Apollo", a 1984 song by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark from the album '' Junk Culture''

Literature

* ''Apollo'' (journal), journal, magazine * ''Apollo'' (magazine), British arts magazine

Other uses in arts, entertainment and media

* ''Apollo'' (ballet), 1928 George Balanchine choreography for Stravinsky's ''Apollon musagète'' * Showtime at the Apollo, an American music television series * ''Apollo'' (Michelangelo), marble sculpture *'' Apollo Gauntlet'', an American animated television series on Adult Swim *

Prix Apollo Award The Prix Tour-Apollo was an annual French juried award established in 1972 by Jacques Sadoul with the assistance of Jacques Goimard. Its name was chosen in reference to the Apollo 11 rocket. The award was given to the best science fiction novel p ...

(late 20th century), for French for science-fiction literature * ''Apollo'' (System Copernicus), a stained glass window

Businesses and organisations

Brands and enterprises

*Apollo, a deodorant product by Axe/Lynx *Apollo oil refinery, a Nazi Germany facility in the Oil campaign of World War II * Apollo Cinemas, chain * Apollo Computer Inc., a workstation manufacturer, founded in 1980, and acquired in 1989 by Hewlett-Packard Company *

Apollo Diamond Apollo Diamond Inc. was a company based in Boston, Massachusetts that was able to produce nearly flawless single crystal diamond wafers and crystals for potential use in the optoelectronics, nanotechnology, and consumer gem markets. The company u ...

, an American diamond-manufacturing company * Apollo Global Management, private equity investment firm *

Apollo Education Group Apollo Education Group, Inc. is an American corporation based in the South Phoenix area of Phoenix, Arizona, with an additional corporate office in Chicago, Illinois. The company owns and operates several higher-learning institutions, including ...

, a company specializing in adult education * Apollo Hospitals, a healthcare group in India * Apollo Theatre (disambiguation), several uses, including "Apollo Theater" *

Apollo Tyres Apollo Tyres Limited is an Indian Multinational tyre manufacturing company headquartered in Gurugram, Haryana. It was incorporated in 1972, and its first plant was commissioned in Perambra in Chalakudy, Kerala (India). The company now has fiv ...

, an Indian tyre manufacturer * Apollo Ultralight Aircraft, a Hungarian microlight aircraft manufacturer *

Apollo-Optik Apollo-Optik is a German optics company focusing on retail eyewear. It was founded 1972 in Schwabach and is operating in 40 countries. It is the biggest optics company in Europe. References External links * https://www.apollo.de/ {{Ey ...

, an optics company *

Games by Apollo Games by Apollo Inc. (also known as Apollo) was a third-party developer of games for the Atari 2600 video game system, based in Richardson, Texas. It was founded in October 1981 by Pat Roper as a subsidiary of his National Career Consultants (N ...

, a third-party video game developer for the Atari 2600 *

Hammersmith Apollo The Hammersmith Apollo, currently called the Eventim Apollo for sponsorship reasons, and formerly known as the Hammersmith Odeon, is a live entertainment performance venue, originally built as a cinema called the Gaumont Palace. Located in Ha ...

, entertainment venue in London

Education

Apollo Junior High School Apollo Junior High School is a secondary school in Richardson, Texas. It is part of the Richardson Independent School District. Apollo is one of two intermediate schools that feed L.V. Berkner High School Lloyd V. Berkner High School is a hi ...

of Richardson, Texas * Carrington College (US), a privately held higher education organization, known before June 2010 as Apollo College

Organizations

Apollo University Lodge Apollo University Lodge No 357 is a Masonic Lodge based at the University of Oxford aimed at past and present members of the university. It was consecrated in 1819, and its members have met continuously since then. University of Oxford Members ...

, the principal Masonic Lodge of the University of Oxford

Military

* ''Apollo''-class cruiser of the Royal Navy * ''Apollo''-class frigate, Royal Navy sailing frigates * HMS ''Apollo'', various Royal Navy ships * USS ''Apollo'' (AS-25), a 1943 United States Navy submarine tender

People

* Apollos (1st-century A.D.), Alexandrian Jewish-Christian * Apollo (4th century A.D.), Coptic ascetic and martyr associated with Abib *

Apollo (monk) Apollo the Shepherd was an Egyptian Christian monk who lived around the 4th century AD in the desert of Lower Egypt. He was one of the Desert Fathers. Legend Apollo was initially a shepherd. He is said to have killed his pregnant wife and unborn ...

, Egyptian Christian monk * Steve Apollo (born 1949), pseudonym of illustrator Jim Starlin * Dale Cook (born 1958), known as Apollo, American kickboxer * Apollo Crews (born 1987), American professional wrestler * Apollo Kironde (1915–2007), Ugandan ambassador * Apollo Korzeniowski (1820–1869), Polish writer, and father of Joseph Conrad * Apolo Ohno (born 1982), American skating medalist *

Apollo Papathanasio Apostolos "Apollo" Papathanasiou ( el, Aπόστολος Παπαθανασίου or Απόλλωνας Παπαθανασίου; born 15 March 1969) is a Swedish heavy metal vocalist of Greek descent, who is currently with the band Spiritual B ...

(born 1969), vocalist of Greek power metal band Firewind * Apollo Perelini (born 1969), New Zealand rugby player *

Apollo Quiboloy Apollo Carreon Quiboloy (; born April 25, 1950) is a Filipino pastor and church leader of the Philippines-based Restorationist church called the Kingdom of Jesus Christ (KJC). Previously a member of the United Pentecostal Church, he founded th ...

(born 1950), Filipino televangelist * Apollo Robbins (born 1974), American sleight-of-hand artist and deception specialist * Apollo M. O. Smith (1911–1997), American rocket scientist * Apollo Soucek (1897–1955), American test pilot and vice admiral

Places

Extraterrestrial

* Apollo (crater), a basin on the far side of the Moon *

1862 Apollo 1862 Apollo is a stony asteroid, approximately 1.5 kilometers in diameter, classified as a near-Earth object (NEO). It was discovered by German astronomer Karl Reinmuth at Heidelberg Observatory on 24 April 1932, but lost and not recovered until ...

, a near-Earth asteroid discovered in 1932 * Apollo asteroids, a group of near-Earth asteroids

Terrestrial

* Apollo, a town near Johannesburg, South Africa, location of static inverter plant of

Cahora Bassa The Cahora Bassa lake—in the Portuguese colonial era (until 1974) known as Cabora Bassa, from Nyungwe ''Kahoura-Bassa'', meaning "finish the job"—is Africa's fourth-largest artificial lake, situated in the Tete Province in Mozambique. In Afr ...

Apollo, Georgia Apollo is an extinct town in Putnam County, in the U.S. state of Georgia. History The community was named after Apollo, the Greek and Roman god of music, healing, light, prophecy and enlightenment. The community still appeared on maps as late ...

, United States * Apollo, Pennsylvania, United States * Apollo Bay, Victoria, Australia *

Apollo Bay, Tasmania Apollo Bay is a rural locality on Bruny Island, in the local government area (LGA) of Kingborough in the Hobart LGA region of Tasmania. The locality is about south of the town of Kingston (by road and ferry). The 2021 census recorded a popula ...

, Australia * Apollo Beach, Florida *

Apollo Bridge Apollo Bridge ( sk, Most Apollo, provisionally known as ''Most Košická'' during construction, after the street leading to it) in Bratislava is a road bridge over the Danube in the capital of Slovakia. It is located between the Starý most and Pr ...

, a road bridge over the Danube in Bratislava * Apollo Temple, a summit in the Grand Canyon, U.S.

Science and technology

* Apache Point Observatory Lunar Laser-ranging Operation (APOLLO), an observatory in New Mexico * Apollo program, a series of American space missions that ultimately landed men on the Moon * Acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis, referred to colloquially in Ghana as "Apollo" * Apollo (cable system), a cable crossing the Atlantic Ocean * Apollo, the code name of Apple's Macintosh Classic II * Apollo, the code name of

Windows Phone Windows Phone (WP) is a discontinued family of mobile operating systems developed by Microsoft for smartphones as the replacement successor to Windows Mobile and Zune. Windows Phone featured a new user interface derived from the Metro design lan ...

8, Microsoft's smartphone operating system * Adobe Integrated Runtime, a cross-OS runtime system originally codenamed "Apollo" * Apollo/Domain, a series of workstations made by Apollo Computer *

Apollo Reservation System Galileo is a computer reservations system (CRS) owned by Travelport. As of 2000, it had a 26.4% share of worldwide CRS airline bookings. In addition to airline reservations, the Galileo CRS is also used to book train travel, cruise ship, cruises, c ...

, the computerized central reservation system developed by United Airlines

Sports

* Apollo 55, professional wrestling tag team * ''Apollo of Temple'', now Philadelphia sports venue Liacouras Center * Orlando Apollos, an American football team in the Alliance of American Football

Transportation

Automobiles

Apollo (1906 automobile) The Apollo was made by the Chicago Recording Scale Company, of Waukegan, Illinois, from 1906 to 1907. The only model by that manufacturer was a five-seater with a Roi-des-Belges Roi-des-Belges ("King of the Belgians") or tulip phaeton was a ca ...

, an American car made from 1906 to 1907 * Apollo (1910 automobile), a German car built from 1910 to 1927 * Apollo (1962 automobile), an American sports car built from 1962 to 1964 * Apollo Automobil, a German sports car manufacturing company ** Gumpert Apollo, a racing and high-performance sports car produced by Apollo Automobil * Holden Apollo, an automobile manufactured by Toyota and sold by Holden in Australia from 1989 to 1997 * Volkswagen Apollo, a rebadged version of the Ford Verona automobile sold in Brazil between 1990 and 1992 * Buick Apollo, an American compact car built from 1973 to 1975

Ships

* ''Apollo'' (1812 EIC ship) * ''Apollo'' (storeship), an historic storeship * ST ''Apollo'', a tugboat * HMS ''Royal Scotsman'', later renamed ''Apollo'', a passenger ferry repurposed in the 1960s as founding flagship of the Sea Org of the Church of Scientology * MV ''Apollo'', a vehicle and passenger ferry in Canada

Other

* ''Apollo'', a steam locomotive of the

West Cornwall Railway The West Cornwall Railway was a railway company in Cornwall, Great Britain, formed in 1846 to construct a railway between Penzance and Truro. It purchased the existing Hayle Railway, and improved its main line, and built new sections between P ...

*'' Ducati Apollo'', a prototype motorcycle of 1964 * Armstrong Whitworth Apollo, a prototype airliner