Blaze may refer to:

Films

* ''Blaze'' (1989 film), starring Paul Newman and Lolita Davidovich, the latter as stripper Blaze Starr * ''Blaze'' (2018 film), based on the life of country musician Blaze Foley * ''Blaze'' (2022 film), an Australian drama film

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, US * Blaze (Japanese band), a band known for its song "Fire"

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 * "Blaze", the debut single of Korean rock band Rolling Quartz

Other 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

Sports and games

Mascots

* Blaze (UAB mascot), the dragon mascot of the University of Alabama at Birmingham athletic teams * Blaze (Paralympic mascot), the phoenix 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 Pennsylvania Western University, California Vulcans

Teams

* Coventry Blaze, an ice hockey team in England, known as Solihull Blaze before relocation to Coventry *

Gold Coast Blaze The Gold Coast Blaze were an Australian men's professional basketball team which competed in the National Basketball League (NBL). The Blaze played five seasons in the NBL between 2007 and 2012, and played their home games at the Gold Coast C ...

, an Australian basketball team based in Queensland *

The Blaze (women's cricket) The Blaze, previously known as Lightning, are a women's cricket team that represent the county of Nottinghamshire in English domestic women's cricket. Previously The Blaze represented the wider East Midlands region, in a regionalised structure f ...

, an English women's cricket team based in the East Midlands, formerly known as Lightning (from Loughborough Lightning)

United States

Atlanta Blaze The Atlanta Blaze were a professional men's field lacrosse team in Major League Lacrosse (MLL). The Blaze became the ninth team in MLL as an expansion team for the 2016 Major League Lacrosse season, 2016 season and played its home games at Atlanta ...

, a former Major League Lacrosse team based in Atlanta, Georgia * Bakersfield Blaze, a former minor league baseball team in Bakersfield, California * Baton Rouge Blaze, a former team in the arenafootball2 league who played their home games in Baton Rouge, Louisiana * Bloomington Blaze, former name of the Bloomington Thunder (SPHL), a Southern Professional Hockey League team based in Bloomington, Illinois *

Chicago Blaze (basketball) The Chicago Blaze were a women's professional basketball team in the National Women's Basketball League (NWBL). Based in Chicago, Illinois Illinois ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern United States. ...

, a National Women's Basketball League team from 2002 to 2005 *

Chicago Blaze (ice hockey) The Chicago Blaze was a professional ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey in North America) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an Ice rink, ice skating rink with Ice hockey rink, lines and markings specific to the sport ...

, an All American Hockey League team in 2008-09 *

Chicago Blaze (rugby) Chicago Blaze Rugby Football Club is a rugby union club based in Lemont, Illinois. The Blaze's first side competes in the Midwest Rugby Football Union's Division II class. History In 1982, the Windy City Nomads merged with the Amoco Rugby Club ...

, a rugby union club founded in 1982 *

Indiana Blaze Indiana ( ) is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Lake Michigan to the northwest, Michigan to the north and northeast, Ohio to the east, the Ohio River and Kentucky to the south and southeast, and the Wabash Riv ...

, a former W-League women's soccer team based in Indianapolis, Indiana *

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 based in Salt Lake City

Other sports and games

Blaze (dinghy) The Blaze was designed in the mid-1990s by Ian Howlett, one time International 14 designer and associated with Americas Cup design work and John Caig, winner of Fireball Worlds. It is a powerful winged single-hander with well-developed 10 m s ...

, 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 hand ...

Businesses

Blaze (TV channel) Blaze is a British English language free-to-air television channel owned by A&E Networks UK, a joint venture between A&E Networks and Sky Group. This channel allows UK A&E to use its programming for the complete "lifecycle". A+E Networks Ital ...

, a British television channel * Blaze Europe, a video games accessory manufacturer and distributor in the UK * Blaze Pizza, an American pizza chain

Places

* Blaze, Kentucky, US, an unincorporated community * Blaze Island, Nunavut, Canada * Blaze Mountain, a summit in Montana, US

People

* Blaze (given name), a list of people with the name * Blaze (surname), a list of people with the name

Stage 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 I ...

, stage name of English singer and former Wolfsbane and Iron Maiden vocalist Bayley Alexander Cooke (born 1963) * Blaze Foley, stage name of American country singer and songwriter Michael David Fuller (1949–1989) * Blaze Starr, stage name of American stripper and burlesque artist Fannie Belle Fleming (1932–2015) * Blaze Ya Dead Homie, also known simply as Blaze, American rapper Chris Rouleau (born 1976) * Bobby Blaze, a ring name of American professional wrestler Robert Smedley (born 1963) * Johnny Blaze, a ring name, along with John Morrison, of American professional wrestler John Randall Hennigan (born 1979) * Johnny Blaze, a stage name, along with

Method Man Clifford Smith, Jr. (born March 2, 1971), known professionally as Method Man, is an American rapper, record producer, and actor. He is a member of the East Coast hip hop collective Wu-Tang Clan, and is half of the hip hop duo Method Man & R ...

, of American rapper, songwriter, record producer and actor Clifford Smith, Jr.(born 1971)

Fictional entities

Ghost Rider (Johnny Blaze) Ghost Rider (Johnathon "Johnny" Blaze) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is the second Marvel character to use the name Ghost Rider, following Carter Slade (the Western comics hero later kn ...

, the second Marvel Comics Ghost Rider * Blaze (''Mortal Kombat''), a character from the ''Mortal Kombat'' video game series *

Blaze the Cat The ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' video game franchise began in 1991 with the video 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 ( ...

, a 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 ''Streets of Rage'' (titled ''Bare Knuckle'' in Japan) is a series of side-scrolling beat 'em up video games. It centers on the efforts of several ex-police vigilantes trying to rid the fictional American metropolis of Wood Oak City of a crime ...

, a character from the ''Streets of Rage'' video game series * Blaze, a character in the cartoon '' Beverly Hills Teens'' * Blaze, the title Red Monster Truck character of ''

Blaze and the Monster Machines ''Blaze and the Monster Machines'' is an animated children's television series. It premiered on Nickelodeon on October 13, 2014. The show revolves around Blaze, a monster truck, and his human driver, AJ, as they have adventures in Axle City and ...

'', a 2014 Nickelodeon cartoon * Blaze, a horse featured in a series of children's books by C.W. Anderson * Blaze, a firefly in '' Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure'' * 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''

Other uses

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 ...

, an equine coat marking * Blaze (software), a tool to automate software building and testing * Blaze, a C++ math library *

Trail blazing Trail blazing or way marking is the practice of marking paths in outdoor recreational areas with signs or markings that follow each other at certain, though not necessarily exactly defined, distances and mark the direction of the trail. A blaz ...

, the practice of marking outdoor paths with signs called "blazes"