Centauro is the Italian word for

centaur A centaur ( ; ; ), occasionally hippocentaur, also called Ixionidae (), is a creature from Greek mythology with the upper body of a human and the lower body and legs of a horse that was said to live in the mountains of Thessaly. In one version o ...

. Centauro also may refer to:

People

Greg Centauro Greg Centauro (January 10, 1977 – March 26, 2011) was a French pornographic actor and director. Career Centauro came to notoriety in France during the early 2000s when he and his then-girlfriend Clara Morgane became porn actors at the same tim ...

(1977–2011), French pornographic actor and director

Military formations

*I Mechanized Brigade "Centauro", ancestor of the Italian Army's Mechanized Brigade "Goito" *III Services Battalion "Centauro", ancestor of the Italian Army's Transit Areas Management Regiment *

131st Armored Division "Centauro" The 131st Armored Division "Centauro" () was an armored division of the Royal Italian Army (1940–1946), Italian Army during World War II. The division was formed in April 1939 by expanding the I Armored Brigade (). The division's name came fro ...

, a World War II Italian Royal Army unit *

131st Artillery Regiment "Centauro" The 131st Artillery Regiment "Centauro" () is an inactive field artillery regiment of the Italian Army, which was based in Vercelli in Piedmont. Originally an armored artillery regiment of the Royal Italian Army, the regiment was assigned during ...

, an inactive Italian Army unit * 136th Armored Legionary Division "Centauro", a World War II Italian Royal Army unit * Armored Brigade "Centauro", a post-World War II Italian Army unit *Artillery Specialists Group "Centauro", ancestor of the Italian Army's 12th Heavy Field Artillery Regiment (Italy) *Engineer Battalion "Centauro", ancestor of the Italian Army's 131st Engineer Battalion "Ticino" * Logistic Battalion "Piemonte", an inactive Italian Army unit originally named the Logistic Battalion "Centauro" *Signal Battalion "Centauro", ancestor of the Italian Army's

231st Signal Battalion "Sempione" The 231st Signal Battalion "Sempione" () is signals unit of the Italian Army. The battalion was formed in 1959 and assigned to the Armored Division "Centauro". In 1975, the battalion was named for the Simplon Pass () and received the number 231s ...

Aerospace

Centauro (sounding rocket) The Centauro series is a family of Argentinian solid-fuel sounding rockets developed by the Instituto de Investigaciones Aeronauticas y Espaciales (IIAE). This family includes Alfa, Beta, and Gamma Centauro. Alfa Centauro was a single-stage rocket ...

, a family of Argentinian sounding rockets * Fiat G.55 Centauro, an Italian World War II fighter aircraft

Ships

*, various Italian naval vessels *, a class of Portuguese Navy patrol boats

Vehicles

Centauro Centauro is the Italian word for centaur A centaur ( ; ; ), occasionally hippocentaur, also called Ixionidae (), is a creature from Greek mythology with the upper body of a human and the lower body and legs of a horse that was said to live in th ...

, an Italian tank destroyer, the basis for a family of Italian armored vehicles

Television and film

* ''Centauro'' (film), a 2022 Spanish action thriller film *''

La querida del Centauro ''La querida del Centauro'' ( Lit: ''The Dear of the Centaur'' / English: ''Centauro's Woman''), is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by Teleset and Sony Pictures Television for Telemundo and distributed by Telemundo Internacional, based on ...

'', an American 2016–2017 telenovela

Other

* ''Centauro'' (review), a Portuguese monthly literary review * Centauro event, a kind of anomalous event observed in cosmic-ray detectors