Drax may refer to:

Places

Drax, North Yorkshire Drax is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, about south-east of Selby, which is best known today as the site of Drax power station. It was part of the West Riding of Yorkshire until 1 April 1974. From 1974 to 2023 it w ...

, a village and civil parish in the United Kingdom **

Drax Priory Drax Priory was an Augustinian priory at Drax in North Yorkshire, England England is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is located on the island of Great Britain, of which it covers about 6 ...

, a former Augustinian priory **

Drax Power Station Drax power station is a large Biomass (energy), biomass power station in Drax, North Yorkshire, Drax, North Yorkshire, England. It has a 2.6 GW capacity for biomass and had a 1.29 GW capacity for coal that was retired in 2021. Its name comes f ...

, the largest power station in Britain

People

Drax (surname) Drax is a surname, and may refer to: * Henry Drax (c. 1693–1755), English politician * James Drax (died 1662), Barbados plantation owner * Reginald Drax (1880–1967), British admiral * Richard Drax Richard Grosvenor Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-D ...

, people with the surname

Fictional characters

* Sir

Hugo Drax Sir Hugo Drax is a fictional character created by author Ian Fleming for the 1955 James Bond novel '' Moonraker''. For the later film and its novelization, Drax was greatly altered from the novel by screenwriter Christopher Wood. In the film, D ...

, in the James Bond novel and film ''Moonraker'' *

Drax the Destroyer Drax the Destroyer (Arthur Sampson Douglas) is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Jim Starlin, the character first appeared in '' The Invincible Iron Man'' #55 (February 1973). The character's or ...

, a Marvel Comics character **

Drax (Marvel Cinematic Universe) Drax the Destroyer, often referred to simply as Drax, is a fictional character portrayed by Dave Bautista in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) media franchise, based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. Drax is depicted as an impo ...

, the film version of the character *

Infinity-Man Infinity-Man is the name of several characters appearing in DC Comics, in the '' Fourth World'' storyline. Both are alien heroes associated with the New Gods, with the second, Drax, being Darkseid's brother and an ally of the Forever People. Inf ...

, a DC Comics character also named "Drax" *

Drax (Time Lord) ''The Armageddon Factor'' is the sixth and final serial of the 16th season of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', which was first broadcast in six weekly parts on BBC1 from 20 January to 24 February 1979. It was the las ...

, in the ''Doctor Who'' television series

Companies

Drax Group Drax Group plc, trading as Drax, is a power generation business. The principal downstream enterprises are based in the UK and include Drax Power Limited, which runs the biomass fuelled Drax power station, near Selby in North Yorkshire. The Group ...

, a British electrical power generation company {{disambiguation, geo