Icarus In Greek mythology, Icarus (; , ) was the son of the master craftsman Daedalus, the architect of the labyrinth of Crete. After Theseus, king of Athens and enemy of King Minos, escaped from the labyrinth, Minos suspected that Icarus and Daedalu ...

is a character in Greek mythology. Icarus or Ikarus may also refer to:

People

* Roger Squires (1932–2023), crossword compiler who has used the pseudonym Icarus * Icarus (wrestler) (born 1982), wrestler with the Chikara organization

Places

* Icarus (island), in the Aegean Sea * Ikaros (Failaka Island), in the Persian Gulf

Aviation

Aircraft

* Hartman ''Ikarus'', a 1950s British human-powered ornithopter * Icarus I, Icarus II and Icarus V, series of rigid-wing hang gliders designed by Taras Kiceniuk, Jr. *

Ikarus C42 The Ikarus C42 is a two-seat, fixed tricycle gear, general aviation microlight aircraft, manufactured in Germany by Comco Ikarus. It is used primarily for flight training, touring and personal flying. Design and development The Ikarus C42 is ...

, a microlight aircraft * Ikarus IK-2, the most notable indigenous Yugoslav aircraft of the 1930s and World War II era * Icarus, a prototype space rescue vehicle tested by Aleksandr Serebrov

Aviation businesses and organizations

* Ikarus Drachen Tomas Pellicci, a German hang glider manufacturer * Icaro Air, an Ecuadorian airline * Icarus School, a military aviation academy * Icarus, a Greek airline that preceded Olympic Airlines * Ikarus, a Yugoslav aircraft manufacturer later renamed Ikarbus

Other uses in aviation

Coupe Icare Coupe Icare, also known as the Icarus Cup, is an annual festival of free flight held between Saint-Hilaire (on the border of Chartreuse Mountains) and Lumbin (in the valley of Isère in France). The festival typically lasts four days and is held ...

("Icarus Cup"), a flight festival

Other businesses and organizations

* Icarus Project, a mental health organization * Icarus Theatre Collective, a British theatre company * Ikarus (Hungarian company), a Hungarian bus manufacturer * Ikarbus, a Serbian bus manufacturer formerly known as Ikarus * Icarus FC, an association football kit and sportswear brand

Arts and entertainment

Film and television

* ''Icarus'' (''Planet of the Apes''), a spacecraft in the ''Planet of the Apes'' franchise * Icarus Base, a place in the series ''Stargate Universe'' * Icarus, an orbital superweapon in the James Bond film '' Die Another Day'' * ''Icarus I'', and ''Icarus II'', spacecraft in '' Sunshine'' * ''Icarus'' (2010 film) (also ''The Killing Machine''), an action film * ''Icarus'' (2017 film), a documentary film by Bryan Fogel * "Icarus" (''Scandal''), an episode of the TV series ''Scandal'' * "Icarus", the eleventh episode of ''Smallville'', Season 10 * "Icarus", the seventh episode of '' Law & Order: Criminal Intent''

Fictional characters

* Icarus (comics), a Marvel Comics character * Icarus, a mecha in '' Chōjin Sentai Jetman'' * Icarus, a ''Deus Ex'' character * Icarus, a character in '' Hercules: The Animated Series'' * Icarus, a character in '' Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland'' * Ikaros, a character in '' Heaven's Lost Property'' * Icarus, a primary character based on the Greek myth in the Cirque du Soleil show ''

Varekai Varekai was a Cirque du Soleil touring production that premiered in Montréal in April 2002. Its title means "wherever" in the Romani language, and the show is an "acrobatic tribute to the nomadic soul". The show begins with the Greek myth of ...

Music

* Icaros, shamanic medicine songs * Icarus (band), a band from London, England

Albums

* ''Icarus'' (Paul Winter Consort album), 1972 * ''Icarus'' (The Forms album), 2003 * ''Icarus'' (Chicosci album), 2004 * ''Icarus'', 2011 EP by Periphery * ''Icaro'', album by Renato Zero * ''Icarus'' (Cryalot EP), 2022 * ''Icarus'', 2024 EP by Khary and Abhi the Nomad

Songs

* "Icarus", a 1969 song written by Ralph Towner, included on ''Icarus'' (Paul Winter Consort album) * "Icarus - Borne on Wings of Steel", a song by Kansas on the album ''

Masque The masque was a form of festive courtly entertainment that flourished in 16th- and early 17th-century Europe, though it was developed earlier in Italy, in forms including the intermedio (a public version of the masque was the pageant). A mas ...

'', 1975 * "Icarus", a song by Santigold on the album '' Top Ranking'' * "Icarus", a song by Jason Webley on the album '' Only Just Beginning'' * "Ikarus", a song by Unheilig on ''

Phosphor A phosphor is a substance that exhibits the phenomenon of luminescence; it emits light when exposed to some type of radiant energy. The term is used both for fluorescent or phosphorescent substances which glow on exposure to ultraviolet or ...

'' * "Icarus", a song by Bastille on the album '' Bad Blood'' * "Icarus II", a song by Kansas on the album '' Somewhere to Elsewhere'', 2000 * "Icarus", a song by Eden on the album ''

vertigo Vertigo is a condition in which a person has the sensation that they are moving, or that objects around them are moving, when they are not. Often it feels like a spinning or swaying movement. It may be associated with nausea, vomiting, perspira ...

'' * "Icarus" (Madeon song), 2012 * "Icarus" (Greeeen song), 2015 * "Icarus" (R3hab song), 2016 * "Icarus", a song by JJ Project on the EP '' Verse 2'', 2017 * "Icarus", a song by Emma Blackery from the 2018 album '' Villains'' * "Icarus", a song by Starset on the album '' Horizons'', 2021

Other media

* ''Icarus'' (magazine), a Trinity College student publication * ''Icarus'' (sculpture), 1973 by Michael Ayrton

Software and video games

* ''Icarus'' (video game), a sci-fi survival video game developed by RocketWerkz * Ikarus (typography software), a type design and production software developed by URW foundry * Ikarus (Scheme implementation), a free software optimizing incremental compiler for R6RS Scheme * Icarus Verilog, an implementation of the Verilog hardware description language * '' BioShock Infinite'', codenamed "Project Icarus" during development * Ikarus (chess), a computer chess program

Science and technology

Space

* 1566 Icarus, an asteroid * ICARUS experiment, a neutrino detector at Gran Sasso National Laboratory, Italy *

Icarus (crater) Icarus is a Lunar craters, lunar impact crater that lies on the Moon's Far side (Moon), far side. It is located to the west of the huge walled plain Korolev (lunar crater), Korolev, and less than two crater diameters to the east of the crater D ...

, on the Moon, named for the Ralph Towner composition by the Apollo 15 Astronauts * ''Icarus'' (journal), a planetary science journal *

Icarus (star) MACS J1149 Lensed Star 1, also known as Icarus,Other names include ''LS1'', ''MACS J1149 LS1'', ''MACS J1149 Lensed Star 1 (LS1)'' and ''MACS J1149+2223 Lensed Star 1'' is a blue supergiant star observed through a gravitational lens. It is the ...

, most distant individual star detected (as of April 2018) * IKAROS, an interplanetary uncrewed solar sail spacecraft * Project Icarus (interstellar), a design study of an interstellar spacecraft based on Project Daedalus * Project Icarus (photography) (2009), a project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Other uses in science and technology

* ''Icarus'' (plant), a fern genus * ICARUS Initiative, an international project studying the migration routes of flying animals * IKZF1, a protein in humans that is encoded by the IKZF genes of the Ikaros family zinc finger group

Other uses

* HMS ''Icarus'', the name of several ships * , a patrol boat of the United States Coast Guard * Ikarus, a restaurant in Hangar-7 in Salzburg, Austria * Icarus affair, an incident involving the 1867 murder of two British sailors in Nagasaki * Operation Ikarus, a World War II German plan to invade Iceland