Longhorn may refer to:

Animals

English Longhorn The Longhorn or British Longhorn is a British breed of beef cattle characterised by long curving horns. It originated in northern England, in the counties of Lancashire, Westmorland and Yorkshire, and later spread to the English Midlands and to ...

, a traditional long-horned brown and white breed of cattle *

Texas Longhorn The Texas Longhorn is an American breed of beef cattle, characterized by its long horns, which can span more than from tip to tip. It derives from cattle brought from the Iberian Peninsula to the Americas by Spanish conquistadors from the ti ...

, a breed of cattle * Highland cattle, a Scottish breed sometimes called Highland Longhorn *

Longhorn beetle The longhorn beetles (Cerambycidae), also known as long-horned or longicorns (whose larvae are often referred to as roundheaded borers), are a large family of beetles, with over 35,000 species described. Most species are characterized by Antenn ...

, a family of beetles with very long antennae

In the US state of Texas

* Longhorn, Texas, a community *

Longhorn Dam Longhorn Dam is a dam crossing the Colorado River in Austin, Texas, United States, where it creates Lady Bird Lake. Completed in 1960, the dam was built by the City of Austin as the last in a chain of Colorado River dams in central Texas begun dur ...

, on the Colorado River in Austin *

Texas Longhorns The Texas Longhorns are the athletic teams representing the University of Texas at Austin. The teams are sometimes referred to as the Horns and take their name from Longhorn cattle that were an important part of the development of Texas, and ...

, sports teams and organizations at the University of Texas at Austin * Longhorn, the mascot (a Texas Longhorn bull) of

J. Frank Dobie High School J. Frank Dobie High School is a public secondary school located in Houston, Texas, Houston, Texas. Founded in 1968, it is named after J. Frank Dobie, the Texas writer of the same name. It houses grades 10-12. A Ninth Grade Center was opened recent ...

, Houston * Longhorn, A candy of chocolate, pecans, and caramel made by Lammes Candy * Longhorn Railway Company

Technology

Windows Longhorn Windows is a product line of proprietary graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft. It is grouped into families and subfamilies that cater to particular sectors of the computing industry – Windows (unqualified) for a ...

, the pre-release internal Microsoft codename of the Windows Vista **

Longhorn Server Windows Server 2008, codenamed "Longhorn Server" (alternatives: "Windows Vista Server" or "Windows Server Vista"), is the seventh major version of the Windows NT operating system produced by Microsoft to be released under the Windows Server b ...

, the original codename of Windows Server 2008 * Okapi Longhorn, a batch processing server in

Okapi Framework The Okapi Framework is a cross-platform and open-source set of components and applications that offer extensive support for localizing and translating documentation and software. Architecture The Okapi Framework is organized around the followi ...

* Longhorn, a platform for Kubernetes maintained by SUSE's

Rancher Labs Rancher Labs is an open source software company based in Cupertino, California. The company helps manage Kubernetes at scale. Rancher Labs was founded in 2014 and, according to the company, its flagship product is used by more than 30,000 activ ...

Fictional characters

* Longhorn, a fictional character on the animated television show ''

Freakazoid! ''Freakazoid!'' is an American superhero comedy animated television series created by Bruce Timm and Paul Dini and developed by Tom Ruegger for the Kids' WB programming block of The WB. The series chronicles the adventures of the title char ...

'' *

Longhorn (Transformers) This is a list of characters in the ''Beast Wars'' franchise, which is part of the larger ''Transformers'' franchise from Hasbro. This includes characters appearing in an animated series, comics or video games. This does not include characters ...

, one of several characters in the various "Transformers" fictional universes

Music

Jay's Longhorn Bar Jay's Longhorn Bar was a small scale concert venue, known for being a nexus of the punk rock and New Wave scenes in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in the late 1970s and early 1980s. History Most frequently referred to by patrons as The Longhorn, Jay's ...

, a former music venue in Minneapolis commonly known as "The Longhorn" * "Longhorn", a piece of music used as the entrance theme for

John Bradshaw Layfield John Charles Layfield (born November 29, 1966), better known by the ring name John "Bradshaw" Layfield, is an American professional wrestling color commentator, retired professional wrestler and former American football, football player. He is s ...

, composed by Jim Johnston

Other uses

* Farman MF.7 ''Longhorn'', a French biplane flown in World War I *

Longhorn cheddar Colby is a semihard orange cheese made from cow's milk. It is named after the city of Colby, Wisconsin, USA, where it was first developed in 1885 and quickly became popular. Today the cheese is typically used in snacks, sandwiches, and salads. ...

, a type of colby cheese *

Longhorn Kenya Limited Overview Longhorn Publishers PLC is a Pan-African publishing house that is publicly listed in the Nairobi Securities Exchange. The company has grown its dominance in the publishing sector by establishing its presence throughout the region. In ...

, a Kenyan publishing company * Longhorn Steakhouse, a chain of restaurants in the United States *

Weinheim Longhorns The Weinheim Longhorns are an American football team from Weinheim, Germany. The club's greatest success was promotion to the German Football League in 2006, where it spent four seasons. During this time, the club reached the playoffs on three oc ...

, an American football team in Weinheim, Germany * '' The Longhorn'', a 1951 American Western film {{disambiguation