Lotus or LOTUS may refer to:

Plants

List of plants known as lotus Lotus identifies various plant taxa: * ''Nelumbo'', a genus of aquatic plants with showy flowers known as lotuses, having two extant species: ** ''Nelumbo nucifera'', the Sacred or Indian lotus ** ''Nelumbo lutea'', the American or yellow lotus * ...

, a list of various botanical taxa commonly known as lotus, particularly: **'' Nelumbonaceae'', a single-genus family of aquatic flowering plants, consisting of just two species; the American lotus and the better known sacred lotus, or the Indian lotus, a symbolically important Asian plant ** ''Lotus'' (genus), a genus of terrestrial plants in the family Fabaceae *

Lotus tree The lotus tree (, ''lōtós'') is a plant that is referred to in stories from Greek and Roman mythology. The lotus tree is mentioned in Homer's '' Odyssey'' as bearing a fruit that caused a pleasant drowsiness, and which was said to be the only f ...

, a plant in Greek and Roman mythology

Places

* Lotus, California, an unincorporated community in El Dorado County, California, United States * Lotus, Indiana, an unincorporated community in Union County, Indiana, United States * Lotus, Florida, a former village in Brevard County, Florida, United States * Lotus, Kentucky, an unincorporated community in Bullitt County, Kentucky, United States

Brands

Cars and car racing

Lotus Cars Lotus Group (also known as Lotus Cars) is a British multinational automotive manufacturer of luxury sports cars and electric vehicles. Lotus Group is composed of three primary entities. Lotus Cars, a high-performance sports car company, is ba ...

, a British motor vehicle manufacturer ** Lotus F1 Team, a British Formula One team that started competing in the 2012 season **

Team Lotus Team Lotus was the motorsport sister company of English sports car manufacturer Lotus Cars. The team ran cars in many motorsport categories including Formula One, Formula Two, Formula Ford, Formula Junior, American Championship Car Racing, Ind ...

, a British Formula One racing team that competed between 1954 and 1994 ** Pacific Team Lotus, the successor team that resulted from a merger with Pacific and competed in Formula One in 1995 ** Lotus GP, a French GP2 and GP3 racing team sponsored by Lotus Cars * Team Lotus (2010–11), a Malaysian Formula One racing team that began racing in 2010 as Lotus Racing and became the Caterham F1 Team at the end of the 2011 season

Other brands

* Lotus (guitar), an instrument manufacturer *Lotus, a brand of watches, part of the Festina Group * Lotus Foods, an organic rice company * Lotus Bakeries, a Belgian bakery founded in 1932 *

Lotus Software Lotus Software (called Lotus Development Corporation before its acquisition by IBM) was an American software company based in Massachusetts; it was sold to India's HCL Technologies in 2018. Lotus is most commonly known for the Lotus 1-2-3 sprea ...

, a personal computer software company, best known for: **

Lotus Notes HCL Notes (formerly Lotus Notes then IBM Notes) is a proprietary collaborative software platform for Unix ( AIX), IBM i, Windows, Linux, and macOS, sold by HCLTech. The client application is called Notes while the server component is branded ...

, collaborative software, personal information manager and e-mail client now known as IBM Notes **

Lotus 1-2-3 Lotus 1-2-3 is a discontinued spreadsheet program from Lotus Software (later part of IBM). It was the first killer application of the IBM PC, was hugely popular in the 1980s, and significantly contributed to the success of IBM PC-compatibles ...

spreadsheet application * Lotus's, formerly Lotus Supercenter and Tesco Lotus, a hypermarket chain in Thailand and Malaysia operated by Charoen Pokphand Group

Religion

* Sacred lotus in religious art *

Lotus throne The lotus throne, sometimes called lotus platform, is a stylized lotus flower used as the seat or base for a figure in art associated with Indian religions. It is the normal pedestal for divine figures in Buddhist art and Hindu art, and often see ...

base for figures in Asian religious art * Lotus, one of the

Ashtamangala The Ashtamangala () is the sacred set of Eight Auspicious Signs ( zh, 八吉祥, ''bajixiang'') featured in a number of Indian religions such as Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism. The symbols or "symbolic attributes" () are yidam and teaching too ...

(Eight Auspicious Symbols) *

Lotus Sutra The ''Lotus Sūtra'' (Sanskrit: ''Saddharma Puṇḍarīka Sūtram'', ''Sūtra on the White Lotus of the True Dharma'', zh, p=Fǎhuá jīng, l=Dharma Flower Sutra) is one of the most influential and venerated Buddhist Mahāyāna sūtras. ...

, an influential Mahayana sutra

Media and entertainment

Music

Artists

* Lotus (Australian band), a 1970s rock, pop band * Lotus (American band), an instrumental rock band * Lotus (Hong Kong band), a 1960s pop band

Albums

* ''Lotus'' (Christina Aguilera album) (2012), by Christina Aguilera * ''Lotus'' (Elisa album) (2003), by Elisa * ''Lotus'' (Little Simz album) (2025), by Little Simz * ''Lotus'' (Santana album) (1974), by Santana *''Lotus'' (2009), by

Haywyre Martin Sebastian Vogt (born August 8, 1992), better known by his stage name Haywyre, is an American electronic music producer, pianist, and performer. He is known for fusing elements of classical, jazz and funk into various genres of electronic ...

* ''Lotus'' (Soen album) (2019), by Soen

Songs

* "Lotus" (Arashi song), by Arashi * "Lotus" (Dir En Grey song), a song by Dir En Grey * "Lotus" (R.E.M. song), by R.E.M. *"Lotus", a song from ''Cage The Elephants debut album *”Lotus”, a song by Lil Uzi Vert on the album ''

Lil Uzi Vert vs. the World 2 ''Lil Uzi Vert vs. the World 2'' is a Reissue, reissue studio album by American rapper and singer Lil Uzi Vert. It was released through Generation Now and Atlantic Records on March 13, 2020. The album was released as the deluxe edition of their s ...

'' *"Lotus", a song by Minus the Bear on '' Planet of Ice'' *"Lotus", a song by Susumu Hirasawa on the 1995 album ''

Sim City ''SimCity'' is an Open-ended (gameplay), open-ended City-building game, city-building video game franchise originally designed by Will Wright (game designer), Will Wright. The first game in the series, ''SimCity (1989 video game), SimCity'', ...

Other media

* Lotus (board game), a strategy game * ''Lotus'' (magazine), a trilingual political and cultural magazine * ''Lotus'' (video game series), a videogame series based on Lotus cars *Lotus, the codename of a character in the 2009 video game '' Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors'' * Lotus TV Macau, a television channel in Macau

Vessels

* ''Lotus'' (1826 ship), English ship * ''Lotus'' (motor vessel), a houseboat yacht * S.S. ''Lotus'', a French steamship involved in the ''Lotus case'' criminal trial * S.S.S. ''Lotus'', an American sailing vessel

People

* Lotus (given name) *Lotus Blossom (born 2007) Japanese-American actress and daughter of Ernie Reyes Jr. * Lotus de Païni (1862–1953) Italian-born painter, writer, sculptor, and occultist * Lotus Long (1909–1990), Asian-American actress

Other uses

* Law of the unconscious statistician, a statistics theorem used to calculate the expected value of a function * Lateral olfactory tract usher substance, a protein in nerve cells promoting axon growth *Leticia "Lotus" Madrigal, a character from the Philippine drama series '' Abot-Kamay na Pangarap'' * Operation Lotus (disambiguation), multiple meanings