Mistral may refer to: *

Mistral (wind) The mistral (; ; Corsican: ''maestrale''; ; ; ; ) is a strong, cold, northwesterly wind that blows from southern France into the Gulf of Lion in the northern Mediterranean. It produces sustained winds averaging 31 miles an hour (50 kilometres ...

in southern France and Sardinia

Automobiles

Maserati Mistral The Maserati Mistral (''Tipo AM109'') is a 2-seat gran turismo produced by Italian car manufacturer Maserati between 1963 and 1970. The successor to the 3500 GT, it was styled by Frua and bodied by Maggiora of Turin. A total of 844 coupé ...

, a Maserati grand tourer produced from 1963 until 1970 * Nissan Mistral, or Terrano II, a Nissan 4×4 produced from 1993 until 2006 * Microplas Mistral, a kit car from the 1950s produced in England, United States, and New Zealand * Bugatti Mistral

Companies

Mistral AI Mistral AI SAS () is a French artificial intelligence (AI) startup, headquartered in Paris. Founded in 2023, it specializes in open-weight large language models (LLMs), with both open-source and proprietary AI models. Namesake The company is ...

, a French artificial intelligence company * Mistral Appliances, an Australian home appliances brand * Mistral Group, an American defense and law enforcement product marketing company * Mistral Solutions, an Indian product design and systems engineering company

Aviation

* Mistral Air (now Poste Air Cargo), an Italian cargo airline * Mistral Aviation, an airline from the Republic of the Congo *

Mistral Engine Company Mistral Engines SA was a Switzerland, Swiss developer and manufacturer of wankel rotary aviation light aircraft, helicopter and unmanned military vehicle engines based on Mazda automotive engines. Its headquarters was in Geneva, Switzerland and was ...

, a Swiss light aircraft and helicopter engine manufacturer * Aviasud Mistral, a French ultralight aircraft * ''Sud-Est SE 535 Mistral'', the French version of the

de Havilland Vampire The de Havilland DH100 Vampire is a British jet fighter which was developed and manufactured by the de Havilland, de Havilland Aircraft Company. It was the second jet fighter to be operated by the Royal Air Force, RAF, after the Gloster Meteo ...

jet fighter * Swing Mistral, a German paraglider design built by

Swing Flugsportgeräte Swing Flugsportgeräte GmbH () is a German aircraft manufacturer based in Landsberied, west of Munich, near the Bavarian Alps.Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04'', page 32. Pagefast Ltd, Lancaste ...

OpenSkies OpenSkies was a French airline owned by International Airlines Group (IAG) which operated under the Level (airline brand), Level brand prior to closing down, and before that operated under its own brand name. Its headquarters were located in ...

, an airline with the callsign MISTRAL

People and characters

Mistral Raymond Mistral Raymond (born September 7, 1987) is an American former professional football safety. He was selected by the Minnesota Vikings in the sixth round of the 2011 NFL draft. College career Raymond began his collegiate career at Ellsworth Com ...

(born 1987), American football player *

Frédéric Mistral Joseph Étienne Frédéric Mistral (; , 8 September 1830 – 25 March 1914) was an Occitan writer and lexicographer of the Provençal form of the language. He received the 1904 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of the fresh origina ...

(1830–1914), French writer and lexicographer *

Gabriela Mistral Lucila Godoy Alcayaga (; 7 April 1889 – 10 January 1957), known by her pseudonym Gabriela Mistral (), was a Chilean poet-diplomat, educator, and Catholic. She was a member of the Secular Franciscan Order or Third Franciscan order. She was ...

(1889–1957), pseudonym of the Chilean poet Lucila Godoy Alcayaga *

Jacques Mistral Jacques Mistral (born September 22, 1947) is a French economist and professor. He is a member of the Conseil d'Analyse Économique in France, a member of the Cercle des économistes, and as of October 2009, a member of the scientific council of th ...

(born 1947), French economist and professor *

Jorge Mistral Modesto Llosas Rosell (24 November 1920 – 20 April 1972), known professionally as Jorge Mistral, was a Spanish film actor. During the 1940s, he became a star in films produced by CIFESA. In the 1950s, he lived and worked in Mexico and appeare ...

(1920–1972), Spanish actor * Mistral, title character of the Laurell Hamilton novel ''

Mistral's Kiss ''Mistral's Kiss'' is the fifth novel in the Merry Gentry series by Laurell K. Hamilton, and was released December 12, 2006. Plot introduction The series has revolved around a conflict between title character, faerie princess Meredith NicEssus ...

'' * Mistral, a character from the video game '' Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance''

Ships and watercraft

* French ship ''Mistral'', various ships of the French Navy, including: ** ''Mistral''-class amphibious assault ship ** ''Mistral'' (L9013), the lead ship of the ''Mistral''-class * Spanish submarine ''Mistral'' (S73), an ''Agosta''-class submarine *

Mistral One Design Class The Mistral One Design Class (MOD) is a one-design racing, one-design windsurfing class chosen by the International Sailing Federation (ISAF) for use at the Olympic regatta in Sailing at the 1996 Summer Olympics#Medal summary, Atlanta 1996, Sailin ...

, a former windsurf class * ''

Grand Mistral MS ''Ambition'' is a cruise ship operated by Ambassador Cruise Line. Completed in France as ''Mistral'' for Festival Cruises in 1999, She sailed between 2005 and 2019 as ''Grand Mistral'' with Ibero Cruises and ''Costa neoRiviera'' with Costa ...

'' (previously ''Mistral''), an Iberocruceros cruise ship

Other uses

* ''Mistral'' (album), a 1980 album by Freddie Hubbard * Mistral (crater), a crater on Mercury *

Mistral (missile) The Missile Transportable Anti-aérien Léger (English: Transportable lightweight anti-air missile), commonly called Mistral, is a French infrared homing short range air defense system manufactured by MBDA France (formerly by Matra Défense a ...

, a surface-to-air missile developed in France * Mistral (pisco), a brand of pisco named after Gabriela Mistral * Mistral (software), an information retrieval software system *

Mistral (typeface) Mistral is a casual script typeface designed by Roger Excoffon for the Fonderie Olive type foundry, and released in 1953. The Amsterdam Type foundry released a version in 1955. Excoffon based the form of the typeface on his own handwriting. Th ...

, a 1953 casual typeface designed by Frenchman Roger Excoffon * ''Le Mistral'' (train), an express train which ran between Paris and Nice *

Operation Mistral 2 Operation Mistral 2, officially codenamed Operation Maestral 2, was a Croatian Army (HV) and Croatian Defence Council (HVO) offensive in western Bosnia and Herzegovina on 8–15 September 1995 as part of the Bosnian War. Its objective was to ...

, a Croatian military offensive in 1995 * Mistral, a brand name of the fungicide

fenpropimorph Fenpropimorph is a morpholine-derived fungicide used in agriculture, primarily on cereal crops such as wheat. It has been reported to disrupt eukaryotic sterol biosynthesis pathways, notably by inhibiting fungal Δ14 reductases. It has also been r ...

* Le Mistral, fictional setting of the French soap opera ''