Orion may refer to:
Common meanings
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Orion (constellation)
Orion is a prominent set of stars visible during winter in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is one of the IAU designated constellations, 88 modern constellations; it was among :Constellations listed by Ptolemy, the 48 constellations liste ...
, named after the mythical hunter
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Orion (mythology)
In Greek mythology, Orion (; Ancient Greek: Ὠρίων or ; Latin: ''Orion'') was a Gigantes, giant hunting, huntsman whom Zeus (or perhaps Artemis) placed among the stars as the Orion (constellation), constellation of Orion.
Ancient sources ...
, a hunter in Greek mythology
Arts and media
Fictional entities
Characters and species
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Orion (character)
Orion is a fictional superhero appearing in comic books published by DC Comics. He is the son of Darkseid and half-brother of Kalibak and Grayven who was traded to Highfather as part of a peace deal between Apokolips and New Genesis. Since then, ...
, a DC Comics character
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Orion (''Star Trek''), a sentient alien species
* Orion, code name of
Stephen J. Bartowski on the television show ''Chuck''
* Orion, in the fighting game ''
Brawlhalla
''Brawlhalla'' is a free-to-play platform fighting game developed by Blue Mammoth Games. It was originally released for macOS, PlayStation 4 and Windows in 2017, with ports for Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Android and iOS released later. Full ...
''
* Orions, a race in the ''
Starfire'' board game and book series
* Orion, a
character from ''Power Rangers Super Megaforce''
* Captain Orion, in the Japanese series ''
X-Bomber''
* Orion Pax, the former name of
Optimus Prime.
Orion Black, the father of
Sirius Black
Sirius Black is a fictional character in the ''Harry Potter'' series of novels by J. K. Rowling. Sirius was first mentioned briefly in '' Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'' as a wizard who lent Rubeus Hagrid a flying motorbike shortly a ...
and
Regulus Black, in the Harry Potter Series
Vessels
* ''Orion'', a spaceplane in the film
''2001: A Space Odyssey''
* ''Orion'', a spaceship in ''
Raumpatrouille Orion'' (''Space Patrol Orion'' in English), the first German science fiction television series
* ''"Orion"''-class spaceship, on the television series ''
Ascension''
Literature
* ''Orion'', an 1843 poem by
Richard Henry Horne
* ''Orion'', a 1978 novel by
Gail Brewer-Giorgio
Gail Brewer-Giorgio (March 18, 1939 – January 25, 2025) was an American author best known for perpetuating the conspiracy theory that Elvis Presley may have faked his own death.
In 1978 she published ''Orion'', a novel based loosely on Presl ...
* ''Orion and King Arthur'', a 2012 novel series by
Ben Bova
Benjamin William Bova (November 8, 1932November 29, 2020) was an American writer and editor. During a writing career of 60 years, he was the author of more than 120 works of science fact and fiction, an editor of ''Analog Science Fiction and Fac ...
* ''
The Orion'', an 1893 book on sociology by Bal Gangadhar Tilak
* ''
Dead at Daybreak'', a 1998 novel by Deon Meyer, originally published as ''Orion''
Music
Albums and long-form compositions
*
''Orion'' (Ryan Adams album)
*
''Orion'' (X Ambassadors album)
*
''Orion'' (Vivier), a 1979 orchestral work by Claude Vivier
*
''Orion'' (Lacoste), an opera by the French composer Louis Lacoste
* ''Orion'', a 2004
Philip Glass
Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an American composer and pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century. Glass's work has been associated with minimal music, minimalism, being built up fr ...
composition
* ''Orion'', an album by the band
she
* ''Orion & Pleiades'' (1984), a symphonic work by
Toru Takemitsu TORU or Toru may refer to:
*TORU, spacecraft system
*Tōru (given name), Japanese male given name
*Toru, Pakistan, village in Mardan District of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
*Tõru
Tõru is a village in Saaremaa Parish, Saare County in western Es ...
Songs
*
"Orion" (Girl Next Door song)
*
"Orion" (Mika Nakashima song)
*
"Orion" (Metallica song), an instrumental piece on the album ''Master of Puppets''
* "Orion", a song by
12012
is a Japanese visual kei rock band. Formed in 2003 in Osaka Prefecture, the group centers its work around the concept of "madness inside a human" (人間の内面における狂気 '). 12012 is also the penal code for the possession of a dange ...
* "Orion", a song in the boxed set ''
Dead Can Dance (1981–1998) '' by Dead Can Dance
* "Orion", a song on the album ''
Stormwatch'' by Jethro Tull
* "Orion", a 2017 non-album single by
Kenshi Yonezu
is a Japanese singer-songwriter and illustrator. He started releasing Vocaloid music under the stage name in 2009. In 2012, he debuted under his real name, releasing music with his own voice. He has sold at least 4.2 million physical copies and ...
Other uses in music
*
Orion Records (1960s–'80s), a classical record label
*
Orion (singer) (Jimmy Ellis, 1945–1998), American singer
*
Youth (musician)
Martin Glover (born 27 December 1960), better known by his stage name Youth, is a British musician and record producer, best known as a founding member and bassist of the rock band Killing Joke. He is also a member of the Fireman, along with Pa ...
(Martin Glover, born 1960), British musician also known as Orion
Periodicals
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''Orion'' (manga), by Masamune Shirow
*
''Orion'' (magazine), a magazine on nature, environment and culture
*
''Orion'' (1840s magazine), an American literary magazine that ran from 1842 to 1844
* ''ORiON'', the journal of the
Operations Research Society of South Africa
* ''
Ginga Densetsu Weed: Orion'', a manga by Yoshihiro Takahashi
*
''The Orion'' (California State University, Chico), a student newspaper
Other uses in arts and media
*
''Orion'' (film), a Canadian film
*
''Orion'' (sculpture), work by Mark di Suvero
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Miss Riboet's Orion (1925–42), a theatrical troupe active in the Dutch East Indies
Buildings
*
The Orion (skyscraper) in New York City
*
Orion Assembly
Orion Assembly is an automotive assembly plant in Orion Township, Michigan, United States, owned and operated by General Motors. From late 2025, the plant is slated to assemble the Chevrolet Silverado EV and GMC Sierra EV battery electric p ...
, a General Motors assembly plant in Orion Township, Michigan
*
Orion Building, a residential building in Birmingham, England
* Orion, the movie theater of Finland's
National Audiovisual Archive
*
Orion Theatre, largest avant-garde theatrical/artist stage in Stockholm, Sweden
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Orion Mall, Bangalore, India; a shopping mall
Companies
Arts and media
*
Orion Pictures
Orion Releasing, LLC (Trade name, doing business as Orion Pictures) is an American film production and film distribution, distribution company owned by the Amazon MGM Studios subsidiary of Amazon (company), Amazon.
It was founded in 1978 as Ori ...
, an American film production company, now a subsidiary of MGM
*
Orion Publishing Group
Orion Publishing Group Ltd. is a UK-based book publisher. It was founded in 1991 and acquired Weidenfeld & Nicolson the following year. The group has published numerous bestselling books by notable authors including Ian Rankin, Michael Connell ...
, a UK-based book publisher
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Orion Records (1960s–'80s), a classical record label
*
Orion Broadcasting
Orion may refer to:
Common meanings
* Orion (constellation), named after the mythical hunter
* Orion (mythology), a hunter in Greek mythology
Arts and media
Fictional entities Characters and species
* Orion (character), a DC Comics c ...
, a broadcasting company in Louisville, Kentucky
Electrical power and electronics
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Orion Electric, a Japanese electronics company
*
Orion Electronics, a Hungarian company
*
Orion Energy Systems, an American power technology company
*
Orion New Zealand Limited, a New Zealand electricity distribution company
Food and beverage
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Orion Breweries, the fifth-largest beer brewery in Japan
*
Orion (chocolate), a Czech chocolate confectionery,
subsidiary of Nestlé since 1999
*
Orion Corporation (South Korean company), a South Korean confectionery company
Transportation and vehicles
Transport carriers
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Orion Airways, a UK airline that operated from 1979 to 1989
*
Orion Air, a Seychelles airline
*
Orion Expedition Cruises, an Australian cruise line
*
Orionair, a Spanish charter airline
* Orionair, name used by Luxembourg airline
Lionair when operating flights to the United States
Vehicle manufacturers
*
Orion Bus Industries, a Canadian bus manufacturer
* Orion Space, a Nepalese company producing the
Nepal PQ-1 picosatellite
*
Orionette, also known as Orion AG für Motorfahrzeuge, a German motorcycle manufacturer
Other companies
*
Orion Telescopes & Binoculars, an American company
*
Orion Corporation (pharmaceutical company), a Finnish pharmaceutical company
*
Orion Group (Bangladesh), a Bangladeshi industrial conglomerates
**
Orion Pharma (Bangladesh), a Bangladeshi pharmaceutical company
*
Orion Group (recruitment company), Scottish international recruiting company
People
*
Orion (name)
* Orion, industry name of record producer
Darren Tate (born 1972)
* Orion, stage name of
Tomasz Wróblewski
Tomasz Wróblewski (born 2 June 1980), stage name Orion, is a Polish musician, best known as the bassist for the extreme metal band Behemoth (band), Behemoth. Since 1997, he also is a member of symphonic black metal band Vesania as a lead vocali ...
(born 1980), Polish musician
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Jimmy "Orion" Ellis (1945–1998), American rockabilly singer
Places
United States
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Orion, Alabama, an unincorporated community
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Orion, Illinois, a village
**
Orion Township, Fulton County, Illinois
**
Orion High School, in Orion, Illinois
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Orion, Wisconsin, a town
**
Orion (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
*
Orion Township, Michigan
*
Orion Township, Minnesota
Elsewhere
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Orion, Alberta, Canada, a hamlet
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Orion, Bataan, the Philippines, a municipality
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Orion, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France, a commune
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Orion, Queensland, Australia, a village in the Central Highlands Region
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Orion Passage, a narrow sailing route on the northwestern tip of Antarctica
Science and technology
Astronomy
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Orion (constellation)
Orion is a prominent set of stars visible during winter in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is one of the IAU designated constellations, 88 modern constellations; it was among :Constellations listed by Ptolemy, the 48 constellations liste ...
, named after the mythical hunter
*
Orion Arm
The Orion Arm, also known as the Orion–Cygnus Arm, is a minor spiral arm within the Milky Way Galaxy spanning in width and extending roughly in length. This galactic structure encompasses the Solar System, including Earth. It is sometimes r ...
, a galactic spiral arm with apparent location near the constellation
*
Orion Nebula
The Orion Nebula (also known as Messier 42, M42, or NGC 1976) is a diffuse nebula in the Milky Way situated south of Orion's Belt in the Orion (constellation), constellation of Orion, and is known as the middle "star" in the "sword" of Orion. It ...
, in the constellation
Biology
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''Orion'' (beetle), a genus of beetles
*
Orion (grape), a white wine grape variety
* ''
Historis odius'', the Orion, a butterfly in the genus ''Historis''
Computing
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ORION (research and education network), the provincial research network of Ontario, Canada
*
Orion (system-on-a-chip), used in network-attached storage
*
Ferranti Orion
The Orion was a mid-range mainframe computer
A mainframe computer, informally called a mainframe or big iron, is a computer used primarily by large organizations for critical applications like bulk data processing for tasks such as censuses ...
, a mid-range mainframe computer introduced in 1959
*
HLH Orion, a series of minicomputers produced in the 1980s
*
Orion Application Server, a Java EE application server
*
Orion Browser, a
web browser
A web browser, often shortened to browser, is an application for accessing websites. When a user requests a web page from a particular website, the browser retrieves its files from a web server and then displays the page on the user's scr ...
from
Kagi Inc. the company behind the search search engine of the same name
* Orion quantum computing system, developed by
D-Wave Systems
D-Wave Quantum Inc. is a quantum computing company with locations in Palo Alto, California and Burnaby, British Columbia. D-Wave claims to be the world's first company to sell computers that exploit quantum effects in their operation. D-Wa ...
* Orion, a
browser-based IDE and open tool integration platform from Eclipse
* Orion, IT admin software by
SolarWinds
SolarWinds Corporation is an American company that develops software for businesses to help manage their networks, systems, and information technology infrastructure. It is headquartered in Austin, Texas, with sales and product development offi ...
*
GPT-4.5, a 2025 large language model developed by OpenAI
Other technologies
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Orion (laser)
The Orion Laser Facility (also known as the Orion Laser) is a high power laser facility based at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) on the former RAF Aldermaston site in the United Kingdom.
Construction of Orion began in 2006 and its first sho ...
, a large laser installation in the UK
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Orion (space telescope), two research instruments on crewed 1970s Soviet spacecraft
Sports
Football (soccer)
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A.D. Orión, a Panamanian football club
*
Orión F.C., a Costa Rican football club
*
Orion F.C.
Orion Football Club was a Scotland, Scottish soccer, football team that played in the city of Aberdeen between 1885 and 1903.
History
The club's first known match was a 2–0 defeat to Bon Accord F.C., in which the Orion club was said to have ...
, a Scottish football club
Other sports
*
Goyang Orion Orions, a South Korean basketball team
* Orions, former name of the
Chiba Lotte Marines
The are a professional baseball team in Japan's Pacific League based in Chiba, Chiba, Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture, in the Kantō region, and owned by Lotte Holdings, Lotte Holdings Co., Ltd. The Marines were a founding member of the Pacific Le ...
, a Japanese baseball team
Transportation and military
Air
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Lockheed P-3 Orion
The Lockheed P-3 Orion is a four-engined, turboprop Anti-submarine warfare, anti-submarine and maritime patrol aircraft, maritime surveillance aircraft developed for the United States Navy and introduced in the 1960s. It is based on the Lockheed ...
, a maritime patrol aircraft, with several variants
*
Lockheed Model 9 Orion
The Lockheed Model 9 Orion is a single-engined passenger aircraft built in 1931 for commercial airlines. It was faster than any American military aircraft of that time. Designed by Richard A. von Hake, it was the last wood aircraft produced by th ...
, a passenger aircraft introduced in 1931
*
Aurora Flight Sciences Orion, a long-endurance uncrewed aircraft
*
Bristol Orion, a cancelled two-shaft turboprop aero engine developed by Bristol Siddeley
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Kronshtadt Orion, Russian UCAV drone
Land
*
Ford Orion, a car based on the Ford Escort but with a larger boot and four doors
* ''Orion'', a
South Devon Railway Comet-class steam locomotive
* ''Orion'', a
GWR 3300-class steam locomotive
*
Mitsubishi Orion engine
The Mitsubishi Orion or 4G1 engine is a series of Inline-four engine, inline-four internal combustion engines introduced by Mitsubishi Motors in around 1977, along with the Mitsubishi Astron engine, Astron, Mitsubishi Sirius engine, Sirius, and Mit ...
, a series of internal combustion engines produced by Mitsubishi Motors
Sea
Military vessels
* , several U.S. Navy vessels
* , several Royal Navy vessels
* , a series of super-dreadnoughts of the Royal Navy
* , an ''Oberon''-class of the Royal Australian Navy
* , a Swedish ELINT vessel
* , a ''Téméraire''-class of the French Navy
* , World War II merchant raider
* BAE ''Orion'' (H-101), Ecuadorian Navy ship, originally
* NRP ''Oríon'' (P1156), a Portuguese Navy
Other vessels
* , a ship which sank off Portpatrick, Scotland in 1850
* , a cruise ship
* , an ocean liner of the Orient Steam Navigation Company
* , a Swedish steel steamship decommissioned in 1979, now a museum ship
*
Orion 50, an American sailboat design
*
''Orion'' (ship, 1904), built as a whale-catcher, she later served as a fireboat in Vancouver
Space
Rockets
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Orion (rocket), a US sounding rocket
*
Orión (rocket), an Argentine sounding rocket
*
Orion (rocket stage), a series of rocket motors used in the Pegasus rockets
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Project Orion (nuclear propulsion)
Project Orion was a study conducted in the 1950s and 1960s by the United States Air Force, DARPA, and NASA into the viability of a nuclear pulse spaceship that would be directly propelled by a series of atomic explosions behind the craft. F ...
, a 1958 US nuclear pulse propulsion study project
Space vehicles
*
Blok DM-03, a variant of the Russian upper stage rocket
*
Orion (spacecraft)
Orion (Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle or Orion MPCV) is a partially reusable crewed spacecraft used in NASA's Artemis program. The spacecraft consists of a Crew Module (CM) space capsule designed by Lockheed Martin that is paired with a Eu ...
, NASA crew vehicle first flown in 2022
*
Orion (space telescope), two instruments flown aboard Soviet spacecraft
* ''Orion'', the Lunar Module used in the
Apollo 16
Apollo 16 (April 1627, 1972) was the tenth human spaceflight, crewed mission in the United States Apollo program, Apollo space program, administered by NASA, and the fifth and penultimate to Moon landing, land on the Moon. It was the second o ...
mission
*
Orion (satellite)
Orion, also known as Mentor or Advanced Orion, is a class of United States spy satellites that collect signals intelligence (SIGINT) from space. Operated by the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and developed with input from the Central ...
, a series of reconnaissance satellites
* A series of satellites operated by Orion Network Systems, now part of
Telesat
Telesat, formerly Telesat Canada, is a Canadian satellite communications company (law), company founded on May 2, 1969. The company is headquartered in Ottawa.
History Founding and privatization (1969-2005)
Telesat began in 1969 as Telesat C ...
*
Orion 3, an off-course communication satellite (1999)
Other uses
*
Orion (dog), a rescue dog
*
Orion (roller coaster), a steel roller coaster at Kings Island, in Mason, Ohio, US
* Orion, the flagship wine of American winemaker
Sean Thackrey
* Our Race is Our Nation, a slogan used by the
Ku Klux Klan
The Ku Klux Klan (), commonly shortened to KKK or Klan, is an American Protestant-led Christian terrorism, Christian extremist, white supremacist, Right-wing terrorism, far-right hate group. It was founded in 1865 during Reconstruction era, ...
and other white nationalists
See also
*
Arion (disambiguation)
Arion was a Greek poet.
Arion may also refer to:
Businesses
* Arion Press, a publisher based in San Francisco
* Arion (record label), a French recording company founded in 1962
* Arion Lightning type of an aircraft
Media
* Arion (Matho), ''Arion ...
*
EURion constellation
The EURion constellation (also known as Omron rings or doughnuts) is a pattern of symbols incorporated into a number of secure documents such as banknotes, cheques, and ownership title certificate designs worldwide since about 1996. It is added ...
, anti-counterfeiting patterns integrated into various kinds of currency
*
Exercise Orion (disambiguation)
*
''Orione'' (opera) (1653), by Francesco Cavalli
*
O'Ryan
*
Orion 1 (disambiguation)
*
Orion 2 (disambiguation)
*
Orion the Hunter (disambiguation) Orion the Hunter may refer to:
*Orion (mythology)
In Greek mythology, Orion (; Ancient Greek: Ὠρίων or ; Latin: ''Orion'') was a Gigantes, giant hunting, huntsman whom Zeus (or perhaps Artemis) placed among the stars as the Orion (conste ...
*
Project Orion (disambiguation) Project Orion may refer to:
* Project Orion (nuclear propulsion), a U.S. Air Force study for a nuclear-powered spacecraft
* Orion (laser), built in the UK to research thermonuclear explosions
* Orion (spacecraft)
Orion (Orion Multi-Purpose ...
*
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