Pallas may refer to:

Astronomy

2 Pallas Pallas (minor-planet designation: 2 Pallas) is the List of largest asteroids, third-largest asteroid in the Solar System by volume and mass. It is the second asteroid to have been discovered, after 1 Ceres, Ceres, and is likely a remnant ...

asteroid **

Pallas family The Pallas family (''adj. Palladian''; ) is a small asteroid family of B-type asteroids at very high Orbital inclination, inclinations in the intermediate asteroid belt. The family was identified by Kiyotsugu Hirayama in 1928. The namesake of the ...

, a group of asteroids that includes 2 Pallas *

Pallas (crater) Pallas is a heavily eroded lunar impact crater located to the north of the Sinus Medii. It was named after the German-born Russian natural historian Peter Simon Pallas. To the northwest is the smaller but less worn crater Bode. Pallas shares a ...

, a crater on Earth's moon

Mythology

Pallas (Giant) In Greek mythology, Pallas (/ˈpæləs/; Ancient Greek: Πάλλας) was one of the Gigantes (Giants), the offspring of Gaia, born from the blood of the castrated Uranus. According to the mythographer Apollodorus, during the Gigantomachy, the ...

, a son of Uranus and Gaia, killed and flayed by Athena *

Pallas (son of Evander) In Roman mythology, Pallas (/ˈpæləs/; Ancient Greek: Πάλλας) was the son of King Evander. In Virgil's ''Aeneid'', Evander allows Pallas to fight against the Rutuli with Aeneas, who takes him and treats him like his own son Ascanius. In ...

, a prominent character in the ''Aeneid'' *

Pallas (son of Lycaon) In Greek mythology, Pallas (/ˈpæləs/; Ancient Greek: Πάλλας) was an Arcadian prince and the eponymous founder of the Arcadian town of Pallantion. He was the teacher of Athena, who, according to local myths, was born in Aliphera. Fami ...

, a teacher of Athena *

Pallas (son of Pandion) In Greek mythology, Pallas (/ˈpæləs/; Ancient Greek: Πάλλας) was a member of the Athenian royal family. Family Pallas was one of the four sons of the exiled King Pandion II of Athens and Pylia, daughter of King Pylas of Megara. He was ...

, the father of the 50 Pallantides *

Pallas (Titan) In Greek mythology, Pallas or Pallant (; ) was, according to Hesiod, the son of the Titans Crius and Eurybia, the brother of Astraeus and Perses, the husband of Styx, and the father of Zelus ("Zeal" or "Emulation"), Nike ("Victory"), K ...

, the son of Crius and Eurybia, brother of Astraeus and Perses, and husband of Styx *

Pallas (daughter of Triton) In Greek mythology, Pallas (; ) was a sea nymph and a warrior. Mythology Pallas was the daughter of Triton, a son of Poseidon and the messenger of the seas. After Athena was born fully armed from Zeus' forehead, Triton became foster parent t ...

* Pallas, an epithet of

Athena Athena or Athene, often given the epithet Pallas, is an ancient Greek religion, ancient Greek goddess associated with wisdom, warfare, and handicraft who was later syncretism, syncretized with the Roman goddess Minerva. Athena was regarde ...

* Pallas, the father of Euryalus by

Diomede Diomede (; Ancient Greek: Διομήδη ''Diomēdē'') is the name of four women in Greek mythology: * Diomede, daughter of Xuthus. She married Deioneus, king of Phocis, and was the mother of Cephalus, Actor, Aenetus, Phylacus and Asterodia.( ...

People

Pallas (freedman) Marcus Antonius Pallas (died AD 62) was a prominent Greek freedman and secretary during the reigns of the Roman Emperors Claudius and Nero. His younger brother was Marcus Antonius Felix, a procurator of ludaea Province. According to Tacitus, Pa ...

or Marcus Antonius Pallas, a freedman and favorite of Emperor Claudius * Pallas, a secondary wife of

Herod the Great Herod I or Herod the Great () was a History of the Jews in the Roman Empire, Roman Jewish client king of the Herodian kingdom of Judea. He is known for his colossal building projects throughout Judea. Among these works are the rebuilding of the ...

; her origins and fate are unknown.

People with the surname

* David Pallas (born 1980), Swiss footballer * Janette Pallas *

Ignacio Pallas José Ignacio Pallas Martínez (born 5 January 1983) is a Uruguayan football manager and former player who played as a centre back. He is the current manager of Fénix. Career Club career In 2003, he began his career playing for River Plate f ...

(born 1983), Uruguayan football defender * Maria Pallas (born 1993), Estonian swimmer *

Peter Simon Pallas Peter Simon Pallas Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS FRSE (22 September 1741 – 8 September 1811) was a Prussia, Prussian zoologist, botanist, Ethnography, ethnographer, Exploration, explorer, Geography, geographer, Geology, geologist, Natura ...

(1741–1811), German naturalist * Paulí Pallàs (1862–1893) Spanish anarchist *

Simon Pallas Simon Pallas (1694 – July 24, 1770) was a Prussian physician. Pallas was born in Berlin, where he remained through his life. He was professor of surgery at the '' Collegium medico-chirurgicum'', and first surgeon at the Charité hospital. He was ...

(1694–1770), German physician *

Theodoros Pallas Theodoros Pallas (; born in 1949), a Greek football player, was a defender for Aris Thessaloniki F.C. during the period 1966–80. He followed Dinos Kouis Dinos Kouis (Greek: Ντίνος Κούης) is a Greek retired footballer, one of the ...

(born 1949), Greek football player *

Tim Pallas Timothy Hugh Pallas (born 7 January 1960) is an Australian former politician. He was a Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 2006 to 2025, representing the electorate of Tarneit until 2014 and then Werribee from 2014 ...

(born 1960), former Australian politician

Places

Blue Ball, County Offaly Blue Ball, historically known as Pallas (), is a small village in County Offaly, Ireland. It is 9 km southwest of Tullamore, at the junction of the N52 road, N52 and the R357 road (Ireland), R357 roads, in the Civil parishes in Ireland, civ ...

, Ireland, a village once known as Pallas * Pallas, a townland in Durrow, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ships

* ''Pallas''-class frigate, a 1791 class of frigates on the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars * ''Pallas''-class frigate (1808), a class of 40-gun frigates of the French Navy during the Napoleonic Empire period * or MV ''Empire Tulip'', a Dutch coastal tanker * , a 1971 cargo ship * ''Pallas'', a French ''Minerve''-class submarine * ''Pallas'', a Russian barque, wrecked in 1895 after grounding on

The Gwineas The Gwineas, also known as The Gwinges, are a set of approximately fifteen rocks in the extreme southern English Channel, off the coast of the fishing village of Gorran Haven, Cornwall, on the south-west coast of Great Britain, remarkable for ...

in the English Channel

Other uses

PALLAS Pallas may refer to: Astronomy * 2 Pallas asteroid ** Pallas family, a group of asteroids that includes 2 Pallas * Pallas (crater), a crater on Earth's moon Mythology * Pallas (Giant), a son of Uranus and Gaia, killed and flayed by Athena * Pa ...

, a research group at University of California, Berkeley *

Pallas (band) Pallas are a Scottish progressive rock band from Aberdeen. They were one of the bands at the vanguard of what was termed neo-prog during progressive rock's second-wave revival in the early 1980s. Other major UK acts included Marillion, IQ, Tw ...

, a British rock band *

Pallas University of Applied Sciences Pallas University of Applied Sciences () is a university of applied sciences that provides art education in Tartu, Estonia. It was founded on 1 August 2000. The university is situated in Karlova. The rector is Vallo Nuust. History On groun ...

, a university in Estonia * ''Pallas'', a 1993 novel by L. Neil Smith * Pallas, a series of luxury versions of the

Citroën DS The Citroën DS () is a Front-mid-engine, front-wheel-drive layout, front mid-engined, front-wheel drive executive car manufactured and marketed by Citroën from 1955 to 1975, in fastback/sedan, wagon/estate, and convertible body configurations ...

and other Citroën automobiles *Pallas, an Estonian art society which founded the Pallas Art School (1919–1940) * Pallas, the designation of a Citroën DS car model. *

Pallas Projects/Studios The Pallas Projects/Studios (PP/S, Pallas Studios, Pallas Contemporary Projects) is an artist-run and non-commercial gallery and studio space in Dublin, Ireland. History Pallas Projects was founded in 1996. The founders of Pallas say its su ...

, a contemporary art space in Dublin, Ireland. * ''Pallas'', a genus of moths in the family

Hepialidae The Hepialidae are a family of insects in the lepidopteran order. Moths of this family are often referred to as swift moths or ghost moths. Taxonomy and systematics The Hepialidae constitute by far the most diverse group of the infraorder Exop ...