Panther may refer to:

Large cats

Pantherinae Pantherinae is a subfamily within the family Felidae; it was named and first described by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1917 as only including the '' Panthera'' species. The Pantherinae genetically diverged from a common ancestor between and . Cha ...

, the cat subfamily that contains the genera ''Panthera'' and ''Neofelis'' **''

Panthera ''Panthera'' is a genus within the family Felidae that was named and described by Lorenz Oken in 1816 who placed all the spotted cats in this group. Reginald Innes Pocock revised the classification of this genus in 1916 as comprising the tiger ...

'', the cat genus that contains tigers, lions, jaguars and leopards. ***

Jaguar The jaguar (''Panthera onca'') is a large cat species and the only living member of the genus ''Panthera'' native to the Americas. With a body length of up to and a weight of up to , it is the largest cat species in the Americas and the thi ...

(''Panthera onca''), found in South and Central America ***

Leopard The leopard (''Panthera pardus'') is one of the five extant species in the genus '' Panthera'', a member of the cat family, Felidae. It occurs in a wide range in sub-Saharan Africa, in some parts of Western and Central Asia, Southern Russia ...

(''Panthera pardus''), found in Africa and Asia ****

Black panther A black panther is the melanistic colour variant of the leopard (''Panthera pardus'') and the jaguar (''Panthera onca''). Black panthers of both species have excess black pigments, but their typical rosettes are also present. They have been ...

, a name for the phenotypic genetic variant that forms the black leopard or jaguar *

Cougar The cougar (''Puma concolor'') is a large cat native to the Americas. Its range spans from the Canadian Yukon to the southern Andes in South America and is the most widespread of any large wild terrestrial mammal in the Western Hemisphere. I ...

, a big cat that is not in the subfamily Pantherinae, but is commonly referred to as a panther **

Florida panther The Florida panther is a North American cougar (''P. c. couguar'') population in South Florida. It lives in pinelands, tropical hardwood hammocks, and mixed freshwater swamp forests. It is known under a number of common names including Costa ...

, a population of cougar

Art, media, and entertainment

Film and television

* ''Panther'' (film) * '' The Pink Panther'', a series of American comedy films mainly starring Peter Sellers * ''Black Panther'' (film), a 2018 superhero movie based on the Black Panther comic books * ''The Panthers'' (miniseries), a miniseries about the origins of the Polynesian Panthers in New Zealand

Video Games

* ''Panther'' (1975 video game), a battle tank-driving game developed for the PLATO system * ''Panther'' (1988 video game), a flight game developed for the Commodore 64 and Atari 800XL/130XE * Atari Panther, a cancelled video game console, expected to be released in the early 1990s

Other media

* Panther (owarai), Japanese comedy trio * " The Panther (poem)", by Rainer Maria Rilke *

Black Panther (character) Black Panther is a fictional character, fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by writer-editor Stan Lee and artist-coplotter Jack Kirby. The character first appeared in ''Fan ...

, A Marvel Comics character * Panthers (band)

Brands and enterprises

Panther (publisher) Panther Books Ltd was a British publishing house especially active in the 1950s and 1960s, specialising in paperback fiction. It was established in May 1952 by Hamilton's Ltd and titles carried the line "A Panther Book" or "Panther Science Ficti ...

, a publishing house specialising in paperback fiction * Panther Software, a Japanese video game company *

Panther Westwinds Panther Westwinds (commonly known as Panther) was a manufacturer of niche sports cars and luxury cars, based in Surrey, United Kingdom. History Founded in 1972 by Robert Jankel, the Panther company initially manufactured retro-styled cars base ...

, a car manufacturer

People

* Yoshikazu Yahiro, Japanese metal guitarist, known as Panther and formerly as Circuit.V.Panther * The Panther (Sam Brushell), Indian who lived in Otsego County, New York in the 1800s *

Anne Panther Anne Panther (born 18 June 1982) is a German FIBA basketball official. In 2016 she became the first woman referee to officiate in the EuroLeague and the only one until the addition of Greek referee Vasiliki Tsaroucha in 2019. Career She spen ...

(birth 1982), German FIBA basketball official * Clinton Panther (birth 1991), South African field hockey player * Manny Panther (birth 1984), Scottish former footballer

Political groups

Black Panther Party The Black Panther Party (BPP), originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, was a Marxist-Leninist and black power political organization founded by college students Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton in October 1966 in Oakland, Cali ...

, a Black nationalist organization * Black Panthers (Israel), an Israeli protest movement *

Dalit Panthers The Dalit Panthers are a social organisation that seeks to combat caste discrimination. It was led by a group of Mahar writers and poets, including Raja Dhale, Namdeo Dhasal, and J. V. Pawar in some time between the second and the third semes ...

, revolutionary anti-caste organization founded by dalits in Maharashtra, India *

Gray Panthers The Gray Panthers are a series of multi-generational local advocacy networks in the United States which confront ageism and many other social justice issues. The organization was formed by Maggie Kuhn in response to her forced retirement from th ...

, an American organization promoting senior citizens' rights *

Polynesian Panthers The Polynesian Panther Party (PPP) was a revolutionary social justice movement formed to target racial inequalities carried out against indigenous Māori and Pacific Islanders in Auckland, New Zealand. Founded by a group of young Polynesians on 1 ...

, political group in New Zealand *

White Panther Party The White Panthers were an anti-racist political collective founded in November 1968 by Pun Plamondon, Leni Sinclair, and John Sinclair. It was started in response to an interview where Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party, wa ...

, a political collective founded to support the Black Panthers

Science and technology

* PANTHER (Protein ANalysis THrough Evolutionary Relationships), a biological database of gene/protein families *

DR DOS "Panther" DR-DOS (written as DR DOS, without a hyphen, in versions up to and including 6.0) is a disk operating system for IBM PC compatibles. Upon its introduction in 1988, it was the first DOS attempting to be compatible with IBM PC DOS and MS-DO ...

, the code-name of Novell's Novell DOS 7 *

Mac OS X Panther Mac OS X Panther (version 10.3) is the fourth major release of macOS, Apple's desktop and server operating system. It followed Mac OS X Jaguar and preceded Mac OS X Tiger. It was released on October 24, 2003. System requirements Panther's s ...

, an operating system

Sports

Professional and amateur sports

Basketball

* GiroLive Panthers Osnabrück, a German women's basketball team * Helsinki Panthers, a basketball club from Helsinki, Finland * ''Les Panthères'', nickname for Gabon's national basketball team. * Soweto Panthers, a South African basketball team

Ice hockey

Augsburger Panther The Augsburger Panther are a professional ice hockey team in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga. The team is based in Augsburg, Bavaria Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the so ...

, a DEL ice hockey team *

ERC Ingolstadt ERC Ingolstadt (''Eishockey-und-Rollschuh club'', ) is a German professional ice hockey club that plays in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL). Commonly known as the Panthers, the team plays its home games at the Saturn Arena in Ingolstadt. History ...

aka ''The Panthers'', a German ice hockey team in the DEL *

Embrun Panthers The Embrun Panthers are a Canadian junior ice hockey team based in Embrun, Ontario. They play in the Eastern Ontario Junior Hockey League. Prior to 2017, the Panthers were members of the National Capital Junior Hockey League. History Founded i ...

, an Eastern Ontario Junior C Hockey League team *

Florida Panthers The Florida Panthers are a professional ice hockey team based in the Miami metropolitan area. They compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Atlantic Division in the Eastern Conference, and initially played their home game ...

, an American professional ice hockey team based in Miami, Florida, that competes in the NHL *

Nottingham Panthers The Nottingham Panthers are a British professional ice hockey club based in Nottingham, England. They are members of the Elite Ice Hockey League. Their main team sponsor is the Nottingham Building Society. The Nottingham Panthers have won fou ...

, an ice hockey club in the EIHL

Rugby

Blackpool Panthers Blackpool Panthers RLFC was an English professional rugby league club based in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire. They played at Bloomfield Road, between 2005-2007, then moved to the Woodlands Memorial Ground owned by Fylde rugby union club. They wer ...

, an English rugby league team *

Penrith Panthers The Penrith Panthers are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in the western Sydney suburb of Penrith that competes in the NRL. The team is based west of the centre of Sydney, at the foot of the Blue Mountains. Penri ...

, a rugby league team in the NRL *

Wests Panthers The Western Suburbs Panthers, often simply referred to as Wests for short, are a rugby league club based in the western suburbs of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The club is the oldest in the QRL and despite absences from the top grade in rec ...

, an Australian rugby league team * Western Panthers Rugby Club,

Bulawayo, Zimbabwe Bulawayo (, ; Ndebele: ''Bulawayo'') is the second largest city in Zimbabwe, and the largest city in the country's Matabeleland region. The city's population is disputed; the 2022 census listed it at 665,940, while the Bulawayo City Council c ...

Other sports

Carolina Panthers The Carolina Panthers are a professional American football team based in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Panthers compete in the National Football League (NFL), as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) South division. ...

, an American professional football team based in Charlotte, North Carolina, that competes in the NFL and is in the NFC South division *

Düsseldorf Panther The Düsseldorf Panther are an American football team from Düsseldorf, Germany. The club is the oldest extant American football club in Europe, having been formed on 1 May 1978.Michigan Panthers The Michigan Panthers were a professional American football team based in the Detroit, Michigan area. The Panthers competed in the United States Football League (USFL) as a member of the Western Conference and Central Division. The team played i ...

, a former professional American football team based in Detroit, Michigan, that competed in the now-defunct United States Football League *

South Adelaide Football Club The South Adelaide Football Club is an Australian rules football club that competes in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). Known as the ''Panthers'', their home ground is Flinders University Stadium Panionios Panionios G.S.S. Football Club ( Greek: ΠΑΕ Πανιώνιος Γ.Σ.Σ.), the ''Pan-Ionian Gymnastics Club of Smyrna'' (Πανιώνιος Γυμναστικός Σύλλογος Σμύρνης, ''Panionios Gymnastikos Syllogos Smyrnis'' ...

, a sports club in Athens * ''Red Panthers'', nickname for

Belgium women's national field hockey team The Belgium women's national field hockey team is coached by Raoul Ehren. Competitive record Champions Runners-up Third place Fourth place Summer Olympics Hockey World Cup World League FIH Pro ...

College and university sports

Eastern Illinois Panthers The Eastern Illinois Panthers are the intercollegiate athletic programs of Eastern Illinois University (EIU) located in Charleston, Illinois, United States. The Panthers athletic program is a member of the Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) and compe ...

, Eastern Illinois University *

Florida Tech Panthers The Florida Tech Panthers are the athletic teams that represent the Florida Institute of Technology, located in Melbourne, Florida, in intercollegiate athletics at the Division II level of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), competin ...

, Florida Institute of Technology *

FIU Golden Panthers The FIU Panthers (also known as Florida INT Panthers) are the athletic teams representing Florida International University, an American public university located in Westchester, Florida. The Panthers currently compete in National Collegiate Athl ...

, Florida International University *

Georgia State Panthers The Georgia State Panthers are the intercollegiate athletics teams that represent Georgia State University, located in Atlanta, Georgia. Almost all GSU teams compete at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I level as mem ...

, Georgia State University *

Middlebury Panthers The Middlebury Panthers are the 31 varsity teams of Middlebury College that compete in the New England Small College Athletic Conference. The Panthers lead the NESCAC in total number of national championships, having won 34 team titles since the c ...

, Middlebury College *

Milwaukee Panthers The Milwaukee Panthers are the athletic teams of the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. A total of 13 Panthers athletic teams compete in NCAA Division I. The Panthers have won the James J. McCafferty Trophy as the Horizon League's all-sports ch ...

, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee *

Northern Iowa Panthers The Northern Iowa Panthers are the athletic teams of the University of Northern Iowa. The university is a member of the Missouri Valley Conference and competes in NCAA Division I (Division I FCS in football). History The school's mascot is t ...

, University of Northern Iowa *

Panamerican University The Universidad Panamericana (Spanish: ''Universidad Panamericana''), commonly known as UP, is a private Catholic university founded in Mexico City. It has four campuses: the main Mixcoac campus in the Benito Juarez borough of south-western Mexic ...

Panthers, Universidad Panamericana (Mexico City, Mexico) *

Penn State Nittany Lions The Penn State Nittany Lions are the athletic teams of Pennsylvania State University, except for the women's basketball team, known as the Lady Lions. The school colors are navy blue and white. The school mascot is the Nittany Lion. The interc ...

, Pennsylvania State University *

Pittsburgh Panthers The Pittsburgh Panthers, commonly also referred to as the Pitt Panthers, are the athletic teams representing the University of Pittsburgh, although the term is colloquially used to refer to other aspects of the university such as alumni, facu ...

, University of Pittsburgh * USPF Panthers, University of Southern Philippines Foundation (Cebu City, Philippines)

High school sports

* Permian Panthers, the high school football team featured in H.G. Bissinger's book ''Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream'' (1990) * Barnsdall Panthers, Barnsdall High School, Barnsdall, Oklahoma * Cedar Grove Panthers, Cedar Grove High School, Cedar Grove, New Jersey * Chapman Panthers, Chapman High School (Inman, South Carolina) * Colleyville Heritage Panthers,

Colleyville Heritage High School Colleyville Heritage High School (CHHS) is a public secondary school in Colleyville, Texas in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The school is a part of the Grapevine-Colleyville Independent School District and serves freshmen through senior students i ...

(Colleyville, Texas) * Cypress Lake Panthers, Cypress Lake High School (Fort Myers, Florida) * Edgemont Panthers,

Edgemont Junior - Senior High School Edgemont may refer to: Places Canada *Edgemont, Calgary, a large suburban neighbourhood in Calgary, Alberta *Edgemont, Edmonton, a neighbourhood in Edmonton, Alberta *Calgary-Edgemont, a federal electoral district in Alberta, Canada United States ...

, Scarsdale, New York * Glencoe Panthers,

Glencoe High School (Oklahoma) Glencoe High School is a public secondary school in Glencoe, Oklahoma, United States. It is located at 201 East Lone Chimney Road in Glencoe, Oklahoma and the only high school in Glencoe Public Schools. Extracurricular activities Clubs and org ...

* Hillcrest Panthers,

Hillcrest High School (Dallas) Hillcrest High School, formerly Vickery Meadows High School is a public secondary school located in North Dallas, Texas ( USA). Hillcrest High School enrolls students in grades 9– 12 and is a part of the Dallas Independent School District ...

* Lake City Panthers,

Lake City High School (Lake City, South Carolina) Lake City High School is a secondary education institution located near Lake City, South Carolina. The school enrolls approximately 1,000 students. References External links Official web site
Public high schools in South Carolina Schoo ...

* Lord Tweedsmuir Panthers, Lord Tweedsmuir Secondary School * Middle Township Panthers,

Middle Township High School Middle Township High School is a four-year public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from Middle Township in Cape May County, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Middle Township Public Schools. In ...

, Cape May Courthouse, New Jersey * Midlothian Panthers, Midlothian High School (Texas) * Morehead Panthers, John Motley Morehead High School, Eden, North Carolina * Palmetto Panthers,

Miami Palmetto High School , motto_translation = Strength through knowledge , established = , closed = , type = Public secondary , status = , category_label = , category ...

* Parkdale Panthers,

Parkdale High School Parkdale High School (PHS) is a public high school located in Riverdale Park, Maryland, United States. It is part of the Prince George's County Public Schools system. Enrollment was 2,354 students in grades nine through twelve as of 2020. Parkd ...

* Pine View Panthers,

Pine View High School Pine View High School is a high school located at 2850 E 750 N in St. George, Utah, United States. The school reported 1,218 students on October 1, 2018 students in grades 10 to 12. It is a part of the Washington County School District. Zone: ea ...

* Pitman Panthers, Pitman High School, Pitman, New Jersey * Point Pleasant Boro Panthers,

Point Pleasant Borough High School Point Pleasant Borough High School is a four-year comprehensive community public high school located on Laura Herbert Drive in Point Pleasant in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States. The school serves students in ninth through twelfth ...

, Point Pleasant, New Jersey * Redmond Panthers, Redmond High School (Oregon) * Springboro Panthers, Springboro High School * Spring Lake Park Panthers,

Spring Lake Park High School Spring Lake Park High School (SLPHS) is a public high school in Spring Lake Park, Minnesota, United States and is the only high school serving Spring Lake Park School District 16. In the 2020 - 2021 school year, The school enrolled about 1,850 st ...

Blaine, Fridley, and Spring Lake Park, Minnesota * Sterlington Panthers, Sterlington High School, Sterlington, and Monroe, Louisiana * The Panthers,

Browning School The Browning School is an independent school for boys in New York City. It was founded in 1888 by John A. Browning. It offers instruction in grades kindergarten through 12th grade. The school is a member of the New York Interschool consortium. ...

, New York, NY * Reitz High Panthers, FJ Reitz High School, Evansville, Indiana * Modesto High Panthers,

Modesto High School Modesto High School is a public high school in Modesto, California, United States. It offers the International Baccalaureate Program and the Avid program, Performing Arts Program and was the first public school to do so in the Central Valley o ...

, Modesto, California

Transportation

Aircraft

Eurocopter AS565 Panther The Eurocopter (now Airbus Helicopters) AS565 Panther is the military version of the Eurocopter AS365 Dauphin medium-weight multi-purpose twin-engine helicopter. The Panther is used for a wide range of military roles, including combat assault, f ...

, the helicopter based on the Eurocopter Dauphin *

Grumman F9F Panther The Grumman F9F Panther is one of the United States Navy's first successful carrier-based jet fighters, as well as Grumman’s first jet fighter. A single-engined, straight-winged day fighter, it was armed with four cannons and could carry a w ...

, a jet fighter used by the US Navy in the Korean War * PANTHER, the callsign for Falcon Air Express *

Rotec Panther The Rotec Panther is an American ultralight aircraft that was designed and produced by Rotec Engineering, introduced in 1984. The aircraft was supplied as a kit for amateur construction.Cliche, Andre: ''Ultralight Aircraft Shopper's Guide'' 8t ...

, an ultralight aircraft *

Armstrong Siddeley Panther The Armstrong Siddeley Panther was a 27-litre 14-cylinder twin-row air-cooled radial aero engine developed by Armstrong Siddeley. It was originally named the Jaguar Major.Lumsden 2003, p.72. Applications * Armstrong Whitworth Atlas Mk II * ...

, a British aero-engine

Land transportation

* Panther (car-boat), an amphibious vehicle * Panther (motorcycle) * Chevrolet Panther, codename for the 1960s car that would eventually become the

Chevrolet Camaro The Chevrolet Camaro is a mid-size American automobile manufactured by Chevrolet, classified as a pony car. It first went on sale on September 29, 1966, for the 1967 model year and was designed to compete with the Ford Mustang. The Camaro sh ...

De Tomaso Pantera The De Tomaso Pantera is a mid-engine sports car produced by Italian automobile manufacturer De Tomaso from 1971 to 1992. Italian for "Panther", the Pantera was the automaker's most popular model, with over 7,000 manufactured over its twenty-year ...

, an Italian sports car *

Ford Panther platform The Ford Panther platform was an automobile platform that was used by Ford Motor Company from the 1979 to 2012 model years. Following the downsizing of the General Motors B-bodies and C-bodies by two years, the Panther platform marked the en ...

, a sedan automobile platform * Isuzu Panther, a multi-purpose vehicle *

Leyland Panther The Leyland Panther was a rear-engined single-decker bus chassis manufactured by Leyland between the years 1964 and 1972. A version with a smaller engine was released as the Leyland Panther Cub. History The Leyland Panther was introduced in ...

, a 1960s British single-deck bus *

Plaxton Panther The Plaxton Paragon and Plaxton Panther are closely related designs of coach bodywork built by Plaxton in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England, since 1999,Millar, Alan (2007) ''Bus & Coach Recognition'' : Ian Allan Ltd., and still in producti ...

, a coach body *

, a car manufacturer

Military

Iveco LMV Iveco LMV (Light Multirole Vehicle) is a 4WD tactical vehicle developed by Iveco, and in service with several countries. After its adoption by the Italian Army as the ''Veicolo-Tattico-Leggero-Multiruolo'' (VTLM) ''Lince'' ("Light tactical multi ...

, a small armoured vehicle supplied to the British Army branded as the BAE Panther *

Panther tank The Panther tank, officially ''Panzerkampfwagen V Panther'' (abbreviated PzKpfw V) with Sonderkraftfahrzeug, ordnance inventory designation: ''Sd.Kfz.'' 171, is a German medium tank of World War II. It was used on the Eastern Front (World War ...

, a medium tank used by Germany in World War II *

RG-33 The RG-33 is a mine-resistant light armored vehicle initially designed by BAE Systems Land Systems South Africa (formerly Land Systems OMC), a South African subsidiary of BAE Systems. BAE Systems in the US extensively modified it with additi ...

, Medium Mine Protected Vehicle, supplied to the US Army as the BAE Panther *

K2 Black Panther The K2 Black Panther (Hangul: K2 '흑표'; Hanja: K2 '黑豹') is a South Korean main battle tank designed by the Agency for Defense Development and manufactured by Hyundai Rotem. The tank was designed to meet the strategic requirements of the Re ...

, main battle tank for Korean forces * Panther KF51, prototype fourth generation main battle tank.

Ships

* , the name of at least five ships of the Royal Navy * , a German gunboat, which sparked the Agadir Crisis in 1911 * SMS ''Panther'' (1885), an Austro-Hungarian torpedo cruiser * , an Italian ferry in service 1962-68 * , two vessels of the United States Navy * German torpedo boat ''Panther'' (1940), a German torpedo boat of World War II

Other uses

* Panther, Daviess County, Kentucky, an unincorporated community