Quicksilver may refer to: *

Quicksilver (metal) Mercury is a chemical element; it has Symbol (chemistry), symbol Hg and atomic number 80. It is commonly known as quicksilver. A Heavy metal element, heavy, silvery d-block element, mercury is the only metallic element that is known to be liqui ...

, the chemical element mercury

Arts and entertainment

Music

* Quicksilver, a bluegrass band fronted by Doyle Lawson * "Quicksilver" (song), a 1950 hit for Bing Crosby * ''Quicksilver'' (soundtrack), from the 1986 film * ''Quicksilver'' (album), an album by Quicksilver Messenger Service * ''Quicksilver'' (EP), a 2009 EP by The Crüxshadows * " Quicksilver Lightning", a song by Roger Daltrey * "Quicksilver" (instrumental), 1969 instrumental from Pink Floyd album ''Soundtrack from the Film More'' * Shortened name form of

Quicksilver Messenger Service Quicksilver Messenger Service is an American psychedelic rock band formed in 1965 in San Francisco. The band achieved wide popularity in the San Francisco Bay Area and, through their recordings, with psychedelic rock enthusiasts around the globe, ...

, used by the band on their later record covers * "Quicksilver Girl" (song), Steve Miller Band, 1968 album Sailor * Quicksilver, a classical music ensemble directed by Robert Mealy & Julie Andrijeski

Film and television

* ''Quicksilver'' (Irish game show), an Irish quiz show * ''Quicksilver'' (film), a 1986 film

Fictional entities

Quicksilver (Marvel Comics) Quicksilver (Pietro Django Maximoff) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in the comic book ''The Uncanny X-Men'' #4 (March 1964) and was created by Stan Lee and Jac ...

, a superhero in the Marvel Comics universe * Quicksilver (DC Comics), or

Max Mercury Max Mercury (Maxwell Crandall), also known as Windrunner, Whip Whirlwind, and Lightning, is a DC Comics superhero similar to Quality Comics' Quicksilver. Initially an obscure speedster, the character was rebooted by Mark Waid in 1993 in the page ...

, a superhero in the DC Comics universe * Quicksilver, leader of the SilverHawks on the 1986 animated television series SilverHawks * Quicksilver, a fictional synthetic hormone in ''

The Invisible Man ''The Invisible Man'' is an 1897 science fiction novel by British writer H. G. Wells. Originally serialised in '' Pearson's Weekly'' in 1897, it was published as a novel the same year. The Invisible Man to whom the title refers is Griffin, a s ...

'' * Quicksilver, a dragon in ''

The World of Ice & Fire ''The World of Ice & Fire: The Untold History of Westeros and the Game of Thrones'' is a companion book for George R. R. Martin's ''A Song of Ice and Fire'' fantasy series. Written by Martin, Elio M. García Jr. and Linda Antonsson, it was publ ...

'' and '' Fire & Blood''

Other arts

* ''Quicksilver'' (novel), first volume of ''The Baroque Cycle'' by Neal Stephenson

Transportation

* USS ''Quicksilver'' (SP-281), a US Navy patrol vessel * Zimmer Quicksilver, a personal luxury car

Computing

QuickSilver (project) The QuickSilver project at Cornell University is an AFRL-funded effort to build a platform in support of a new generation of scalable, secure, reliable distributed computing applications able to "regenerate" themselves after failure. Among the par ...

, a software research project at Cornell University *

Quicksilver (software) Quicksilver is a utility app for macOS. Originally developed as proprietary freeware by Nicholas Jitkoff of Blacktree, Inc., it is now an open-source project hosted on GitHub. Quicksilver is essentially a graphical shell for the macOS operating ...

, an open source application launcher for Mac OS X * QuickSilver, Broadvision desktop publishing software, formerly by

Interleaf Interleaf, Inc. was a company that created computer software products for the technical publishing creation and distribution process. Founded in 1981, its initial product was the first commercial document processor that integrated text and graphi ...

Organizations

Quicksilver Aircraft Quicksilver Aircraft is an American manufacturer of ultralight and light aircraft A light aircraft is an aircraft that has a Maximum Takeoff Weight, maximum gross takeoff weight of or less.Crane, Dale: ''Dictionary of Aeronautical Terms, t ...

, an American manufacturer of ultralight and light aircraft *

Quicksilver (ISP) Quicksilver was an ISP based in Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand. It offered broadband, dialup and toll's services around New Zealand. Quicksilver was an activity of Mercury Telecommunications Ltd, a company formed by Matthew Hobbs and Mark Frater ...

, a New Zealand internet service provider

Entertainment

Quicksilver (company) Quicksilver is a British amusement arcade and gambling machine company. It is the UK's largest slot gambling machine operator, with over 200 high street outlets and about 10,000 gambling machines. Quicksilver describes itself as the "largest am ...

, UK's largest amusement arcade company *

Quiksilver Quiksilver is a brand of surf-inspired apparel and accessories that was founded in 1969 in Torquay, Victoria, but is now based in Huntington Beach, California. It is one of the world's largest brands of surfwear and boardsport-related equip ...

, a surf and sports related apparel brand *

Quicksilver Software Quicksilver Software, Inc. was an American privately-owned video game developer based in Irvine, California, United States. The company was founded on May 1, 1984 by three former Mattel Electronics programmers: Bill Fisher, Stephen Roney, and ...

, a computer-games company *

Las Vegas Quicksilvers The Las Vegas Quicksilvers were an American soccer team that competed in the North American Soccer League (NASL) during the 1977 season. The team was based in Las Vegas, Nevada, and played their home games at Las Vegas Stadium. After the 19 ...

, a former soccer team

People

DJ Quicksilver Orhan Terzi (born 28 June 1964), better known by his stage name DJ Quicksilver, is a German-Turkish DJ and music producer. His stage name derives from his days taking part in DJ contests, where a mercury column would gauge audience reaction. Ear ...

(born 1964), electronic musician *

Quicksilver (wrestler) Rick John Clements is an American Screen and Television Writer, Voice Actor, former Professional Wrestler, born and bred in beautiful California. In wrestling, he performed under the ring name Quicksilver, and he was part of the independent circ ...

, born Richard Clements, American professional wrestler

Other uses

* ''Quicksilver'', a locomotive of Great Western Railway 3031 Class * Quixilver, either of two robotics teams at Leland High School (San Jose, California)