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Fly (disambiguation)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ227217
Source-derived summary

A fly is any species of insect of the order Diptera.

Flight is the process of flying.

Fly may also refer to:

Places

Fly, Ohio, U.S.

Fly, Tennessee, U.S.

Fly River (or the Fly), New Guinea

People

Nickname or pseudonym

Fly (artist), comic book artist and illustrator

Fly (gamer), Israeli Dota 2 player

Surname

C. S. Fly (1849–1901), American photographer

Michael Fly (born 1983), American basketball coach

Mollie Fly (née McKie, 1847–1925), American photographer

Per Fly (born 1960), Danish film director

William Fly (died 1726), English pirate

Arts, entertainment, and media

Characters

The Fly (Archie Comics), an Archie Comics character who first appeared in 1959, later loosely adapted into a character of the same name by Impact Comics, a DC Comics imprint.

Fly (Impact Comics), a character from a DC Comics imprint loosely based on the Archie Comics character

Fly, one of the three bugs in WordWorld

Human Fly (character) or The Fly, a Marvel Comics character

Films

Fly (1970 film), a short film by John Lennon and Yoko Ono

Fly (2024 film), a documentary film, directed by Christina Clusiau and Shaul Schwarz

The Fly (1958 film), an American horror film by Kurt Neumann

The Fly (1986 film), a remake by David Cronenberg of the 1958 film

Literature

Fly (play), a 2009 play about the Tuskegee Airmen

Music

Groups and labels

Fast Life Yungstaz, or F.L.Y, an American hip hop group

Fly (band), an American jazz trio

F.L.Y., a Latvian band

Fly Records, a British record label

The Flys (British band), an English punk band

The Flys (American band), an American post-grunge group

Albums and EPs

Fly (Sarah Brightman album) (1995)

Fly (Dixie Chicks album) (1999)

Fly (Fly album) (2004)

Fly (EP) (2003), by Sick Puppies

Fly (Yoko Ono album) (1971)

Fly (Zucchero album) (2006)

Songs

"Fly" (Nickelback song) (1996)

"Fly" (Sugar Ray song) (1997)

"Fly" (Jars of Clay song) (2002)

"Fly" (Hilary Duff song) (2004)

"Fly" (Epik High song) (2005)

"Fly" (Blind Guardian song) (2006)

"Fly" (Wanessa song) (2009)

"Fly" (Nicki Minaj song) (2010)

"Fly" (Maddie & Tae song) (2015)

"Fly" (Avril Lavigne song) (2015)

"Fly", by Marshmello (2018)

"Fly", an English version of the song "Vole" by Celine Dion from Falling into You (1996)

"Fly", by iamnot from Hope (2017)

"Fly", by Luscious Jackson from Electric Honey (1999)

"Fly", by Veruca Salt from American Thighs (1994)

"Fly", by SMAP (1999)

"Fly", by Sanctus Real from The Face of Love (2006)

"Fly", by Faye Wong from Sing and Play (1998)

"Fly", by Nick Drake from Bryter Layter (1979)

"Fly", by Machiavel from New Lines (1980)

"Fly", by Ludovico Einaudi from Divenire (2007)

"Fly", by Moka Only from The Station Agent (2006)

"Fly", by Monkey Majik from Thank You (2006)

"Fly", by Lucky Daye from Spies in Disguise (2019)

"Fly", by The Jam from All Mod Cons (1978)

"Fly", by Sara Groves from All Right Here (2002)

"Fly", by Sylvia Ratonel from Sylvia Ratonel (2010)

"Fly", by MARi which represented New Hampshire in the American Song Contest (2022)

"Fly", by Tzuyu from abouTZU (2024)

"Fly (The Angel Song)", by the Wilkinsons (1998)

Television episodes

"Fly" (Breaking Bad), an episode of Breaking Bad

"Fly" (The Fairly OddParents: A New Wish), an episode of The Fairly OddParents: A New Wish

Mass media

Radio stations

Fly FM, a private radio station in Malaysia

FLY FM 89,7, a radio station based in Greece

Sirius XM Fly, a Sirius/XM radio station

WFLY (FLY 92), a radio station in Albany, New York

CFLY-FM (98.3 FLY FM), a radio station in Kingston, Ontario

Television channels

Fly TV, a former digital television channel from ABC Television, Australia

Fly Music, a defunct Spanish television channel

Computing

Fly (pentop computer), a type of computer built into a pen

Fly!

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1849, 1901, 1983, 1847—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where disambiguation, Wikimedia and page can be independently traced.
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