Orion
Wikimedia disambiguation page
Orion may refer to:
Common meanings
Orion (constellation), named after the mythical hunter
Orion (mythology), a hunter in Greek mythology
Orion Arm, the Milky Way's galactic arm which contains the Solar System
Orion Nebula, in the constellation
Arts and media
Fictional entities
Characters and species
Orion (character), a DC Comics character
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
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 and Regulus Black, in the Harry Potter Series
Orion Mendelson, the boy from Orion and the Dark
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
Orion and King Arthur, a 2012 novel series by Ben Bova
The Orion (book), 1893, 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 (composition), 2002, by Kaija Saariaho
Orion, a 2004 Philip Glass composition
Orion, an album by the band she
Orion & Pleiades (1984), a symphonic work by Toru Takemitsu
Songs
"Orion" (Girl Next Door song)
"Orion" (Mika Nakashima song)
"Orion" (Metallica song), an instrumental piece on the album Master of Puppets
"Orion" (Yoasobi song)
"Orion", by 12012
"Orion", in the boxed set Dead Can Dance (1981–1998) by Dead Can Dance
"Orion", on the album Stormwatch by Jethro Tull
"Orion", a 2017 non-album single by Kenshi Yonezu
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 1960), British musician also known as Orion
Periodicals
Orion (manga), by Masamune Shirow
Orion (online magazine), focused 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
Miss Riboet's Orion (1925–42), a theatrical troupe active in the Dutch East Indies
"Orion" (The Night Agent), a 2026 television episode
Buildings
The Orion (skyscraper) in New York City
Orion Assembly, 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
Orion Mall, Bangalore, India; a shopping mall
Companies
Arts and media
Orion Pictures, an American film production company, now a subsidiary of MGM
Orion Publishing Group, a UK-based book publisher
Orion Records (1960s–1980s), a classical record label
Orion Broadcasting, a broadcasting company in Louisville, Kentucky
Electrical power and electronics
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
Orion Breweries, the fifth-largest beer brewery in Japan
Orion Corporation (South Korean company), a South Korean confectionery company
Orion, a Czech chocolate confectionery, subsidiary of Nestlé since 1999
Transportation and vehicles
Transport carriers
Orion Airways, a UK airline that operated from 1979 to 1989
Orion Air, a Seychelles airline
Orion Air (United States), a US contract freight airline that operated 1981–1989
Orion Expedition Cruises, an Australian cruise line
Orionair, a Spanish charter airline
Orionair, name used by Luxembourg airline Lionair when operating flights to the US
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
People
Orion (name)
Orion, industry name of record producer Darren Tate (born 1972)
Tomasz Wróblewski (born 1980), Polish musician (stage name "Orion")
Jimmy "Orion" Ellis (1945–1998), American rockabilly singer
Places
United States
Orion, Alabama, an unincorporated community
Orion, Illinois, a village
Orion Township, Fulton County, Illinois
Orion High School, in Orion, Illinois
Orion, Wisconsin, a town
Orion (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
Orion Township, Michigan
Orion Township, Minnesota
Elsewhere
Orion, Alberta, Canada, a hamlet
Orion, Bataan, the Philippines, a municipality
Orion, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France, a commune
Orion, Queensland, Australia, a village in the Central Highlands Region
Orion Passage, a narrow sailing route on the northwestern tip of Antarctica
Science and technology
Astronomy
Orion (constellation), named after the mythical hunter
Orion Arm, a galactic spiral arm which contains Earth
Orion Nebula, in the constellation
Orion's Belt, the three prominent astronomical objects in the constellation
Biology
Orion (beetle), a genus of beetles
Orion (grape), a white wine grape variety
Historis odius, the Orion, a butterfly in the genus Historis
Computing
ORION (research and education network), the provincial research network of Ontario, Canada
Orion (system-on-a-chip), used in network-attached storage
Ferranti Orion, 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 from Kagi Inc.
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