dynamo "Dynamo Electric Machine" (end view, partly section, ) A dynamo is an electrical generator that creates direct current using a commutator. Dynamos were the first electrical generators capable of delivering power for industry, and the foundati ...

is a magnetic device originally used as an electric generator. Dynamo or Dinamo may also refer to:

Places

Dinamo (Moscow Metro) Dinamo (russian: Дина́мо) is a Moscow Metro station on the Zamoskvoretskaya line. It opened on 11 September 1938 as part of the second stage of the system. It was named for the former Dinamo Stadium, the home stadium of FC Dynamo Moscow. P ...

, a station of the Moscow Metro, Moscow, Russia * Dinamo (Yekaterinburg Metro), a station of the Yekaterinburg Metro, Yekaterinburg, Russia

People

Dynamo (magician) Steven Frayne (born 17 December 1982), better known by his stage name Dynamo, is a British magician born in Bradford, West Yorkshire. His television show '' Dynamo: Magician Impossible'' ran from July 2011 to September 2014, and saw him win th ...

, stage name of English magician Steven Frayne

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

Dynamo (Fox Feature Syndicate) Dynamo is a fictional superhero that appeared in comic books published by Fox Feature Syndicate. He originally appeared in ''Science Comics'' #1 (February 1940) under the name Electro. He appeared for the first time as Dynamo in ''Science Comics' ...

, a 1940s comic book character * Dynamo, a character from the ''Mega Man X'' series * Dynamo, a comic book character and member of the ''

T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents ''T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents'' is a fictional team of superheroes that appeared in comic books originally published by Tower Comics in the 1960s. They were an arm of the United Nations and were notable for their depiction of the heroes as everyday pe ...

'' * Dynamo, one of the "stalkers" from the movie '' The Running Man'' * Captain Dynamo (comics), a fictional comic book superhero *

Crimson Dynamo Crimson Dynamo (Russian: Багровое Динамо, '; also Красное Динамо (Krasnoe Dinamo)) is the name of several fictional characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics who have all been powered ar ...

, the name of several fictional characters in the Marvel Comics universe, most of whom have been supervillains *

Dynamo 5 Dynamo 5 is a fictional comic book superhero team created by writer Jay Faerber and artist Mahmud A. Asrar, which appears in an eponymous series published by Image Comics. The team first appeared in ''Dynamo 5'' #1 (Jan. 2007). The month ...

, a fictional superhero team appearing in the comic book of the same name * Dynamo Duck, the main character in the children's television series ''The Adventures of Dynamo Duck'' *''

Dynamo Joe ''Dynamo Joe'' was a comic book series published by First Comics from 1986–1988. Created, plotted and drawn by Doug Rice, it was scripted first by John Ostrander then by Phil Foglio. Ben Dunn sometimes filled in for Rice on the art. The seri ...

'', a 1980s comic book series *

DynaMo "Dynamo Electric Machine" (end view, partly section, ) A dynamo is an electrical generator that creates direct current using a commutator. Dynamos were the first electrical generators capable of delivering power for industry, and the foundati ...

, a 1998 BBC educational character

Music

Albums

* ''Dynamo'' (Avengers in Sci-Fi album), a 2010 album by Japanese electro-rock band Avengers in Sci-Fi * ''Dynamo'' (Soda Stereo album), a 1992 album by Argentine rock band Soda Stereo

Other music

* Dynamo, a collaboration project of Muriel Moreno and Marc Collin of

Nouvelle Vague French New Wave (french: La Nouvelle Vague) is a French art film movement that emerged in the late 1950s. The movement was characterized by its rejection of traditional filmmaking conventions in favor of experimentation and a spirit of iconocla ...

Dynamo Open Air Dynamo Open Air is a festival in the Netherlands held (almost) every year between 1986 and 2005. It was reborn in 2008 as Dynamo Outdoor and in 2015 as Dynamo Metal Fest. History Originally held to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Dynamo ...

, an annual heavy metal music festival held in the Netherlands

Other arts, entertainment, and media

* ''

'', a 1998 British educational programme and website * ''Dynamo'' (play), a 1929 play by Eugene O'Neill * ''Captain Dynamo'' (video game), a platform game developed by Codemasters and released for the Commodore Amiga and other platforms in 1993

Brands and enterprises

* Dynamo, a brand of laundry detergent, owned by Colgate-Palmolive * Dynamo Corporation, American manufacturer of pool and air hockey tables

Science, engineering, and technology

Astrophysics

Dynamo theory In physics, the dynamo theory proposes a mechanism by which a celestial body such as Earth or a star generates a magnetic field. The dynamo theory describes the process through which a rotating, convecting, and electrically conducting fluid can ...

, a theory relating to magnetic fields of celestial bodies *

Solar dynamo The solar dynamo is a physical process that generates the Sun's magnetic field. It is explained with a variant of the dynamo theory. A naturally occurring electric generator in the Sun's interior produces electric currents and a magnetic field ...

, the physical process that generates the Sun's magnetic field

Software

DYNAMO (programming language) DYNAMO (DYNAmic MOdels) is a simulation language and accompanying graphical notation developed within the system dynamics analytical framework. It was originally for industrial dynamics but was soon extended to other applications, including popul ...

, a simulation language *

Dynamo (storage system) Dynamo is a set of techniques that together can form a highly available key-value structured storage system or a distributed data store. It has properties of both databases and distributed hash tables (DHTs). It was created to help address some ...

, a distributed data store *

Amazon DynamoDB Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed proprietary NoSQL database service that supports key–value and document data structures and is offered by Amazon.com as part of the Amazon Web Services portfolio. DynamoDB exposes a similar data model to and ...

, a storage system

Sports

Association football clubs

Dinamo Zagreb Građanski nogometni klub Dinamo Zagreb ( en, Dinamo Zagreb Citizens' Football Club, link=yes, italics=yes), commonly referred to as GNK Dinamo Zagreb or simply Dinamo Zagreb (), is a Croatian professional football club based in Zagreb. Dinamo ...

, a Croatian football club *

Dynamo FC (disambiguation) Dynamo FC or Dinamo FC may refer to several association football clubs worldwide. Africa * Benin: ** Dynamo Abomey F.C. *Ghana: ** Ho Dynamo FC * Seychelles: **Northern Dynamo FC * South Africa: **Dynamos F.C. (South Africa) * Zambia: ** Power Dyn ...

* FC Dinamo București, a Romanian football club * FC Dynamo Kyiv, a Ukrainian football club *

Houston Dynamo FC Houston Dynamo FC (formerly officially, but still commonly, called the Houston Dynamo) is an American professional soccer club based in Houston. The Dynamo compete in Major League Soccer (MLS) as a member of the Western Conference. Establish ...

, an American soccer club

Basketball teams

BC Dynamo Moscow MBC Dynamo Moscow (russian: МБК Динамо Москва) was a Russian basketball team from Moscow. It was active for 93 years (from 1923 until 2016) as professional club, before being dissolved due to financial problems. The club had seve ...

, a Russian basketball team *

BC Dynamo Saint Petersburg BC Dynamo Saint Petersburg was a Russian professional basketball club based in Saint Petersburg, that existed for two seasons. The club was founded in 2004 and dissolved in 2006. In the 2004–05 season, the club won the FIBA Europe League. Hist ...

, a Russian basketball team *

BC Dinamo Tbilisi BC Dinamo Tbilisi ( ka, საკალათბურთო კლუბი ,,დინამო’’) is a professional basketball club that is based in Tbilisi, that plays in the Georgian Superliga. It is one of the oldest and most successful ...

, a Georgian basketball team *

Dinamo Basket Sassari Polisportiva Dinamo, commonly known as Dinamo Sassari and currently known as Dinamo Banco di Sardegna Sassari for sponsorship reasons, is an Italian professional basketball club that is based in Sassari, Sardinia. They are the current European Cu ...

, an Italian basketball team *

CS Dinamo București (basketball) BC Dinamo București or Dinamo Știința București, formerly known as Dinamo-Erbașu or Dinamo Gealan, is a Romanian professional basketball club, based in Bucharest, Romania. History Part of one of the biggest sports organizations in Romania, ...

, a Romanian basketball team

Ice hockey teams

* Dinamo Riga, an ice hockey team *

HC Dynamo Minsk Hockey Club Dinamo Minsk (russian: Дина́мо-Минск; be, Дынама-Мінск, ''Dynama-Minsk'') is an ice hockey team based in Minsk, Belarus. They are members of the Tarasov Division of the Kontinental Hockey League. Dinamo has qu ...

, an ice hockey team * HC Dinamo Moscow, an ice hockey team * HC Dinamo Saint Petersburg, an ice hockey team

Multi-sports clubs

Dynamo Sports Club Dynamo, also Dinamo, (; , Belarusian: Дынама, ka, დინამო) was a sports and fitness society created in 1923 in the Soviet Union. The society was an association of multi-sport clubs whose members were drawn from the NKVD and, a ...

, a multi-sports club of the Soviet Union *

SC Dynamo Berlin The Sports Club Dynamo Berlin was an East German sports club that existed from 1954 to 1991. It was the largest sports club of SV Dynamo, the sports association of the security agencies. The club was disbanded after German reunification and even ...

, a multi-sportsclub in East Berlin, affiliated to SV Dynamo *

SV Dynamo The Sportvereinigung Dynamo () (''Dynamo Sports Association'') was the Sports associations (East Germany), sport association of the security agencies (Volkspolizei, Stasi, Ministry for State Security, fire department and customs) of former East G ...

, a multi-sports association of the German Democratic Republic *

CS Dinamo București CS Dinamo București is a Romanian sports society based in Bucharest Bucharest ( , ; ro, București ) is the capital and largest city of Romania, as well as its cultural, industrial, and financial centre. It is located in the southeast ...

, a multi-sports association of Ministry of Internal Affairs from Romania

Other sports

* Durham Dynamos, the limited overs team of

Durham County Cricket Club Durham County Cricket Club (rebranded as Durham Cricket in February 2019) is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Durham. Founded in 1882, D ...

Dynamo Kazan Bandy Club Dynamo-Kazan (russian: Дина́мо-Каза́нь; formerly Raketa (russian: Ракета) 1958–2008) is a professional bandy club from Kazan, Russia, established in 1958 and playing in the Russian Bandy League since 1996. The club plays at ...

* Dynamo Moscow (bandy club) * Dynamo Moscow (women's volleyball) * Dynamo Leningrad (bandy club) * Futsal Dinamo, a Croatian futsal team *

CS Dinamo București (men's handball) Clubul Sportiv Dinamo București is a Romanian handball club based in Bucharest, that competes in the Liga Națională, the top flight of Romanian handball. Nicknamed "the Red Dogs", the club was founded in 1948. The club's home ground is the ...

, a Romanian handball team

Stadiums

Belarus

Dinamo Stadium (Minsk) Dinamo National Olympic Stadium ( be, Нацыянальны Алімпійскі стадыён Дынама,''Nacyjanalny Alimpijski stadyjon Dynama'', ) is a multi-purpose stadium in Minsk, Belarus. It was reopened after a renovation project ...

, Belarus

Romania

Dinamo Stadium (Bucharest) Dinamo Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Bucharest, Romania. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of Dinamo București. History The stadium was built in 1951. First match played here was Dinamo – Locom ...

, Romania

Russia

Dynamo Sports Palace Dynamo Palace of Sports (russian: Дворец спорта «Динамо») is an indoor sporting arena located in Khovrino District, Moscow, Russia. The capacity of the arena is 5,000. It was built during the preparations for the 1980 Summer O ...

, an indoor sporting arena in Moscow *

Dynamo Stadium (Moscow) Central Dynamo Stadium was a stadium in Moscow, Russia. It was built in 1928 and held 36,540 people. It was the home ground for Dynamo Moscow. It was central venue of the All-Soviet Dynamo sports society and carried special name of ''Central'' t ...

Dynamo Stadium (Bryansk) Dynamo Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Bryansk, Russia. It was built in 1924, refitted in 1960 and 2004 years. Stadium is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of FC Dynamo Bryansk. The stadium holds up to 10, ...

Dynamo Stadium (Vladivostok) The Dynamo Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Vladivostok, Russia. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of FC Luch Vladivostok FC Luch Vladivostok (russian: Футбольный клуб "Луч" Влад ...

Ukraine

Valeriy Lobanovskyi Dynamo Stadium The Stadion Dynamo imeni Valeria Lobanovskoho is a multi-functional stadium in Kyiv, Ukraine that is modified for football use only. It is the home stadium of FC Dynamo Kyiv yet not the main stadium, for which Dynamo uses the bigger NSC Olym ...

, Kyiv, Ukraine

Uzbekistan

Dynamo Samarkand Stadium Dinamo Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. It is currently used mostly for football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''foot ...

, Samarkand, Uzbekistan

Other uses

Dynamo (typeface) "Dynamo Electric Machine" (end view, partly section, ) A dynamo is an electrical generator that creates direct current using a commutator. Dynamos were the first electrical generators capable of delivering power for industry, and the foundat ...

, a typeface designed by K. Sommer for Ludwig & Mayer in 1930 *

Dunwich Dynamo The Dunwich Dynamo (sometimes abbreviated to "Dun Run" or "DD") is an annual semi-organised, through-the-night bicycle ride from London Fields park in Hackney, London, England to Dunwich on the Suffolk coast. The distance is approximately . ...

, an annual bicycle ride from London to Dunwich, England * Jugendkulturhaus Dynamo, a cultural center for youth in Zürich *

Operation Dynamo Operation or Operations may refer to: Arts, entertainment and media * ''Operation'' (game), a battery-operated board game that challenges dexterity * Operation (music), a term used in musical set theory * ''Operations'' (magazine), Multi-Ma ...

, the World War II mass evacuation of Allied soldiers from Dunkirk * In physics,

dynamo theory In physics, the dynamo theory proposes a mechanism by which a celestial body such as Earth or a star generates a magnetic field. The dynamo theory describes the process through which a rotating, convecting, and electrically conducting fluid can ...

is a mechanism by which a celestial body generates a magnetic field {{Disambiguation