Gold Gold is a chemical element with the symbol Au (from la, aurum) and atomic number 79. This makes it one of the higher atomic number elements that occur naturally. It is a bright, slightly orange-yellow, dense, soft, malleable, and ductile ...

is a chemical element with symbol Au and atomic number 79. Gold may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

* Gold, a member of the

Metal Men The Metal Men are a group of superheroes that appear in DC Comics. The characters first appeared in ''Showcase'' #37 (March–April 1962) and were created by writer Robert Kanigher and artist Ross Andru. Debuting in the Silver Age of Comic Bo ...

in the DC Comics universe

Films

* ''Gold'' (1932 film), an American film directed by Otto Brower * ''Gold'' (1934 film), a German film directed by Karl Hartl * ''Gold'' (1955 film), a Canadian short documentary directed by Colin Low * ''Gold'' (1974 film), a film starring Roger Moore * ''Gold'' (2013 film), a German film directed by Thomas Arslan * ''Gold'' (2014 film), an Irish comedy film * ''Gold'' (2015 film), a German short documentary directed by Alexander Tuschinski * ''Gold'' (2016 film), an American crime drama * ''Gold'' (2017 film), a Spanish historical drama * ''Gold'' (2018 film), an Indian historical sports drama * ''Gold'' (2022 Australian film), a survival thriller film directed by Anthony Hayes * ''Gold'' (2022 Indian film), an Indian Malayalam-language comedy drama film

Literature

* ''Gold'' (Asimov), a 1995 collection of short stories by Isaac Asimov * ''Gold'' (Cleave novel), a 2012 novel by Chris Cleave * ''Gold'' (Rhodes novel), a 2007 novel by Dan Rhodes * "Gold" (short story), a 1991 science fiction story by Isaac Asimov

Music

Albums

* ''Gold'' (Barbara Dickson album), a 1985 album * ''Gold'' (The Beautiful South album), a 2006 Greatest Hits album * ''Gold'' (Britt Nicole album), a 2012 album * ''Gold'' (Crystal Lewis album), a 1998 album * ''Gold'' (Garnett Silk album), a 2000 album * ''Gold'' (Jasmine album), a 2010 album * ''Gold'' (Marika Gombitová album), a 2005 Slovak album * ''Gold'' (Modus album), a 2005 album * ''Gold'' (Ohio Players album), a 1976 soul/funk album * ''Gold'' (Ricky Dillon album), an album * ''Gold'' (Ryan Adams album), a 2001 album * ''Gold'' (Sister Sparrow album), a 2018 album * ''Gold'' (Starflyer 59 album), a 1995 album * ''

The Gold Record ''The Gold Record'' is the seventh studio album by American punk rock band the Bouncing Souls and was released on June 6, 2006. The band deemed this release to be 'the release of the beast' in reference to the date (6/6/06) being similar to the ...

'', a 2006 album by The Bouncing Souls * ''Gold'' (compilation album), several albums with this title * ''Gold'', a 2004 album by The Fucking Am

Extended plays

* ''Gold'' (Jessie James Decker EP), 2017 * ''Gold'' (Metro Station EP), 2014 * ''Gold'' (Sir Sly EP), 2013 * '' Gold Gold Gold'', an EP by Foals

Songs

* "Gold" (Amanda Lear song), 1978 * "Gold" (B'z song), 2001 * "Gold" (Beverley Knight song), 2002 * "Gold" (Chet Faker song), 2014 * "Gold" (Imagine Dragons song), 2015 * "Gold" (John Stewart song), 1979 * "Gold" (Kiiara song), 2015 * "Gold" (Neon Hitch song), 2012 * "Gold" (Prince song), 1995 * "Gold" (Spandau Ballet song), 1983 * "Gold" (Uverworld song), 2010 * "Gold" (Victoria Justice song), 2013 * " The Gold", by Manchester Orchestra from ''A Black Mile to the Surface'', 2017 * "Gold", by

Antoine Clamaran Antoine Clamaran-Danzelle (; born 8 November 1964) is a French house music producer, DJ and remixer. Clamaran was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine. In the early 1990s, his local fame interested Maximum FM, the leading parisian dance radio station at that ...

, 2009 * "Gold", by Britt Nicole from ''

'', 2012 * "Gold", by Brockhampton from ''

Saturation Saturation, saturated, unsaturation or unsaturated may refer to: Chemistry * Saturation, a property of organic compounds referring to carbon-carbon bonds **Saturated and unsaturated compounds ** Degree of unsaturation **Saturated fat or fatty aci ...

'', 2017 * "Gold", by East 17 from ''

Walthamstow Walthamstow ( or ) is a large town in east London, England, within the ceremonial county of Greater London and the ancient county of Essex. Situated northeast of Charing Cross, the town borders Chingford to the north, Snaresbrook and Sout ...

'', 1992 * "Gold", by Eden from ''

Vertigo Vertigo is a condition where a person has the sensation of movement or of surrounding objects moving when they are not. Often it feels like a spinning or swaying movement. This may be associated with nausea, vomiting, sweating, or difficulties w ...

'', 2017 * "Gold", by

Gabriel Ríos Gabriel Ríos (born August 25, 1978 in San Juan, Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican singer songwriter. Biography Gabriel was born in Puerto Rico, to Puerto Rican parents, and was raised on the island until the age of 17. He then relocated to the cit ...

, 2014 * "Gold", by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis from '' The Heist'', 2012 * "Gold", by Marina and the Diamonds from ''

Froot ''Froot'' (stylised in all caps) is the third studio album by Welsh singer Marina Diamandis and her last under the stage name Marina and the Diamonds. It was originally scheduled to be released on 3 April 2015 by Neon Gold Records and Atlan ...

'', 2015 * "Gold", by Owl City from ''

Shooting Star Shooting star refers to a meteor. Shooting star may also refer to: Film, television, and theater * ''Shooting Star'' (2015 film), a 2015 Bulgarian short film * ''Shooting Star'' (2020 film), a 2020 Canadian short film * ''Shooting Stars'' ...

'' and '' The Midsummer Station'', 2012 * "Gold", by Sir Sly from ''

'', 2013 * "Gold", by Sleeping with Sirens from ''

Madness Madness or The Madness may refer to: Emotion and mental health * Anger, an intense emotional response to a perceived provocation, hurt or threat * Insanity, a spectrum of behaviors characterized by certain abnormal mental or behavioral patterns * ...

'', 2015 * "Gold", by The Sugarcubes from ''

Stick Around for Joy ''Stick Around for Joy'' is the third and final studio album by Icelandic alternative rock band the Sugarcubes. It was released in 1992 by Elektra. The album was supported by four singles: "Hit", which reached number one on the Modern Rock Track ...

'', 1992 * "Gold", by Trixie Mattel from '' Barbara'', 2020

Other uses in music

Gold (band) Gold is a French music band from Toulouse, which enjoyed considerable success in the Francophone world in the 1980s. History Gold was originally composed of five musicians : Lucien Crémadès (guitar, vocals), Alain Llorca (bass, vocals), Bernar ...

, a French band *

Gold album Music recording certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped, sold, or streamed a certain number of units. The threshold quantity varies by type (such as album, single, music video) and by nation or territory (see ...

, an album or single that has sold a minimum number of copies *

Gold CD A gold compact disc is one in which gold is used in place of the super pure aluminium commonly used as the reflective coating on ordinary CDs or silver on ordinary CD-Rs. Gold CDs can be played in any CD player. Blank gold CD-Rs are also availab ...

, a compact disc made of gold instead of aluminium

Radio

Gold (British radio network) Gold is a network of oldies radio stations in the United Kingdom, which was formed by the merger of the Capital Gold network and the Classic Gold network in August 2007. The station relaunched in March 2014 as a partly-automated service, br ...

, a British radio network created in 2007 *

Gold (New Zealand radio network) Gold is a New Zealand radio station playing classic hits and classic rock of the 1970s and 1980s targeting an audience of listeners above 45 years of age. Gold broadcasts as a network on AM and FM frequencies across New Zealand and is owned ...

, a New Zealand radio network *

Gold 905 GOLD 905 is an English radio station of Mediacorp in Singapore. It broadcasts classic hits from the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s similar to that of BBC Radio 2 in the United Kingdom, 2UE, Magic 1278 and 4BH in Australia, Lite in Malaysia and Magic ...

, a Singaporean radio station

Television

Gold (Australian TV channel) Gold (stylised as WIN GOLD) is an Australian advertorial datacasting channel that launched on 1 May 2012 by the WIN Corporation. It is available to homes in most regional WIN Television viewing areas on LCN 85. The channel broadcasts mostly i ...

, a regional Australian television channel *

Gold (UK TV channel) Gold is a British pay television channel from the UKTV network that was launched in late 1992 as UK Gold before it was rebranded UKTV Gold in 2004. In 2008, it was split into current flagship channel Gold and miscellaneous channel, W (UK TV chan ...

, a British television channel * ANT1 Gold, a spin-off satellite channel from Antenna Group

Brands and enterprises

* Gold (biscuit), a caramel covered biscuit made by McVities *

Stagecoach Gold Stagecoach Gold is a luxury bus sub-brand used by various Stagecoach bus subsidiaries in the United Kingdom. Stagecoach Gold (originally Goldline) was launched in 2007 and was designed to attract more middle-class passengers to choose bus travel ...

, a luxury bus brand in the United Kingdom

Places

* Gold (crater), impact crater on Mars *

Fine Gold, California Fine Gold (formerly, Finegold and Gold) ( Mono: moohnih )Sydney M. Lamb. 1957''Mono Grammar'' University of California. Berkeley PhD dissertation. .pdf is an unincorporated community in Madera County Madera County (), officially the County o ...

, a community in Madera County, formerly known as Gold *

Gold Beach Gold, commonly known as Gold Beach, was the code name for one of the five areas of the Allied invasion of German-occupied France in the Normandy landings on 6 June 1944, during the Second World War. Gold, the central of the five areas, was ...

, the code name for one of the D-Day landing beaches that Allied forces used to invade German-occupied France during World War II

Science and technology

Gold (color) Gold, also called golden, is a color tone resembling the gold chemical element. The web color ''gold'' is sometimes referred to as ''golden'' to distinguish it from the color ''metallic gold''. The use of ''gold'' as a color term in traditi ...

, shade of the metal gold *

Gold (linker) In software engineering, gold is a linker for ELF files. It became an official GNU package and was added to binutils in March 2008 and first released in binutils version 2.19. gold was developed by Ian Lance Taylor and a small team at Google. T ...

, a linker designed to be faster than GNU ld *

Going gold A software release life cycle is the sum of the stages of development and maturity for a piece of computer software ranging from its initial development to its eventual release, and including updated versions of the released version to help impro ...

, in a software-release life-cycle, when a piece of software becomes ready for mass distribution * Gold open access, a framework for publishing and distributing

open-access Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which research outputs are distributed online, free of access charges or other barriers. With open access strictly defined (according to the 2001 definition), or libre op ...

scholarly research

Other uses

Gold (hieroglyph) The Egyptian hieroglyph representing gold (𓋞 Gardiner S12), phonetic value ''nb'', is important due to its use in the Horus-of-Gold name, one of the Fivefold Titulary names of the Egyptian pharaoh. In its determinative usage, it identifi ...

, an Egyptian language hieroglyph *

Gold (surname) Gold is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Adam Gold (disambiguation), multiple people :* Adam Golde, politician :* Adam Gold (radio presenter) on WPTK :* Adam Gold (musician) of The Mendoza Line (band) * Alan Gold (disambigua ...

* Golds (ethnic group), an old name for the Nanai people * Gold language, the Nanai language *

Haryana Gold Haryana Gold was an Indian professional basketball team based in Haryana Haryana (; ) is an Indian state located in the northern part of the country. It was carved out of the former state of East Punjab on 1 Nov 1966 on a linguistic basi ...

, Indian professional basketball team * Ornaments of Gold, or

az-Zukhruf Az-Zukhruf ( ar, الزخرف, "Ornaments of Gold, Luxury") is the 43rd chapter ('' surah''), of the Quran, the central religious text of Islam. It contains 89 verses ('' ayat''). Named after the golden ornaments recognized in verse 35 and ag ...

, the 43rd sura of the Qur'an *

Metal (wuxing) In Chinese philosophy, metal or gold (), the fourth phase of Wu Xing, is the decline of the matter, or the matter's decline stage. In Traditional Chinese Medicine Metal is yin in character, its motion is inwards and its energy is contracting. I ...

, an element in Chinese philosophy * Edible gold, a form of gold that is edible