Icarus In Greek mythology, Icarus (; grc, Ἴκαρος, Íkaros, ) was the son of the master craftsman Daedalus, the architect of the labyrinth of Crete. After Theseus, king of Athens and enemy of Minos, escaped from the labyrinth, King Minos suspe ...

is a character in Greek mythology. Icarus or Ikarus may also refer to:

People

* Roger Squires (born 1932), crossword compiler who has used the pseudonym Icarus * Icarus (wrestler) (born 1982), wrestler with the Chikara organization

Places

Icarus (island) Icaria, also spelled Ikaria ( el, Ικαρία), is a Greek island in the Aegean Sea, 10 nautical miles (19 km) southwest of Samos. According to tradition, it derives its name from Icarus, the son of Daedalus in Greek mythology, who w ...

, in the Aegean Sea * Ikaros (Failaka Island), in the Persian Gulf

Aviation

Aircraft

* Icarus I, Icarus II and Icarus V, series of rigid-wing hang gliders designed by Taras Kiceniuk, Jr. * Ikarus C42, a microlight aircraft * Ikarus IK-2, the most notable indigenous Yugoslav aircraft of the 1930s and World War II era * Icarus, a prototype space rescue vehicle tested by Aleksandr Serebrov

Aviation businesses and organizations

* Ikarus Drachen Tomas Pellicci, a German hang glider manufacturer * Icaro Air, an Ecuadorian airline * Icarus School, a military aviation academy * Icarus, a Greek airline that preceded Olympic Airlines * Ikarus, a Yugoslav aircraft manufacturer later renamed Ikarbus

Other uses in aviation

* Coupe Icare ("Icarus Cup"), a flight festival

Other businesses and organizations

* Icarus Project, a mental health organization *

Icarus Theatre Collective The Icarus Theatre Collective is a British theatre company located in London, England. Collective Company The Icarus Theatre Collective is a mid-scale theatre company that functions as a collective. A team of artists and managers run the company ...

, a British theatre company * Ikarus (Hungarian company), a Hungarian bus manufacturer * Ikarbus, a Serbian bus manufacturer formerly known as Ikarus *

Icarus Football Icarus is a football kit (association football), kit and apparel brand based out of Philadelphia, USA. Icarus was created to provide clubs with original and creative jerseys that represent their identity. Since its inception in 2017, Icarus has ...

, an association football kit & sportswear brand

Arts and entertainment

Film and television

* ''Icarus'' (''Planet of the Apes''), a spacecraft in the ''Planet of the Apes'' franchise *

Icarus Base "Air" is the three-part opening episode of the military science fiction television series ''Stargate Universe''. The first two parts aired on Syfy in the United States on October 2, 2009, while the third part aired on October 9. In Canada, SPACE ...

, a place in the series ''Stargate Universe'' * Icarus, an orbital superweapon in the James Bond film '' Die Another Day'' * ''Icarus I'', and ''Icarus II'', spacecraft in ''

Sunshine Sunlight is a portion of the electromagnetic radiation given off by the Sun, in particular infrared, visible, and ultraviolet light. On Earth, sunlight is scattered and filtered through Earth's atmosphere, and is obvious as daylight when th ...

'' * ''Icarus'' (2010 film) (also ''The Killing Machine''), an action film * ''Icarus'' (2017 film), a documentary film by Bryan Fogel * "Icarus" (''Scandal''), an episode of the TV series ''Scandal'' * "Icarus", the eleventh episode of ''Smallville'', Season 10 * "Icarus", the seventh episode of '' Law & Order: Criminal Intent''

Fictional characters

* Icarus (comics), a Marvel Comics character * Icarus, a mecha in '' Chōjin Sentai Jetman'' * Icarus, a ''Deus Ex'' character * Icarus, a character in '' Hercules: The Animated Series'' * Icarus, a character in '' Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland'' * Ikaros, a character in '' Heaven's Lost Property'' * Icarus, a primary character based on the Greek myth in the Cirque du Soleil show '' Varekai''

Music

* Icaros, shamanic medicine songs * Icarus (band), a band from London, England

Albums

* ''Icarus'' (The Forms album), 2003 * ''Icarus'' (Chicosci album), 2004 * ''Icarus'' (Paul Winter Consort album), 1972 * '' Icarus EP'', a 2011 EP by Periphery * ''Icaro'', an album by Renato Zero * ''Icarus'' (Cryalot EP), 2022

Songs

* "Icarus" (Greeeen song), 2015 * "Icarus" (Madeon song), 2012 * "Icarus" (R3hab song), 2016 * "Icarus", a song by Alesana on the album ''

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'' * "Icarus", a song by Flutlicht * "Icarus", a song by Santigold on the album '' Top Ranking'' * "Icarus", a song by Jason Webley on the album ''

Only Just Beginning ''Only Just Beginning'' is the fourth album by Jason Webley, released in 2004. Track listing #"February Relaxing Her Fingers After a Brief Winter's Grip" – 4:18 #"Music That Puts Everything Together" – 4:54 #"Balloon Feather Boat Tomato" – ...

'' * "Ikarus", a song by Unheilig on ''

Phosphor A phosphor is a substance that exhibits the phenomenon of luminescence; it emits light when exposed to some type of radiant energy. The term is used both for fluorescent or phosphorescent substances which glow on exposure to ultraviolet or vi ...

'' * "Icarus", a song by Bastille on the album '' Bad Blood'' * "Icarus", a song by Ralph Towner on the album '' Diary'' * "Icarus - Borne on Wings of Steel", a song by Kansas on the album '' Masque'' * "Icarus", a song by JJ Project on the EP '' Verse 2'', 2017 * "Icarus", a song by Eden on the album '' vertigo'' * "Icarus", a song by

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on the album ''The 5th Sun'', 2013 * "Ikarus", a song by Diary of Dreams on the album ''Grau im Licht'', 2015 * "Icarus", a song by Emma Blackery from the 2018 album '' Villains'' * "Icarus", a song by Starset on the album '' Horizons'', 2021

Other media

* ''Icarus'' (magazine), a Trinity College student publication * ''Icarus'' (sculpture), 1973 by Michael Ayrton

Software and video games

* ''Icarus'' (video game), a sci-fi survival video game developed by RocketWerkz * Ikarus (typography software), a type design and production software developed by URW foundry * Ikarus (Scheme implementation), a free software optimizing incremental compiler for R6RS Scheme * Icarus Verilog, an implementation of the Verilog hardware description language * '' BioShock Infinite'', codenamed "Project Icarus" during development * Ikarus (chess), a computer chess program

Science and technology

Space

1566 Icarus 1566 Icarus ( ; ''provisional designation'': ) is a large near-Earth object of the Apollo group and the lowest numbered potentially hazardous asteroid. It has is an extremely eccentric orbit (0.83) and measures approximately in diameter. In 196 ...

, an asteroid * ICARUS experiment, a neutrino detector at Gran Sasso National Laboratory, Italy *

Icarus (crater) Icarus is a lunar impact crater that lies on the Moon's far side. It is located to the west of the huge walled plain Korolev, and less than two crater diameters to the east of the crater Daedalus. To the south of Icarus is the smaller Amici. ...

, on the Moon * ''Icarus'' (journal), a planetary science journal * Icarus (star), most distant individual star detected (as of April 2018) *

IKAROS IKAROS (Interplanetary Kite-craft Accelerated by Radiation Of the Sun) is a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) experimental spacecraft. The spacecraft was launched on 20 May 2010, aboard an H-IIA rocket, together with the ''Akatsuki'' (V ...

, an interplanetary unmanned solar sail spacecraft *

Project Icarus (interstellar) Project Icarus is a theoretical engineering design study aimed at designing a credible, mainly nuclear fusion-based, unmanned interstellar space probe. ''Project Icarus'' was an initiative of members of the British Interplanetary Society (BIS) an ...

, a design study of an interstellar spacecraft based on Project Daedalus *

Project Icarus (photography) Project Icarus was a project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2009. Project Project Icarus was an experiment in 2009 to launch a camera into the stratosphere undertaken by MIT students, Justin Lee and Oliver Yeh.

(2009), a project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Other uses in science and technology

* ''Icarus'' (plant), a fern genus * ICARUS Initiative, an international project studying the migration routes of flying animals * IKZF1, a protein in humans that is encoded by the IKZF genes of the Ikaros family zinc finger group

Other uses

* HMS ''Icarus'', the name of several ships * , a patrol boat of the United States Coast Guard * Ikarus, a restaurant in Hangar-7 in Salzburg, Austria *

Icarus affair The was an incident involving the murder of two Royal Navy sailors in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1867, leading to increased diplomatic tensions between the United Kingdom and the Bakumatsu period Tokugawa shogunate. On 5 August Robert Ford and John Hutc ...

, an incident involving the 1867 murder of two British sailors in Nagasaki * Operation Ikarus, a World War II German plan to invade Iceland