Lotus may refer to:

Plants

* Lotus (plant), various botanical taxa commonly known as lotus, particularly: ** ''Lotus'' (genus), a genus of terrestrial plants in the family Fabaceae ** Lotus flower, a symbolically important aquatic Asian plant also known as Indian or sacred lotus * Lotus tree, a plant in Greek and Roman mythology

Places

* Lotus, California, an unincorporated community in El Dorado County, California, United States *

Lotus, Indiana Lotus is an unincorporated area, unincorporated community in Center Township, Union County, Indiana, Center Township, Union County, Indiana, Union County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. History A post office was established at Lotus in 1865, and re ...

, an unincorporated community in Union County, Indiana, United States *

Lotus, Florida Lotus is a former village in Brevard County, Florida, United States. It is the location of Honeymoon Hill, the highest point on Merritt Island. Only one road runs through the area, CR 3, accessible to the south by Pineda Causeway and from the no ...

, a former village in Brevard County, Florida, United States *

Lotus, Kentucky Lotus is an unincorporated community located in Bullitt County, Kentucky Kentucky ( , ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States and one of the states of the Upper South. It b ...

, an unincorporated community in Bullitt County, Kentucky, United States

Brands

Lotus Cars Lotus Cars Limited is a British automotive company headquartered in Norfolk, England which manufactures sports cars and racing cars noted for their light weight and fine handling characteristics. Lotus was previously involved in Formula One r ...

, a British motor vehicle manufacturer ** Lotus F1 Team, a British Formula One team that started competing in the 2012 season ** Team Lotus, a British Formula One racing team that competed between 1954 and 1994 **

Pacific Team Lotus Pacific Racing (later known as Pacific Grand Prix, and finally as Pacific Team Lotus) was a motor racing team from the United Kingdom. Following success in lower formulae, the team took part in two full seasons of Formula One, in and , enterin ...

, the successor team that resulted from a merger with Pacific and competed in Formula One in 1995 **

Lotus GP ART Grand Prix is a French motor racing team that competes in formula single-seaters in Europe. In 2012, it competed in the GP2 Series and GP3 Series as Lotus GP to reflect sponsorship from British sports and racing car manufacturer Lotus. The t ...

, a French GP2 and GP3 racing team sponsored by Lotus Cars * Team Lotus (2010–11), a Malaysian Formula One racing team that began racing in 2010 as Lotus Racing and became the Caterham F1 Team at the end of the 2011 season *Lotus, a brand of watches, part of the Festina Group * Lotus Foods, an organic rice company * Lotus Bakeries, a Belgian bakery founded in 1932 *

Lotus Software Lotus Software (called Lotus Development Corporation before its acquisition by IBM) was an American software company based in Massachusetts; it was "offloaded" to India's HCL Technologies in 2018. Lotus is most commonly known for the Lotus 1-2- ...

, a personal computer software company, best known for: ** Lotus Notes, collaborative software, personal information manager and e-mail client now known as IBM Notes ** Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet application *Lotus Supercenter, an Asian supermarket chain owned by the Charoen Pokphand Group * Tesco Lotus, a hypermarket chain in Thailand, formerly owned by Lotus Supercenter

Religion

* Sacred lotus in religious art * Lotus throne base for figures in Asian religious art * Lotus, one of the

Ashtamangala The Ashtamangala is a sacred suite of ''Eight Auspicious Signs'' endemic to a number of religions such as Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism. The symbols or "symbolic attributes" () are yidam and teaching tools. Not only do these attributes (or e ...

(Eight Auspicious Symbols) * Lotus Sutra, an influential Mahayana sutra

Media and entertainment

Music

* Lotus (guitar), an instrument manufacturer * Lotus (American band), an instrumental rock band * Lotus (Hong Kong band), a 1960s pop band

Albums

* ''Lotus'' (Christina Aguilera album) (2012), by Christina Aguilera * ''Lotus'' (Elisa album) (2003), by Elisa * ''Lotus'' (Santana album) (1974), by Santana *''Lotus'' (2009), by Haywyre

Songs

* "Lotus" (Arashi song), by Arashi * "Lotus" (Dir En Grey song), a song by Dir En Grey * "Lotus" (R.E.M. song), by R.E.M. *"Lotus", a song from Cage The Elephant's debut album *”Lotus”, a song by Lil Uzi Vert on the album ''

Lil Uzi Vert vs. the World 2 ''Lil Uzi Vert vs. the World 2'' is a reissue studio album by American rapper Lil Uzi Vert that was released on March 13, 2020. The album was released as the deluxe edition of their second studio album ''Eternal Atake'', which was released a week b ...

'' *"Lotus", a song by Minus the Bear on '' Planet of Ice'' *"Lotus", a song by Susumu Hirasawa on the 1995 album '' Sim City''

Other media

Lotus (board game) Lotus is a board game for two to four players, developed by Dominique Tellier and published by Ravensburger, Ravensburger Spieleverlag. The objective of the game is to move one's pieces off the board before the other players. The game board is hex ...

, a strategy game * ''Lotus'' (magazine), a trilingual political and cultural magazine * ''Lotus'' (video game series), a videogame series based on Lotus cars *Lotus, the codename of a character in the 2009 video game '' Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors''

Vessels

* ''Lotus'' (1826 ship), English ship * ''Lotus'' (motor vessel), a houseboat yacht * S.S. ''Lotus'', a French steamship involved in the ''Lotus case'' criminal trial * S.S.S. ''Lotus'', an American sailing vessel

Other uses

* Law of the unconscious statistician (LOTUS), a statistics theorem used to calculate the expected value of a function