Pallas may refer to:

Astronomy

2 Pallas Pallas (minor-planet designation: 2 Pallas) is the second asteroid to have been discovered, after Ceres. It is believed to have a mineral composition similar to carbonaceous chondrite meteorites, like Ceres, though significantly less hyd ...

asteroid ** Pallas family, a group of asteroids that includes 2 Pallas *

Pallas (crater) Pallas is a heavily eroded lunar impact crater located to the north of the Sinus Medii. It was named after the German-born Russian natural historian Peter Simon Pallas. To the northwest is the smaller but less worn crater Bode. Pallas shares a low ...

, a crater on Earth's moon

Mythology

* Pallas (Giant), a son of Uranus and Gaia, killed and flayed by Athena * Pallas (son of Evander), a prominent character in the ''Aeneid'' *

Pallas (son of Lycaon) In Greek mythology, Pallas (/ˈpæləs/; Ancient Greek: Πάλλας) was an Arcadian prince and the eponymous founder of the Arcadian town of Pallantion. He was the teacher of Athena, who, according to local myths, was born in Aliphera. Fami ...

, a teacher of Athena *

Pallas (son of Pandion) Pallas may refer to: Astronomy * 2 Pallas asteroid ** Pallas family, a group of asteroids that includes 2 Pallas * Pallas (crater), a crater on Earth's moon Mythology * Pallas (Giant), a son of Uranus and Gaia, killed and flayed by Athena * Pal ...

, the father of the 50 Pallantides * Pallas (Titan), the son of Crius and Eurybia, brother of Astraeus and Perses, and husband of Styx *

Pallas (daughter of Triton) In Greek mythology, Pallas (; Ancient Greek: Παλλάς) was the daughter of Triton (son of Poseidon) and messenger of the seas. Mythology After Athena was born fully armed from Zeus' forehead, Triton, acting as a foster parent to the godde ...

* Pallas, an epithet of Athena * Pallas, the father of Euryalus by Diomede

People

* Pallas (freedman) or Marcus Antonius Pallas, a freedman and favorite of Emperor Claudius * Pallas, a secondary wife of Herod the Great; her origins and fate are unknown.

People with the surname

David Pallas David Pallas (born 1 July 1980) is a Swiss former footballer who played as a right-back. He last played for VfL Bochum in Germany's Bundesliga. Early life Born in A Laracha, Spain, Pallas began his youth career at FC Zürich, where he made th ...

(born 1980), Swiss footballer *

Janette Pallas Janette Pallas is the Business Incubation and Enterprise manager, De Montfort University, Leicester. In 2008, she was awarded the Queen's Award for Enterprise Promotion The Queen's Award for Enterprise Promotion is one of the Queen's Awards for ...

* José Ignacio Pallas (born 1983), Uruguayan football defender * Maria Pallas (born 1993), Estonian swimmer * Peter Simon Pallas (1741–1811), German naturalist *

Paulí Pallàs Paulí Pallàs (1862–October 6, 1893) was a Spanish anarchist and typesetter who carried out an unsuccessful assassination attempt on Catalan captain general Arsenio Martínez Campos. Life Paulino Pallás was born in 1862 in Spain. He mov ...

(1862-1893) Spanish anarchist *

Simon Pallas Simon may refer to: People * Simon (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the given name Simon * Simon (surname), including a list of people with the surname Simon * Eugène Simon, French naturalist and the genus ...

(1694–1770), German physician *

Theodoros Pallas Theodoros Pallas ( el, Θεόδωρος Πάλλας; born in 1949), a Greek football player, was a defender for Aris Thessaloniki F.C. during the period 1966–80. He followed Dinos Kouis Dinos Kouis (Greek: Ντίνος Κούης) is a ...

(born 1949), Greek football player * Tim Pallas (born 1960), Australian politician

Ships

* ''Pallas''-class frigate, a 1791 class of frigates on the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars * ''Pallas''-class frigate (1808), a class of 40-gun frigates of the French Navy during the Napoleonic Empire period * MV ''Empire Tulip'' or MV ''Pallas'', a 1939 Dutch coastal tanker * MV ''Pallas'', a 1971 cargo ship * ''Pallas'', a French ''Minerve''-class submarine * ''Pallas'', a Russian barque, wrecked in 1895 after grounding on The Gwineas in the English Channel

Other uses

* PALLAS, a research group at University of California, Berkeley * Pallas (band), a British rock band * Pallas University of Applied Sciences, a university in Estonia * Pallas, a townland in Durrow, County Westmeath, Ireland * ''Pallas'', a 1993 novel by

L. Neil Smith Lester Neil Smith III (May 12, 1946 – August 27, 2021), better known as L. Neil Smith, was an American libertarian science fiction author and political activist. His works include the trilogy of Lando Calrissian novels, all published in 1983: ...

* Pallas, a series of luxury versions of the Citroën DS and other Citroën automobiles *Pallas, an Estonian art society which founded the

Pallas Art School (1919–1940) Pallas Art School ( et, Kõrgem Kunstikool Pallas) was an Estonian art school which existed 1919–1944 in Tartu. The school was the first Estonian art school which gave higher education in art. The school was established in 1919 by the ''Palla ...

* Pallas, the designation of a Citroën DS car model. *

Pallas Projects/Studios The Pallas Projects/Studios (PP/S, Pallas Studios, Pallas Contemporary Projects) is an artist-run and non-commercial gallery and studio space in Dublin, Ireland. History Pallas Projects was founded in 1996. The founders of Pallas say its su ...