A chameleon is an Old World lizard belonging to the family Chamaeleonidae. Chameleon (or variants such as chamaeleon and cameleon) may also refer to:

Literature

* ''Chameleon'' (novel), a financial thriller novel by Richard Hains * Chameleon, a character from the 1977 Piers Anthony novel ''

A Spell for Chameleon ''A Spell for Chameleon'' is a fantasy novel by British-American writer Piers Anthony, published in 1977 by Ballantine Books/Del Rey Books. It is the first book of the Xanth series. Plot introduction In this adventure, Bink is exiled to Mundani ...

'' * "The Chameleon" (short story), an 1884 short story by Anton Chekhov * ''The Chameleon'' (magazine), 1894 magazine

Comics

Chameleon (Marvel Comics) The Chameleon (Dmitri Smerdyakov; Russian: Дмитрий Смердяков) is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is the first ever adversary of the superhero Spider-Man, having debuted in the init ...

, a fictional Marvel Comics supervillain * ''Chameleon'' (manga), a 1990 Japanese manga series *

Reep Daggle Chameleon Boy (Reep Daggle), also known as Chameleon, is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes in the 30th and 31st centuries. Publication history Chameleon Boy first appe ...

or Chameleon, a fictional DC Comics superhero

Computing

Cameleon (programming language) Cameleon is a free and open source graphical language for functional programming, released under an MIT License. Cameleon language is a graphical data flow language following a two-scale paradigm. It allows an easy up-scale, that is, the int ...

* Chameleon, a suite of TCP/IP client applications from

NetManage NetManage Inc. was a software company based in Cupertino, California, founded in 1990 by Zvi Alon, an Israeli engineer. The company's development centre was located at the MATAM technology park, in Haifa, Israel. In June 2008 the company was acq ...

* Chameleon (computing), a computer workstation * Chameleon botnet

Films and television

* ''Cameleon'' (film), a 1997 British film * ''Chameleon'' (1995 film), American film * ''Chameleon'' (1998 film), American TV film * ''Chameleon'' (2008 Hungarian film) * ''Chameleon'' (2008 Japanese film) * ''Chameleon'' (2016 film), Chilean film * ''The Chameleon'' (1920 film), a silent comedy film * ''The Chameleon'' (2010 film), film directed by Jean-Paul Salomé * ''The Chameleon'', a 1989 adult film by John Leslie * Chameleon (''Battlestar Galactica''), a character from ''Battlestar Galactica'' * "Chameleon" (''The Twilight Zone''), a 1985 episode of ''The Twilight Zone'' * "Chameleon" (''Xiaolin Showdown''), an episode of ''Xiaolin Showdown'' * "The Chameleon" (''The Outer Limits''), an episode of ''The Outer Limits'' * The Chameleon, a character from ''

T.U.F.F. Puppy ''T.U.F.F. Puppy'' is an American animated television series created by Butch Hartman for Nickelodeon. It premiered on October 2, 2010, on Nickelodeon along with '' Planet Sheen'', which premiered a half hour earlier. ''T.U.F.F. Puppy'' is Hartma ...

'' * The Chameleon, a Kaiju clone character from '' Godzilla: The Series'' * The Chameleons, characters in the ''Doctor Who'' serial ''

The Faceless Ones ''The Faceless Ones'' is the mostly missing eighth serial of the fourth season in the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', which was first broadcast in six weekly parts from 8 April to 13 May 1967. In this serial, the Sec ...

'' * The Chameleon, main antagonist of ''

Kung Fu Panda 4 ''Kung Fu Panda 3'' is a 2016 computer-animated martial arts comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by 20th Century Fox. It is the third installment in the ''Kung Fu Panda'' franchise and the sequel to ''Kung Fu Panda ...

Games

* ''Chameleon'' (2005 video game), a stealth-action video game * ''The Chameleon'' (party game), a 2017 deception game * Chameleon (''Dungeons & Dragons''), a prestige class in ''Dungeons & Dragons'' * Chameleon (''G.I. Joe''), a fictional in the ''G.I. Joe'' universe * Chameleon (''Mortal Kombat''), a character in the ''Mortal Kombat'' video game series * '' Chameleon: To Dye For!'', a 2008 video game by Starfish SD * Chameleon (video game console), a cancelled game console

Music

* The Chameleon Club, a music venue in Lancaster, Pennsylvania *

Chameleon (label) Chameleon was a record label formed by producer, music entrepreneur and former Capitol Records A&R executive Stephen Powers, in association with Bob Marin, Managing Director of alternative rock importer Sounds Good, and Richard Foos, co-founder o ...

Artists

* Chameleon (American band), a 1970s American band * Chameleon (Anglo-Canadian band), a country-rock quartet formed in 1975 *

Chameleon (British band) Chameleon was a vocal group founded in 1989 by Ivor Novello Award-winning composer Nigel Hess, and featuring former Swingle Singers member Olive Simpson (soprano), Lindsay John (alto), Jeremy Taylor (tenor), Michael Dore (baritone) and David Bea ...

, a British vocal group founded in 1989 by Nigel Hess *

Jose Chameleone Joseph Mayanja (born 30 April 1979), better known by the stage name Jose Chameleone, is a Ugandan AfroBeat artist and musician. Chameleone sings in Luganda, English and Swahili. He started his music career in the early 1990s in Kenya with th ...

(born 1979), Ugandan musician *

The Chameleons The Chameleons are an English rock band, formed in Middleton, Greater Manchester in 1981. The band's classic line-up consisted of lead vocalist and bassist Mark Burgess, guitarists Reg Smithies and Dave Fielding, and drummer John Lever. Th ...

, a UK post-punk band

Albums

* ''Caméléon'' (album), a 2012 album by Shy'm * ''Chameleon'' (EP), a 2017 EP by Grey * ''Chameleon'' (Margaret Berger album) * ''Chameleon'' (Maynard Ferguson album), 1974 * ''Chameleon'' (The Four Seasons album), 1972 * ''Chameleon'' (Helloween album), 1993 * ''Chameleon'' (Labelle album) * ''Chameleon'' (Måns Zelmerlöw album) * ''Chameleon'', a 1980 album by Tiny Tim

Songs

* "Caméléon" (song), by Maître Gims * "Chameleon" (Ira Losco song), 2015 * "Chameleon" (King Gnu song), 2022 * "Chameleon" (Michela Pace song), a 2019 song that represented Malta in the Eurovision Song Contest * "Chameleon" (Pnau song), 2016 * "Chameleon" (composition), a 1973 song by Herbie Hancock from ''Head Hunters'' * "Chameleon", a 1970 song by Creedence Clearwater Revival from ''

Pendulum A pendulum is a weight suspended from a pivot so that it can swing freely. When a pendulum is displaced sideways from its resting, equilibrium position, it is subject to a restoring force due to gravity that will accelerate it back toward th ...

'' * "Chameleon", a video-single by Metis (American musician) * "Chameleon", a 1976 song by Elton John from ''

Blue Moves ''Blue Moves'' is the eleventh studio album by English musician Elton John. It was released in October 1976. It was John's second double album (after '' Goodbye Yellow Brick Road'') and the first to be released by his own label, Rocket Records ...

'' * "Chaneleon", a 2008 song by Brendan Canning from '' Something for All of Us...'' * "Chameleon", a 2015 song by

Hardwell Robbert van de Corput (; born January 7, 1988), known professionally as Hardwell, is a Dutch DJ and music producer from Breda. He was voted the world's number one DJ by ''DJ Mag'' in 2013 and again in 2014. In 2022, he was ranked at number 43 ...

and Wiwek

Science

Cameleon (protein) Cameleon is an engineered protein based on variant of green fluorescent protein used to visualize calcium levels in living cells. It is a genetically encoded calcium sensor created by Roger Y. Tsien and coworkers. The name is a conflation of CaM (t ...

, an artificial protein *

Chamaeleon Chamaeleon () is a small constellation in the deep southern sky. It is named after the chameleon, a kind of lizard. It was first defined in the 16th century. History Chamaeleon was one of twelve constellations created by Petrus Plancius fr ...

, a constellation * Chamaeleon (plant), a genus of plants *

Chameleon particle The chameleon is a hypothetical scalar particle that couples to matter more weakly than gravity, postulated as a dark energy candidate. Due to a non-linear self-interaction, it has a variable effective mass which is an increasing function of the ...

, a hypothetical elementary particle * American chameleon or Carolina anole (''Anolis carolinensis''), a species of arboreal lizard

Other uses

Chamaeleon (philosopher) Chamaeleon (or Chameleon; grc-gre, Χαμαιλέων; c. 350 – c. 275 BC), was a Peripatetic philosopher of Heraclea Pontica. He was one of the immediate disciples of Aristotle. He wrote works on several of the ancient Greek poets, namely: *π ...

(c. 350 – c. 275 BC), ancient Greek philosopher