dynamo "Dynamo Electric Machine" (end view, partly section, ) A dynamo is an electrical generator that creates direct current using a commutator. Dynamos employed electromagnets for self-starting by using residual magnetic field left in the iron cores ...

is a magnetic device originally used as an electric generator. Dynamo or Dinamo may also refer to:

Places

Dinamo (Moscow Metro) Dinamo () is a Moscow Metro station on the Zamoskvoretskaya line. It opened on 11 September 1938 as part of the second stage of the system. It was named for the former Dinamo Stadium, the home stadium of FC Dynamo Moscow. Passengers may transfer ...

, a station of the Moscow Metro, Moscow, Russia * Dinamo (Yekaterinburg Metro), a station of the Yekaterinburg Metro, Yekaterinburg, Russia

People

Dynamo (magician) Steven Frayne (born 17 December 1982), better known by his former stage name, Dynamo, is a British magician. His television show '' Dynamo: Magician Impossible'' ran from July 2011 to September 2014, and saw him win the Best Entertainment P ...

, stage name of English magician Steven Frayne

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

* Dynamo (Fox Feature Syndicate), a 1940s comic book character * Dynamo, a character from the ''Mega Man X'' series * Dynamo, a comic book character and member of the '' T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents'' * Dynamo, one of the "stalkers" from the movie '' The Running Man'' *

Captain Dynamo (comics) Captain Dynamo (William WarnerThis was seen on his tombstone on the cover, back cover, and on Pages 14 & 15 of ''Dynamo 5'' #4.) is a comic book superhero, created by writer Jay Faerber and artist Fran Bueno, who first appeared as a supporting ...

, a fictional comic book superhero *

Crimson Dynamo Crimson Dynamo ( Russian: Багровое Динамо, '; also Красное Динамо (Krasnoe Dinamo)) is the name of several characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics who have all been powered armor–weari ...

, the name of several fictional characters in the Marvel Comics universe, most of whom have been supervillains *

Dynamo 5 Dynamo 5 is a comic book superhero team created by writer Jay Faerber and artist Mahmud A. Asrar, which appears in an eponymous series published by Image Comics. The team first appeared in ''Dynamo 5'' #1 (Jan. 2007). The monthly series end ...

, a fictional superhero team appearing in the comic book of the same name *

Dynamo Duck Dynamo Duck () was the main character in the children's series ''The Adventures of Dynamo Duck'', which aired on television in the early 1990s. Overview The origin of the series lies with the French film maker Jean Tourane. During the 1960s, he ...

, the main character in the children's television series ''The Adventures of Dynamo Duck'' *''

Dynamo Joe ''Dynamo Joe'' was a comic book series published by First Comics from 1986 to 1988. Created, plotted and drawn by Doug Rice, it was scripted first by John Ostrander then by Phil Foglio. Ben Dunn sometimes filled in for Rice on the art. The serie ...

'', a 1980s comic book series *

DynaMo "Dynamo Electric Machine" (end view, partly section, ) A dynamo is an electrical generator that creates direct current using a commutator. Dynamos employed electromagnets for self-starting by using residual magnetic field left in the iron cores ...

, a 1998 BBC educational character

Music

Albums

* ''Dynamo'' (Avengers in Sci-Fi album), a 2010 album by Japanese electro-rock band Avengers in Sci-Fi * ''Dynamo'' (Soda Stereo album), a 1992 album by Argentine rock band Soda Stereo

Other music

* Dynamo, a collaboration project of Muriel Moreno and Marc Collin of

Nouvelle Vague The New Wave (, ), also called the French New Wave, is a French art film movement that emerged in the late 1950s. The movement was characterized by its rejection of traditional filmmaking conventions in favor of experimentation and a spirit of i ...

Dynamo Open Air Dynamo Open Air is a festival in the Netherlands that was held (almost) every year between 1986 and 2005. It was reborn in 2008 as Dynamo Outdoor and in 2015 as Dynamo Metal Fest. History Originally held to celebrate the fifth anniversary of th ...

, an annual heavy metal music festival held in the Netherlands

Other arts, entertainment, and media

* ''

'', a 1998 British educational programme and website * ''Dynamo'' (play), a 1929 play by Eugene O'Neill * ''Captain Dynamo'' (video game), a platform game developed by Codemasters and released for the Commodore Amiga and other platforms in 1993

Brands and enterprises

* Dynamo, a brand of laundry detergent, owned by

Colgate-Palmolive The Colgate-Palmolive Company, commonly known as Colgate-Palmolive, is an American multinational corporation, multinational consumer products company headquartered on Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The company specializes in ...

* Dynamo Corporation, American manufacturer of pool and air hockey tables

Science, engineering, and technology

Astrophysics

Dynamo theory In physics, the dynamo theory proposes a mechanism by which a celestial body such as Earth or a star generates a magnetic field. The dynamo theory describes the process through which a rotating, convection, convecting, and electrically conductin ...

, a theory relating to magnetic fields of celestial bodies *

Solar dynamo The solar dynamo is a physical process that generates the Sun's magnetic field. It is explained with a variant of the dynamo theory. A naturally occurring electric generator in the Sun's interior produces electric currents and a magnetic field, ...

, the physical process that generates the Sun's magnetic field

Software

DYNAMO (programming language) DYNAMO (DYNAmic MOdels) is a simulation language and accompanying graphical notation developed within the system dynamics analytical framework. It was originally for industrial dynamics but was soon extended to other applications, including popu ...

, a simulation language *

Dynamo (storage system) Dynamo is a set of techniques that together can form a highly available key-value structured storage system or a distributed data store. It has properties of both databases and distributed hash tables (DHTs). It was created to help address some ...

, a distributed data store *

Amazon DynamoDB Amazon DynamoDB is a managed NoSQL database service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS). It supports key-value and document data structures and is designed to handle a wide range of applications requiring scalability and performance. History W ...

, a storage system

Sports

Association football clubs

Dinamo Zagreb Građanski nogometni klub Dinamo Zagreb (), commonly referred to as simply Dinamo Zagreb (), is a Croatian professional football club based in Zagreb. Dinamo play their home matches at Stadion Maksimir. They are the most successful club in Cr ...

, a Croatian football club *

Dynamo FC (disambiguation) Dynamo FC or Dinamo FC may refer to several association football clubs worldwide. Africa * Benin: ** Dynamo Abomey F.C. *Ghana: ** Ho Dynamo FC * Seychelles: ** Northern Dynamo FC * South Africa: ** Dynamos F.C. (South Africa) * Zambia: ** Power D ...

FC Dinamo București FC Dinamo București, commonly known as Dinamo București () or simply Dinamo, is a Romanian professional association football, football club based in Bucharest that competes in the Liga I. Founded in 1948 as the team of the Ministry of Inter ...

, a Romanian football club *

FC Dynamo Kyiv The Football Club 'Dynamo Kyiv', also known as Dynamo Kyiv, or simply Dynamo, ( ) is a Ukrainian professional Association football, football club based in Kyiv. Founded in 1927 as a Kyivan football team of republican branch of the bigger Soviet ...

, a Ukrainian football club *

FC Dynamo Poltava Football Club Dynamo Poltava (); is a Ukrainian football team based in Poltava Poltava (, ; , ) is a city located on the Vorskla, Vorskla River in Central Ukraine, Central Ukraine. It serves as the administrative center of Poltava Oblast ...

, a Ukrainian football club * FC Dynamo Myrhorod, a Ukrainian football club *

Houston Dynamo FC Houston Dynamo Football Club is an American professional Association football, soccer club based in Houston. The club competes in Major League Soccer (MLS) as a member of the Western Conference (MLS), Western Conference. Established on Decembe ...

, an American soccer club *

FC Dinamo Tbilisi FC Dinamo Tbilisi ( ka, დინამო თბილისი, ) is a Georgian professional football club based in Tbilisi that competes in the Erovnuli Liga, the top flight of Georgian football. Dinamo Tbilisi was one of the most prom ...

, a Georgian football club * Dinamo Batumi, a Georgian football club

Basketball teams

BC Dynamo Moscow MBC Dynamo Moscow () was a Russian basketball team from Moscow. It was active for 93 years (from 1923 until 2016) as professional club, before being dissolved due to financial problems. The club had several successful years in the highest divisi ...

, a Russian basketball team *

BC Dynamo Saint Petersburg BC Dynamo Saint Petersburg was a Russian professional basketball club based in Saint Petersburg, that existed for two seasons. The club was founded in 2004 and dissolved in 2006. In the 2004–05 season, the club won the FIBA Europe League. His ...

, a Russian basketball team *

BC Dinamo Tbilisi BC Dinamo Tbilisi ( ka, საკალათბურთო კლუბი "დინამო") is a professional basketball club that is based in Tbilisi, that plays in the Georgian Superliga. It is one of the oldest and most successful baske ...

, a Georgian basketball team *

Dinamo Basket Sassari Polisportiva Dinamo, commonly known as Dinamo Sassari and currently known as Dinamo Banco di Sardegna Sassari for sponsorship reasons, is an Italian professional basketball club that is based in Sassari, Sardinia. They are the 2018–19 European ...

, an Italian basketball team *

CS Dinamo București (basketball) BC Dinamo București or Dinamo Știința București, formerly known as Dinamo-Erbașu or Dinamo Gealan, is a Romanian professional basketball club, based in Bucharest, Romania, which currently participates in the Liga Națională, the top-tier l ...

, a Romanian basketball team

Ice hockey teams

Dinamo Riga Dinamo Riga () is a professional ice hockey team based in Riga, Latvia. It most recently was a member of the Latvian Hockey Higher League. The club is affiliated with HK Zemgale/LBTU. The club was re-founded on 7 April 2008 as a successor of a D ...

, an ice hockey team * HC Dynamo Minsk, an ice hockey team * HC Dinamo Moscow, an ice hockey team * HC Dinamo Saint Petersburg, an ice hockey team

Multi-sports clubs

Dynamo Sports Club "Dynamo", also Dinamo (; ; ; ka, დინამო, tr), is a sports and physical training, fitness society created in 1923 in the Soviet Union. The society was an association of multi-sport clubs whose members were drawn from the NKVD and, af ...

, a multi-sports club of the Soviet Union *

SC Dynamo Berlin The Sports Club Dynamo Berlin was an East German sports club that existed from 1954 to 1991. It was the largest sports club of SV Dynamo, the sports association of the security agencies. The club was reformed after German reunification and succe ...

, a multi-sportsclub in East Berlin, affiliated to SV Dynamo *

SV Dynamo The Sportvereinigung Dynamo () (''Dynamo Sports Association'') was the Sports associations (East Germany), sport association of the security agencies (Volkspolizei, Stasi, Ministry for State Security, fire department and customs) of former East ...

, a multi-sports association of the German Democratic Republic *

CS Dinamo București CS Dinamo București (full name: Clubul Sportiv Dinamo București), or Dinamo for short, is a multi-sport club from Bucharest, Romania. History The club was founded in the spring of 1948, being subordinate to the Ministry of the Interior. F ...

, a multi-sports association of Ministry of Internal Affairs from Romania

Other sports

* Durham Dynamos, the limited overs team of

Durham County Cricket Club Durham County Cricket Club (rebranded as Durham Cricket in February 2019) is one of eighteen first-class cricket, first-class county cricket, county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the Historic c ...

* Dynamo Kazan Bandy Club * Dynamo Moscow (bandy club) * Dynamo Moscow (women's volleyball) * Dynamo Leningrad (bandy club) *

Futsal Dinamo MNK Futsal Dinamo is a Croatian professional futsal club from Zagreb, established on 21 March 2012. Futsal Dinamo is a List of fan-owned sports teams, fan-owned club. Members of the club elect their leadership through democratic elections and the ...

, a Croatian futsal team * CS Dinamo București (men's handball), a Romanian handball team

Stadiums

Belarus

Dinamo Stadium (Minsk) Dinamo National Olympic Stadium (, , , ) is a multi-purpose stadium in Minsk, Belarus. It first opened in 1934 and has had several renovations over the years, reopening after the latest one in 2017. Earlier it was used mostly for association foot ...

, Belarus

Romania

* Dinamo Stadium (1951), Romania

Russia

Dynamo Sports Palace Dynamo Palace of Sports () is an indoor sporting arena located in Khovrino District, Moscow, Russia. The capacity of the arena is 5,000. It was built during the preparations for the 1980 Summer Olympics, hosted by Moscow, USSR and was used as ...

, an indoor sporting arena in Moscow *

Dynamo Stadium (Moscow) Central Dynamo Stadium was a stadium in Moscow, Russia. It was built in 1928 and held 36,540 people. It was the home ground for Dynamo Moscow. It was central venue of the All-Soviet Dynamo sports society and carried special name of ''Central'' ...

Dynamo Stadium (Bryansk) Dynamo Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Bryansk, Russia. It was built in 1924, refitted in 1960 and 2004 years. Stadium is currently used mostly for football (soccer), football matches and is the home ground of FC Dynamo Bryansk. The stad ...

Dynamo Stadium (Vladivostok) The Dynamo Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Vladivostok, Russia. It is used mostly for football (soccer), football matches and is the home ground of FC Dynamo Vladivostok. The stadium is situated near the main square and harbour and by one ...

Ukraine

Valeriy Lobanovskyi Dynamo Stadium The Stadion Dynamo imeni Valeria Lobanovskoho is a multi-functional stadium in Kyiv, Ukraine that is modified for football use only. It is the home stadium of FC Dynamo Kyiv yet not the main stadium, for which Dynamo uses the bigger NSC Olymp ...

, Kyiv, Ukraine

Uzbekistan

* Dynamo Samarkand Stadium, Samarkand, Uzbekistan

Other uses

Dynamo (typeface) "Dynamo Electric Machine" (end view, partly section, ) A dynamo is an electrical generator that creates direct current using a commutator. Dynamos employed electromagnets for self-starting by using residual magnetic field left in the iron cores ...

, a typeface designed by K. Sommer for Ludwig & Mayer in 1930 * Dunwich Dynamo, an annual bicycle ride from London to Dunwich, England * Jugendkulturhaus Dynamo, a cultural center for youth in Zürich *

Operation Dynamo Operation or Operations may refer to: Arts, entertainment and media * ''Operation'' (game), a battery-operated board game that challenges dexterity * Operation (music), a term used in musical set theory * ''Operations'' (magazine), Multi-Man ...

, the World War II mass evacuation of Allied soldiers from Dunkirk * In physics,

dynamo theory In physics, the dynamo theory proposes a mechanism by which a celestial body such as Earth or a star generates a magnetic field. The dynamo theory describes the process through which a rotating, convection, convecting, and electrically conductin ...

is a mechanism by which a celestial body generates a magnetic field {{Disambiguation