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

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

People

* Roger Squires (1932–2023), crossword compiler who has used the pseudonym Icarus * Icarus (wrestler) (born 1982), wrestler with the Chikara organization

Places

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

Aviation

Aircraft

* Hartman ''Ikarus'', a 1950s British human-powered ornithopter * Icarus I, Icarus II and Icarus V, series of rigid-wing hang gliders designed by Taras Kiceniuk, Jr. *

Ikarus C42 The Ikarus C42 is a two-seat, fixed tricycle gear, general aviation microlight aircraft, manufactured in Germany by Comco Ikarus. It is used primarily for flight training, touring and personal flying. Design and development The Ikarus C42 is ...

, 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 Olympic Airlines (, ''Olympiakés Aerogrammés'' – OA), formerly named Olympic Airways, was the flag carrier airline of Greece. The airline's head office was located in Athens. The airline operated services to 37 domestic destinations and ...

* Ikarus, a Yugoslav aircraft manufacturer later renamed

Ikarbus Ikarbus a.d. (full legal name: ''Ikarbus – Fabrika autobusa i specijalnih vozila a.d.'') is a Serbian bus manufacturer based in Zemun, Belgrade. It was originally established as an aircraft manufacturer in 1923, under the name Ikarus. In 1954 ...

Other uses in aviation

Coupe Icare Coupe Icare, also known as the Icarus Cup, is an annual festival of free flight held between Saint-Hilaire (on the border of Chartreuse Mountains) and Lumbin (in the valley of Isère in France). The festival typically lasts four days and is held ...

("Icarus Cup"), a flight festival

Other businesses and organizations

Icarus Project The Icarus Project (2002–2020) was an American network of peer-support groups and media projects with the stated aim of changing the social stigmas regarding mental health. The project was rebranded as Fireweed Collective in 2020. History In 2 ...

, a mental health organization * Icarus Theatre Collective, a British theatre company * Ikarus (Hungarian company), a Hungarian bus manufacturer *

, a Serbian bus manufacturer formerly known as Ikarus * Icarus FC, an association football kit and sportswear brand

Arts and entertainment

Film and television

* ''Icarus'' (''Planet of the Apes''), a spacecraft in the ''Planet of the Apes'' franchise * Icarus Base, 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 the portion of the electromagnetic radiation which is emitted by the Sun (i.e. solar radiation) and received by the Earth, in particular the visible light perceptible to the human eye as well as invisible infrared (typically per ...

'' * ''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) Icarus Icarus (Joshua "Jay" Guthrie) is a mutant superhero. He was a member of the student body at the Xavier Institute and a member of the New Mutants training squad. Jay was the son of Thomas and Lucinda Guthrie. Thomas dies early in Jay's life ...

, a Marvel Comics character * Icarus, a mecha in ''

Chōjin Sentai Jetman is a Japanese tokusatsu television series produced by Toei Company. It is the fifteenth entry of the ''Super Sentai'' metaseries, following the previous series '' Chikyu Sentai Fiveman''. The series aired on TV Asahi on February 15, 1991, to Febr ...

'' * 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 Varekai was a Cirque du Soleil touring production that premiered in Montréal in April 2002. Its title means "wherever" in the Romani language, and the show is an "acrobatic tribute to the nomadic soul". The show begins with the Greek myth of ...

Music

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

Albums

* ''Icarus'' (Paul Winter Consort album), 1972 * ''Icarus'' (The Forms album), 2003 * ''Icarus'' (Chicosci album), 2004 * ''Icarus'', 2011 EP by Periphery * ''Icaro'', album by Renato Zero * ''Icarus'' (Cryalot EP), 2022 * ''Icarus'', 2024 EP by Khary and Abhi the Nomad

Songs

* "Icarus", a 1969 song written by Ralph Towner, included on ''Icarus'' (Paul Winter Consort album) * "Icarus - Borne on Wings of Steel", a song by Kansas on the album ''

Masque The masque was a form of festive courtly entertainment that flourished in 16th- and early 17th-century Europe, though it was developed earlier in Italy, in forms including the intermedio (a public version of the masque was the pageant). A mas ...

'', 1975 * "Icarus", a song by Santigold on the album '' Top Ranking'' * "Icarus", a song by Jason Webley on the album '' Only Just Beginning'' * "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 ...

'' * "Icarus", a song by Bastille on the album '' Bad Blood'' * "Icarus II", a song by Kansas on the album '' Somewhere to Elsewhere'', 2000 * "Icarus", a song by Eden on the album ''

vertigo Vertigo is a condition in which a person has the sensation that they are moving, or that objects around them are moving, when they are not. Often it feels like a spinning or swaying movement. It may be associated with nausea, vomiting, perspira ...

'' * "Icarus" (Madeon song), 2012 * "Icarus" (Greeeen song), 2015 * "Icarus" (R3hab song), 2016 * "Icarus", a song by JJ Project on the EP '' Verse 2'', 2017 * "Icarus", a song by Emma Blackery from the 2018 album ''

Villains A villain (also known as a " black hat", "bad guy" or "baddy"; The New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998) – p.126 "baddy (also baddie) noun (pl. -ies) ''informal'' a villain or criminal in a book, film, etc.". the feminine form is villai ...

'' * "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) Ikarus is a type design and production software developed by URW and Brendel Informatik foundries, for converting existing typefaces and logos into digital format for use on computer driven printing, plotting and sign cutting devices. It was lice ...

, a type design and production software developed by URW foundry * Ikarus (Scheme implementation), a free software optimizing incremental compiler for R6RS Scheme *

Icarus Verilog Icarus Verilog is an implementation of the Verilog hardware description language compiler that generates netlists in the desired format ( EDIF) and a simulator. It supports the 1995, 2001 and 2005 versions of the standard, portions of SystemVer ...

, 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, an asteroid *

ICARUS experiment ICARUS (Imaging Cosmic And Rare Underground Signals) is a physics experiment aimed at studying neutrinos. It was located at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) where it started operations in 2010. After completion of its operations ther ...

, a neutrino detector at Gran Sasso National Laboratory, Italy *

Icarus (crater) Icarus is a Lunar craters, lunar impact crater that lies on the Moon's Far side (Moon), far side. It is located to the west of the huge walled plain Korolev (lunar crater), Korolev, and less than two crater diameters to the east of the crater D ...

, on the Moon, named for the Ralph Towner composition by the Apollo 15 Astronauts * ''Icarus'' (journal), a planetary science journal *

Icarus (star) MACS J1149 Lensed Star 1, also known as Icarus,Other names include ''LS1'', ''MACS J1149 LS1'', ''MACS J1149 Lensed Star 1 (LS1)'' and ''MACS J1149+2223 Lensed Star 1'' is a blue supergiant star observed through a gravitational lens. It is the ...

, 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 uncrewed solar sail spacecraft * Project Icarus (interstellar), a design study of an interstellar spacecraft based on Project Daedalus * Project Icarus (photography) (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, an incident involving the 1867 murder of two British sailors in Nagasaki * Operation Ikarus, a World War II German plan to invade Iceland