Orion

{{Wiktionary|Orion}}

'''Orion''' may refer to:

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== Common meanings == * Orion (constellation), named after the mythical hunter * Orion (mythology), a hunter in Greek mythology * Orion Arm, the Milky Way's galactic arm which contains Earth * Orion Nebula, in the constellation

== Arts and media == {{for|companies in arts and media|#Companies}} === Fictional entities === ==== Characters and species ==== * Orion (character), a DC Comics character * Orion (''Star Trek''), a sentient alien species * Orion, code name of Stephen J. Bartowski on the television show ''Chuck'' * Orion, in the fighting game ''Brawlhalla'' * Orions, a race in the ''Starfire'' board game and book series * Orion, a character from ''Power Rangers Super Megaforce'' * Captain Orion, in the Japanese series ''X-Bomber'' * Orion Pax, the former name of Optimus Prime. * Orion Black, the father of Sirius Black and Regulus Black, in the Harry Potter Series * Orion Mendelson, the boy from ''Orion and the Dark''

====Vessels==== * ''Orion'', a spaceplane in the film ''2001: A Space Odyssey'' * ''Orion'', a spaceship in ''Raumpatrouille Orion'' (''Space Patrol Orion'' in English), the first German science fiction television series * ''"Orion"''-class spaceship, on the television series ''Ascension''

=== Literature === {{for|periodicals|#Periodicals}} * ''Orion'', an 1843 poem by Richard Henry Horne * ''Orion'', a 1978 novel by Gail Brewer-Giorgio * ''Orion and King Arthur'', a 2012 novel series by Ben Bova * ''The Orion'', an 1893 book on sociology by Bal Gangadhar Tilak * ''Dead at Daybreak'', a 1998 novel by Deon Meyer, originally published as ''Orion''

=== Music === ==== Albums and long-form compositions ==== * ''Orion'' (Ryan Adams album) * ''Orion'' (X Ambassadors album) * ''Orion'' (Vivier), a 1979 orchestral work by Claude Vivier * ''Orion'' (Lacoste), an opera by the French composer Louis Lacoste * ''Orion'' (composition), a 2002 composition by Kaija Saariaho * ''Orion'', a 2004 Philip Glass composition * ''Orion'', an album by the band she * ''Orion & Pleiades'' (1984), a symphonic work by Toru Takemitsu

==== Songs ==== * "Orion" (Girl Next Door song) * "Orion" (Mika Nakashima song) * "Orion" (Metallica song), an instrumental piece on the album ''Master of Puppets'' * "Orion", a song by 12012 * "Orion", a song in the boxed set ''Dead Can Dance (1981–1998)'' by Dead Can Dance * "Orion", a song on the album ''Stormwatch'' by Jethro Tull * "Orion", a 2017 non-album single by Kenshi Yonezu

==== Other uses in music ==== * Orion Records (1960s–'80s), a classical record label * Orion (singer) (Jimmy Ellis, 1945–1998), American singer * Youth (musician) (Martin Glover, born 1960), British musician also known as Orion

=== Periodicals=== * ''Orion'' (manga), by Masamune Shirow * ''Orion'' (online magazine), an online magazine on nature, environment and culture * ''Orion'' (1840s magazine), an American literary magazine that ran from 1842 to 1844 * ''ORiON'', the journal of the Operations Research Society of South Africa * ''Ginga Densetsu Weed: Orion'', a manga by Yoshihiro Takahashi * ''The Orion'' (California State University, Chico), a student newspaper

===Other uses in arts and media=== * ''Orion'' (film), a Canadian film * ''Orion'' (sculpture), work by Mark di Suvero * Miss Riboet's Orion (1925–42), a theatrical troupe active in the Dutch East Indies * "Orion" (''The Night Agent''), a 2026 television episode

== Buildings == * The Orion (skyscraper) in New York City * Orion Assembly, a General Motors assembly plant in Orion Township, Michigan * Orion Building, a residential building in Birmingham, England * Orion, the movie theater of Finland's National Audiovisual Archive * Orion Theatre, largest avant-garde theatrical/artist stage in Stockholm, Sweden * Orion Mall, Bangalore, India; a shopping mall

== Companies == ===Arts and media=== * Orion Pictures, an American film production company, now a subsidiary of MGM * Orion Publishing Group, a UK-based book publisher * Orion Records (1960s–1980s), a classical record label * Orion Broadcasting, a broadcasting company in Louisville, Kentucky

===Electrical power and electronics=== * Orion Electric, a Japanese electronics company * Orion Electronics, a Hungarian company * Orion Energy Systems, an American power technology company * Orion New Zealand Limited, a New Zealand electricity distribution company

===Food and beverage=== * Orion Breweries, the fifth-largest beer brewery in Japan * Orion Corporation (South Korean company), a South Korean confectionery company * Orion, a Czech chocolate confectionery, subsidiary of Nestlé since 1999

===Transportation and vehicles=== {{anchor|Transportation and vehicle companies}} ====Transport carriers==== * Orion Airways, a UK airline that operated from 1979 to 1989 * Orion Air, a Seychelles airline * Orion Air (United States) a US contract freight airline that operated 1981–1989 * Orion Expedition Cruises, an Australian cruise line * Orionair, a Spanish charter airline * Orionair, name used by Luxembourg airline Lionair when operating flights to the United States

====Vehicle manufacturers==== * Orion Bus Industries, a Canadian bus manufacturer * Orion Space, a Nepalese company producing the Nepal PQ-1 picosatellite * Orionette, also known as Orion AG für Motorfahrzeuge, a German motorcycle manufacturer

===Other companies=== * Orion Telescopes & Binoculars, an American company * Orion Corporation (pharmaceutical company), a Finnish pharmaceutical company * Orion Group (Bangladesh), a Bangladeshi industrial conglomerates ** Orion Pharma (Bangladesh), a Bangladeshi pharmaceutical company * Orion Group (recruitment company), Scottish international recruiting company

== People == * Orion (name) * Orion, industry name of record producer Darren Tate (born 1972) * Orion, stage name of Tomasz Wróblewski (born 1980), Polish musician * Jimmy "Orion" Ellis (1945–1998), American rockabilly singer

== Places == {{for|buildings|#Buildings}}

=== United States === * Orion, Alabama, an unincorporated community * Orion, Illinois, a village ** Orion Township, Fulton County, Illinois ** Orion High School, in Orion, Illinois * Orion, Wisconsin, a town ** Orion (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community * Orion Township, Michigan * Orion Township, Minnesota

=== Elsewhere === * Orion, Alberta, Canada, a hamlet * Orion, Bataan, the Philippines, a municipality * Orion, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France, a commune * Orion, Queensland, Australia, a village in the Central Highlands Region * Orion Passage, a narrow sailing route on the northwestern tip of Antarctica

==Science and technology== {{for|vehicles and transportation technology|#Transportation and military}}

===Astronomy=== * Orion (constellation), named after the mythical hunter * Orion Arm, a galactic spiral arm which contains Earth * Orion Nebula, in the constellation * Orion's Belt, the three prominent astronomical objects in the constellation

===Biology=== * ''Orion'' (beetle), a genus of beetles * Orion (grape), a white wine grape variety * ''Historis odius'', the Orion, a butterfly in the genus ''Historis''

===Computing=== *ORION (research and education network), the provincial research network of Ontario, Canada * Orion (system-on-a-chip), used in network-attached storage * Ferranti Orion, a mid-range mainframe computer introduced in 1959 * HLH Orion, a series of minicomputers produced in the 1980s * Orion Application Server, a Java EE application server * Orion Browser, a web browser from Kagi Inc., the company behind the search engine of the same name * Orion quantum computing system, developed by D-Wave Systems * Orion, a browser-based IDE and open tool integration platform from Eclipse * Orion, IT admin software by SolarWinds * GPT-4.5, a 2025 large language model developed by OpenAI

===Other technologies=== * Orion (laser), a large laser installation in the UK *Orion (space telescope), two research instruments on crewed 1970s Soviet spacecraft

== Sports == === Football (soccer) === * A.D. Orión, a Panamanian football club * Orión F.C., a Costa Rican football club * Orion F.C., a Scottish football club

===Other sports=== * Goyang Orion Orions, a South Korean basketball team * Orions, former name of the Chiba Lotte Marines, a Japanese baseball team

== Transportation and military == {{for|transportation companies|#Transportation and vehicle companies}}

=== Air === * Lockheed P-3 Orion, a maritime patrol aircraft, with several variants * Lockheed Model 9 Orion, a passenger aircraft introduced in 1931 * Aurora Flight Sciences Orion, a long-endurance uncrewed aircraft * Bristol Orion, a cancelled two-shaft turboprop aero engine developed by Bristol Siddeley * Kronshtadt Orion, Russian UCAV drone

=== Land === * Ford Orion, a car based on the Ford Escort but with a larger boot and four doors * ''Orion'', a South Devon Railway Comet-class steam locomotive * ''Orion'', a GWR 3300-class steam locomotive * Mitsubishi Orion engine, a series of internal combustion engines produced by Mitsubishi Motors

=== Sea === {{main|Orion (ship)}} ==== Military vessels ==== * {{USS|Orion}}, several U.S. Navy vessels * {{HMS|Orion}}, several Royal Navy vessels * {{sclass|Orion|battleship|1}}, a series of super-dreadnoughts of the Royal Navy * {{HMAS|Orion}}, an ''Oberon''-class submarine of the Royal Australian Navy * {{HSwMS|Orion|A201}}, a Swedish ELINT vessel * {{ship|French ship|Orion|1787}}, a ''Téméraire''-class of the French Navy * {{ship|German auxiliary cruiser|Orion}}, World War II merchant raider * BAE ''Orion'' (H-101), Ecuadorian Navy ship, originally {{USS|Mulberry|AN-27}} * NRP ''Oríon'' (P1156), a Portuguese Navy {{sclass|Centauro|fiscalization boat|1}}

====Other vessels==== * {{ship||Orion|paddle steamer|3}}, a ship which sank off Portpatrick, Scotland in 1850 * {{MV|Orion}}, a cruise ship * {{RMS|Orion}}, an ocean liner of the Orient Steam Navigation Company * {{SS|Orion}}, a Swedish steel steamship decommissioned in 1979, now a museum ship * Orion 50, an American sailboat design * ''Orion'' (ship, 1904), built as a whale-catcher, she later served as a fireboat in Vancouver

=== Space === ====Rockets==== * Orion (rocket), a US sounding rocket * Orión (rocket), an Argentine sounding rocket * Orion (rocket stage), a series of rocket motors used in the Pegasus rockets * Project Orion (nuclear propulsion), a 1958 US nuclear pulse propulsion study project

==== Space vehicles ==== * Blok DM-03, a variant of the Russian upper stage rocket * Orion (spacecraft), NASA crew vehicle first flown in 2022 * Orion (space telescope), two instruments flown aboard Soviet spacecraft * ''Orion'', the Lunar Module used in the Apollo 16 mission * Orion (satellite), a series of reconnaissance satellites * A series of satellites operated by Orion Network Systems, now part of Telesat * Orion 3, an off-course communication satellite (1999)

== Other uses == * Orion (dog), a rescue dog * Orion (roller coaster), a steel roller coaster at Kings Island, in Mason, Ohio, US * Orion, the flagship wine of American winemaker Sean Thackrey * "Our Race is Our Nation", a slogan used by the Ku Klux Klan and other white nationalists

== See also == * Arion (disambiguation) * EURion constellation, anti-counterfeiting patterns integrated into various kinds of currency * Exercise Orion (disambiguation) * ''Orione'' (opera) (1653), by Francesco Cavalli * O'Ryan * Orion 1 (disambiguation) * Orion 2 (disambiguation) * Orion the Hunter (disambiguation) * Project Orion (disambiguation) *{{srt}}

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