Helios (disambiguation)

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Helios is the personification of the sun in Greek mythology. It may also refer to:

Art

Comics and animation

• Helios, a character in Helios Eclipse drawn by Kaoru and serialized in Gempak
• Helios, a character in the anime Sailor Moon
• Victor Helios, an alias for Victor Frankenstein, a character from the Dean Koontz's Frankenstein series

Music

• Helio Alves (born 1966), Brazalian jazz pianist and son of pianists
• The Helio Sequence, an American alternative-rock duo
• Helios, an American ambient musician
• Helios Overture, a 1903 composition by Danish composer Carl Nielsen

Albums

• Helios (album), the fourth studio album by The Fray
• Helios, 1991 album by Phillip Boa

Video games

• Helios, a god in 2010 game God of War III; decapitated by Kratos
• Helios One, a solar-power plant in the 2010 video game Fallout: New Vegas
• Helios, the Japanese name for "Aeolus", a boss character in the 2007 game Mega Man ZX Advent

Film

• Helios (film)

Business and industry

• Helios Investment Partners, A London-based investment firm.
• Helios, a German motorcycle made by Bayerisch Flugzeugwerke before the company merged with BMW in 1922
• Helios AG, a former German electrical engineering company; based in Cologne
• Helios (cinemas), a multiplex cinema operator in Poland
• Helios (lens brand), a defunct brand of camera lens manufactured in the U.S.S.R.

Aviation

• Helios Airways, a former low-cost airline operating scheduled and charter flights between Cyprus and many European destinations
  • Helios Airways Flight 522, a Helios Airways Boeing 737-31S flight that crashed on August 14, 2005, into a mountain north of Marathon and Varnavas, Greece
• Helios Prototype, a NASA developed solar and fuel-cell-system-powered unmanned aerial vehicle

Military

• USS Helios (ARB-12), a U.S. Navy World War II repair ship

Science

• Heliotropism, the diurnal motion of plant parts (flowers or leaves) in response to the direction of the Sun
• Zinc finger protein Helios, encoded by the IKZF2 gen.
• Helios, a supercomputer in Rokkasho, Aomori for simulating plasma physics.

Space

• 895 Helio, a minor planet orbiting the Sun
• Hélios 1B and Helios 2A, French military satellites
• Helios (propulsion system), nuclear pulse propulsion system for spacecraft invented by Freeman Dyson, a precursor to his Project Orion
• Helios probes, deep space probes launched in the mid-1970s by the Federal Republic of Germany and NASA
• Sun, the star at the center of the Solar System

Physics

• HELIOS, an acronym for the helical orbit spectrometer, a nuclear spectrometer at the Argonne National Laboratory

Software

• HeliOS, a Unix-like operating system
• Helios, the project name for the Eclipse software version 3.6 release

Sports and recreation

People

• Helios, professional wrestler also known as Ricochet
• Hélio Castroneves (born 1975), Brazilian race-car driver in the IndyCar Series
• Hélio Gracie (1913–2009), co-founder of Brazilian jiu-jitsu

Teams

• FC Helios Kharkiv, a Ukrainian association-football team
• KK Helios Domžale, a Slovenian basketball team
• SpVgg Helios München, a German association-football team from Munich

See also

• All pages beginning with "helio"