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Icarus, Ikarus, or Ikaros, is a proper noun with a variety of meanings, most deriving from its use in Greek mythology:

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Icarus, Ikarus, or Ikaros, is a proper noun with a variety of meanings, most deriving from its use in Greek mythology:
Geographic features
Institutions and companies
- Icarus School, the official name of the Hellenic Air Force Academy
- Ikarus Bus, a Hungarian manufacturer of city buses
- Ikarus Prva srpska industrija aeroplana, automobila i strojeva, a Yugoslav - Serbian aircraft manufacturer
- The Icarus Project, a mental-health organization
Music
- Icarus (2003 album), a 2003 musical album by The Forms, a Steve Albini recording project
- Icarus (1973 album), a 1973 musical album by the Paul Winter Consort
- Icarus (band), a drum'n'bass band from London, UK
- "Flight of Icarus", a 1983 song by British heavy metal band Iron Maiden
- "Icarus Dream Suite", from the 1984's "instrumental" album Rising Force by Swedish guitar virtuoso Yngwie J. Malmsteen
- "Icarus", a 2001 song by Swiss band Flutlicht
- "Icarus", a song by post-hardcore band Alesana
- "Icarus", a 2008 song by Santogold from her Top Ranking mixtape
- "La Chûte d'Icare", a piece for solo clarinet and small ensemble by Brian Ferneyhough
- "Icarus", a 2007 song by The Hours
- "Icaro", (Spanish) a song by Valencia's band Presuntos Implicados
Games
- Icarus (game), an electronic game manufactured by Mandarin Software for the Acorn Electron
- Kid Icarus, a 1986 video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System
- Pit, the hero of the above game (often confused with the title due to his diminutive stature).
- "Icarus", an AI character in the computer game Deus Ex (see Deus Ex characters)
- Icarus: Sanctuary of the Gods, is a computer game published by JC Research
- Ikarus (chess), a chess engine
- Icarus was the name of the mother ship in the game "WarHawk" for the first Sony Playstation.
Other media
Fictional ships
- Icarus (The Matrix), a fictional hovercraft ship in the film The Matrix Reloaded
- "Icarus", an orbital superweapon in the James Bond film Die Another Day
- Icarus (fictional spacecraft), the acquired name of the spacecraft featured in the original 1968 Planet of the Apes film
- "Icarus I" and "Icarus II", spacecraft sent from Earth to the Sun in the film Sunshine
Software
- Ikaros (simulator), infrastructure for system-level brain modeling and robot control
- Ikarus (knowledge management), knowledge management software
- Ikarus (software), a piece of German typography software
- Ikarus (Scheme implementation), a free software optimizing incremental native-code compiler for R6RS Scheme.
- Icarus Verilog, an open source Verilog simulator.
- Icarus (camera calibration and tracking), defunct camera calibration and tracking software from the Applied Interfaces Group at Manchester University.
Other uses
- "Icarus Cup" (French: Coupe Icare), an annual festival of free flight held at St Hilaire du Touvet - Lumbin (Isère, France)
- "Icarus", the first Greek state-run airline, created in 1930 and quickly insolvent; see History of Olympic Airlines
- Icarus, professional wrestler with the Chikara Pro Wrestling organization starting in 2003
- Icaros, shamanic medicine songs from the Peruvian Amazon
- Operation Ikarus, a World War II German plan to invade Iceland which was never executed
- Ikarus C42, a microlight aircraft
- Icarus affair, an incident involving the murder of two British sailors in Nagasaki in 1867
- Icaro Air, an Ecuadorian airline
- Icarus (crossword compiler)
- Icarus, an upscale restaurant in Boston
- Icaros(ikaros) a name where they give to pilots of the Greek Airforce.
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