A camel is a hoofed mammal.

Camel or Camels may also refer to:

People

  • Camel Meriem (born 1979), French footballer
  • Georg Joseph Kamel (1661–1706), spelled Jorge Camel in Spanish, Jesuit missionary, pharmacist and naturalist
  • Lucki, American rapper and record producer born Lucki Camel Jr. in 1996
  • Marvin Camel (born 1951), WBC and IBF world cruiserweight boxing champion
  • The Camel, nickname of Murray Humphreys (1899–1965), American mobster
  • The Camel, nickname of Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard (1873–1956), Marshal of the Royal Air Force

Places

  • River Camel, a river in Cornwall, United Kingdom
  • Camel Nunataks, two rock nunataks in Antarctica
  • Camel Rock (disambiguation), several places

Military

  • Sopwith Camel, a First World War fighter aircraft
  • , seven ships of Britain's Royal Navy
  • , two ships of the US Navy
  • Project Camel, work done by the California Institute of Technology in support of the Manhattan Project during World War II

Transportation

:See Military section above for military transports

  • Sproule-Ivanoff Camel, a one-off 1930s British glider
  • Tupolev Tu-104, NATO reporting name Camel, a Soviet retired airliner
  • , a cargo ship – see List of ships built by Harland & Wolff (1859–1929)
  • Camel, a type of steam locomotive
  • Camel, a South Devon Railway Buffalo class locomotive

Computing

  • Apache Camel, a Java-based integration framework
  • Customized Applications for Mobile networks Enhanced Logic, a set of mobile telephone network standards

Entertainment

  • Camel (band), an English progressive rock band formed in 1971
  • Camel (album), their first (1973) studio album
  • The Camel (album), a 1964 album by Idrees Sulieman
  • "The Camel" (Parks & Recreation), an episode of the television show Parks and Recreation
  • The Camels, a 1988 Italian comedy film

Sports

  • Camel spin, a figure skating move
  • Wadebridge Camels, a rugby union team in Cornwall, United Kingdom
  • Camel Trophy, a rally competition
  • Camel Cup, an annual camel racing festival held in Australia
  • Campbell Fighting Camels and Lady Camels, the sports teams of Campbell University
  • Connecticut College Camels, the sports teams of Connecticut College
  • Hapoel Be'er Sheva F.C., an Israeli football club nicknamed "The Camels"
  • Camel (horse), an English thoroughbred racehorse

Other uses

  • Camel (chess), a fairy chess piece
  • Camel (cigarette), an American cigarette brand manufactured by R.J Reynolds Tobacco Company
  • Camel (color)
  • CAMELS rating system, a safety rating system for banks, co ops, and credit unions
  • Ship camel, an external flotation tank to lift ships
  • Camel case, the practice of writing phrases without spaces or punctuation and with capitalized words
  • Camel, a business term for a startup company that can survive unfavourable conditions with minimal resource expenditure

See also

  • Battle of the Camel, fought at Basra in 656
  • Tuoshan, translated as "Camel Mountain", a mountain in Shandong Province, China
  • CAML (disambiguation)