A dynamo is a magnetic device originally used as an electric generator.

Dynamo or Dinamo may also refer to:

Places

  • Dinamo (Moscow Metro), a station of the Moscow Metro, Moscow, Russia
  • Dinamo (Yekaterinburg Metro), a station of the Yekaterinburg Metro, Yekaterinburg, Russia

People

  • Dynamo (magician), stage name of English magician Steven Frayne

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

  • Dynamo (Fox Feature Syndicate), a 1940s comic book character
  • Dynamo, a character from the Mega Man X series
  • Dynamo, a comic book character and member of the T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents
  • Dynamo, one of the "stalkers" from the movie The Running Man
  • Captain Dynamo (character), a comic book superhero
  • Crimson Dynamo, the name of several fictional characters in the Marvel Comics universe, most of whom have been supervillains
  • Dynamo 5, a superhero team appearing in the comic book of the same name
  • Dynamo Duck, the main character in the children's television series The Adventures of Dynamo Duck
  • Dynamo Joe, a 1980s comic book series
  • DynaMo, a 1998 BBC educational character

Music

Albums

  • Dynamo (Avengers in Sci-Fi album), a 2010 album by Japanese electro-rock band Avengers in Sci-Fi
  • Dynamo (Soda Stereo album), a 1992 album by Argentine rock band Soda Stereo

Other music

  • Dynamo, a collaboration project of Muriel Moreno and Marc Collin of Nouvelle Vague
  • Dynamo Open Air, an annual heavy metal music festival held in the Netherlands

Other arts, entertainment, and media

  • DynaMo, a 1998 British educational programme and website
  • Dynamo (play), a 1929 play by Eugene O'Neill
  • Captain Dynamo (video game), a platform game developed by Codemasters and released for the Commodore Amiga and other platforms in 1993

Brands and enterprises

  • Dynamo, a brand of laundry detergent, owned by Colgate-Palmolive
  • Dynamo Corporation, American manufacturer of pool and air hockey tables

Science, engineering, and technology

Astrophysics

  • Dynamo theory, a theory relating to magnetic fields of celestial bodies
  • Solar dynamo, the physical process that generates the Sun's magnetic field

Software

  • DYNAMO (programming language), a simulation language
  • Dynamo (storage system), a distributed data store
  • Amazon DynamoDB, a storage system

Sports

Association football clubs

  • Dinamo Zagreb, a Croatian football club
  • Dynamo FC (disambiguation)
  • FC Dinamo București, a Romanian football club
  • FC Dynamo Kyiv, a Ukrainian football club
  • FC Dynamo Poltava, a Ukrainian football club
  • FC Dynamo Myrhorod, a Ukrainian football club
  • Houston Dynamo FC, an American soccer club
  • FC Dinamo Tbilisi, a Georgian football club
  • Dinamo Batumi, a Georgian football club

Basketball teams

  • BC Dynamo Moscow, a Russian basketball team
  • BC Dynamo Saint Petersburg, a Russian basketball team
  • BC Dinamo Tbilisi, a Georgian basketball team
  • Dinamo Basket Sassari, an Italian basketball team
  • CS Dinamo București (basketball), a Romanian basketball team

Ice hockey teams

  • Dinamo Riga, an ice hockey team
  • HC Dynamo Minsk, an ice hockey team
  • HC Dinamo Moscow, an ice hockey team
  • HC Dinamo Saint Petersburg, an ice hockey team

Multi-sports clubs

  • Dynamo Sports Club, a multi-sports club of the Soviet Union
  • Dynamo (Ukraine), a child organization of the Soviet Union Dynamo Sports Club on territory of the Ukrainian SSR
  • SC Dynamo Berlin, a multi-sportsclub in East Berlin, affiliated to SV Dynamo
  • SV Dynamo, a multi-sports association of the German Democratic Republic
  • CS Dinamo București, a multi-sports association of Ministry of Internal Affairs from Romania

Other sports

  • Durham Dynamos, the limited overs team of Durham County Cricket Club
  • Dynamo Kazan Bandy Club
  • Dynamo Moscow (bandy club)
  • Dynamo Moscow (women's volleyball)
  • Dynamo Leningrad (bandy club)
  • Futsal Dinamo, a Croatian futsal team
  • CS Dinamo București (men's handball), a Romanian handball team

Stadiums

Belarus

  • Dinamo Stadium (Minsk), Belarus

Romania

  • Dinamo Stadium (1951), Romania

Russia

  • Dynamo Sports Palace, an indoor sporting arena in Moscow
  • Dynamo Stadium (Moscow)
  • Dynamo Stadium (Bryansk)
  • Dynamo Stadium (Vladivostok)

Ukraine

  • Valeriy Lobanovskyi Dynamo Stadium, Kyiv, Ukraine

Uzbekistan

  • Dynamo Samarkand Stadium, Samarkand, Uzbekistan

Other uses

  • Dynamo (typeface), a typeface designed by K. Sommer for Ludwig & Mayer in 1930
  • Dunwich Dynamo, an annual bicycle ride from London to Dunwich, England
  • Jugendkulturhaus Dynamo, a cultural center for youth in Zürich
  • Operation Dynamo, the World War II mass evacuation of Allied soldiers from Dunkirk
  • In physics, dynamo theory is a mechanism by which a celestial body generates a magnetic field
  • Dynamo (Alton Towers), a former ride at Alton Towers