Eureka often refers to:

  • Eureka (word), a famous exclamation attributed to Archimedes
  • Eureka effect, the sudden, unexpected realization of the solution to a problem

Eureka or Ureka may also refer to:

History

  • Eureka Rebellion, an 1854 goldminers' rebellion in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
  • Eureka Flag, the battle flag of the Eureka Rebellion
  • Tehran Conference, codenamed Eureka, an Allied meeting during World War II

Businesses

  • Eureka (company), a manufacturer of vacuum cleaners, now owned by the Midea Group
  • Eureka Forbes, an Indian multinational home appliances company, now owned by Advent International
  • Eureka! Restaurant Group, California-based hamburger restaurant chain
  • Eureka! Tent Company, an American company
  • Kværner Eureka, a Norwegian engineering and construction services company

Media and entertainment

Characters

  • Eureka O'Hara, an American drag queen, popularized on Rupaul's Drag Race
  • Eureka (Oz), Dorothy Gale's cat in The Wizard of Oz, so named because Uncle Henry found her
  • Eureka (Eureka Seven), a main character in Eureka Seven

Film and television

  • Eureka (1979 film), an American experimental film by Ernie Gehr
  • Eureka (1983 film), a British-American drama directed by Nicolas Roeg
  • Eureka (2000 film), a Japanese drama directed by Shinji Aoyama
  • Eureka (2020 film), an Indian Telugu-language thriller film by Karteek Anand
  • Eureka (2023 film), an Argentine drama directed by Lisandro Alonso
  • Eureka! (Canadian TV series), a 1980s Canadian educational series
  • Eureka! (2022 TV series), a 2020s American educational series
  • Eureka (British TV series), a 1980s British educational series
  • Eureka (2006 TV series), an American science fiction series aired 2006–2012
  • Eureka (soundtrack), a 2008 soundtrack album
  • Eureka TV, a British children's science show aired 2001–2005
  • Eureka Learning Channel, a defunct Singaporean educational television channel

Music

  • Eureka (The Bible album), 1988
  • Eureka (Jim O'Rourke album), whose title track was featured in the 2000 film
  • Eureka (Mother Mother album)
  • Eureka (Rooney album), 2010
  • Eureka (Leslie Clio album)
  • "Eureka" (Sakanaction song), 2014 song by Sakanaction
  • "Eureka" (Gen Hoshino song), 2025 song by Gen Hoshino

Literature

  • Eureka (University of Cambridge magazine), published by the Cambridge University Mathematical Society
  • Eureka (Italian magazine), a monthly comic magazine published between 1967 and 1989
  • , a monthly general art magazine with a focus on poetry and criticism
  • Eureka: A Prose Poem, a 1848 essay by Edgar Allan Poe
  • Eureka, a monthly science magazine for primary school students in Malayalam language published by Kerala Sasthra Sahithya Parishad, Kerala, India
  • Eureka (journal), the original name of the Canadian mathematical problem-solving journal Crux Mathematicorum

Other media

  • Eureka (musical), a 2004 Australian musical
  • Eureka! (video game), a 1984 text adventure

Places

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Australia

  • Eureka, New South Wales, a suburb in Byron Shire
  • Eureka, Queensland, a locality in the Bundaberg Region
  • Eureka, Victoria, a small eastern suburb of Ballarat

Canada

  • Eureka, Nova Scotia
  • Eureka, Nunavut
  • Eureka Pass, Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut
  • Eureka Sound, Nunavut

Equatorial Guinea

  • San Antonio de Ureca, also called Ureka, on Bioko Island and known as one of the wettest places on Earth

New Zealand

  • Eureka, New Zealand, rural settlement in the Waikato District

United States

  • Eureka, California, the largest US city named Eureka
  • Eureka, Colorado
  • Eureka, Marion County, Florida
  • Eureka, Miami-Dade County, Florida, part of Richmond West, Florida
  • Eureka, Illinois
  • Eureka College
  • Eureka, Lawrence County, Indiana, an unincorporated community
  • Eureka, Spencer County, Indiana, an unincorporated community
  • Eureka, Kansas
  • Eureka, Michigan, an unincorporated community
  • Eureka, Missouri
  • Eureka, Perry County, Missouri
  • Eureka, Montana
  • Eureka, Nevada
  • Eureka, North Carolina
  • Eureka, Pennsylvania
  • Eureka, South Carolina, an unincorporated community in Aiken County, South Carolina
  • Eureka, South Dakota
  • Eureka, Texas (disambiguation)
  • Eureka, Utah
  • Eureka (Baskerville, Virginia), a historic home near Baskerville, Mecklenburg County, Virginia
  • Eureka, Washington
  • Eureka, West Virginia
  • Eureka, Polk County, Wisconsin, a town
  • Eureka, Winnebago County, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
  • Eureka Center, Minnesota
  • Eureka Center, Wisconsin
  • Eureka County, Nevada
  • Eureka Springs, Arkansas
  • Eureka Township, Adair County, Iowa
  • Eureka Township, Michigan
  • Eureka Township, Dakota County, Minnesota
  • Eureka Township, Valley County, Nebraska
  • Eureka Valley (Inyo County), California
  • Eureka Valley, San Francisco, California

Science and technology

  • Eureka (organisation), an international research and development funding and coordination network
  • Eureka (OPAC), a library search engine developed by RLG
  • Eureka! (museum), a museum in Halifax, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
  • The Eureka, a machine for generating Latin verses
  • Eureka-147, a system for digital audio broadcast
  • Eureka Streams, an open source software project
  • Eureka theorem, a result of Gauss that every natural number is the sum of three triangular numbers
  • 5261 Eureka, an asteroid co-orbital with Mars
  • Constantan, also known as Eureka, a metal alloy
  • Heureka, a science centre in Vantaa, Finland
  • Eureka, the transponder component of the World War II Rebecca/Eureka transponding radar
  • Eureka: The Solver, numerical solver for mathematical systems of equations, released by Borland, 1987

Transportation

  • Eureka (1900 automobile), an American automobile
  • Eureka (1907 automobile), an American automobile
  • Eureka (airship), a Zeppelin NT owned by Airship Ventures
  • Eureka (French automobile), a French automobile
  • Eureka (ferryboat), an 1890-built steam ferryboat now preserved in San Francisco
  • Ameri-Cana Eureka, a Canadian ultralight aircraft

Other uses

  • Eureka Diamond, the first diamond found in South Africa
  • Eureka Mountain (Colorado), a summit in the Sangre de Cristo Range
  • Eureka Poker Tour, poker tour in the central and eastern Europe
  • Eureka Prizes, annual Australian science prizes presented by the Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia
  • Eureka Shipyard, a shipyard of the early 20th century in New York State
  • Eureka Tower, a 2006 91-storey residential building in Melbourne, Australia
  • Disney's Eureka! A California Parade, a former parade in Disney's California Adventure Park
  • Eureka! Program, a teen girls' achievement program run by Girls, Inc.
  • Asociación Atlética Eureka, known as Eureka, a former football team in Argentina
  • Eureka O'Hara, American drag queen

See also

  • EURECA (disambiguation)
  • Eurekha, 1999 biography of Indian actress Rekha by Mohan Deep