Harlequin is a comic servant character from the Italian commedia dell'arte.

Harlequin may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

  • Harlequin (DC Comics), the name of four clown-themed characters
  • Harlequin (The Seven Deadly Sins), or King, in the manga series
  • Harlequin, in Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood

Music

  • Harlequin (Lady Gaga album), 2024
  • Harlequin (Dave Grusin and Lee Ritenour album), 1985
  • Harlequin (band), a Canadian rock group
  • "Harlequin", a song by Audience on thec 1969 album Audience (album)
  • "Harlequin", a song by Genesis on the 1971 album Nursery Cryme
  • "Harlequin", a by The Hollies on the 1979 album Five Three One - Double Seven O Four
  • "Harlequin", a song by Violet Chachki on the 2015 EP Gagged
  • The Harlequins (Dartmouth College), a student music production group

Novels

  • Harlequin (Cornwell novel), by Bernard Cornwell, 2000
  • Harlequin, a Warhammer novel by Ian Watson (author), 1994
  • Harlequin (West novel), by Morris West, 1974
  • The Harlequin (novel), by Laurell K. Hamilton, 2007

Other uses in arts and entertainment

  • Harlequin (Picasso), a 1913 painting
  • Harlequin (1915), a painting by Picasso
  • Harlequin (film), a 1980 Australian fantasy thriller
  • Harlequin (video game), 1992
  • Harlequin (Shadowrun), a 1990 role-playing game book
  • Harlequin, one of the three figures in Pablo Picasso's painting Three Musicians

Businesses and organisations

  • Harlequin Enterprises, a publishing company
  • List of Harlequin Romance novels
  • Harlequin (software company), a defunct British technology business
  • Harlequin Games, a play-by-mail game moderator

Science

  • 'Harlequin', a cultivar of Berberis thunbergii, a flowering plant
  • Harlequin rabbit
  • Harmonia axyridis, or harlequin, a ladybird
  • Taxila haquinus, or harlequin, a butterfly

Sports

Rugby teams

  • Aberavon Quins RFC, a rugby union club in Wales
  • Cardiff Harlequins RFC, a rugby union club in Wales
  • Dallas Harlequins R.F.C., in the United States
  • Hamilton Harlequins, in New Zealand
  • Harlequin Amateurs, an amateur rugby union club
  • Harlequin F.C., a rugby union club in London, England
  • Harlequins Women
  • Harlequin Rugby Club, in Melbourne, Australia
  • Harlequins Rugby League, now London Broncos
  • Hawick Harlequins RFC, a rugby union club in Scotland
  • Hobart Harlequins Rugby Union Club, in Australia
  • Kenya Harlequin F.C., in Kenya
  • Maesteg Harlequins RFC, a rugby union club in Wales
  • Ottawa Harlequins, a rugby union club in Canada
  • Oxford Harlequins RFC, a rugby union club in England
  • Pembroke Dock Harlequins RFC, a rugby union club in Wales
  • Pittsburgh Harlequins, a rugby union club in the United States
  • Porth Harlequins RFC, a rugby union club in Wales
  • Quins-Bobbies Rugby Club, formerly Pretoria Harlequins, in South Africa

Other sports

  • Belfast Harlequins, a multi-sport club in Northern Ireland
  • Cork Harlequins, a cricket and hockey club
  • Harlequins Cricket Club, an English team

Transportation

  • Harlequin Air, a former Japanese airline
  • Harlequin, a version of the Volkswagen Golf Mk3 car

Other uses

  • , the name of several ships
  • , a World War II United States Navy minesweeper
  • Harlequin, Nottinghamshire, England
  • Harlequin (color), a color between green and yellow
  • Operation Harlequin, a World War II deception operation

See also

  • Arlequin (disambiguation)
  • Arlecchino (disambiguation)
  • Harlequin print, a repeating pattern of diamonds
  • Harley Quin, an Agatha Christie character
  • Harley Quinn (disambiguation)
  • Harley Quinn, a fictional villain in DC Comics
  • Harlekin, a 1975 composition for clarinet by Karlheinz Stockhausen