Icarus is a character in Greek mythology.

Icarus or Ikarus may also refer to:

People

  • Roger Squires (1932–2023), crossword compiler who has used the pseudonym Icarus
  • Icarus (wrestler) (born 1982), wrestler with the Chikara organization

Places

  • Icarus (island), in the Aegean Sea
  • Ikaros (Failaka Island), in the Persian Gulf

Aviation

Aircraft

  • Hartman Ikarus, a 1950s British human-powered ornithopter
  • Icarus I, Icarus II and Icarus V, series of rigid-wing hang gliders designed by Taras Kiceniuk, Jr.
  • Ikarus C42, a microlight aircraft
  • Ikarus IK-2, the most notable indigenous Yugoslav aircraft of the 1930s and World War II era
  • Icarus, a prototype space rescue vehicle tested by Aleksandr Serebrov

Aviation businesses and organizations

  • Ikarus Drachen Tomas Pellicci, a German hang glider manufacturer
  • Icaro Air, an Ecuadorian airline
  • Icarus School, a military aviation academy
  • Icarus, a Greek airline that preceded Olympic Airlines
  • Ikarus, a Yugoslav aircraft manufacturer later renamed Ikarbus

Other uses in aviation

  • Coupe Icare ("Icarus Cup"), a flight festival

Other businesses and organizations

  • Icarus Project, a mental health organization
  • Icarus Theatre Collective, a British theatre company
  • Ikarus (Hungarian company), a Hungarian bus manufacturer
  • Ikarbus, a Serbian bus manufacturer formerly known as Ikarus
  • Icarus FC, an association football kit and sportswear brand

Arts and entertainment

Film and television

  • Icarus (Planet of the Apes), a spacecraft in the Planet of the Apes franchise
  • Icarus Base, a place in the series Stargate Universe
  • Icarus, an orbital superweapon in the James Bond film Die Another Day
  • Icarus I, and Icarus II, spacecraft in Sunshine
  • Icarus (2010 film) (also The Killing Machine), an action film
  • Icarus (2017 film), a documentary by Bryan Fogel
  • Icarus (2022 film), an animated fantasy drama
  • "Icarus" (Scandal), an episode of the TV series Scandal
  • "Icarus", the eleventh episode of Smallville, Season 10
  • "Icarus", the seventh episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Fictional characters

  • Icarus (comics), a Marvel Comics character
  • Icarus, a mecha in Chōjin Sentai Jetman
  • Icarus, a Deus Ex character
  • Icarus, a character in Hercules: The Animated Series
  • Icarus, a character in Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland
  • Ikaros, a character in Heaven's Lost Property
  • Icarus, a primary character based on the Greek myth in the Cirque du Soleil show Varekai

Music

  • Icaros, shamanic medicine songs
  • Icarus (band), a band from London, England

Albums

  • Icarus (Paul Winter Consort album), 1972
  • Icarus (The Forms album), 2003
  • Icarus (Chicosci album), 2004
  • Icarus, 2011 EP by Periphery
  • Icaro, album by Renato Zero
  • Icarus (Cryalot EP), 2022
  • Icarus, 2024 EP by Khary and Abhi the Nomad

Songs

  • "Icarus", a 1969 song written by Ralph Towner, included on Icarus (Paul Winter Consort album)
  • "Icarus - Borne on Wings of Steel", a song by Kansas on the album Masque, 1975
  • "Icarus", a song by Santigold on the album Top Ranking
  • "Icarus", a song by Jason Webley on the album Only Just Beginning
  • "Ikarus", a song by Unheilig on Phosphor
  • "Icarus", a song by Bastille on the album Bad Blood
  • "Icarus II", a song by Kansas on the album Somewhere to Elsewhere, 2000
  • "Icarus", a song by Eden on the album vertigo
  • "Icarus" (Madeon song), 2012
  • "Icarus" (Greeeen song), 2015
  • "Icarus" (R3hab song), 2016
  • "Icarus", a song by JJ Project on the EP Verse 2, 2017
  • "Icarus", a song by Emma Blackery from the 2018 album Villains
  • "Icarus", a song by Starset on the album Horizons, 2021

Other media

  • Icarus (magazine), a Trinity College student publication
  • Icarus (sculpture), 1973 by Michael Ayrton

Software and video games

  • Icarus (video game), a sci-fi survival video game developed by RocketWerkz
  • Ikarus (typography software), a type design and production software developed by URW foundry
  • Ikarus (Scheme implementation), a free software optimizing incremental compiler for R6RS Scheme
  • Icarus Verilog, an implementation of the Verilog hardware description language
  • BioShock Infinite, codenamed "Project Icarus" during development
  • Ikarus (chess), a computer chess program

Science and technology

Space

  • 1566 Icarus, an asteroid
  • ICARUS experiment, a neutrino detector at Gran Sasso National Laboratory, Italy
  • Icarus (crater), on the Moon, named for the Ralph Towner composition by the Apollo 15 Astronauts
  • Icarus (journal), a planetary science journal
  • Icarus (star), most distant individual star detected (as of April 2018)
  • IKAROS, an interplanetary uncrewed solar sail spacecraft
  • Project Icarus (interstellar), a design study of an interstellar spacecraft based on Project Daedalus
  • Project Icarus (photography) (2009), a project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Other uses in science and technology

  • Icarus (plant), a fern genus
  • ICARUS Initiative, an international project studying the migration routes of flying animals
  • IKZF1, a protein in humans that is encoded by the IKZF genes of the Ikaros family zinc finger group

Other uses

  • HMS Icarus, the name of several ships
  • , a patrol boat of the United States Coast Guard
  • Ikarus, a restaurant in Hangar-7 in Salzburg, Austria
  • Icarus affair, an incident involving the 1867 murder of two British sailors in Nagasaki
  • Operation Ikarus, a World War II German plan to invade Iceland

See also

  • Project Icarus (disambiguation)
  • Icaros (disambiguation)
  • Ikaros (disambiguation)
  • Ikaris, a Marvel Comics character
  • Ikaris (Marvel Cinematic Universe), the Marvel Cinematic Universe adaptation