Lotus or LOTUS may refer to:

Botany

  • List of plants known as lotus, a list of various botanical taxa commonly known as lotus, particularly:
  • Nelumbonaceae, a single-genus family of aquatic flowering plants, consisting of just two species; the American lotus and the better known sacred lotus, or the Indian lotus, a symbolically important Asian plant
  • Lotus (genus), a genus of terrestrial plants in the family Fabaceae
  • Lotus tree, a plant in Greek and Roman mythology

Religion

  • Sacred lotus in religious art
  • Lotus throne base for figures in Asian religious art
  • Lotus Sutra, an influential Mahayana sutra
  • Lotus position, a posture used in yoga, meditation & Zen Buddhism
  • Lotus Temple, Baha'i House of Worship in Delhi, India
  • Lotus, one of the Ashtamangala (Eight Auspicious Symbols)

Places

  • Lotus, California, an unincorporated community in El Dorado County, California, United States
  • Lotus, Indiana, an unincorporated community in Union County, Indiana, United States
  • Lotus, Florida, a former village in Brevard County, Florida, United States
  • Lotus, Kentucky, an unincorporated community in Bullitt County, Kentucky, United States

Businesses and organizations

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  • Lotus (guitar), an instrument manufacturer
  • Lotus (magazine), a trilingual political and cultural magazine
  • Lotus Bakeries, a Belgian bakery founded in 1932
  • Lotus Cars, a British motor vehicle manufacturer
  • Lotus F1 Team, a British Formula One team that competed between 2012 and 2015
  • Team Lotus, a British Formula One racing team that competed between 1954 and 1994
  • Pacific Team Lotus, the successor team that resulted from a merger with Pacific and competed in Formula One in 1995
  • Lotus GP, a French GP2 and GP3 racing team sponsored by Lotus Cars
  • Lotus Foods, an organic rice company
  • Lotus Development, a personal computer software company, best known for:
  • Lotus Notes, collaborative software, personal information manager and e-mail client now known as IBM Notes
  • Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet application
  • Lotus's, formerly Lotus Supercenter and Tesco Lotus, a hypermarket chain in Thailand and Malaysia operated by Charoen Pokphand Group
  • Lotus TV Macau, a television channel in Macau
  • Lotus, a brand of watches, part of the Festina Group
  • Team Lotus (2010–11), a Malaysian Formula One racing team that began racing in 2010 as Lotus Racing and became Caterham F1 at the end of the 2011 season

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Arts, media and entertainment

Music

Artists

  • Lotus (Australian band), a 1970s rock, pop band
  • Lotus (American band), an instrumental rock band
  • Lotus (Hong Kong band), a 1960s pop band

Albums

  • Lotus (Christina Aguilera album) (2012), by Christina Aguilera
  • Lotus (Elisa album) (2003), by Elisa
  • Lotus (Little Simz album) (2025), by Little Simz
  • Lotus (Santana album) (1974), by Santana
  • Lotus (2009), by Haywyre
  • Lotus (Soen album) (2019), by Soen
  • Lotus (2022), by Pind
  • Lotus (Within Destruction album) (2022), by Within Destruction

Songs

  • "Lotus" (Arashi song), by Arashi
  • "Lotus" (Dir En Grey song), a song by Dir En Grey
  • "Lotus" (R.E.M. song), by R.E.M.
  • "Lotus", a song from Cage The Elephants debut album
  • ”Lotus”, a song by Lil Uzi Vert on the album Lil Uzi Vert vs. the World 2
  • "Lotus", a song by Minus the Bear on Planet of Ice
  • "Lotus", a song by Susumu Hirasawa on the 1995 album Sim City

Other media

  • Lotus (board game), a strategy game
  • Lotus (video game series), a videogame series based on Lotus cars
  • Lotus, the codename of a character in the 2009 video game Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors
  • Leticia "Lotus" Madrigal, a character from the Philippine drama series Abot-Kamay na Pangarap

Vessels

  • Lotus (1826 ship), English ship
  • Lotus (motor vessel), a houseboat yacht
  • S.S. Lotus, a French steamship involved in the Lotus case criminal trial
  • S.S.S. Lotus, an American sailing vessel

People

  • Lotus (given name)
  • Lotus Blossom (born 2007) Japanese-American actress and daughter of Ernie Reyes Jr.
  • Lotus de Païni (1862–1953) Italian-born painter, writer, sculptor, and occultist
  • Lotus Long (1909–1990), Asian-American actress

Other uses

  • Law of the unconscious statistician, a statistics theorem used to calculate the expected value of a function
  • Lateral olfactory tract usher substance, a protein in nerve cells promoting axon growth
  • Operation Lotus (disambiguation), multiple meanings

See also

  • Lotus Blossom (disambiguation)
  • Lotus Flower (disambiguation)
  • Blue lotus (disambiguation)
  • White Lotus (disambiguation)
  • Lotos (disambiguation)