Midas, king of Phrygia, also a figure from Greek mythology.

Midas may also refer to:

Arts and fiction

  • Midas (comics), the name of two fictional characters in the Marvel Universe
  • Midas (DC Comics), a fictional character from DC Comics
  • Midas, a fictional planet in the Colony Wars franchise

Film, TV and theatre

  • Midas (burletta), a 1760 "mock opera" by Kane O'Hara
  • Midas (Lyly play), an Elizabethan stage play by John Lyly
  • Midas (Shelley play), an 1820 play by Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Midas (TV series), a 2011 South Korean TV series
  • Midas, a rich patron of the arts in the operetta Die schöne Galathée, by Franz von Suppé

Music

  • Midas (DJs), a British happy hardcore duo
  • Midas (English band), an English indie rock band
  • Midas (Japanese band), a Japanese progressive rock band

Places

  • Midas, California, an unincorporated community in Placer County, California, United States
  • Midas, Kentucky, an unincorporated community in Floyd County, Kentucky, United States
  • Midas, Nevada, an unincorporated community in Elko County, Nevada, United States
  • Other name for Midès oasis in Tunisia, the Ancient Numidian city Mades

Companies and transport

  • Midas (automotive service), a chain of automotive service centers
  • Midas Cars, a British car manufacturer
  • Midas Consoles, a manufacturer of audio consoles
  • MS Midas, a Finnish cargo ship
  • Midas, NATO reporting name for Ilyushin Il-78

Finance

  • Midas (banking system), a core-banking solution from Misys International Banking systems
  • Midas formula, a financial-analysis formula
  • Midas List, an annual list of dealmakers in high-tech and life science

Acronyms

  • Maximum Integrated Data Acquisition System, an open source data acquisition system used in particle and nuclear physics
  • Micro-Imaging Dust Analysis System
  • MIDAS (operating system) (Microsoft Interrupt Driven Asynchronous System), a 1979 operating system
  • MIDAS Heritage a Monument Inventory Data Standard for recording historic sites
  • Missile Defense Alarm System (MiDAS), 1960–1966 American early-warning missile-launch detection system
  • Migraine Disability Assessment Test
  • Minibus Driver Awareness Scheme, a training and registration scheme for drivers of minibuses
  • Mixed-data sampling, an econometric regression or filtering method
  • Motorway Incident Detection and Automatic Signalling, a distributed network of traffic sensors
  • Multics Intrusion Detection and Alerting System, see Intrusion detection system

Other

  • 1981 Midas, an asteroid discovered in 1973
  • European Association of Daily Newspapers in Minority and Regional Languages (MIDAS)
  • Midas, NATO reporting name for Ilyushin Il-78 aerial refueling tanker
  • Midas Touch, originally Midas Touch Golden Elixir, a beer produced by Dogfish Head Brewery
  • MidasWWW, one of the first web browsers
  • Operation Midas, an anti-corruption investigation of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine

See also

  • The Midas Touch (disambiguation)
  • Midus, a type of Lithuanian mead