An octopus is a sea animal with eight limbs.

Octopus may also refer to:

Film and television

  • Octopus (2000 film), an American film produced by Nu Image
  • Octopus (2015 film), an Indian Kannada-language mystery thriller film
  • Is Your Daughter Safe? or The Octopus, a 1927 film
  • La piovra or The Octopus, a 1984–2001 Italian television series
  • Doctor Octopus, fictional Marvel character
  • Lady Octopus, fictional Marvel character
  • The Octopus, a fictional pair of Siamese twins in The City of Lost Children
  • Octopus, a character in the 2002 Disney animated film Return to Never Land
  • Le Poulpe, a 1998 French film directed by Guillaume Nicloux

Games

  • OCTOPUS (fictional organisation), a fictional organisation in the From Russia with Love video game
  • Name This Game or Octopus, an Atari 2600 video game
  • Octopus, a 1981 Game & Watch game
  • Octopus, a variant of British bulldog, a playground game
  • In chess, a knight strongly placed in enemy territory; see glossary of chess

Literature

  • The Octopus: A Story of California, a 1901 novel by Frank Norris
  • The Octopus (comics), a character in The Spirit
  • The Octopus, a title used for one issue in 1939 by the pulp magazine The Western Raider
  • The Octopus, a 1940 book by Elizabeth Dilling
  • "The Octopus", a fictional article in Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
  • Octopus: Sam Israel, the Secret Market, and Wall Street's Wildest Con, a 2012 book by Guy Lawson

Music

Artists

  • Octopus (Belgian band) (1973–1980), a Belgian close-harmony group featuring English and Flemish members
  • Octopus (English band), a 1969–1971 English band featuring the Griggs brothers: Paul Griggs and Nigel Griggs
  • Octopus (Scottish band), a 1993–1997 Scottish Britpop band from Shotts, Lanarkshire
  • The Octopus Project, an experimental band from Texas, also known as Octopus
  • Oktopus or Alap Momin, a DJ, recording engineer and member of hip-hop group Dalek

Albums

  • Octopus (Gentle Giant album) (1972)
  • Octopus (The Human League album) (1995)
  • Octopus (The Bees album) (2007)
  • The Octopus (album), a 2011 album by English rock band Amplifier
  • Í Hakanum/Octopus or Octopus, a 1980 album by Icelandic band Mezzoforte
  • Octopus: The Best of Syd Barrett (1992)
  • Octopuss, a 1983 album by Cozy Powell
  • Octopus (Kris Davis and Craig Taborn album) (2018)

Songs

  • "Octopus" (Syd Barrett song) (1969)
  • "Octopus" (Bloc Party song) (2012)
  • "Octopus", a 1961 song by singer-songwriter Billie Jean Horton
  • "Octopus", a song by Icelandic band Mezzoforte from Í Hakanum/Octopus (1980)
  • "Octopus", a 1979 song by British punk band The Freshies

Computing and technology

  • OCTOPUS (network), an early computer network at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  • Octopus (software), for quantum-mechanical calculations of molecules and solids

Enterprises and organizations

  • Octopus card, a Hong Kong stored value smart card launched in 1997
  • Octopus Cards Limited, the operator of Octopus card
  • Octopus Holdings Limited, holding company jointly owned by five major transport companies in Hong Kong
  • Octopus Group, a British asset management company
  • Octopus Energy, a UK-based energy supply company
  • Octopus Publishing Group, a British subsidiary of Lagardère Publishing, specialising in illustrated books
  • Organisation for Counter Terrorist Operations (OCTOPUS), a counter terrorism paramilitary unit in Andhra Pradesh & Telangana, India

Other uses

  • Octopus (genus), a large genus of octopuses
  • Octopus (ride), an amusement ride
  • Octopus (yacht)
  • Octopus, a spare scuba-diving regulator apparatus
  • The Octopus, a news story written by Danny Casolaro

See also

  • Al the Octopus, mascot of the Detroit Red Wings
  • Doctor Octopus, a character created in 1963 for Spider-Man comics
  • Legend of the Octopus, a Detroit team tradition
  • Octopodidae, a family containing the majority of known octopus species
  • Octopodoidea, a superfamily of all known octopods except for the argonautoids and vampyromorphs
  • Octopus as food
  • "Octopus's Garden", a song by the English rock band the Beatles (1969)
  • Octopussy (disambiguation)
  • Paul the Octopus, octopus with a history of correctly predicting the results of major German international football matches
  • Squid, type of marine cephalopod related to the Octopus