Pyro comes from the Greek word πῦρ (pyr), meaning fire. It may refer to:

Businesses

  • Pyro Plastics Corporation, a plastic model kit maker 1940s through the 1970s
  • Pyro Studios, a computer game developer based in Madrid
  • NRK P3 Pyro, a Norwegian Internet-based music radio station

Entertainment

  • "Pyro" (song), by Kings of Leon, 2010
  • "Pyro", a song by T.S.O.L. from their 2001 album Disappear
  • "Pyro", a song by Hail the Villain from their 2010 album Population: Declining
  • "Pyro", a song by the Standstills from their 2012 album Pushing Electric
  • "Pyro", a song by 2:54 from their 2014 album The Other I
  • "Pyro", a song by Shinedown from their 2018 album Attention Attention
  • "Pyro", a song by Budjerah from his 2021 self-titled EP
  • "Pyro (leak 2019)", a song by Denzel Curry and Kenny Beats from their 2020 EP Unlocked
  • Pyro (Marvel Comics), a Marvel Comics supervillain
  • Pyro (Team Fortress 2), one of the playable classes in the video game
  • Pyro... The Thing Without a Face, a 1964 film starring Barry Sullivan and Martha Hyer
  • A god in the video game Sacrifice
  • One of the seven elements in the video game Genshin Impact

Other uses

  • Pyro (horse), an American thoroughbred racehorse
  • Pyro, Ohio, United States
  • , two U.S. Navy ammunition ships
  • Short for pyrotechnics
  • Slang for a person afflicted with pyromania, the inability to resist the impulse to deliberately start fires
  • Pyro cable, mineral-insulated copper-clad cable (MICC), a fire-resistant electrical cable
  • Probabilistic programming language Pyro, extending from PyTorch
  • Short for Pyrogallol, a chemical compound used as a black-and-white photographic film developing agent
  • Short for pyrovalerone, a stimulant similar to those of the cathinone class

See also

  • Pyrrho of Elis (360–270 BC), Greek philosopher, founder of Pyrrhonism
  • Pyros (disambiguation)