Thor is a Germanic god associated with thunder.

Thor may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Comics

  • Thor in comics, various characters
  • Thor (Marvel Comics), a Marvel Comics character with this name
  • Thor (Ultimate Marvel), the Ultimate Marvel version of the character
  • Thor (Marvel Cinematic Universe), the 21st-century film version of the Marvel Comics character

Fictional characters and entities

  • Thor (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
  • Thor (Stargate)
  • Thor (The Asylum)
  • Phecda Gamma Thor, from the anime Saint Seiya

Film and television

  • Thor (film), a 2011 American live-action superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character
  • Thor: The Dark World, a 2013 American film sequel
  • Thor: Ragnarok, a 2017 American film sequel
  • Thor: Love and Thunder, a 2022 American film sequel
  • Thor: Tales of Asgard, a 2011 American direct-to-video animated film based on the Marvel Comics character
  • Legends of Valhalla: Thor, 2011 CGI animated feature film
  • "Thor" (Marvel Studios: Legends), an episode of Marvel Studios: Legends

Music

  • Thor (band), a Canadian heavy metal band
  • Thor (soundtrack), to the 2011 Marvel Studios film
  • Thor (Wizard album), 2009

Other media

  • Thor (sculpture), an outdoor work by Melvin Schuler in Portland, Oregon, US
  • The History of Rome (podcast), often abbreviated THoR

Companies

  • Thor (motorcycles), American company founded 1901
  • Thor Equities, a private equity corporation in New York City
  • Thor Industries, world's largest manufacturer of recreational vehicles
  • Thor Power Tool Company, a former U.S. manufacturer
  • Thor Power Tool Company v. Commissioner, a 1979 U.S. Supreme Court Case

Natural sciences

  • Thor (crustacean), a genus of shrimps
  • Thor (volcano), an active volcano on Jupiter's moon Io
  • Thorium, a chemical element
  • Thor (1903), a Danish Research vessel 1903–1927

People

  • Thor (given name), including a list of individuals with the name Thor

Surname

  • Brad Thor, author
  • Cameron Thor, film and TV actor
  • Ebba Busch Thor, Swedish politician
  • Jon Mikl Thor (born 1955), Canadian heavy metal singer and bodybuilder
  • JT Thor, basketball player

Nickname

  • Bobby Nystrom, nicknamed "Thor", NHL ice hockey player
  • Noah Syndergaard, nicknamed "Thor", MLB baseball player
  • Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, nicknamed "Thor", Icelandic strongman

Stage name

  • Thor (singer) (born 1982), Filipino singer, performer and songwriter
  • Thor, early stage name for professional wrestler Kevin Wacholz
  • Thor, a member of the TV show American Gladiators
  • Thor/Thor "The Body" Olsen, a professional wrestler from NWA All-Star Wrestling
  • The Mighty Thor, a professional wrestler in World Championship Wrestling who competed in SuperBrawl I
  • "Finland Hellraiser" Thor, a stage name of professional wrestler Tony Halme

Places

  • Thor (volcano), an active volcano on Jupiter's moon Io
  • Thor, Iowa, a small town in the United States
  • Le Thor, a town in southern France
  • Mount Thor, Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada
  • Mount Thor, Monashee Mountains, British Columbia
  • Mount Thor (Alaska), Chugach Mountains, Alaska, US
  • Thor's Cave, in Staffordshire, England
  • Thorland Peninsula, Greenland
  • Thor Fjord, Greenland
  • Thor Peak (Washington), in the United States

Technology

Computing

  • Tactical Hybrid Order Router (THOR), an electronic trading platform
  • Thor (video codec), a candidate for the development of an open and royalty free next-generation video coding standard
  • CST Thor, a series of personal computers designed by Cambridge Systems Technology
  • Thor-CD, a recordable CD format proposed in 1988 by Tandy but never released in commercial version

Vessels

  • German auxiliary cruiser Thor, a German surface raider in World War II
  • HMS Thor, a cancelled British T-class submarine
  • HNoMS Thor, three Royal Norwegian Navy warships
  • ICGV Þór, the flagship of the Icelandic Coast Guard
  • Thor (1903), Danish research vessel (1903–1920)
  • Thor (1930), Danish hydrographical research vessel (1933–1936)
  • USS Thor, American Navy support vessel (1945–1973)
  • HSwMS Thor', Swedish coastal defence ship (1898–1937)

Weapons and military technology

Weapons

  • PGM-17 Thor, an American intermediate range ballistic missile
  • Bristol Thor, a ramjet engine used on the Bristol Bloodhound missile
  • Project Thor, a theoretical US orbital kinetic bombardment weapons system
  • Thor, an alternate name for the Karl-Gerät, a 600mm German mortar used in World War II
  • THOR/Multi Mission System (MMS), a British Army vehicle-mounted Starstreak missile launcher
  • "Thor", alternate name for the US Mark 7 nuclear bomb, the first US tactical nuclear bomb
  • THOR (directed energy weapon)

Other military technology

  • Theatre History of Operations Reports, a U.S. Air Force database endeavoring to catalog every bomb dropped by the US military since World War I
  • Thor III, a man-portable device for remote-controlled IED jamming

Other technologies

  • Thor (rocket family), a space launch vehicle derived from the PGM-17
  • Thor (satellite) (previously known as Marcopolo), a satellite constellation owned by Telenor
  • THOR, a type of crash test dummy
  • Thor 1-A, a version of the Thor T/A ultralight aircraft
  • Thor washing machine, the first electric clothes washer sold commercially in the United States
  • Daihatsu Thor, a mini multi-purpose vehicle sold in Japan
  • Airbus THOR

Other uses

  • Thor (walrus), a walrus sighted in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom in 2022–23
  • Thor language, a Tibeto-Burman language of Chin State, Myanmar

See also

  • Thar (disambiguation)
  • Thaw (disambiguation)
  • Thur (disambiguation)
  • Tor (disambiguation)