Condor (disambiguation)

Condor is the common name for two species of birds.

Condor, CONDOR, El Condor, or The Condor may also refer to:

Places

• Condor, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, a municipality
• Condor, Alberta, Canada, a hamlet
• Cerro El Cóndor, a stratovolcano in Argentina
• Condor Peninsula, Palmer Land, Antarctica
• Cordillera del Cóndor, a mountain range in the Andes on the border between Ecuador and Peru
• El Cóndor (Jujuy), Argentina, a town and municipality
• Condor (mountain), in the Andes in Peru

People

• Condor of Cornwall (fl. 1066), earl of Cornwall
• Lana Condor (born 1997), American actress
• Sam Condor, Kittitian politician and the former Deputy Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis
• Condor Laucke (1914-1993), Australian politician
• Mat Hoffman (born 1972), American BMX rider nicknamed "The Condor"
• Kevin Mitnick (born 1963), American computer security consultant, author, and hacker who uses the handle, "The Condor"
• Carlos Manuel Hoo Ramírez (born 1978), alias El Cóndor, imprisoned high-ranking member of the Sinaloa Cartel drug trafficking organization
• Alfred Williams (born 1968), American retired National Football League player nicknamed "The Condor"

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

• Black Condor, a DC Comics character
• Condor (comics), a Marvel Comics character
• Condor, a fictional starship featured in the 1964 novel The Invincible by Stanislaw Lem
• Captain Condor, a character in Lion, a weekly British comics periodical (1952-1974)

Films

• El Condor (film), a 1970 Western starring Jim Brown and Lee Van Cleef
• The Condor (film), a 2007 animated superhero film about a character created by Stan Lee

Periodicals

• Cóndor (newspaper), a German-language newspaper published in Chile
• El Cóndor (newspaper), a Chilean newspaper published in Santa Cruz, Colchagua, since 1917
• The Condor, now Ornithological Applications, a quarterly scientific journal covering ornithology

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

• Condor, a 1984 novel by Graham Masterton
• Condor (TV series), a television series based on the 1975 film Three Days of the Condor
• The Condor (album), a 1986 album by saxophonist Steve Lacy

Attractions and rides

• Condor (ride), an amusement ride
• El Condor (roller coaster), at Walibi Holland in the Netherlands

Brands and enterprises

• Condor Club, an early strip club in San Francisco, California, that helped set precedent for the legality of nude dancing
• Condor Cycles, a bicycle manufacturer based in London, England
• Condor Films, a film and TV production company based in Zurich, Switzerland
• Stoeger Condor, a type of shotgun
• Condor Electronics, an electronics and home appliances manufacturer based in Algiers, Algeria.

Computing and technology

• Condor High-Throughput Computing System, a framework for distributed computing
• CONDOR secure cell phone, a prototype secure CDMA phone by Qualcomm
• Moto E (1st generation), an Android smartphone made by Motorola with the codename Condor

Military

Aviation

• Condor, a version of the BQM-147 Dragon unmanned aerial vehicle "navalized" for the United States Coast Guard
• AGM-53 Condor, a US Navy air-to-surface missile that did not enter service
• Amarah Air Base, a former Iraqi Air Force base captured by Coalition forces in 2003 and renamed Camp Condor
• Antonov An-124, a Ukrainian/Soviet transport aircraft (NATO reporting name "Condor")
• Boeing Condor, a test bed unmanned aerial vehicle
• Condor Group, a fleet of helicopters operated by the Mexico City's Federal District Secretariat of Public Security
• Curtiss B-2 Condor, a 1920s American bomber
• Curtiss T-32 Condor II, a 1930s American biplane bomber, transport, and civilian airliner
• Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor, a German aircraft used for long range maritime patrol and reconnaissance during World War II, derived from an airliner
• HMH-464, United States Marine Corps helicopter squadron known as the Condors
• Schweizer RU-38 Twin Condor, a covert reconnaissance aircraft

Ships

• Condor-class gunvessel, a Royal Navy class of four gunvessels built between 1876 and 1877
• Condor-class sloop, a Royal Navy class of six sloops built between 1898 and 1900
• HMS Condor, two Royal Navy ships and a former Royal Naval Air Station
• SMS Condor, an Imperial German Navy unprotected cruiser
• USS Condor, three US Navy minesweepers

Other uses in military

• Condor (APC), a German armoured personnel carrier, best known for its use by Malaysian forces
• Condor (Argentine missile), a long-range missile developed by Argentina
• Condor A350, a Swiss military motorcycle
• Condor Legion, a Nazi military unit which fought on the Nationalist side during the Spanish Civil War
• Operation Condor (disambiguation), the codename of a number of military operations
• RM Condor, the home base of 45 Commando, Royal Marines, situated in Arbroath on the east coast of Scotland

Sports

• Condor (golf), a score of four under par on any given hole in the sport of golf
• Bakersfield Condors (1998–2015), a defunct minor-league ice hockey team based in California
• Bakersfield Condors (AHL), a minor-league ice hockey team based in California that plays in the American Hockey League
• Club El Condor, ancestor of Bogotá F.C., a Colombian football club
• Jonquière Condors, a former minor pro ice hockey team based in Jonquière, Quebec, Canada
• Pittsburgh Condors, a former American Basketball Association team

Transportation

Air

• ADI Condor, an American motor glider
• Aero Condor, an airline based in Lima, Peru
• Condor (airline), a German airline
• Davis-Costin Condor, an all-wood UK sailplane first flown in 1953
• Druine Condor, a French 1950s light aircraft
• El Condor Airport, a former airstrip near El Condor, Tarija, Bolivia
• FMA IA 36 Cóndor, a 1950s projected Argentine jet airliner
• Rolls-Royce Condor, an aircraft piston engine
• Schleicher Condor, a German glider
• Seahawk Condor, an ultralight aircraft
• Southern Condor, an American powered parachute / ultralight aircraft
• TL Ultralight Condor, an ultralight aircraft built in the Czech Republic since the mid-1990s
• Wills Wing Condor, an American hang glider design

Land

• Condor, an express freight service operated by British Rail between London and Glasgow between 1959 and 1965
• Cóndor station, a railway station in Bolivia
• Dennis Dragon (also sold as the Dennis Condor), a double-decker bus manufactured between 1982 and 1999
• UD Condor, a line of medium-duty commercial vehicles introduced in 1975
• Toyota Kijang, a series of pickup trucks and minivans, sold as the Toyota Condor in South Africa

Sea

• Condor (yacht), a racing yacht built in 1981
• Condor, the name of the MV Empire MacKendrick from 1949 to 1955
• Condor Ferries, a ferry company providing service between the Channel Islands, the United Kingdom and France
• Condor of Bermuda, a maxi yacht, earlier named Condor and Heath's Condor
• SS Condor (1893), captured and sunk by Germany in 1914
• SS Condor (1920), in service from 1927 to 1940

Other uses

• Comet Nucleus Dust and Organics Return (CONDOR), a spacecraft mission concept to retrieve a sample from comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko
• Condor (options), an options trading strategy in finance
• Condor Sea Scouts, a Scout Troop established in Chua Chu Kang Secondary School

See also

• HTCondor, an open-source high-throughput computing software framework
• All pages with titles beginning with Condor
• All pages with titles containing Condor