Cypher

Not to be confused with Cipher

Cypher may refer to:

• A royal cypher or monogram-like glyph

Art and entertainment

• Cypher (French Group), a Goa trance music group
• Cypher (Perth Band), an Australian instrumental band
• Cypher (film), a 2000 film
• Cypher (album), an album by ...And Oceans
• Johnny Cypher in Dimension Zero, a 1950s-era cartoon program
• In breaking/B-boying, the name given to a circle of b-boys who take turns dancing in the center.
• In poetry slam, the name given to a circle of poets who take turns reciting poems, usually occurring at an afterparty.
• A hip-hop jam session or freestyle battle
• A series of distinctive but uncombined initials, such as a royal cypher. This is similar to a monogram, where the letters are combined.
• Cypher / Traitors Gate 2, a 2002 computer game. Sequel to Traitors Gate.

Fictional characters

• Cypher, a character in the film The Matrix
• Cypher (comics) (a.k.a. Doug Ramsey), a Marvel Comics character
• Cypher (Warhammer 40,000), a character from the fictional Warhammer 30,000 universe
• The hero of Ace Combat Zero
• The sword-like weapon of Strider Hiryu, a character from the Strider Hiryu manga and various related videogames
• Richard Cypher (also known as Richard Rahl), the protagonist of The Sword of Truth series.
• A character in H.I.V.E. series.

Persons

• Jon Cypher (* 1930), American actor
• Alexey Yanushevsky, a professional gamer who goes by the pseudonym Cypher
• Cypher Zero, American circus innovator

Science

• Cypher (UAV), a manned aerial vehicle

Medicine

• Cypher stent, a type of drug-eluting stent

Software

• Cypher transcoder, a natural language processing framework
• Cypher Query Language, a declarative query language for graph databases