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A dragon is a legendary creature, typically with reptile-like traits.

Dragon may also refer to:

Places

Extra-terrestrial

Terrestrial

People

  • Vlad II Dracul (1390–1447), duke of Wallachia, nicknamed "Vlad the Dragon"
  • Goran Dragić (born 1986), Slovenian basketball player
  • G-Dragon (born 1988), South Korean rapper
  • Carmen Dragon (1914–1984), American conductor and composer
  • Daryl Dragon (1942–2019), American musician, one half of the duo Captain & Tennille; son of Carmen Dragon
  • Tatsumi Fujinami (born 1953), Japanese professional wrestler, nicknamed "The Dragon"
  • Bruce Lee (1940–1973), Chinese actor and martial artist, nicknamed "The Dragon"
  • Lyoto Machida (born 1978), Brazilian martial artist, nicknamed "The Dragon"
  • Ricky Steamboat (born 1953), American professional wrestler, nicknamed "The Dragon"
  • Matthew Stevens, Welsh snooker player nicknamed "The Welsh Dragon"
  • Don "The Dragon" Wilson (born 1954), American champion kickboxer and actor
  • Ryuji Kumita (born 1967), Japanese racing driver who uses the pseudonym "Dragon"

Arts and entertainment

Characters and fictional entities

Films

Gaming

Literature

Periodicals

Music

Bands

Groups

Albums

Songs

Roller coasters

Television

Other arts and entertainment

Biology

  • DRAGON (protein), a membrane receptor protein
  • Draco volans, commonly known as the flying dragon, a species of lizard endemic to Southeast Asia
  • Komodo dragon, a large species of lizard found in the Indonesian islands of Komodo
  • Pogona, a genus of Australian lizards commonly called "bearded dragons"
  • Many species of the lizard genus Ctenophorus
  • Tarragon which is called dragon in several languages including its Latin name

Brands and enterprises

Education

Mathematics and computing

Military

  • Dragon (firearm), the short version of the blunderbuss
  • "Dragons", a USMC helicopter squadron (see: VMM-265)
  • BQM-147 Dragon, United States unmanned aerial vehicle
  • Focke-Achgelis Fa 223, German World War II helicopter, known in English as Dragon
  • HMS Dragon, the name of at least 14 ships (and a building) of the English/British Navy
  • M47 Dragon, an American anti-tank missile system
  • The Dragons, a display team consisting of 4 x Hawker Hunters of No. 4 Flying Training School RAF, during 1973
  • USS Dragon (1861), a Union Navy steamer during the American Civil War
  • Dragón, a Spanish development of the Mowag Piranha V Wheeled Infantry Fighting Vehicle

Nobility and royalty

Sports teams

Africa

Asia

Europe

North America

Oceania

Transport

Air

Land

Space

  • Dragon (rocket), a French research sounding rocket
  • SpaceX Dragon capsule, used to transport cargo to and from the International Space Station
  • SpaceX Dragon 2 capsule, also used to transport crew to and from the International Space Station

Water

Other uses

  • Dragon (Ninurta), a figure in Sumerian religion
  • Dragon (zodiac), in the Chinese zodiac
  • Dragon reactor, a gas-cooled nuclear reactor in England
  • Satan, referred to several times in the Book of Revelation as the "Dragon"
  • Welsh Dragon, the flag of Wales
  • In the Japanese board game shogi, the rook and bishop promote to a "dragon (king)" and a "dragon horse"
  • The 2020 Middle East storms of 23 March 2020 and following days are sometimes called the "Dragon storms"

See also

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