Hermes (disambiguation)
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- Hermes is the divine messenger of the Olympian gods in Greek mythology
- Hermes Trismegistus ("Hermes the thrice-greatest"), the Greek name for the Egyptian god Thoth
Hermes can also refer to:
[edit] Astronomy
- Hermes, the Greek name for the planet Mercury, particularly as it appeared in the evening sky
- 69230 Hermes, a binary near-Earth asteroid rediscovered in 2003
[edit] Business
- Hermès, a Paris-based, high-fashion luxury-goods manufacturer
- Hermes cover, a German export credit-guarantee scheme
- EFG-Hermes Holding Company, an Egyptian financial group
- Hermes Abrasives, a German-based abrasive manufacturer
[edit] Computing
- HERMES-A/MINOTAUR, also known as Project HERMES, the first internet-to-orbit gateway
- Hermes (BBS), a Macintosh-based bulletin board system that was similar to MS-DOS-based WWIV
- Hermes (programming language), a distributed programming language developed at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center from 1986 through 1992
- Hermes Project, a C++/Python library comprising algorithms for rapid prototyping of adaptive higher-order modular finite element system solvers
- Hopkins Electronic Resources ManagEment System, an electronic resource management system at Johns Hopkins University
- a mass spectrometry data formats converter software[clarification needed]
- HTC Hermes, the production code-name for the HTC TyTN
- WLAN chipset by Agere, see ORiNOCO[clarification needed]
[edit] Fictional characters
- Hermes, a talking motorcycle in the anime Kino's Journey
- Hermes Conrad, a character in the animated television series Futurama
- Hermes (Harry Potter), Percy Weasley's owl in the Harry Potter series
- Hermes (Marvel Comics), a Marvel Comics character
[edit] People
- Hermes Pan (choreographer) (1910–1990), American dancer and choreographer
- Andreas Hermes (1878–1964), German politician
- Carli Hermès (born 1963), Dutch photographer and commercial director
- Georg Hermes (1775–1831), German Roman Catholic philosopher and theologian
- Hans Hermes (1912–2003), German mathematician
- Johann Gustav Hermes (1846–1912), German mathematician
- Johann Timotheus Hermes (1738–1821), German novelist
- Saint Hermes, name of several Christian martyrs
[edit] Transportation
- Hermes-A1, an American copy of the German Wasserfall missile
- Hermes (spaceplane), a design of space shuttle proposed by the European Space Agency
- Elbit Hermes 450, a line of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) manufactured by Elbit
- Handley Page Hermes, a 1950s British four-engined transport aircraft
- HMS Hermes, various ships of the British Royal Navy
- MV Hermes, a cargo ship launched in 1945, completed in 1949 as Empire Dove.
[edit] Other
- Hermes Hockey Team, a Finnish ice hockey team from Kokkola
- Hermes (publication), an annual literary journal at the University of Sydney
- Hermes and New Hermes, fictional planets in the writings of Poul Anderson (respectively, the Polesotechnic League series and the story Inside Straight)
- Hermes, Oise, a commune in the Oise département of northern France
- Operation Hermes, a coalition military operation of the Iraq War
- Hermes project, launched V-2 rockets at White Sands Proving Grounds after World War II
- Hermes (satellite), a failed American satellite
HERMES may mean:
- HERMES experiment, a fixed target experiment at HERA
- HERMES method, a general project management method developed by the Swiss government
- HERMES Project, or the Hotspot Ecosystems Research on the Margins of European Seas
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