Midas (disambiguation)

Midas, king of Lydia is a figure from Greek mythology.

Midas may also refer to:

Arts and fiction

• Midas (comics), the name of two fictional characters in the Marvel Universe
• Midas (fictional planet), in the Colony Wars franchise

Film, TV and theatre

• Midas (burletta), a 1760 "mock opera" by Kane O'Hara
• Midas (Lyly play), an Elizabethan stage play by John Lyly
• Midas (Shelley play), an 1820 play by Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Midas (TV series), a 2011 South Korean TV series
• Midas, a rich patron of the arts in the operetta Die schöne Galathée, by Franz von Suppé

Music

• Midas (DJs), a British happy hardcore duo
• Midas (English band), an English indie rock band
• Midas (Japanese band), a Japanese progressive rock band

Places

• Midas, California, in Placer County, California, United States
• Midas, Kentucky, an unincorporated place in Floyd County, Kentucky, United States
• Midas, Nevada, a ghost town in Elko County, Nevada, United States
• Other name for Midès oasis in Tunisia, the Ancient Numidian city Mades

Companies and transport

• Midas (automotive service), a chain of automotive service centers
• Midas Cars, a British car manufacturer
• Midas Consoles, a manufacturer of audio consoles
• MIDAS Trial, a randomized controlled trial for drugs and alcohol misuse
• MS Midas, a Finnish cargo ship

Finance

• Midas (banking system), a core-banking solution from Misys International Banking systems
• Midas formula, a financial-analysis formula
• Midas List, an annual list of dealmakers in high-tech and life science

Acronyms

• Maximum Integrated Data Acquisition System, an open source data acquisition system used in particle and nuclear physics
• Micro-Imaging Dust Analysis System
• MIDAS (operating system) (Microsoft Interrupt Driven Asynchronous System), a 1979 operating system
• MIDAS Heritage a Monument Inventory Data Standard for recording historic sites
• Missile Defense Alarm System (MiDAS), 1960–1966 American early-warning missile-launch detection system
• Migraine Disability Assessment Test
• Minibus Driver Awareness Scheme, a training and registration scheme for drivers of minibuses
• Mixed-data sampling, an econometric regression or filtering method
• Motorway Incident Detection and Automatic Signalling, a distributed network of traffic sensors
• Multics Intrusion Detection and Alerting System, see Intrusion detection system

Other

• 1981 Midas, an asteroid discovered in 1973
• European Association of Daily Newspapers in Minority and Regional Languages (MIDAS)
• Midas, NATO reporting name for Ilyushin Il-78 aerial refueling tanker
• Midas Touch, originally Midas Touch Golden Elixir, a beer produced by Dogfish Head Brewery
• MidasWWW, one of the first web browsers

See also

• The Midas Touch (disambiguation)
• Midus, a type of Lithuanian mead