Minotaur (disambiguation)

The Minotaur is a mythological monster, half-man and half-bull.

Minotaur may also refer to:

Military

• Minotaur (rocket family), an American rocket designed to launch small satellites
• HMS Minotaur, a historical ship name of the Royal Navy
• MI AC Disp F1 Minotaur mine, a French scatterable anti-tank mine
• Minotaur class battleship, enlarged versions of HMS Achilles with heavier armament and armour, and more powerful engines
• Minotaur class cruiser (disambiguation), two classes of cruisers of the Royal Navy
• USS Minotaur (ARL-15), an Achelous-class landing craft repair ship

Art and entertainment

Film, television and theatre

• Minotaur (film), a 2006 horror film
• Minotaur, the Wild Beast of Crete, a 1960 Italian film
• The Minotaur (opera), a 2008 opera by Harrison Birtwistle
• "Minotaur" (Fear the Walking Dead), a television episode
• Minotaur, a Brazilian combat robot competing in BattleBots

Literature

• Minotaur (novel), a 1981 novel by Benjamin Tammuz
• The Minotaur, a 1989 spy thriller novel by Stephen Coonts
• The Minotaur (novel), a 2005 novel by Barbara Vine (Ruth Rendell)
• Minotaur (comics), different fictional characters appearing in comic books published by Marvel Comics
• Minotaur (New-Gen), a fictional superhero in the NEW-GEN comic books published by Marvel Comics
• "The Minotaur", a chapter in the Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Music

• Minotaur (Pixies album), 2009
• Minotaur (The Clientele album), 2010
• "The Minotaur", a Moog instrumental by Dick Hyman, 1969
• "Minotaur", a song by Photek from Modus Operandi, 1997

Other art and entertainment

• Minotaur: The Labyrinths of Crete, a 1992 computer game
• The Minotaur (painting), an 1885 painting by George Frederic Watts

People

• "The Minotaur", the ringname of professional wrestler Steve DiSalvo (born 1949) during his run in World Championship Wrestling
• "Minotauro", the ringname of Brazilian mixed martial artist Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira (born 1976)

Other uses

• Minotaur, the early development name of the application which became Mozilla Thunderbird
• Minotaure, a French surrealist magazine
• Minotaur beetle (Typhaeus typhoeus)