Pallas
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[edit] Greco-Roman mythology
- Male (Πάλλας, gen. Πάλλαντος)
- Pallas (son of Crius), a Titan associated with war
- Pallas (Giant), a son of Uranus and Gaia
- Pallas (son of Pandion), the son of Pandion II, king of Athens, and father of the fifty Pallantides
- Pallas (son of Evander), the son of Evander, king of Latium
- Pallas (son of Lycaon), teacher of Athena
- Pallas, father of Euryalus by Diomede
- Female (Παλλάς, gen. Παλλάδος)
- Athena, who used the epithet "Pallas Athena"
- Pallas (daughter of Triton)
[edit] People
- Marcus Antonius Pallas, a freedman and favorite of Emperor Claudius
- Peter Simon Pallas (1741–1811), German naturalist who explored the Urals, the Caspian Sea, China, and the Altai. The common names of several mammal and bird species were named after him:
- David Pallas (born 1980)
- Janette Pallas
- José Ignacio Pallas (born 1983), Uruguayan football defender
- Simon Pallas (1694–1770), German physician
- Tim Pallas (born 1960), Australian politician
[edit] Birds
- Pallas's Cormorant
- Pallas's Fish Eagle
- Pallas's Gull
- Pallas's Grasshopper-warbler
- Pallas's Reed Bunting
- Pallas's Rosefinch
- Pallas's Sandgrouse
- Pallas's Warbler
[edit] Mammals
[edit] Astronomy
- 2 Pallas, one of the earliest-discovered and largest asteroids in the solar system
- Pallas family, a group of asteroids that includes 2 Pallas
- Pallas (crater), a crater on Earth's moon
[edit] Technology
- The name given to the luxury versions of the Citroën DS, Citroën CX, Citroën XM and Citroën C6, automobiles built in France
- MV Pallas, a Dutch coastal tanker
- Pallas class frigate (1808), warship during the Napoleonic Empire
- PALLAS, a research group working on parallel computing at University of California, Berkeley
- Pallas, a French Minerve class submarine
[edit] Places
- Pallas-Yllästunturi National Park, Finland
- Pallasgreen, a village in County Tipperary, Ireland
[edit] Other
- Pallas (band), a British progressive rock band
- Pallas, a literary Science Fiction work by L. Neil Smith
- Sailor Pallas, aka PallaPalla, a character in Sailor Moon
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