Pharos

Pharos may refer to:

Lighthouses:

• The Pharos of Alexandria, a tower built on the island of Pharos that became one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
• The Pharos, either of two Roman lighthouses built at Dubris (Dover, England)
• The Pharos, the common name of the Upper Lighthouse, Fleetwood, England

Other:

• Pharos (horse), a British racehorse
• Pharos, the original name of the Croatian island Hvar
• Pharos (album), an album by SETI
• The Pharos Project, a project featured in the Logopolis serial of the Doctor Who TV series
• Pharos, name of a character in Persona 3
• PHAROS (Platform for searcHing of Audiovisual Resources across Online Spaces) an Integrated Project co-financed by the European Union under the Information Society Technologies Programme (6th Framework Programme) – Strategic Objective ‘Search Engines for Audiovisual Content’ (2.6.3)
• Pharos-Tribune, The daily newspaper of Logansport, Indiana
• Pharos Network Coordinates, a scalable mechanism for Internet distance (round-trip latency) estimation without explicit measurement

See also

• Pharo, programming language
• Faros, Greek village