Sphinx (disambiguation)

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Sphinx or Sphynx can refer to:

• Sphinx, an iconic image of a recumbent lion with a human head in Egyptian and Greek mythology
  • Great Sphinx of Giza, a giant Sphinx statue near the Great Pyramids

Contents 1 Entertainment and fiction 2 Nature 3 Technology 4 Other

[edit] Entertainment and fiction

• Sphinx (film), an American movie fra 1981 starring Lesley-Anne Down
• Sphynx (album), an album by black metal band Melechesh
• Sphinx (comics), the name of two Marvel Comics characters
• Sphinx (Dungeons & Dragons): a monster in the Dungeons and Dragons role-playing game
• Sphinx (Marc Quinn sculpture), a sculpture of the model Kate Moss by the artist Marc Quinn
• Sphinx (novel), by Robin Cook
• Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy, a 3rd person action-adventure video game
• Sphinx Systems, a Swiss pistol manufacturer

[edit] Nature

• Sphynx (cat), a breed of hairless cat
• Sphinx (moth), a genus of hawkmoth; for species see Sphingidae species list
• Sphinx (rock), a natural rock formation, famous tourist attraction in the Bucegi subdivision of the Carpathian Mountains
• The Sphinx, a subglacial volcano in southwestern British Columbia
• the Sphinx, a rock formation on the Turkish peninsula of Gallipoli

[edit] Technology

• Sphinx (satellite), an American test satellite
• Sphinx (search engine), Free open-source SQL full-text search engine
• Sphinx (python package), Free open-source python documentation generator
• CMU Sphinx, a free voice recognition engine from Carnegie Mellon University
• Sphinx, the name of a GoTo telescope produced by Vixen
• SPHINX (SPH code), a Smoothed particle hydrodynamics computer code developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory, not currently supported

[edit] Other

• Sphinx Head, a secret society at Cornell University
• Sphinx (senior society), a secret society at Dartmouth College
• Le Sphinx, a Paris brothel founded in 1635
• A sphinx, the occasional term for a Brazilian bikini wax