Blitz
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Blitz, German for "lightning", may refer to:
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[edit] Armed conflict
- The Blitz, the German aerial attacks on Britain in WWII. The name Blitz was subsequently applied to many individual bombing campaigns or attacks.
- Blitzkrieg, the "lightning war", a strategy of World War 2 Germany
[edit] People
- Andy Blitz (born 1971), writer, actor and comedian
- Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth, American thrash metal musician
- David Blitz, philosopher
- Maurice Blitz (1891–1975), Belgian Olympic water polo player
- Gérard Blitz (entrepreneur) (1912–1990), founder of Club Med
- Gérard Blitz (swimmer) (1901–1979), swimming and waterpolo Olympic medalist
- Jeffrey Blitz, American film director and screenwriter
- Jekuthiel Blitz, translator of Bible into Yiddish 1678
- Johnny Blitz, punk rock drummer
- Julien Paul Blitz (1885–1951), Belgian-American conductor
- Phil Blitz (born 1984), professional wrestler
- Rayner Blitz (born 1968), cricketer
- Simon Blitz, British entrepreneur
- Urban Blitz (born 1951), British rock musician
- Wilhelm Biltz (1877–1943), German chemist and scientific editor
[edit] Computing
- Blitz BASIC, a dialect of the BASIC programming language
- BlitzMail, the internal e-mail network at Dartmouth College
- Blitz++, a C++ class library for scientific computing
[edit] Video games
- Blitz (video game), a bombing game for the Commodore Vic-20
- Blitz: The League, a 2005 American football game series developed by Midway Games
- Cray Blitz, chess program for the Cray supercomputer
- Goal Line Blitz, massively multiplayer, online, American football game
- NFL Blitz, a 1997 American football game series developed by Midway Games
- Blitz, one of the 25 unlockable characters in Maxis's Action RPG Darkspore
[edit] Sports
[edit] Gridiron football
- Blitz (American football), a defensive attack in football where several defensive players who normally cover running or passing routes rush the passer
- Blitz (mascot), the mascot of the NFL's Seattle Seahawks
- Bakersfield Blitz, former arena football team
- Corner Blitz, a group of Michigan State University supporters
- Chicago Blitz, a USFL gridiron football team
- London Blitz (American football), a London-based gridiron football team
- Montreal Blitz, women's gridiron football team
- Syracuse Blitz, former PIFL team
- The Blitz (ESPNEWS), a TV show on ESPNEWS
- Zone blitz, a defensive maneuver in gridiron football
[edit] Other sports
- Blitz, a Japanese tuning company which competes in the D1 Grand Prix
- SV Blitz Breslau, former German soccer team
- Utah Blitzz, former professional soccer team
[edit] Music
- Blitz, a band formed in 1993 by former Ultravox members John Foxx and Robin Simon
- Blitz (band), a British punk rock band
- Blitz (Brazilian band), a new wave Brazilian band from the 1980s
- Blitz (album), 2009 KMFDM studio album
- Blitz (newspaper), a Portuguese music newspaper
- Blitz! (musical), a musical by Lionel Bart based on The Blitz
- Gods of Blitz, German rock band
- It's Blitz!, Yeah Yeah Yeahs 2009 album
- "The Ballroom Blitz",a 1973 song first recorded by the band Sweet
- The Blitz (Krokus album), 1984
- The Blitz (Thebandwithnoname album), 2002
[edit] Toys and games
- Alpha Blitz, word game
- Blitz chess, a chess game allowing only 5 minutes for each player
- Blitz (game), card game
- Dutch Blitz, card game
- Blitz, an American football themed Beanie Baby
[edit] Characters
- Blitz, the alter-ego of the character George in the web comic Bob and George
- Blitz (character), a fictional anthropomorphic doberman from the action/comedy cartoon Road Rovers
- Blitz, a robot dog from the cartoon, C.O.P.S.
- Zorin Blitz, character from the Manga Hellsing
- Blitz (comics), a Flash-based Big Bang Comics hero
- Blitz, the villain in the 2011 film of the same name
- the Blitz, a character in How I Met Your Mother, played by Jorge Garcia
- Blitzy, fictional dog
[edit] Companies
- Blitz Games, British computer games company
- Blitz Research, New Zealand software company
[edit] Other
- SMS Blitz (1882), a German cruiser
- All-Star Blitz, 1985, television game-show
- Alpen Blitz, roller-coaster
- Blitz (film), a 2011 film
- Blitz, a 1980s night club in London, see Blitz Kids
- Blitz (movement), a radical youth movement in Norway
- Blitz Wolf, 1942, anti-German animation
- Domestic Blitz, Australian television programme
- Sportz Blitz, television sports programme
- Weekly Blitz, a weekly Bangladeshi newspaper
- Opel Blitz, a German lorry built by Opel
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