Owl (disambiguation)

Owl and OWL may refer to:

• Owl, any one of about 220 species of mainly nocturnal birds of prey

Owl and OWL may also refer to:

• Fraternal Order of Owls, a fraternal order of the United States
• Night owl (person), a person who tends to stay up until late at night
• Night bus, or "owl service", a bus service that runs through night-time hours
• Owl (hieroglyph), an Egyptian language uniliteral
• Owl (magazine), a children's/educational magazine published in Canada
• Owl Club (Harvard), a men's only final club at Harvard College
• Owl of Minerva, a symbol of wisdom in classical mythology
• "Owls (Millennium)", a season two episode of Millennium
• The Owl (film), a 1991 action genre television movie
• The Owl (TV series), a series of animated shorts
• The Owl Club of South Africa
• The Owl Journal, an inter-disciplinary journal published by students of the University of Oxford
• Genus of butterfies called Owls, Caligo

Fictional characters

• Owl (Dell Comics), a comic book superhero
• Owl (Marvel Comics), a comic book supervillain
• Owl (Winnie the Pooh), a character in the Winnie the Pooh stories
• Owl (Farthing Wood), a fictional character from The Animals of Farthing Wood
• In the television series Millennium (TV series), the Owls were an ideological faction of the shadowy Millennium Group, in conflict with the Roosters

Music

• Owls (band), an indie-rock band from Chicago, Illinois
• Owl City, a synthpop band by Adam Young from Owatonna, Minnesota

Sports teams

• Chicago Owls, a defunct professional American football team based in Chicago
• Florida Atlantic Owls, the athletics teams of Florida Atlantic University
• Grand Rapids Owls, a defunct International Hockey League team
• Orem Owlz, a minor league baseball team
• Rice Owls, the athletic teams of Rice University
• Temple Owls, the athletic teams of Temple University
• Uni-Norths Owls, an Australian rugby union club
• "The Owls", a nickname for the English football club Sheffield Wednesday F.C.

Acronyms

• O. Winston Link, a photographer of steam locomotives
• Object Windows Library, an object-oriented software framework for creating Microsoft Windows applications, created by Borland
• Office Workstations Limited, UK software company and vendor of the hypertext program
• Official Tournament and Club Word List, the National Scrabble Association's official word authority for tournament Scrabble in North America
• Older Women's League, a US grassroots organization advocating for midlife and older women
• Olympic-Wallowa Lineament, a geological feature in the state of Washington
• Online Watch Link, Neighbourhood Watch management and messaging system
• Online Writing Lab, usually an extension of a college or university writing center
• OpenStreetMap Watch List, a service to track OpenStreetMap changes
• Openwall Project (Owl), a hardened Linux distribution
• Ordinary Wizarding Level, a test of magical aptitude in the Harry Potter novel series
• Ostwestfalen-Lippe, an area in the federal state North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany
• Our Whole Lives, a sexuality curriculum jointly produced by the Unitarian Universalist Association and the United Church of Christ, with versions for students and adults
• Overwhelmingly Large Telescope, a proposed optical telescope that would use a 60-meter-diameter main reflector
• Obfuscated Weird Language, a Forth-like programming language based on characters in the style of "false"
• Web Ontology Language, a language for describing and sharing ontologies on the World Wide Web
  • .owl, the file extension for OWL