Rainbow (disambiguation)

A rainbow is an optical or meteorological phenomenon.

Main article: Rainbow

Rainbow may also refer to:

Places

• Rainbow, California, a census-designated place in San Diego County
• Rainbow, Victoria, a town in the state of Victoria, Australia
• Rainbow Ski Area, a ski resort in New Zealand
• Rainbow Range, a mountain range associated with the Coast Mountains of British Columbia, Canada
• Rainbow Range, a mountain range associated with the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia and Alberta, Canada
• Rainbow Springs, Florida, a 1st magnitude spring

People

• Bernarr Rainbow (1914–1998), historian of music education, organist, and choir master
• Edward Rainbowe (1608–1684), Bishop of Carlisle

Social/Political

• Rainbow Warrior, the name of two ships operated by Greenpeace
• Rainbow Family, an international movement, hosts rainbow gatherings
• Rainbow flag, a multi-colored flag consisting of stripes in the colors of the rainbow
• Rainbow Coalition is the name of several separate organizations
• Rainbow (political party), a small political party in Greece
• Human rainbow, a rainbow color pattern formed by people
• Rainbow Nation, a term coined by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, to describe post-apartheid (1994) South Africa
• Rainbow Guides, the youngest members of Girlguiding UK, aged between five and seven in Great Britain
• Rainbows (charity), an international charity supporting child bereavement

Mythology

Main article: Rainbows in mythology

• Iris (mythology)
• Bifröst
• Rainbow serpent

Publications

• The Rainbow, a 1915 novel by British author D. H. Lawrence
• Rainbow (comic)—a comic and annual featuring such characters as Tiger Tim and his friends, the Bruin Boys
• Rainbow Six (novel), a novel by Tom Clancy about a fictional counter-terrorist team codenamed "Rainbow"
• Rainbow (Noon Universe) (a.k.a. Raduga), a fictional planet of the Noon Universe created by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky

Film

• The Rainbow (film), a 1989 UK production directed by Ken Russell based on the novel by D.H. Lawrence
• Rainbow (1996 film), a 1996 UK-Canadian co-production directed by Bob Hoskins
• Rainbow (2005 film), 2005 Chinese film directed by Gao Xiaosong

Music

• In Rainbows, the seventh studio album by Radiohead
• Rainbow (band), a classic hard-rock band, formed by former Deep Purple guitarist and co-founder Ritchie Blackmore
• Rainbow (person), guitarist, composer, and lyricist of the synth rock band The Birthday Massacre
• Rainbow (London), a concert venue in London UK, sometimes called 'The Rainbow'
• Rainbow, a 1973 album by McGuinness Flint
• Rainbow (Neil Diamond album), a 1973 album by Neil Diamond
• Rainbow (Johnny Cash album), a 1985 album by Johnny Cash
• Rainbow (Mariah Carey album), a 1999 album by Mariah Carey
• Rainbow (Ayumi Hamasaki album), an album by Ayumi Hamasaki
• Rainbow (Dolly Parton album), an album by Dolly Parton
• Rainbow (Boris collaborative album), a collaborative album between Boris and Michio Kurihara
• L'Arc~en~Ciel (Japanese band, 'The Rainbow' in French)
• Rainbow, one of Paul Stanley's and Gene Simmons' pre-KISS era bands
• "Rainbows", a song by Madvillain from the album Madvillainy
• "The Rainbow", a song by Talk Talk on their 1988 album Spirit of Eden
• Rainbow Records, a record label
• Rainbow, nickname for Jeramy Gritter, guitarist for rock group Whitestarr

Television

• Rainbow (TV series), a British pre-school children's television series made by Thames Television from 1972 to 1992
• Rainbow Brite, an animated television series by Hallmark aired from 1984-1985

Video games

• Rainbow Islands, a platform game
• Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six, a computer and video game series created by Tom Clancy about a fictional counter-terrorist team codenamed "Rainbow"
• Captain Rainbow, an upcoming game for the Wii

Computers

• The Rainbow, a former magazine for the TRS-80 Color Computer
• Rainbow 100 personal computer, from Digital Equipment Corporation
• Rainbow table, an array of plaintext and hashed values, used in password cracking
• Rainbow, the name of the representing company of Apple Computer in Greece
• Rainbow (data storage), a data storage technique which uses paper to store digital media
• RainbowCrack a computer program which uses rainbow tables for password cracking

Brands

• Rainbow Sandals, a brand of footwear. Company headquarters are in San Clemente, California
• Rainbow, a supermarket in the United Kingdom, part of Anglia Regional Co-operative Society Ltd.
• Rainbow Shops, a retail store chain based in Brooklyn, New York
• Rainbow, a brand of vacuums sold by Rexair LLC

Military

• XF-12 Rainbow, a four-engine monoplane designed by the Republic Aviation Company in the late 1940s
• HMS Rainbow, a British ship that took part in the Battle of Gravelines against the Spanish Armada
• HMCS Rainbow, an Apollo-second class protected cruiser that was the first ship of the Royal Canadian Navy
• AGM-136 Tacit Rainbow, an experimental U.S. anti-radiation missile
• Project Rainbow, often associated with the Philadelphia Experiment
• Rainbow Herbicides, a series of U.S. military defoliants used in the Vietnam War
• The Rainbow Plans, a series of color-coded war plans developed by the U.S. Army in the 1920s and 1930s

Sports

• Rainbow Flick, a football move where the player sends the ball over their head in an ark with other the two feet

Other

• Rainbow party (sexuality), type of group sex
• Rainbow Codes, a series of colour related code names used by the British Ministry of Supply
• Rainbow Bar and Grill, a bar in Los Angeles
• The Rainbow Room, a well-known upscale restaurant and nightclub on the sixty-fifth floor of the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center
• Rainbow (ride), an amusement ride
• Rainbow (Beanie Baby), a Beanie Baby chameleon produced by Ty, Inc.
• All pages beginning with Rainbow