Castor

Castor most commonly refers to:

• Castor (star), a star in the Gemini constellation
• Castor, one of the Dioscuri/Gemini twins Castor and Pollux in Graeco-Roman mythology

Castor or CASTOR may also refer to:

Science and technology

• Castor (rocket stage), a family of solid-fuel rocket stages and boosters were built by Thiokol (now ATK) and used on a variety of launch vehicles
• Castor (software), data binding framework for Java
• CASTOR (nuclear waste) (cask for storage and transport of radioactive material), containers used to transport highly radioactive nuclear waste
• CASTOR experiment, "Centauro and Strange Object Research", measurement tool in the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment at CERN
• Caster (or Castor), an undriven, single, double, or compound wheel

Biology

• Castor oil plant, plant from which castor bean grows
  • Castor oil, oil of the castor bean
  • Castor wax, type of wax produced from castor oil
• Castor, a genus name of the beaver
  • Castoreum, natural scent derived from the beaver
• Castor sugar, a superfine sugar

People

Given name

Ancient

• Castor of Rhodes, Greek grammarian and rhetorician
• Drusus the Younger (13 BC-23 CE), Roman consul, son of the Emperor Tiberius, nicknamed "Castor"
• Saint Castor, the name of several Christian saints
  • Castor of Apt (died c. 420), French bishop of Apt
  • Castor of Karden (died c. 400), German priest and hermit

Modern

• Castor Cantero (born 1918), Paraguayan football player
• Castor McCord (1907–1963), American jazz saxophonist

Surname

• Betty Castor (born 1941), American educator and politician
• Brian Castor (1889–1979), English cricketer
• Bruce Castor (born 1961), American lawyer and politician
• George A. Castor (1855–1906), American politician
• Jimmy Castor (born 1947), American musician
• Kathy Castor (born 1966), American politician
• Stacey Castor (born 1968), American murderer

Fiction

• Castor Oyl, fictional character in the Popeye cartoons
• Castor Troy, fictional character in the 1997 movie Face/Off, portrayed by Nicolas Cage and John Travolta
• Castor, fictional character in the video game Spartan: Total Warrior
• Lord Castor, fictional character in the 2007 movie The Harpy
• Castor, fictional character in Tron: Legacy, portrayed by Michael Sheen
• "Castor, Gobernador" fictional character in The Courts of the Morning by John Buchan
• "Castor Wilds" fictional location in The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap by Nintendo

Places

• Castor, Alberta, Canada
• Castor, Cambridgeshire, England
• Castor, Louisiana, United States
• Castor (mountain), in the Pennine Alps on the border between Switzerland and Italy
• Castor Bay, Auckland, New Zealand
• Castor Creek, Louisiana, United States
• Castor River (Missouri)
• Castor River (Ontario)
• Castor, an old name for Caistor St. Edmund, Norfolk, England

Other uses

• Castor (band), American rock band
• Castor Cracking Group, Swedish music group
• HMS Castor, the name of more than one ship of the British Royal Navy

See also

• Kastor (disambiguation)
• Gastor (disambiguation)
• Castro (disambiguation)
• Caster (disambiguation)