Pallas

Pallas may refer to:

Astronomy

• Pallas (asteroid) or 2 Pallas, one of the earliest-discovered and largest asteroids in the solar system
  • Pallas family, a group of asteroids that includes 2 Pallas
• Pallas (crater), a crater on Earth's moon

Mythology

• Pallas (Giant), a son of Uranus and Gaia, killed and flayed by Athena
• Pallas, an epithet of the Greek goddess Athena
• Pallas (son of Evander), a prominent character in the Aeneid
• Pallas (son of Lycaon), a teacher of Athena
• Pallas (son of Pandion), the son of Pandion II, king of Athens, and father of the 50 Pallantides
• Pallas (Titan), the son of Crius and Eurybia, brother of Astraeus and Perses, and husband of Styx
• Pallas (daughter of Triton)
• Pallas, the father of Euryalus by Diomede

People

• Pallas (freedman) or Marcus Antonius Pallas, a freedman and favorite of Emperor Claudius
• Pallas, a wife of Herod the Great

Ships

• MV Pallas, a 1971 cargo ship wrecked on the German coast in 1998
• Pallas-class frigate, a 1791 class of three frigates that served in the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
• Pallas-class frigate (1808), the standard design of 40-gun frigates of the French Navy during the Napoleonic Empire period
• MV Empire Tulip or MV Pallas, a 1939 Dutch coastal tanker
• Pallas, a French Minerve class submarine

Other uses

• PALLAS, a research group at University of California, Berkeley
• Pallas (band), a British rock band
• Pallas, a townland in Durrow, County Westmeath, Ireland
• Pallas, a 1993 novel by L. Neil Smith
• Pallas, a series of luxury versions of the Citroën DS and other Citroën automobiles
• Pallas's cat, a species of small wild cat
• Pallas's fish eagle, endangered old-world, (Haliaeetus leucoryphus)

People with the surname

• David Pallas (born 1980)
• Janette Pallas
• José Ignacio Pallas (born 1983), Uruguayan football defender
• Peter Simon Pallas (1741–1811), German naturalist
• Simon Pallas (1694–1770), German physician
• Theodoros Pallas (born 1949), Greek footballer
• Tim Pallas (born 1960), Australian politician

See also

• List of figures in Greek mythology named Pallas
• Pallas Athena or Athena, an ancient Greek goddess associated with wisdom, handicraft, and warfare
• Pallas-Yllästunturi National Park, a park in Finland
• Pallasgreen, a village in County Tipperary, Ireland
• Pallastunturi, a group of fells in Finland
• Sailor Pallas, a character in Sailor Moon