Owl (disambiguation)

Owls are large nocturnal birds of prey.

Owl, Owls, or OWL may also refer to:

Places

On Earth

• Owl, Arizona, United States, an unincorporated community
• Owl Creek (Colorado), United States
• Owl Mountains, Poland
• Owl Peak (Wyoming), United States
• Owl River (Manitoba), Canada

In space

• NGC 457, an open star cluster also known as the Owl Cluster
• Owl Nebula, in the constellation Ursa Major

People

• Night owl, a nocturnal person
• Owl Goingback (born 1959), American author

Arts, entertainment, and media

• The Owl (fairy tale), a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm
• Owl (Dell Comics), a comic book superhero
• Owl (Marvel Comics), a comic book supervillain
• Owl (Winnie the Pooh), in the Winnie the Pooh stories
• Owl (film), a 2003 Japanese black comedy
• The Owl (1927 film)
• The Owl (1991 film), an action genre television movie
• Owl (band), Chris Wyse's band
• Owls (band), an indie-rock band from Chicago, Illinois
  • Owls (album), first studio album by the band
• Of Wondrous Legends or O.W.L., an American psych folk band and their eponymous album
• OWL (magazine), a children's educational magazine published in Canada; basis of the OWL/TV series
• The Owl (magazine): A Wednesday Journal of Politics and Society, a satirical society newspaper published in London from 1864 to 1870
• OWL/TV, a children's educational television series that aired from 1985 to 1994
• "Owls" (Millennium), a season-two episode of the TV series Millennium
• The Owl (TV series), a series of animated shorts

Languages

• Owl (hieroglyph), an Egyptian language uniliteral
• owl, ISO 639 code for the Old Welsh language
• Web Ontology Language, a family of knowledge representation languages for authoring ontologies

Military

• HMS Owl, a ship and a shore establishment
• USS Owl, two ships
• CSS Owl, a Confederate States Navy blockade runner in the American Civil War
• Curtiss O-52 Owl, a United States Army Air Corps observation aircraft used before and during World War II

Organizations and enterprises

• Fraternal Order of Owls, a fraternal order of the United States
• Older Women's League, a US grassroots organization advocating for midlife and older women
• Owl Club (Harvard), a men's only final club at Harvard College
• Owl Labs, a company that builds remote conferencing devices
• The Owl Club of South Africa
• The Owl Drug Company, an American drugs company named after the owl

Sports teams

• Bielawa Owls, an American football team based in Bielawa, Poland
• Chicago Owls, a defunct professional American football team based in Chicago
• Clinton Owls, a defunct minor league baseball team, based in Clinton, Iowa (1937–1938)
• Dayton Owls, a minor league ice hockey team in the International Hockey League for the 1977–1978 season
• Florida Atlantic Owls, the athletics teams of Florida Atlantic University
• Forest City Owls, a baseball team in the Coastal Plain League, a collegiate summer league
• Grand Rapids Owls, a defunct International Hockey League team
• Owls, the athletic teams of Keene State College
• Kennesaw State Owls, the athletic teams of Kennesaw State University
• Owls, the athletic teams of the University of Maine at Presque Isle
• Orem Owlz, a minor league baseball team
• Rice Owls, the athletic teams of Rice University
• Temple Owls, the athletic teams of Temple University
• Topeka Owls, a defunct Western Association minor league baseball team based in Topeka, Kansas
• Uni-Norths Owls, an Australian rugby union club
• Owls, the athletic teams of Westfield State University
• Sheffield Wednesday F.C., English football club nicknamed "The Owls"
• OWLS AC Leicester, an athletics club in Leicester, United Kingdom
• Guildford Owls, a rugby league club based in Guildford, New South Wales, Australia

Transportation

• Night Owl (train), Amtrak night train between Boston and Washington, District of Columbia; and a predecessor Owl train by the New Haven Railroad between New York and Boston
• The Owl, Canadian National Railway night train between Regina and Saskatoon
• Owl, Delaware, Lackawanna & Western and later, Erie Lackawanna, night train between Hoboken and Buffalo
• Owl, Southern Pacific night trains in Texas (Dallas-Houston) and California (San Francisco-Los Angeles)

Acronym

• 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
• 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
• Ontario Winter Lake-effect Systems (OWLeS), study project
• 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 of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
• Our Whole Lives, a sexuality curriculum jointly produced by the Unitarian Universalist Association and the United Church of Christ
• Overwatch League, professional esports league for the video game Overwatch
• Overwhelmingly Large Telescope, a proposed optical telescope that would use a 100-meter-diameter main reflector
• Web Ontology Language, a/k/a the OWL Ontology, a language for describing and sharing ontologies on the World Wide Web

Other uses

• Night service (public transport), referred to as "owl service" in some cities
• Owl butterfly, a member of the genus Caligo
• Woodsy Owl, icon for the United States Forest Service most famous for the motto "Give a hoot — don't pollute!"