Halo

Halo, halos or haloes usually refer to:

• Halo (optical phenomenon)
• Halo (religious iconography), a ring of light around the image of a head

HALO, halo, halos or haloes may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Video games

• Halo (franchise), a video game franchise
  • Halo: Combat Evolved, the first game in the series
  • Halo 2, the second game in the series
  • Halo 3, the third game in the series
  • Halo Array, fictional megastructures and superweapons in the franchise

Film and television

• Halo (1996 film), a drama film made in India
• Halo (2007 cancelled film), a cancelled movie based on Halo video game franchise
• Halo (TV series), a 2022 TV series based on the Halo video game franchise
• Nickelodeon HALO Awards, annual American television special (2008–2018)

Comics

• Comics in the Halo franchise
• Halo (DC Comics), a fictional superheroine
• the title character of The Ballad of Halo Jones, a science-fiction comic strip

Music

• Halo Records

Bands and musicians

• Halo (Christian rock band), an American band
• Halo (metal band), an Australian band
• Halo (UK band)
• HALO (South Korean group)
• The Halos, an American doo wop group
• Laurel Halo, stage name of American electronic musician Laurel Anne Chartow (born 1985)

Albums

• Halo (Azonic album) (1994)
• Halo (Current 93 album) (2004)
• Halo (Juana Molina album) (2017)
• Halo, by Severina (2019)

Songs

• "Halo" (Beyoncé song) (2008)
• "Halo" (Lumix song) (2022)
• "Halo" (Soil song) (2001)
• "Halo" (Starset song) (2015)
• "Halo" (Texas song) (1997)
• "Haloes", a song from the album The Tubes by The Tubes
• "Halo", by All That Remains from Madness
• "Halo", by Basement from Promise Everything
• "Halo", by Bethany Joy Galeotti from Friends with Benefits: Music from the Television Series One Tree Hill, Volume 2
• "Halo", by Bloc Party from Intimacy
• "Halo", by Cage the Elephant from Melophobia
• "Halo", by The Cure from Join the Dots
• "Halo", by Deep Blue Something from Home
• "Halo", by Depeche Mode from Violator
• "Halo", by Endless Shame from Generation Blind
• "Halo", by Foo Fighters from One by One
• "Halo", by Linkin Park from LP Underground X: Demos
• "Halo", by Hieroglyphics from Full Circle
• "Halo", by Machine Head from The Blackening
• "Halo", by Porcupine Tree from Deadwing
• "Halo", by The Pussycat Dolls from Doll Domination
• "Halo", by Red Flag
• "Halo", by Ryan Adams from Prisoner (B-Sides)
• "Halo", by Slash from Apocalyptic Love
• "Halo", by Tinchy Stryder from Catch 22
• "Halo", by Takida from Bury the Lies

Other arts and entertainment

• Halo (sculpture), a wind-driven kinetic sculpture in Sydney, Australia
• Halo (b-boy move), a dance move

Astronomy and space

• Dark matter halo, a hypothetical structure in outer space
• Galactic halo, a component of a galaxy
• Halo orbit, a concept in orbital mechanics
• Helium and Lead Observatory, a supernova neutrino detector
• Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO) module of the planned Lunar Gateway space station
• Halo (crater), on the Moon
• Stellar halo

Military

• HALO jump, High Altitude-Low Opening parachute jump
• Operation Halo, the Canadian contribution to the 2004 United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti
• Mil Mi-26, a Soviet/Russian heavy transport helicopter (NATO reporting name: Halo)

Medicine and psychology

• Halo brace, a cervical brace
• Halo effect, a cognitive bias
• Halo sign, a radiological diagnostic

Places

See also: § Astronomy and space

Ancient Greece

• Halos (Thessaly), a town and polis of ancient Thessaly
• Halos (Delphi), a space near the temple of Apollo in Delphi

United States

• Halo (bar), a gay bar in Washington, D.C.
• Halo, Kentucky
• Halo, West Virginia

People

• Halo Khan Ardalan, Kurdish ruler of Ardalan from 1590 to 1616
• Halo Meadows (1905–1985), American actress
• Thea Halo (born 1941), American writer and painter
• Takashi Hirose (swimmer) (died 2002)

Sport

• Halo (safety device), for racing cars
• Halo (horse) (1969–2000)
• Los Angeles Angels, a Major League Baseball team, nicknamed the Halos

Other uses

• Halo (mathematics), in non-standard analysis
• The HALO or HALO Urban Regeneration, a Scottish urban regeneration and start-up support company
• Project Halo, in artificial intelligence
• Halo antenna
• Halo nucleus, in physics
• HALO Trust (Hazardous Area Life-support Organization), which removes war debris, particularly land mines
• Halo, a wireless vehicle charging company and technology under WiTricity, formerly owned by Qualcomm and known as HaloIPT

See also

• Halo- (disambiguation)
• Helo (disambiguation)
• Halo-halo, a Filipino dessert
• "Halo, Halo", 1982 Yugoslavian song

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