Helios (disambiguation)
Appearance
Helios is the personification of the sun in Greek mythology. It may also refer to:
Art
Comics and animation
- Helios, a character in Helios Eclipse drawn by Kaoru and serialized in Gempak
- Helios, a character in the anime Sailor Moon
- Victor Helios, an alias for Victor Frankenstein, a character from the Dean Koontz's Frankenstein series
Music
- Helio Alves (born 1966), Brazalian jazz pianist and son of pianists
- The Helio Sequence, an American alternative-rock duo
- Helios, an American ambient musician
- Helios Overture, a 1903 composition by Danish composer Carl Nielsen
Albums
- Helios (album), the fourth studio album by The Fray
- Helios, 1991 album by Phillip Boa
Video games
- Helios, a god in 2010 game God of War III; decapitated by Kratos
- Helios One, a solar-power plant in the 2010 video game Fallout: New Vegas
- Helios, the Japanese name for "Aeolus", a boss character in the 2007 game Mega Man ZX Advent
Film
Business and industry
- Helios Investment Partners, A London-based investment firm.
- Helios, a German motorcycle made by Bayerisch Flugzeugwerke before the company merged with BMW in 1922
- Helios AG, a former German electrical engineering company; based in Cologne
- Helios (cinemas), a multiplex cinema operator in Poland
- Helios (lens brand), a defunct brand of camera lens manufactured in the U.S.S.R.
Aviation
- Helios Airways, a former low-cost airline operating scheduled and charter flights between Cyprus and many European destinations
- Helios Airways Flight 522, a Helios Airways Boeing 737-31S flight that crashed on August 14, 2005, into a mountain north of Marathon and Varnavas, Greece
- Helios Prototype, a NASA developed solar and fuel-cell-system-powered unmanned aerial vehicle
Military
- USS Helios (ARB-12), a U.S. Navy World War II repair ship
Science
- Heliotropism, the diurnal motion of plant parts (flowers or leaves) in response to the direction of the Sun
- Zinc finger protein Helios, encoded by the IKZF2 gen.
- Helios, a supercomputer in Rokkasho, Aomori for simulating plasma physics.
Space
- 895 Helio, a minor planet orbiting the Sun
- Hélios 1B and Helios 2A, French military satellites
- Helios (propulsion system), nuclear pulse propulsion system for spacecraft invented by Freeman Dyson, a precursor to his Project Orion
- Helios probes, deep space probes launched in the mid-1970s by the Federal Republic of Germany and NASA
- Sun, the star at the center of the Solar System
Physics
- HELIOS, an acronym for the helical orbit spectrometer, a nuclear spectrometer at the Argonne National Laboratory
Software
- HeliOS, a Unix-like operating system
- Helios, the project name for the Eclipse software version 3.6 release
Sports and recreation
- People
- Helios, professional wrestler also known as Ricochet
- Hélio Castroneves (born 1975), Brazilian race-car driver in the IndyCar Series
- Hélio Gracie (1913–2009), co-founder of Brazilian jiu-jitsu
- Teams
- FC Helios Kharkiv, a Ukrainian association-football team
- KK Helios Domžale, a Slovenian basketball team
- SpVgg Helios München, a German association-football team from Munich