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Orion may refer to:
Most common meanings
- Orion (mythology), a hunter in Greek mythology
- Orion (constellation), named after the mythical hunter
Places
United States
- Orion, Alabama, an unincorporated community
- Orion, California, a former settlement
- Orion, Illinois, a village
- Orion, Wisconsin, a town
- Orion (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
- Orion Township, Fulton County, Illinois
- Orion Township, Michigan
- Orion Township, Minnesota
Elsewhere
- Orion, Alberta, Canada, a hamlet
- Orion, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France, a commune
- Orion, Bataan, the Philippines, a municipality
- Orion Passage, a narrow sailing route on the northwestern tip of Antarctica
Buildings
- Orion Assembly, a General Motors assembly plant in Orion Township, Michigan
- Orion Building, a residential building in Birmingham, England.
- Orion, the movie theater of Finland's National Audiovisual Archive
- Orion Theatre, largest avant-garde theatrical/artist stage in Stockholm, Sweden
Computing
- Orion (system-on-a-chip)
- ORION (research and education network) the provincial research network of Ontario, Canada
- Ferranti Orion, a mid-range mainframe computer introduced in 1959
- HLH Orion, a series of minicomputers produced in the 1980s
- Orion Application Server
- Orion quantum computing system
- Orion, a browser-based IDE and open tool integration platform from Eclipse
Arts and entertainment
Film and television
- Orion Pictures, an American film production company
- Orion (film), an upcoming film
- the spaceship in Raumpatrouille Orion (Space Patrol Orion in English), the first German science fiction television series
- Orion, a spaceplane in 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Orion, a starship in Stargate
- "Orion"-class spaceship, the Project Ascension starship class from the television series Ascension
- Orion (Star Trek), a sentient alien species
- Orion, code name of Stephen J. Bartowski on the television show Chuck
- Orion, from Power Rangers Super Megaforce
Music
- Orion Records (1960s-'80s), classical record label
- Orion (album), by Ryan Adams
- Orion, an album by she (band)
- "Orion", a 2004 Philip Glass composition
- Orion (symphonic piece) (1979) by Claude Vivier
- Orion & Pleiades (symphonic work) (1984), by Toru Takemitsu
- "Orion" (Girl Next Door song)
- "Orion" (Mika Nakashima song)
- "Orion", a song by 12012
- "Orion", a song in the boxed set Dead Can Dance (1981-1998) by Dead Can Dance
- "Orion", a song on the album Stormwatch by Jethro Tull
- "Orion", an instrumental on the album Master of Puppets by Metallica
In print
- Orion (comics), a DC Comics character
- Orion (manga), by Masamune Shirow
- Orion (magazine), a magazine on nature, environment and culture
- Ginga Densetsu Weed: Orion, a manga by Yoshihiro Takahashi
- "Orion", a poem by Richard Henry Horne
- Orion, a novel series by Ben Bova
- Orions, a race in the Starfire game and book series
- Orion Fowl, a character in the novel Artemis Fowl: The Atlantis Complex
Sports
- Orion F.C., a Scottish football club
- Orión F.C., a Costa Rican football club
- Asociación Deportiva Orión, a Panamanian football club
- Orions, former name of the Chiba Lotte Marines, a Japanese baseball team
- Goyang Orions, a South Korean basketball team
In the military
- USS Orion, several U.S. Navy vessels
- HMS Orion, several Royal Navy vessels
- Orion-class battleship, a series of super-dreadnoughts of the Royal Navy
- HMAS Orion, an Oberon-class of the Royal Australian Navy
- HSwMS Orion (A201), a Swedish ELINT vessel
- French ship Orion (1787), a Téméraire-class of the French Navy
- German auxiliary cruiser Orion, World War II merchant raider
- BAE Orion (H-101), Ecuadorian Navy ship, originally USS Mulberry (AN-27)
- Lockheed P-3 Orion, a maritime patrol aircraft introduced in 1962
- EP-3A/B Orion, a reconnaissance version of the aircraft
Transportation
Land
- Ford Orion, a car
- Orion, a South Devon Railway Comet class steam locomotive
- Orion, a GWR 3300 Class steam locomotive
- Mitsubishi Orion engine, a series of internal combustion engines produced by Mitsubishi Motors
Sea
- Orion (paddle steamer), a ship which sank off Portpatrick, Scotland in 1850
- MV Orion, a cruise ship
- RMS Orion, an ocean liner of the Orient Steam Navigation Company
- SS Orion, a Swedish steel steamship decommissioned in 1979, now a museum ship
Air
- Lockheed Model 9 Orion, a passenger aircraft introduced in 1931
- Aurora Flight Sciences Orion, a long-endurance unmanned aircraft
- Bristol Orion, a cancelled two-shaft turboprop aero engine developed by Bristol Siddeley
Space
- Orion (spacecraft), NASA's planned crew vehicle
- Orion, the Lunar Module used in the Apollo 16 mission
- Orion (rocket), a US sounding rocket
- Orion (rocket stage), a series of rocket motors used in the Pegasus rockets
- Project Orion (nuclear propulsion), a 1958 US nuclear pulse propulsion study project
Satellites
- Orion (satellite), a series of reconnaissance satellites
- A series of satellites operated by Orion Network Systems, now part of Telesat
Businesses
- Orionair, a Spanish charter airline
- Orionair, name used by Luxembourg airline Lionair when operating flights to the United States
- Orion Airways, a UK airline that operated from 1979 to 1989
- Orion Breweries, the fifth largest beer brewery in Japan
- Orion Confectionery, a South Korean confectionery company
- Orion Corporation, a Finnish pharmaceutical company
- Orion Electric, a Japanese electronics company
- Orion Electronics, a Hungarian company
- Orion Energy Systems, Inc., an American power technology company
- Orion Expedition Cruises, an Australian cruise line
- Orion International, a Canadian bus manufacturer
- Orion New Zealand Limited, a New Zealand electricity distribution company
- Orion Optics, a British telescope manufacturer
- Orion Publishing Group, a UK-based book publisher
- Orion Telescopes & Binoculars, an American company
- Orionette, also known as Orion AG für Motorfahrzeuge, a German motorcycle manufacturer
People
- Orion (name)
- stage name of American rockabilly singer Jimmy "Orion" Ellis (1945–1998)
- industry name of record producer Darren Tate (born 1972)
- stage name of Tomasz Wróblewski (born 1980), Polish musician
Other uses
- Orion (spacecraft instrument), two research instruments on manned 1970s Soviet spacecraft
- Orion (grape), a white wine grape variety
- Orion, flagship wine of American winemaker Sean Thackray
- Orion (genus), a genus of beetles
- Miss Riboet's Orion (1925–42), a theatrical troupe active in the Dutch East Indies
- The Orion, the student newspaper of California State University, Chico
- ORiON, the journal of the Operations Research Society of South Africa
See also
- EURion constellation, anti-counterfeiting patterns integrated into various kinds of currency
- Orione (opera) (1653), by Francesco Cavalli
- Orion the Hunter (disambiguation)
- Project Orion (disambiguation)
- Orion Nebula, in the constellation
- Orion Arm, galactic spiral arm with apparent location near the constellation
- Orion 1 (disambiguation)
- Orion 2 (disambiguation)
- Orion 3, off-course communication satellite (1999)
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