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Zephyr may refer to:
- A light wind or west wind
- Zephyrus, one of the Anemoi and the Greek god of the west wind
- Zephyranthes, a plant genus whose species include the zephyr lily
- Zephyr (Wooldridge), a 1998 stainless steel sculpture by Steve Wooldridge on the IUPUI campus
- Zephyr, Cultural fest of Orissa Engineering College
- Zephyr, North Carolina
- Zephyr, Texas
- Zephyr, Ontario
- Zephyr Glacier
People
- Zephyr, codename of the Soviet spy Mikhail Mukasei, active from the 1940s through the 1970s
- Zephyr (artist), well-known graffiti artist from New York City
- Zephyr Teachout, a professor at Fordham University and former candidate for governor of New York
Computing
- Xephyr, a KDrive-based X server which targets a window on a host X Server as its framebuffer
- Zephyr (protocol), an instant messenger protocol and application-suite
Transport
Aviation
- Advanced Aviation Zephyr, ultralight, homebuilt aircraft
- ATEC Zephyr, Czech ultralight aircraft manufactured by ATEC
- Addyman Zephyr, a one-off, single seat sailplane
- Bartlett Zephyr, light, civil aircraft of the 1940s
- Fouga Zéphyr, a carrier-capable jet trainer for the French Navy, based on the Fouga Magister
- RAE Zephyr, 1923 pusher biplane
- Qinetiq Zephyr, a solar powered unmanned air vehicle
Maritime
- HMS Zephyr, eight ships of the British Royal Navy
- RV Zephyr, research vessel
- USS Zephyr (PC-8), United States Navy ship
- Zephyr (dinghy), a New Zealand sailing dinghy class
- Zephyr Seaport Liberty Cruise, sightseeing service operated by Circle Line Downtown in New York
- Zephyr (schooner), an 1842 opium clipper
- Zephyr (steamboat), a sternwheel steamboat of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet
Rail
- California Zephyr, a diesel-powered passenger train, originally famous for its use of Vista-Dome cars
- Denver Zephyr, passenger service between Denver and Chicago
- Kansas City Zephyr, passenger train service between Kansas City and Chicago
- Pioneer Zephyr, a diesel-powered railroad train set built in 1934 for the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
- Texas Zephyr, passenger service between Denver and Dallas
- Ak-Sar-Ben Zephyr, a passenger train operated by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
- General Pershing Zephyr, the ninth of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad's Zephyr streamliners
- Illinois Zephyr, a 258-mile (415 km) passenger train operated by Amtrak that runs between Chicago and Quincy, Illinois
- Mark Twain Zephyr, an early articulated trainset that was similar to the Pioneer Zephyr in style
- San Francisco Zephyr, the name adopted in June 1972 for the Amtrak passenger train between Chicago, Illinois and the San Francisco Bay Area in California
- Twin Cities Zephyr, a streamlined passenger train service of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (CB&Q)
- American Royal Zephyr, a streamlined passenger train service operated by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad between Chicago and Kansas City
- Minnesota Zephyr, a heritage railroad operating out of Stillwater, Minnesota
- Nebraska Zephyr, a named passenger train of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (CB&Q, commonly known by the shorter name of "Burlington")
- Rio Grande Zephyr, a passenger train operated by Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad (D&RGW or Rio Grande) between Denver, Colorado and Ogden, Utah in the Western United States
- Sam Houston Zephyr, a named passenger train operated by the Burlington-Rock Island Railroad, a subsidiary of both the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad and the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad. It was the first streamlined passenger train in Texas
- Silver Streak Zephyr, a train service of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad in the American midwest. It ran from 1940 through 1959
- Zephyr Rocket, a passenger train operated jointly by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad and Rock Island Railroad
Road
- Ford Zephyr, a car
- Kawasaki Zephyr, a model of motorbike
- Lincoln-Zephyr, an automobile produced 1936–1942
- Lincoln MKZ, an automobile currently in production, initially named the Lincoln Zephyr
- Mercury Zephyr, an automobile
Businesses
- Zephyr cloth, a fabric made in Belgium
- Zephyr Books, a book series published by the Continental Book Company, a subsidiary of the Swedish Bonnier Group, from 1942 to 1950.
- Zephyr Technology, medical technology company
Music
- Zephyr (band), a blues-based hard rock band formed in 1968 in Boulder, Colorado
- Zephyr (Zephyr album), their eponymous album
- Zephyr (Basement Jaxx album), a 2009 EP by Basement Jaxx
- Zephyr (musical project), music by composer Elizabeth Henshaw
- The Zephyrs, an Edinburgh, Scotland-based indie band
- "The Zephyr Song", the second single from the Red Hot Chili Peppers' album By the Way
- KZFR, a community radio station in Chico, California
- WZRH (FM), an alternative rock station (formerly known as 106.1 the Zephyr) in New Orleans, Louisiana
- "Zephyr", a song from the Mary Chapin Carpenter album The Age of Miracles
- WZPH-LP, 96.7 FM The Zephyr is a Classic Oldies station located in Zephyrhills, Florida.
- Zephyr Quartet, a string quartet based in Adelaide, South Australia
- Zephyr National, Tom Fogerty's third solo album
- King Zephyr (Saxophone), Saxophone made in Elkhart Ind. by the H.N. White Company
- Zephyrus (song), a ballad written by the band Bloc Party, found off of their 3rd studio album, Intimacy
- Zephyr (song), an Electronic song written and produced by Madeon, from the album Adventure
Sports
- Muskegon Zephyrs, former ice hockey team
- New Orleans Zephyrs, an AAA Pacific Coast League minor league baseball team
- Chicago Zephyrs, former name of the NBA franchise currently known as the Washington Wizards
- Zephyr skateboard team, famous 1970s skateboard team a.k.a. Z-boys
- Zephyr (garment), a garment used in competitive rowing
Fiction
- Zephyr (film), a 2010 Turkish film
- Zephyr (Queer as Folk)
- Zephyr (comics)
- The Zephyr, a prototype battery capable of perpetual energy output in the 2010 action/comedy film Knight and Day
- Zephyr, a realm in the video game Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage!
- Zephyr, a character in the video game Tornado Outbreak
- The Hoboken Zephyrs, a fictional baseball team in The Twilight Zone episode "The Mighty Casey"
- Zephyr, a character in the video game Need for Speed Rivals who is the player-character in the game's Racer storyline
- Zephyr, a warframe in the video game "Warframe"
- Zephyr, a character in the 2001/2002 movie "The Hunchback of Notre Dame II"
- Zephyr, a centrifugal space ship in "Battlestar Galactica" (2003; 2004-09)
- The Wreck of the Zephyr
- Zephyr, a playable character in the video game "Resonance of Fate"
See also
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