# Whirlwind (disambiguation)

A whirlwind is any kind of vertical wind vortex.
Whirlwind may also refer to:

## Arts, entertainment and media
### Fictional characters

* Whirlwind (comics), a Marvel Comics supervillain
* The Black Whirlwind, a Jade Empire video game character
* Marilyn Whirlwind, in the television show Northern Exposure
* Whip Whirlwind, a former identity of DC Comics character Max Mercury

### Film and television

* The Whirlwind (serial film), a 1920 American film serial directed by Joseph A. Golden
* The Whirlwind (1933 film), an American Western
* Whirlwind (1941 film), a Spanish film
* Whirlwind (1951 film), an American Western directed by John English starring Gene Autry
* Whirlwind (1953 film), an Iranian film
* Whirlwind (1964 film), a Japanese historical drama film
* Whirlwind (1988 film), a 1988 Soviet action film directed by Bako Sadykov
* The Whirlwind (TV series), a 2024 South Korean political drama
* "Whirlwind", an episode in the documentary series The World at War
* "The Whirlwind" (The Punisher), an episode of the television series The Punisher

### Music

* Whirlwind (band), a Sri Lankan rock band
* Whirlwind (Andrew Gold album), 1980
* Whirlwind (Lainey Wilson album), 2024
* The Whirlwind (album), by Transatlantic, 2009
* Whirlwind, an album by Maddie Poppe, 2019
* Whirlwinds, an album by Deodato, 1984
* "Whirlwind", a song by Broder Daniel, 1998
* "Whirlwind", a song by Roxy Music from Siren, 1975

### Roller coasters

* WhirlWind (Seabreeze), a roller coaster at Seabreeze Amusement Park in Rochester, New York
* Whirlwind, the former name of the roller coaster Bocaraca
* Whirlwind, a roller coaster at the defunct Olentangy Park
* Whirlwind, a spinning roller coaster at Waldameer Park in Erie, Pennsylvania

### Other arts, entertainment and media

* Whirlwind (novel), a 1986 novel by James Clavell
* The Whirlwind (newspaper), a satirical British weekly published in 1890 and 1891
* Whirlwind (pinball), a pinball machine made by Williams

## Aviation

* Westland Whirlwind (fighter), a Second World War, twin-engined fighter plane
* Westland Whirlwind (helicopter), a helicopter
* Butterworth Westland Whirlwind, a replica of the Westland Whirlwind fighter
* Wright Whirlwind, a series of aircraft engines

## Places

* Whirlwind, West Virginia, United States, an unincorporated community
* Whirlwind Inlet, an ice-filled inlet along the east coast of Graham Land, Antarctica
** Whirlwind Glaciers, four prominent converging glaciers which flow into the west side of Whirlwind Inlet
* Whirlwind Peak, a mountain in Canada

## Ships

* HMS Whirlwind, the name of two British Royal Navy destroyers
* USS Whirlwind, the name of two United States Navy patrol vessels
* Whirlwind (yacht), a yacht which attempted to qualify for the 1930 America's Cup

## Sports
### Nickname

* Robert Walter Johnson (1899–1971), African-American physician, college football player and football and tennis coach nicknamed "Whirlwind"
* Jimmy White (born 1962), English snooker player nicknamed "The Whirlwind"
* Cliff Wilson (1934–1994), Welsh snooker player nicknamed "The Whirlwind"

### Teams

* Boston Whirlwinds, a former basketball team
* Paterson Whirlwinds, the original name of the former basketball team the Paterson Crescents
* Wandsworth Whirlwinds, a rugby league club in London
* West Texas Whirlwinds, a basketball team
* Zhejiang Whirlwinds, a Chinese basketball club

## Other uses

* Operation Whirlwind, a failed 1991 Croatian Army offensive in the Croatian War of Independence
* Whirlwind I, a pioneering, Cold War, real-time computer developed for the United States Navy
* Whirlwind mill, a pulverizing machine
* Whirlwind Recordings, a London-based independent record label
* Whirlwind USA, an American audio equipment manufacturer