# Argus

Argus is the Latinized form of the Ancient Greek word Argos. It may refer to:

## Greek mythology

* See Argus (Greek myth) for mythological characters named Argus
** Argus (king of Argos), son of Zeus (or Phoroneus) and Niobe
** Argus (son of Arestor), builder of the ship Argo in the tale of the Argonauts
** Argus Panoptes (Argus "All-Eyes"), a giant with a hundred eyes
** Argus, the eldest son of Phrixus and Chalciope
** Argus, the son of Phineus and Danaë, in a variant of the myth
** Argus or Argos (dog), belonging to Odysseus
** Argus or Argeus (king of Argos), son of Megapenthes
** Argus, one of Actaeon's dogs
** Argus, a watchful guardian

## Arts and entertainment
### Fictional entities

* Argus (comics), in the DC Comics Universe
* Argus (Mortal Kombat), a deity
* ARGUS (Splinter Cell), a military contractor
* A.R.G.U.S., a government agency in the DC Universe
* Argus Filch, in the Harry Potter series
* Argus, a planet in the Warcraft franchise
* Argus, a hero in Mobile Legends: Bang Bang
* Argus, in the video game Shadow of the Colossus
* KNRB-0 Argus, a weapons platform in the game Vanquish
* The Manhattan Argus, a newspaper in the film The Hudsucker Proxy
* Argus, a major city in Mistral, a kingdom from the RWBY series

### Games

* Argus (video game), a 1986 game by NMK
* Argus no Senshi, the original Japanese title for the arcade game Rygar

### Music

* Argus (album), a 1972 album by Wishbone Ash
* "The Argus", a song by Ween from the album Quebec

### Television

* "Argus" (30 Rock), a 2010 episode
* Argus (TV series), a Norwegian TV debate series that aired between 1993 and 1994

## Businesses

* Argus (camera company), a camera manufacturer
* Argus Brewery, a brewing company located in Chicago, Illinois
* Argus Corporation, a Canadian holding company
* Argus Media, a business information company
* Argos (retailer), a British catalogue retailer

## Places
### Iran

* Argus, Iran, a village in Kerman Province

### Spain

* Argos (river), a river in the region of Murcia

### United States

* Argus, California, an unincorporated community
* Argus, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated community
* Argus Range, a mountain range in Inyo County, California

## Publishing

    See The Argus (disambiguation) for publications named "The Argus"

### United Kingdom

* The Argus (Brighton), a newspaper serving Brighton and Hove, England; a member of the Newsquest Media Group
* South Wales Argus, published in Newport, South Wales; a member of the Newsquest Media Group
* Argus Press, a British publishing company
* Telegraph and Argus, a newspaper serving Bradford and surrounding areas.

### United States

* Barre Montpelier Times Argus, a daily morning newspaper serving the capital region of Vermont
* Carlsbad Current-Argus, a New Mexico newspaper
* Livingston County Daily Press & Argus, a newspaper that covers Livingston County, Michigan
* The Dispatch / The Rock Island Argus, American newspaper that covers the Quad Cities in Illinois and Iowa
* Argus Leader, American newspaper that covers Sioux Falls, South Dakota
* Argus, a newspaper in Albany, New York, which long functioned as the organ of the Albany Regency
* Argus, Midwood High School's school newspaper

### Elsewhere

* The Argus (Dundalk), a newspaper serving Dundalk, Ireland; a member of the Independent News & Media group also known as Independent.ie
* The Argus (Melbourne), former Australian newspaper of record, established in 1846 and closed in 1957
* Cape Argus, a newspaper printed in Cape Town, South Africa
* Weekend Argus, a newspaper in South Africa, owned by Independent News & Media
* Goondiwindi Argus, a newspaper in Goondiwindi, Queensland, Australia, owned by Fairfax Media

## Sport

* Argus finals system, used in Australian rules football in the early 20th century
* Cape Argus Cycle Race in South Africa, colloquially referred to as "The Argus"

## Science and technology
### Biology

* Argus (bird), pheasants from the genera Argusianus and Rheinartia
* Argus butterflies, including:
** Nymphalidae, e.g., Erebia, Junonia
** Polyommatinae (Lycaenidae), e.g., as Aricia, Plebeius, Polyommatus
** Theclinae (Lycaenidae): the invalid genus Argus (described by Gerhard, 1850), now in Satyrium
* Argus monitor (Varanus panoptes), a species of lizard
* Scatophagus argus, a species of fish of the family Scatophagidae
* Terebra argus, a mollusk of the family Terebridae

### Electronics and computing

* Argus (monitoring software), a network and systems monitoring application
* Argus (programming language), an extension of the CLU language
* Argus - Audit Record Generation and Utilization System, a network auditing system
* Argus retinal prosthesis, a bionic eye implant manufactured by Second Sight
* Ferranti Argus, a line of industrial control computers
* ARGUS-IS, a surveillance system produced by BAE Systems
* Honeywell ARGUS, a low-level computer programming language

### Other uses in science and technology

* Argus (camera company), a brand of camera
* Argus Coastal Monitoring, a video system for observing coastal processes and related phenomena
* ARGUS distribution, a probability distribution used in particle physics
* Argus Motoren, a German aircraft engine manufacturing firm
* ARGUS reactor, a nuclear reactor at the Russian Kurchatov Institute
* Operation Argus, a 1958 US military effort to create orbital electron belts using atomic bombs
* ARGUS (experiment), a particle physics experiment at DESY
* Project Argus, a project to search for extraterrestrial intelligence

## Vehicles

* Argus (automobile), a German automobile manufactured between 1901 and 1909

### Aircraft

* Fairchild Argus, a British version of the UC-61 Forwarder transport aircraft
* Canadair CP-107 Argus, a Royal Canadian Air Force maritime patrol aircraft
* Saab 340 AEW&C, designated the S 100B Argus by the Swedish Air Force

### Named vessels

* French brig Argus (1800), a French naval ship that took part in the Battle of Trafalgar
* HMS Argus, the name of many ships in the British Royal Navy
* RFA Argus (A135), a 1981 Primary Casualty Receiving Ship in Britain's Royal Fleet Auxiliary
* USS Argus, various ships of the United States Navy
* SS Argus, a steel-hulled ship lost in the Great Lakes Storm of 1913