# Excelsior

Excelsior may refer to:

## Arts and entertainment
### Literature and poetry

* "Excelsior" (Longfellow), an 1841 poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
* Excelsior (Macedonski), a book of poems by Alexandru Macedonski
* "Excelsior" (short story), a 1948 short story by P. G. Wodehouse
* "Excelsior" (Whitman), a poem by Walt Whitman

### Music

* Excelsior Recordings, a record label from the Netherlands
* Excelsior Brass Band, an 1879-1931 brass band from New Orleans
* "Excelsior", a setting of Longfellow's poem to music by Michael William Balfe
* "Excelsior!", a concert overture by Wilhelm Stenhammar
* Excelsior (Steven Page album), 2022
* Excelsior (Slauson Malone 1 album), 2023
* "Excelsior", a song by the Smashing Pumpkins from Atum: A Rock Opera in Three Acts, 2023

### Science fiction

* Excelsior (comics), in Runaways, a support group for former teenage superheroes
* USS Excelsior, a Federation starship first seen in the movie Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

### Journals and newspapers

* Excélsior, a newspaper published in Mexico City
* Daily Excelsior, a newspaper published in Jammu and Kashmir

### Other arts and entertainment

* Excelsior!, 1901 short film
* TV Excelsior, a defunct Brazilian television network
* Excelsior, an 1881 ballet by Luigi Manzotti
* Excelsior Wet Plate Camera, an early camera model used in the collodion process of photography

## Mottos and catchphrases

* "Excelsior" (motto), official motto of the state of New York
* "Excelsior!", catchphrase of Stan Lee, who often used it at the end of his "Stan's Soapbox" column in Marvel Comics
* "Excelsior", sign-off of Detroit radio personality Mark Scott
* "Excelsior", motto of the Finnish Army's Special Jaegers
* "Excelsior", mantra of Patrizio "Pat" Solitano, Jr. in the 2012 film Silver Linings Playbook
* "Excelsior!", motto of the fictional Weldon Institute in Jules Verne's Robur the Conqueror
* "Excelsior!", one of the catchphrases of Martin Prince, Jr., a recurring character in The Simpsons
* "Excelsior, you fathead!", a catchphrase of former radio personality Jean Shepherd.

## Sports
### Association football

* Excelsior '31, Rijssen, Netherlands
* Excelsior AC, a Haitian association football club
* Excelsior AC Roubaix, a French association football club
* Excelsior Maassluis, a football club from Maassluis, Netherlands
* Excelsior Mouscron, a former Belgian association football club
* Excelsior Rotterdam, a Dutch association football club
* Excelsior Stadium, the home of Airdrie United F.C. of the Scottish Football League Second Division
* AS Excelsior, an association football club from Saint-Joseph, Réunion Island
* Birmingham Excelsior F.C., a defunct English association football club
* F.C. Excelsior, Mexican football club that plays in the Segunda División Profesional
* SV Excelsior, a Surinamese association football club
* SS Excelsior (football club), a club from Réunion Island established in 1940

### Other sports

* Excelsior Stakes previously the Excelsior Handicap, an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually
* Excelsior Rugby Club, an amateur rugby club in New Zealand
* Excelsior of Brooklyn, an amateur baseball team that played in Brooklyn, New York
* New York Excelsior, an American professional Overwatch eSports team based in New York City, New York
* Brampton Excelsiors (disambiguation)

## Schools

* Excelsior Academy, a school in Newcastle upon Tyne, England
* Excelsior College, in Albany, New York
* Excelsior, a common high school and grammar school name
** Excelsior High School (Norwalk, California) (1903–1981)
** Excelsior Public School (Excelsior, Minnesota) (1904–1964)
** Excelsior School, a non-denominational school in Pasadena, California
** Excelsior High School, Washougal, Washington

## Hotels and restaurants

* Excelsior (restaurant), a former restaurant located in Hotel de l'Europe, Amsterdam
* Excelsior, a common hotel name
** Hotel Excelsior, Berlin (1908–1945)
** Hôtel Excelsior, Casablanca (est. 1916)
** Excelsior Hotel Ernst, Cologne (est. 1863)
** The Excelsior (Hong Kong), a former hotel in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong

## Places
### Canada

* Excelsior, Alberta
* Rural Municipality of Excelsior No. 166, Saskatchewan

### South Africa

* Excelsior, Free State

### United States

* Excelsior, California, former name of Meadow Lake, Nevada County, California
* Excelsior, Georgia
* Excelsior (Oak Ridge, Louisiana), listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Louisiana
* Excelsior, Minnesota
* Excelsior, Missouri
* Excelsior, Atchison County, Missouri
* Excelsior, Nevada
* Excelsior, West Virginia (disambiguation)
** Excelsior, McDowell County, West Virginia
** Excelsior, Upshur County, West Virginia
** Excelsior, Webster County, West Virginia
* Excelsior, Wisconsin (disambiguation)
** Excelsior, Richland County, Wisconsin
** Excelsior, Sauk County, Wisconsin
* The Excelsior District, San Francisco, a neighborhood in San Francisco, California
* Excelsior Geyser in the Middle Geyser Basin of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
* Excelsior Mountain (Yosemite), in Yosemite National Park
* Excelsior Mountains, in western Nevada in the United States
* Excelsior Springs, Missouri
* Excelsior Township, Michigan

## Transportation

* Excelsior-Henderson Motorcycle (Belle Plaine, MN), founded in 1993
* Excelsior Motor Manufacturing & Supply Company (Chicago, IL), a U.S. motorcycle manufacturer operating in Chicago from 1907 to 1931
** Henderson Motorcycle, a division of the above company from 1919 to 1931
** Excelsior Super X, a motorcycle made by the above company from 1925 to 1931
* Motorwagenfabrik Excelsior, a Swiss car maker in business between 1896 and 1919
* Compagnie Nationale Excelsior, a Belgian car manufacturer existing between 1904 and 1932
* Excelsior Motor Company, a British bicycle, motorcycle and car maker
** Excelsior Manxman, a motorcycle made by the above company
* Xcelsior (bus), a transit bus manufactured by New Flyer Industries
* Excelsior tank, a British experimental heavy assault tank
* St Croix Excelsior, ultralight aircraft
* Excelsior (smack), the last surviving fishing smack of the Lowestoft fishing fleet and a member of the National Historic Fleet
* SS Excelsior (ship), one of several steam-powered ships named Excelsior

## Nature

* Fraxinus excelsior, the scientific name for the European ash tree
* Excelsior eight-eight (Callicore excelsior), a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae found in South America
* Acraea excelsior, a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae found in eastern Africa

## Typefaces

* "Excelsior", the American term for a three-point font size
* Excelsior (typeface), a serif typeface well-suited to newsprint

## Other uses

* Excelsior (chess problem), a chess problem by Sam Loyd
* Excelsior Amusement Park, located on Lake Minnetonka in the town of Excelsior, Minnesota
* Excelsior Brigade, a New York infantry brigade in the Union Army in the American Civil War
* Excelsior Diamond, a famous diamond, once the largest known
* Excelsior JET, a Java compiler
* Project Excelsior, a high-altitude skydiving project in the 1950s
* Wood wool, commonly known as excelsior, a packing material