# Helios (disambiguation)

Helios is the personification of the sun in Greek mythology.
Helios or Helio may also refer to:

## People

* Helius (freedman) (died 69), freedman of the emperor Claudius
* Helio Alves (born 1966), Brazalian jazz pianist and son of pianists
* Hélio Castroneves (born 1975), Brazilian race-car driver
* Hélio Gracie (1913–2009), co-founder of Brazilian jiu-jitsu
* Eadweard Muybridge (1830–1904), an English-American photographer
* Keith Kenniff, an American ambient musician
* Helios, professional wrestler also known as Ricochet

## Arts, entertainment and media
### Art

* Helios (statue) Statue in White City, London

### Books

* Helios (encyclopedia), a Greek general-knowledge reference work
* Victor "Helios" Frankenstein, a character from the Dean Koontz's Frankenstein series of novels

### Film and television

* Helios (film), a 2015 Hong Kong/Chinese/Taiwanese/South Korean action heist film
* Helios, a character in the anime Sailor Moon
* Helios Aerospace, a private aerospace company in the For All Mankind television series

### Music

* Helios (album), a 2014 album by The Fray
* Helios, a 1991 album by Phillip Boa
* Helios Overture, a 1903 composition by Danish composer Carl Nielsen
* Helios, an artist pseudonym for Keith Kenniff's downtempo music

### Video games

* Helios, an artificial intelligence in Deus Ex
* Helios, a character in God of War III based on the mythological character.
* Helios, the Japanese name for "Aeolus", a character in Mega Man ZX Advent
* Helios, a space station in the Borderlands series

## Business and industry

* Helios (cinemas), a multiplex cinema operator in Poland
* Helios (lens brand), a defunct brand of camera lens manufactured in the U.S.S.R.
* Helios (mixing console), a British brand from 1969 to 1979
* Helios AG, a former German electrical engineering company; based in Cologne
* Helios Investment Partners, a London-based investment firm
* Helios, a German motorcycle; see History of BMW motorcycles

### Aviation

* Helios Airways, a former low-cost airline operating scheduled and charter flights between Cyprus and many European destinations
* Helios Prototype, a NASA developed solar and fuel-cell-system-powered unmanned aerial vehicle
* High Energy Laser with Integrated Optical-dazzler and Surveillance, a laser weapon system developed by the US military

## Science
### Computing

* Helios (operating system), a Unix-like computer operating system
* Helios, the project name for the Eclipse software version 3.6 release
* Helios, a supercomputer in Rokkasho, Aomori for simulating plasma physics
* Helios Voting, an electronic voting system

### Space

* Helios (propulsion system), nuclear pulse propulsion system for spacecraft invented by Freeman Dyson, a precursor to his Project Orion
* Helios (spacecraft), pair of probes launched in the mid-1970s by the Federal Republic of Germany and NASA
* Hélios 1B and Helios 2 (satellite), French military satellites
* The Sun, known as Helios in Greek
* 895 Helio, a minor planet orbiting the Sun

### Other uses in science

* Helical orbit spectrometer, a nuclear spectrometer at the Argonne National Laboratory
* Zinc finger protein Helios, encoded by the IKZF2 gene

## Sports teams

* FC Helios Kharkiv, a Ukrainian association-football team
* KK Helios Domžale, a Slovenian basketball team
* SpVgg Helios München, a German association-football team from Munich
* Võru FC Helios, an Estonian association-football team

## Other uses

* Helios (building), an apartment building in Seattle, Washington, United States
* USS Helios, a U.S. Navy World War II repair ship
* FV Helios, a French fishing vessel in service during the 1950s