# Owl (disambiguation)

The owl is a bird of prey.
Owl, Owls, or OWL may also refer to:

## Arts and entertainment
### Fictional entities

* Owl (comics), the name of several comics characters
* Owl (Winnie the Pooh)
* Ordinary Wizarding Level, a test of magical aptitude in the Harry Potter novel series

### Film and television

* Owl (film), a 2003 Japanese black comedy
* The Owl (1927 film), a German silent film
* The Owl (1991 film), an American television film
* The Owl (TV series), a French series of animated shorts for children
* OWL/TV, a Canadian children's educational television series 1985–1994
* "Owls" (Millennium), a television episode

### Literature

* "The Owl" (fairy tale), a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm
* OWL (magazine), a Canadian children's educational magazine; basis of the OWL/TV series
* The Owl (magazine): A Wednesday Journal of Politics and Society, a satirical society newspaper published in London 1864–1870

### Music

* Owl (band), a Los Angeles–based hard-rock band, and their self-titled 2009 album
* Owls (band), a Chicago-based rock band
** Owls (album), 2001
* Of Wondrous Legends, or O.W.L., an American psych folk band, and their self-titled 1971 album
* The Four Owls, or The Owls, a British hip hop group
* The Owl (album), by the Zac Brown Band, 2019
* Owl, an album by Qwel & Maker, 2010
* "Owl", a song by the Cat Empire from the album Where the Angels Fall, 2023

### Other uses in arts and entertainment

* Owl (sculpture), a public statue in Canberra, Australia
* NASPA Word List, or OWL, the official word list for Scrabble in North America

## Businesses and organizations

* Office Workstations Limited, a British software company
* Older Women's League, an American organization
* Order of Owls, an American fraternal order
* Owl Labs, a company that builds remote conferencing devices
* The Owl Drug Company, an American drug retailer

## Languages

* Owl (hieroglyph), an Egyptian language uniliteral
* Old Welsh, ISO 639 language code owl

## Military

* HMS Owl, the name of a British ship and a shore establishment
* USS Owl, the name of two American ships
* CSS Owl, a Confederate States Navy blockade runner in the American Civil War
* Curtiss O-52 Owl, an American observation aircraft before and during World War II

## People

* Owl Chapman, a short-board surfer
* Owl Fisher (born 1991), an Icelandic journalist
* Owl Goingback (born 1959), American author
* Henry Owl (1895–1980) Cherokee educator, activist, historian
* Lula Owl Gloyne (1891–1985), born as Louisiana Leta Owl, Cherokee nurse

## Places

* Owl Creek (disambiguation)
* Owl Mountains, Poland
* Owl Peak, Wyoming, U.S.
* Owl River (disambiguation)
* Olympic–Wallowa Lineament (OWL), a physiographic feature in Washington State, U.S.
* Ostwestfalen-Lippe (OWL), an area in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

## Science and technology
### Astronomy

* NGC 457, an open star cluster also known as the Owl Cluster
* Owl Nebula, in the constellation Ursa Major
* Overwhelmingly Large Telescope, a proposed optical telescope

### Computing

* Object Windows Library, a C++ object-oriented application framework
* Online Watch Link, a commercial web application for Neighbourhood Watch schemes
* Openwall Project (Owl), a security-enhanced Linux distribution
* Owl (AOL), a user-generated content site created by AOL in 2010
* Owl Scientific Computing, a software system for scientific and engineering computing
* Web Ontology Language, a family of knowledge representation languages

## Sports

* Bielawa Owls, an American football team based in Bielawa, Poland
* Chicago Owls, a defunct professional American football team based in Chicago
* Clinton Owls, a defunct minor league baseball team, based in Clinton, Iowa (1937–1938)
* Dayton Owls, a minor league ice hockey team in the International Hockey League for the 1977–1978 season
* Florida Atlantic Owls, the athletics teams of Florida Atlantic University
* Forest City Owls, a baseball team in the Coastal Plain League, a collegiate summer league
* Grand Rapids Owls, a defunct International Hockey League team
* Owls, the athletic teams of Keene State College
* Kennesaw State Owls, the athletic teams of Kennesaw State University
* Owls, the athletic teams of the University of Maine at Presque Isle
* Orem Owlz, a minor league baseball team
* Rice Owls, the athletic teams of Rice University
* Temple Owls, the athletic teams of Temple University
* Topeka Owls, a defunct Western Association minor league baseball team based in Topeka, Kansas
* Uni-Norths Owls, an Australian rugby union club
* Owls, the athletic teams of Westfield State University
* Sheffield Wednesday F.C., an English football club nicknamed "The Owls"
* OWLS AC Leicester, an English athletics club
* Guildford Owls, an Australian rugby league club
* Overwatch League, a professional esports league

## Transportation

* OWLS, a mnemonic used by general aviation airplane pilots
* Owl service, or public transport night service
* Night Owl (train), between Boston and Washington, D.C.
* Owl a train on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad and later Erie Lackawanna Railway
* Owl Limited a train of the Southern Pacific Transportation Company
* Aspark Owl, a Japanese electric sports car

## Other uses

* Owl butterfly, a member of the genus Caligo
* Olympic–Wallowa Lineament, a geological feature in the state of Washington
* Online Writing Lab, an extension of a university writing center
* Our Whole Lives, a comprehensive sexuality curriculum from the Unitarian Universalist Association and the United Church of Christ