# Icarus (disambiguation)

Icarus is a character in Greek mythology.
Icarus or Ikarus may also refer to:

## People

* Roger Squires (1932–2023), crossword compiler who has used the pseudonym Icarus
* Icarus (wrestler) (born 1982), wrestler with the Chikara organization

## Places

* Icarus (island), in the Aegean Sea
* Ikaros (Failaka Island), in the Persian Gulf

## Aviation
### Aircraft

* Hartman Ikarus, a 1950s British human-powered ornithopter
* Icarus I, Icarus II and Icarus V, series of rigid-wing hang gliders designed by Taras Kiceniuk, Jr.
* Ikarus C42, a microlight aircraft
* Ikarus IK-2, the most notable indigenous Yugoslav aircraft of the 1930s and World War II era
* Icarus, a prototype space rescue vehicle tested by Aleksandr Serebrov

### Aviation businesses and organizations

* Ikarus Drachen Tomas Pellicci, a German hang glider manufacturer
* Icaro Air, an Ecuadorian airline
* Icarus School, a military aviation academy
* Icarus, a Greek airline that preceded Olympic Airlines
* Ikarus, a Yugoslav aircraft manufacturer later renamed Ikarbus

### Other uses in aviation

* Coupe Icare ("Icarus Cup"), a flight festival

## Other businesses and organizations

* Icarus Project, a mental health organization
* Icarus Theatre Collective, a British theatre company
* Ikarus (Hungarian company), a Hungarian bus manufacturer
* Ikarbus, a Serbian bus manufacturer formerly known as Ikarus
* Icarus FC, an association football kit and sportswear brand

## Arts and entertainment
### Film and television

* Icarus (Planet of the Apes), a spacecraft in the Planet of the Apes franchise
* Icarus Base, a place in the series Stargate Universe
* Icarus, an orbital superweapon in the James Bond film Die Another Day
* Icarus I, and Icarus II, spacecraft in Sunshine
* Icarus (2010 film) (also The Killing Machine), an action film
* Icarus (2017 film), a documentary film by Bryan Fogel
* "Icarus" (Scandal), an episode of the TV series Scandal
* "Icarus", the eleventh episode of Smallville, Season 10
* "Icarus", the seventh episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent

### Fictional characters

* Icarus (comics), a Marvel Comics character
* Icarus, a mecha in Chōjin Sentai Jetman
* Icarus, a Deus Ex character
* Icarus, a character in Hercules: The Animated Series
* Icarus, a character in Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland
* Ikaros, a character in Heaven's Lost Property
* Icarus, a primary character based on the Greek myth in the Cirque du Soleil show Varekai

### Music

* Icaros, shamanic medicine songs
* Icarus (band), a band from London, England

#### Albums

* Icarus (The Forms album), 2003
* Icarus (Chicosci album), 2004
* Icarus (Paul Winter Consort album), 1972
* Icarus, 2011 EP by Periphery
* Icaro, album by Renato Zero
* Icarus (Cryalot EP), 2022
* Icarus, 2024 EP by Khary and Abhi the Nomad

#### Songs

* "Icarus" (Greeeen song), 2015
* "Icarus" (Madeon song), 2012
* "Icarus" (R3hab song), 2016
* "Icarus", a song by Santigold on the album Top Ranking
* "Icarus", a song by Jason Webley on the album Only Just Beginning
* "Ikarus", a song by Unheilig on Phosphor
* "Icarus", a song by Bastille on the album Bad Blood
* "Icarus", a song by Ralph Towner on the album Diary
* "Icarus - Borne on Wings of Steel", a song by Kansas on the album Masque, 1975
* "Icarus II", a song by Kansas on the album Somewhere to Elsewhere, 2000
* "Icarus", a song by JJ Project on the EP Verse 2, 2017
* "Icarus", a song by Eden on the album vertigo
* "Icarus", a song by Emma Blackery from the 2018 album Villains
* "Icarus", a song by Starset on the album Horizons, 2021

### Other media

* Icarus (magazine), a Trinity College student publication
* Icarus (sculpture), 1973 by Michael Ayrton

## Software and video games

* Icarus (video game), a sci-fi survival video game developed by RocketWerkz
* Ikarus (typography software), a type design and production software developed by URW foundry
* Ikarus (Scheme implementation), a free software optimizing incremental compiler for R6RS Scheme
* Icarus Verilog, an implementation of the Verilog hardware description language
* BioShock Infinite, codenamed "Project Icarus" during development
* Ikarus (chess), a computer chess program

## Science and technology
### Space

* 1566 Icarus, an asteroid
* ICARUS experiment, a neutrino detector at Gran Sasso National Laboratory, Italy
* Icarus (crater), on the Moon
* Icarus (journal), a planetary science journal
* Icarus (star), most distant individual star detected (as of April 2018)
* IKAROS, an interplanetary uncrewed solar sail spacecraft
* Project Icarus (interstellar), a design study of an interstellar spacecraft based on Project Daedalus
* Project Icarus (photography) (2009), a project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

### Other uses in science and technology

* Icarus (plant), a fern genus
* ICARUS Initiative, an international project studying the migration routes of flying animals
* IKZF1, a protein in humans that is encoded by the IKZF genes of the Ikaros family zinc finger group

## Other uses

* HMS Icarus, the name of several ships
* USCGC Icarus (WPC-110), a patrol boat of the United States Coast Guard
* Ikarus, a restaurant in Hangar-7 in Salzburg, Austria
* Icarus affair, an incident involving the 1867 murder of two British sailors in Nagasaki
* Operation Ikarus, a World War II German plan to invade Iceland