# Polaris (disambiguation)

Polaris is a star, also known as the North Star.
Polaris may also refer to:

## Geography

* Polaris, California, in Nevada County, United States
* Polaris, Montana, in Beaverhead County, United States
* Polaris mine, Little Cornwallis Island, Nunavut, Canada

## Arts, entertainment, and media
### Fictional entities

* Polaris (Marvel Comics), a Marvel Comics superhero
* Polaris galaxy, featured in the video game Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction
* Polaris, the ultimate antagonist of the video game Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2
* Polaris Hilda, character from the Saint Seiya anime and manga/comics
* Doctor Polaris, a DC Comics villain
* Polaris P. Polanski, an alias of Byakuya Togami in the novel Danganronpa Togami, by Yuya Sato

### Games
#### Video games

* Polaris (1980 video game), a 1980 arcade game
* Polaris (2025 video game), a 2025 video game

#### Role-playing games

* Polaris (1997 role-playing game)
* Polaris (2005 role-playing game)

### Literature

* Polaris (novel), by Jack McDevitt
* "Polaris" (short story), by H. P. Lovecraft

### Music
#### Groups

* Polaris (Australian band), an Australian metalcore band
* Polaris (American band), an American rock band

#### Albums and EPs

* Polaris (Kangta album), 2001
* Polaris (Stratovarius album), 2009
* Polaris (Tesseract album), 2015
* Polaris (EP), 2020 EP by Aitch

#### Compositions and songs

* Polaris (composition), 2010 composition by Thomas Adès
* "Polaris" (song), from the album Twilight of the Innocents by Ash
* "Polaris", from the album Futures by Jimmy Eat World
* "Rust in Peace... Polaris", from the album Rust in Peace by Megadeth
* "Polaris" (ポラリス), from the album Karma by MUCC
* "Polaris", from the single Silent Bible by Nana Mizuki
* "Polaris", from the album Nocturne by The Human Abstract
* "Polaris", from the album Simple Things by Zero 7
* "Polaris", the sixth opening theme for My Hero Academia and the first for season 4, by Blue Encount
* "Polaris", from the album After the Magic by Parannoul

#### Prizes

* Polaris Music Prize

### Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

* Polaris (2016 film), a 2016 film directed by Soudabeh Moradian
* Polaris (2022 film), a 2022 film directed by Kirsten Carthew
* Polaris (periodical), produced by Visual Collaborative
* Polaris Tower, a giant Ferris wheel at Kumdori Land, Yuseong-gu, Daejon, Korea
* Polaris, a subsidiary of Disney Digital Network specialising in video game culture

## Brands and enterprises

* Polaris drinking water, a Thai bottled water brand
* Polaris Entertainment, South Korean record label
* Polaris Fashion Place, Columbus, Ohio, a two level shopping mall and surrounding retail plaza
* Polaris Inc., American snowmobile, ATV, and motorcycle manufacturer
* Polaris Motor, an Italian ultralight trike manufacturer
* Polaris Pro Grappling, a British grappling tournament running since 2015

## Computing

* Polaris (poker bot)
* Polaris (processor)
* Polaris, the GPU architecture featured in AMD's Radeon RX 400 and RX 500 series
* Polaris, an integrated library system from Innovative Interfaces, Inc.
* Polaris, a port of Solaris to PowerPC
* Polaris, the development codename for Windows Media Player 11
* Polaris Office, office suite that runs on mobile platforms

## Military

* Polaris spacecraft, or TecSAR, Israeli reconnaissance satellite
* Polaris-1, a North Korean submarine-launched ballistic missile, which is commonly known as KN-11 by the West and Pukkuksong-1 (Pukkuksong means Polaris in Korean) in North Korea
* UGM-27 Polaris, an early United States submarine-launched ballistic missile that was also used by United Kingdom
* Polaris (UK nuclear programme), a British nuclear weapons programme for Resolution-class ballistic missile submarines

## Transport

* Polaris (train), manufactured in China
* Polaris program, a commercial human spaceflight project
* Polaris Dawn, a private spaceflight mission planned for 2024

### Aviation

* Airbus CC-150 Polaris, a Canadian military plane
* B&F Fk14 Polaris, a German ultralight aircraft
* Polaris, United Airlines business class product
* Polaris Award, awarded to airline crews

### Ships

* Polaris (ship), a list of ships
* Polaris (icebreaker), a 2015 Finnish icebreaker
* MS Polaris, a Russian-owned passenger ship built in Denmark in 1968
* RV Polaris, listed on the National Register of Historic Places listings in San Mateo County, California
* USS Amber (PYc-6), known as Polaris, a 1930 motor yacht that later became a patrol vessel
* USS Polaris, a steamer sunk in 1872 on an Arctic expedition
* USS Polaris (AF-11), a freighter built in 1938

## Other uses

* Polaris (convention), an annual science fiction and fantasy convention
* POLARIS (seismology), an underground experiment to observe seismic signals
* Polaris expedition, an American attempt to reach the North Pole which resulted in Commander Charles F. Hall's suspicious death
* Project Polaris, a U.S.-Canadian military aerial survey of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago
* Polaris Project, an American anti-human-trafficking organization
* Helion Polaris, a prototype fusion reactor