# Copper (disambiguation)

Copper is a chemical element with symbol Cu and atomic number 29.
Copper or The Copper may also refer to:

## Color

* Copper (color), the color of the metal
* Copper (heraldry), when used as a metal tincture in heraldry

## Places

* Copper Mountain (disambiguation)
* Copper Lake (disambiguation)

### United States

* Copper, Oregon (disambiguation)
* Copper, Jackson County, Oregon, a submerged town
* Copper Salmon Wilderness, Oregon
* Copper Mine Gulch, California
* Copper Mountains, Arizona
* Copper Peak, Michigan
* Copper Country, an area in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
* Copper River (Alaska), a 300-mile (480 km) river in south-central Alaska

### Other

* Copper Coast or "Copper Triangle", an area of South Australia noted for its mining
* Copper Nunataks, Antarctic Peninsula

## People
### Surname

* Copper family, a long-established English family of folk singers
* Basil Copper (1924–2013), English writer and journalist
* Ger Copper (1953-2020), Dutch magician
* Kahleah Copper (born 1994), basketball player
* Terrance Copper (born 1982), American footballer

### Nickname

* Copper Kent (1891 – c. 1966), Australian rugby union player

## Arts and entertainment

* Copper (comic), a web and print comic by Kazu Kibuishi
* Copper (TV series), a BBC America period TV drama 2012–2013
* Rookie Blue (working title Copper), a Canadian police drama 2010–2015
* The Copper (1930 film), a British-German film directed by Richard Eichberg
* The Copper (1958 film), a West German film directed by Eugen York
* "Copper", a song by Shellac from Terraform
* Copper, a fictional dog in the 1967 novel The Fox and the Hound (novel) and its 1981 film adaptation, The Fox and the Hound

## Biology

* Copper-colored restrepia, a copper-colored orchid
* Copper shark (Carcharhinus brachyurus), also known as the bronze whaler or narrowtooth shark
* Copperhead may refer to any of three different species of snakes:
** Agkistrodon contortrix, a venomous pit viper species found in parts of North America
** Austrelaps, a genus of venomous elapids found in southern Australia and Tasmania
** Elaphe radiata (copperhead rat snake), a nonvenomous species found in southern Asia
* The coppers, a nickname for the Lycaeninae, a family of butterflies
** Copper ant-blue (Acrodipsas cuprea), found in Australia, from southern Queensland to Victoria
** Copper pencil-blue (Candalides cyprotus), found along the east coast of Australia, including South Australia, New South Wales, Western Australia and Victoria
* The copper underwing (Amphipyra pyramidea), a moth of the family Noctuidae, distributed across the Palaearctic region

## Elements, materials, and technology

* Copper, a coin of low value, brown- or copper-colored
* Copper, a shaped ingot or ornamental sheet of the metal used by indigenous tribes of the North American West Coast region in potlatch ceremonies, as a show of wealth (ingot) and as a symbolic representation of a slave (sheet)
* Copper, telecommunications jargon for twisted pair connections
* Copper, the Manhattan Project's codename for plutonium
* Copper, short for "co-processor", part of the original Amiga chipset
* Copper, a brew kettle for making beer
* Native copper, a naturally occurring mineral consisting of pure copper
* Wash copper or just copper, a large cauldron used for heating water and laundry

## Other uses

* Copper ale, a style of beer
* Copper Riot (1662), a major riot which took place in Moscow
* Copper Project, a cloud-based project management software tool
* COPPeR (short for Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region), an arts organization in Colorado Springs, Colorado
* Copper Age, a phase in human technological development
* "Copper", British or Australian slang for a police officer, hence the North American 'cop'
* The Copper (building), an apartment building in Manhattan
* Copper Line (San Diego Trolley), a light rail line in San Diego, California