# Orion

Orion may refer to:

## Common meanings

* Orion (constellation), named after the mythical hunter
* Orion (mythology), a hunter in Greek mythology

## Arts and media
### Fictional entities
#### Characters and species

* Orion (character), a DC Comics character
* Orion (Star Trek), a sentient alien species
* Orion, code name of Stephen J. Bartowski on the television show Chuck
* Orion, in the fighting game Brawlhalla
* Orions, a race in the Starfire board game and book series
* Orion, a character from Power Rangers Super Megaforce
* Captain Orion, in the Japanese series X-Bomber
* Orion Pax, the former name of Optimus Prime.

#### Vessels

* Orion, a spaceplane in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey
* Orion, a spaceship in Raumpatrouille Orion (Space Patrol Orion in English), the first German science fiction television series
* "Orion"-class spaceship, on the television series Ascension

### Literature

* Orion, an 1843 poem by Richard Henry Horne
* Orion, a 1978 novel by Gail Brewer-Giorgio
* Orion and King Arthur, a 2012 novel series by Ben Bova
* The Orion, an 1893 book on sociology by Bal Gangadhar Tilak
* Dead at Daybreak, a 1998 novel by Deon Meyer, originally published as Orion

### Music
#### Albums and long-form compositions

* Orion (Ryan Adams album)
* Orion (X Ambassadors album)
* Orion (Vivier), a 1979 orchestral work by Claude Vivier
* Orion (Lacoste), an opera by the French composer Louis Lacoste
* Orion, a 2004 Philip Glass composition
* Orion, an album by the band she
* Orion & Pleiades (1984), a symphonic work by Toru Takemitsu

#### Songs

* "Orion" (Girl Next Door song)
* "Orion" (Mika Nakashima song)
* "Orion" (Metallica song), an instrumental piece on the album Master of Puppets
* "Orion", a song by 12012
* "Orion", a song in the boxed set Dead Can Dance (1981–1998) by Dead Can Dance
* "Orion", a song on the album Stormwatch by Jethro Tull
* "Orion", a 2017 non-album single by Kenshi Yonezu

#### Other uses in music

* Orion Records (1960s–'80s), a classical record label
* Orion (singer) (Jimmy Ellis, 1945–1998), American singer
* Youth (musician) (Martin Glover, born 1960), British musician also known as Orion

### Periodicals

* Orion (manga), by Masamune Shirow
* Orion (magazine), a magazine on nature, environment and culture
* Orion (1840s magazine), an American literary magazine that ran from 1842 to 1844
* ORiON, the journal of the Operations Research Society of South Africa
* Ginga Densetsu Weed: Orion, a manga by Yoshihiro Takahashi
* The Orion (California State University, Chico), a student newspaper

### Other uses in arts and media

* Orion (film), a Canadian film
* Orion (sculpture), work by Mark di Suvero
* Miss Riboet's Orion (1925–42), a theatrical troupe active in the Dutch East Indies

## Buildings

* The Orion (skyscraper) in New York City
* Orion Assembly, a General Motors assembly plant in Orion Township, Michigan
* Orion Building, a residential building in Birmingham, England
* Orion, the movie theater of Finland's National Audiovisual Archive
* Orion Theatre, largest avant-garde theatrical/artist stage in Stockholm, Sweden
* Orion Mall, Bangalore, India; a shopping mall

## Companies
### Arts and media

* Orion Pictures, an American film production company, now a subsidiary of MGM
* Orion Publishing Group, a UK-based book publisher
* Orion Records (1960s–'80s), a classical record label
* Orion Broadcasting, a broadcasting company in Louisville, Kentucky

### Electrical power and electronics

* Orion Electric, a Japanese electronics company
* Orion Electronics, a Hungarian company
* Orion Energy Systems, an American power technology company
* Orion New Zealand Limited, a New Zealand electricity distribution company

### Food and beverage

* Orion Breweries, the fifth-largest beer brewery in Japan
* Orion (chocolate), a Czech chocolate confectionery, subsidiary of Nestlé since 1999
* Orion Corporation (South Korean company), a South Korean confectionery company

### Transportation and vehicles
#### Transport carriers

* Orion Airways, a UK airline that operated from 1979 to 1989
* Orion Air, a Seychelles airline
* Orion Expedition Cruises, an Australian cruise line
* Orionair, a Spanish charter airline
* Orionair, name used by Luxembourg airline Lionair when operating flights to the United States

#### Vehicle manufacturers

* Orion Bus Industries, a Canadian bus manufacturer
* Orion Space, a Nepalese company producing the Nepal PQ-1 picosatellite
* Orionette, also known as Orion AG für Motorfahrzeuge, a German motorcycle manufacturer

### Other companies

* Orion Telescopes & Binoculars, an American company
* Orion Corporation (pharmaceutical company), a Finnish pharmaceutical company
* Orion Group (Bangladesh), a Bangladeshi industrial conglomerates
** Orion Pharma (Bangladesh), a Bangladeshi pharmaceutical company
* Orion Group (recruitment company), Scottish international recruiting company

## People

* Orion (name)
* Orion, industry name of record producer Darren Tate (born 1972)
* Orion, stage name of Tomasz Wróblewski (born 1980), Polish musician
* Jimmy "Orion" Ellis (1945–1998), American rockabilly singer

## Places
### United States

* Orion, Alabama, an unincorporated community
* Orion, Illinois, a village
** Orion Township, Fulton County, Illinois
** Orion High School, in Orion, Illinois
* Orion, Wisconsin, a town
** Orion (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
* Orion Township, Michigan
* Orion Township, Minnesota

### Elsewhere

* Orion, Alberta, Canada, a hamlet
* Orion, Bataan, the Philippines, a municipality
* Orion, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France, a commune
* Orion, Queensland, Australia, a village in the Central Highlands Region
* Orion Passage, a narrow sailing route on the northwestern tip of Antarctica

## Science and technology
### Astronomy

* Orion (constellation), named after the mythical hunter
* Orion Arm, a galactic spiral arm with apparent location near the constellation
* Orion Nebula, in the constellation

### Biology

* Orion (beetle), a genus of beetles
* Orion (grape), a white wine grape variety
* Historis odius, the Orion, a butterfly in the genus Historis

### Computing

* ORION (research and education network), the provincial research network of Ontario, Canada
* Orion (system-on-a-chip), used in network-attached storage
* Ferranti Orion, a mid-range mainframe computer introduced in 1959
* HLH Orion, a series of minicomputers produced in the 1980s
* Orion Application Server, a Java EE application server
* Orion Browser, a web browser from Kagi Inc. the company behind the search search engine of the same name
* Orion quantum computing system, developed by D-Wave Systems
* Orion, a browser-based IDE and open tool integration platform from Eclipse
* Orion, IT admin software by SolarWinds
* GPT-4.5, a 2025 large language model developed by OpenAI

### Other technologies

* Orion (laser), a large laser installation in the UK
* Orion (space telescope), two research instruments on crewed 1970s Soviet spacecraft

## Sports
### Football (soccer)

* A.D. Orión, a Panamanian football club
* Orión F.C., a Costa Rican football club
* Orion F.C., a Scottish football club

### Other sports

* Goyang Orion Orions, a South Korean basketball team
* Orions, former name of the Chiba Lotte Marines, a Japanese baseball team

## Transportation and military
### Air

* Lockheed P-3 Orion, a maritime patrol aircraft, with several variants
* Lockheed Model 9 Orion, a passenger aircraft introduced in 1931
* Aurora Flight Sciences Orion, a long-endurance uncrewed aircraft
* Bristol Orion, a cancelled two-shaft turboprop aero engine developed by Bristol Siddeley
* Kronshtadt Orion, Russian UCAV drone

### Land

* Ford Orion, a car based on the Ford Escort but with a larger boot and four doors
* Orion, a South Devon Railway Comet-class steam locomotive
* Orion, a GWR 3300-class steam locomotive
* Mitsubishi Orion engine, a series of internal combustion engines produced by Mitsubishi Motors

### Sea
#### Military vessels

* USS Orion, several U.S. Navy vessels
* HMS Orion, several Royal Navy vessels
* Orion-class battleship, a series of super-dreadnoughts of the Royal Navy
* HMAS Orion, an Oberon-class of the Royal Australian Navy
* HSwMS Orion (A201), a Swedish ELINT vessel
* French ship Orion (1787), a Téméraire-class of the French Navy
* German auxiliary cruiser Orion, World War II merchant raider
* BAE Orion (H-101), Ecuadorian Navy ship, originally USS Mulberry (AN-27)
* NRP Oríon (P1156), a Portuguese Navy Centauro-class fiscalization boat

#### Other vessels

* Orion (paddle steamer), a ship which sank off Portpatrick, Scotland in 1850
* MV Orion, a cruise ship
* RMS Orion, an ocean liner of the Orient Steam Navigation Company
* SS Orion, a Swedish steel steamship decommissioned in 1979, now a museum ship
* Orion 50, an American sailboat design
* Orion (ship, 1904), built as a whale-catcher, she later served as a fireboat in Vancouver

### Space
#### Rockets

* Orion (rocket), a US sounding rocket
* Orión (rocket), an Argentine sounding rocket
* Orion (rocket stage), a series of rocket motors used in the Pegasus rockets
* Project Orion (nuclear propulsion), a 1958 US nuclear pulse propulsion study project

#### Space vehicles

* Blok DM-03, a variant of the Russian upper stage rocket
* Orion (spacecraft), NASA crew vehicle first flown in 2022
* Orion (space telescope), two instruments flown aboard Soviet spacecraft
* Orion, the Lunar Module used in the Apollo 16 mission
* Orion (satellite), a series of reconnaissance satellites
* A series of satellites operated by Orion Network Systems, now part of Telesat
* Orion 3, an off-course communication satellite (1999)

## Other uses

* Orion (dog), a rescue dog
* Orion (roller coaster), a steel roller coaster at Kings Island, in Mason, Ohio, US
* Orion, the flagship wine of American winemaker Sean Thackrey
* Our Race is Our Nation, a slogan used by the Ku Klux Klan and other white nationalists