# Sequoia

Sequoia, Sequoya or Sequoyah refers to a type of tree in the cypress family which includes the redwood trees. By extension the name may refer to:

## Science and technology
### Biology

* Sequoioideae, a three-genus subfamily of the cypress family
** Sequoia (genus), a genus with one living and several fossil species
*** Sequoia sempervirens, coast redwood, found along the coast of California and Oregon
** Sequoiadendron giganteum (giant sequoia), the sequoia tree found on the slopes of the Sierra Nevada of California
** Metasequoia, dawn redwood
* The Great Sequoia, a sequoia tree in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country, Spain

### Other science and technology

* macOS Sequoia, an operating system version
* 1103 Sequoia, a minor planet
* Sequoia (supercomputer), an IBM supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, US
* HFS Plus, a file system codenamed Sequoia

## Arts and entertainment

* Old Sequoia, a 1945 American animated short film directed by Jack King
* Sequoia (1934 film), an American drama film
* Sequoia (2014 film), an American comedy film
* Sequoia (comics), a Marvel Comics character
* Sequoia (composition), by American composer Joan Tower
* "Sequoia", a song by Way Out West from Way Out West
* Sequoya (Ream), a bronze sculpture
* Sequoya (St. John's University's Literary Magazine)

## Places
### United States

* State of Sequoyah, an attempt in the early 20th century by Native Americans to form their own state
* Canyon, California, formerly Sequoya
* Mount Sequoyah, Great Smoky Mountains
* Sequoia Hall, home of the Statistics Department of Stanford University
* Sequoia Hospital, Redwood City, California
* Sequoia National Park, a national park in the southern Sierra Nevada, California
** Sequoia National Forest, adjacent to the Sequoia National Park
*** Giant Sequoia National Monument, monument administered as part of the National Forest
* Sequoia Park Zoo, in Eureka, California
* Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, a county in mid-eastern Oklahoma bordering Arkansas
* Sequoyah Nuclear Plant, Tennessee
* Sequoyah, Oklahoma, an unincorporated community in northeastern Oklahoma

### Elsewhere

* Tour Sequoia, an office skyscraper in Paris, France

## Schools

* Sequoia Middle School (disambiguation), several schools
* Sequoia High School (disambiguation), several schools
* Sequoyah High School (Georgia), public school in Canton, Georgia
* Sequoyah High School (Claremore, Oklahoma), public school
* Sequoyah High School (Tahlequah, Oklahoma), high school and Native American boarding school
* Sequoyah School, a non-profit, independent alternative school in Pasadena, California
* Sequoia University, a defunct Los Angeles diploma mill

## Companies

* Sequoia Capital, a venture capital firm
* Sequoia Voting Systems, a California company that provides electronic voting systems
* Sequoia Fund, a Ruane, Cunniff & Goldfarb investment fund

## Transport

* Piper Sequoya, a variant of the Piper Aerostar, a light twin-engine utility aircraft
* Sequoia Falco, a light, acrobatic aircraft
* Sequoia Field Airport, near Visalia, California, US
* Toyota Sequoia, a sport utility vehicle
* USS Sequoia, several US Navy ships
** USS Sequoia (presidential yacht), U.S. presidential yacht
* USS Sequoyah (SP-426), a patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1919

## People

* Sequoyah (1767–1843), American Indian silversmith and inventor of the Cherokee syllabary
* Johnny Sequoyah (born 2002), American actress
* Sequoia Holmes, American basketball player
* Sequoia Nagamatsu, American writer and professor
* Billy Ray Waldon, also known as Nvwtohiyada Idehesdi Sequoyah (born 1952), American former fugitive, American Indian Movement activist, and Esperantist

## Other uses

* Sequoyah (horse), Irish Thoroughbred racehorse
* Secoya (disambiguation)