Atlas (disambiguation)

**Atlas**, most commonly means a collection of maps, traditionally bound into book form.

**Atlas** can mean:

## Greek mythology

- Atlas (Titan), a Titan who bore the spheres of the heavens; inspiring the widely used image of a man carrying a great sphere on his back or shoulders
- Atlas, the first king of Atlantis

## Science

In **astronomy**:
- Atlas (moon), a moon of Saturn
- Atlas (crater), a prominent impact crater on the Moon
- Atlas (star), a triple star system in the Pleiades cluster
In **biology**:
- A book about flora and/or fauna of an area or region; for example, Atlases of the flora and fauna of Britain and Ireland
- Atlas (anatomy), the topmost cervical vertebra of the human spine
- Atlas Beetle, a rhinoceros beetle (_Dynastinae_) in the genus _Chalcosoma_
- _Attacus atlas_ (or Atlas moth), a large saturniid moth
- _Atlas Cedar_, a large cedar tree native to the Atlas mountains of Algeria and Morocco
- Atlas Flycatcher, a bird in the an Old World Flycatcher family
- Atlas Bear, a species of bear native to Africa, now extinct
- _Testudo atlas_ (or Atlas turtle), an extinct species of cryptodire turtle from the Pleistocene period

In **physics**:
- ATLAS experiment, a particle detector for the LHC at CERN
- Argonne Tandem Linear Accelerator System, a particle accelerator at the Argonne National Laboratory
In **mathematics**:
- Atlas (topology), a collection of local coordinate charts in mathematics

## Literature and press

- _Atlas Shrugged_, a novel by Ayn Rand
- _Atlas_, a book of photography by German artist Gerhard Richter
- **'The Atlas_ (novel)_, by American author William T. Vollmann
- _Atlas_ publishing house for collector series (mainly automobile, plane and train miniatures), active in Switzerland, France and Italy
- _Atlas_ (magazine), Turkish monthly magazine on geography, environment, history and culture.

## Computing

- Atlas Computer (Manchester) (1962 - 1971), an early computer built at the University of Manchester
    - Titan (computer) (also known as the **Atlas 2**), its successor
    - Atlas Autocode, a programming language developed for the Atlas Computer
- UNIVAC 1101, also known as the _Atlas_
    - UNIVAC 1103, also known as the _Atlas II_
- ATLAS Transformation Language, an OMG standard for performing model transformations
- ASP.NET AJAX (formerly codenamed "**Atlas**"), a set of ASP.NET extensions providing Ajax functionality
- Atlas Terrain Engine, developed by Garage Games for use in their Torque Shader Engine
- Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software more commonly known as **ATLAS_', an optimized BLAS implementation
- Atlas.ti, a qualitative analysis software
- Texture atlas

## Geography

- Atlas Mountains, a mountain range in northwest Africa
- Atlas (Neighborhood), in Northeast Washington, DC.
- Atlas Township, Michigan, USA

## Entertainment

- Atlas Games (company), a publisher of role-playing and card games
- ATLAS (StarCraft), a fictional artificial intelligence in the StarCraft universe
- _Atlas_ (album), an album by Mexican electropop band Kinky
- Advanced Technology Leisure Application Simulator, a large hydraulic motion simulator for the theme park industry
- Atlas (band), a rock band from Christchurch, New Zealand.
- Atlas: Renaissance Voyager, the first in a series of videogames. (See also: Neo Atlas)
- Atlas (Bioshock Character), A Dublin northsider who talks you through the game.

### Comics

- Atlas Comics (1950s), the company that evolved into Marvel Comics
- Atlas (comics), a fictional character from Marvel Comics, best known as a member of the Thunderbolts
- Atlas (comic series), a comic book series by Dylan Horrocks
- Atlas/Seaboard Comics, a line of comics published by Seaboard Periodicals
- _Agents of Atlas_, a Marvel Comics mini-series by Jeff Parker

## Companies

- Atlas Aircraft Corporation, South African military aircraft manufacturer
- Atlas Telecom, a worldwide communications company
- Atlas Elektronik GmbH, a naval/marine electronics and systems business based in Bremen, Germany
- Atlas Van Lines, a moving van company
- Atlas Air, a cargo airline based in Purchase, New York
- Atlas Blue, a low-cost airline based in Marrakech, Morocco
- Atlas Copco, a Swedish rock drill manufacturer
    - Polar Atlas historic Swedish diesel maker, later part of Atlas Copco
- Atlas-Imperial, a historic American diesel engine builder
- Atlas Model Railroad, maker of scale railroad models
- Atlas Condoms
- Atlas Venture, an international early-stage venture capital firm
- Atlas (light trucks), a Greek vehicle manufacturer
- Atlasjet, an airline of Turkey

## Automobiles, trucks & related

- Atlas, name of several automobile & truck companies
- Gutbrod Atlas, a former German small commercial vehicle
- Nissan Atlas, a Japanese light truck
- GM Atlas engine, a family of modern inline piston engines for trucks from General Motors
- Atlas (light trucks)
- Atlas Car and Manufacturing Company, a manufacturer of small railroad locomotives

## People

- Meir Atlas (1848–1926), Rabbi of Shavel in Lithuania and one of the founders of the Telz Yeshiva
- Charles Atlas (1892–1972), a famous bodybuilder
- Tony Atlas (born 1944), a professional wrestler, bodybuilder, and powerlifter
- Teddy Atlas (born 1956), a well-known boxing trainer and fight commentator
- Natacha Atlas (born 1964), a Belgian female singer
- James Atlas, founding editor of the Lipper/Viking Penguin Lives Series
- Atllas, a rapper from Phoenix, Arizona

## Military

- Atlas Cheetah, a fighter aircraft of the South African Air Force
- Atlas Oryx, a medium-sized utility helicopter manufactured by the Atlas Aircraft Corporation of South Africa
- Abbreviated Test Language for All Systems, a programming language used for automated test equipment
- ATLAS (simulation), a system used to conduct military Command Post Exercises (CPX) within the Royal Thai Army
- Armstrong Whitworth Atlas, an Army Air Cooperation aeroplane of the 1920s

## Other

- Atlas (missile), a venerable line of space launch vehicles
- Atlas (architecture), a support or column sculpted in the form of a man
- _Farnese Atlas'', a 2nd-century Roman marble copy of a Hellenistic sculpture of the titan Atlas
- Atlas languages, a subgroup of the Northern Berber languages spoken in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco
- Atlas Uranium Mill, a decommissioned uranium mill near Moab, Utah
- CF Atlas, a Mexican professional football club
- Radio Atlas, a radio station in Montenegro
- Atlas Vampire, the nickname of the assailant of the unsolved "Vampire Murder" in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1932
- Atlas Economic Research Foundation, an incubator for free market think tanks

- Atlas (1863 - 1885), one of the eight South Devon Railway Dido class steam locomotives
- The Atlas (building), a tower in Midtown New York City
- Atlas, a book size
- Atlas, one of the main characters in the game BioShock.