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.