Archimedes (disambiguation)

Archimedes was a celebrated mathematician and engineer of ancient Greece.

Archimedes may also refer to:

People

Given name

• Archimedes of Tralles, ancient Greek writer
• Arquimedes Caminero (born 1987), Dominican baseball player
• Archimedes Patti (1913–1998), American intelligence officer
• Archimedes Russell (1840–1915), American architect
• Archimedes Trajano (1956–1977), Filipino torture victim
• Arquimedez Pozo (born 1973), Dominican baseball player

Other usages

• Alfred Thomas Archimedes Torbert (1833–1880), Union general officer during the American Civil War
• Pseudo-Archimedes, pseudo-anonymous writers of the Islamic Golden Age

Places

• Archimedes Ridge, a ridge in Alaska, United States
• Archimedes (crater), an impact crater on the Moon
• Montes Archimedes, a mountain range on the Moon

Organizations

• Archimedes, Inc., a healthcare modeling company based in San Francisco, California, United States
• Archimedes Foundation, an independent body established by the Estonian Ministry of Education and Research
• Archimedes Group, a private intelligence agency based in Tel Aviv, Israel

Entertainment and media

• Archimedes, Merlin's owl in T. H. White's novel The Once and Future King and Disney's The Sword in the Stone (1963 film)
• Archimedes, a character in The Little Mermaid (TV series)
• Archimedes and the Seagle, a 1984 novel by David Ireland
• The Archimedes Principle, a 2004 Spanish drama film by Gerardo Herrero
• Dear Archimedes, a 2019 Chinese-South Korean drama web series
• My Uncle Archimedes, a 2018 Czech comedy film by Georgis Agathonikiadis
• Young Archimedes, a 1924 collection of short fiction by Aldous Huxley

Science and technology

• Archimedes (CAD), an open-source computer-aided design project
• Archimedes Geo3D, a software package for dynamic geometry in three dimensions
• Archimedes number, a dimensionless number used in fluid dynamics
• Acorn Archimedes, a home computer
• Claw of Archimedes, an ancient weapon devised by Archimedes
• GNU Archimedes, the GNU package for Monte Carlo semiconductor devices simulations

Transportation

• Archimedes (1797), a ship built in Britain
• SS Archimedes, a steamship built in Britain in 1839

Other uses

• Archimedes, a home computer brand made by Acorn
• Archimedes (bryozoan), an extinct genus of fenestrate bryozoan
• 3600 Archimedes, an asteroid
• Archimedes pyrg, a species of mollusc in the family Hydrobiidae
• Crambus archimedes, a moth in the family Crambidae
• Garden of Archimedes, a museum of mathematics in Florence, Italy

See also

• Archimedean property
• Archimedean solid
• Archimedean spiral
• Archimedes Palimpsest
• Archimedes' principle
• Archimedes' quadruplets
• Archimedes' screw
• Archimedes's cattle problem
• Archimede (disambiguation)