Globus

Globus is Latin for sphere or globe. It may also refer to:

Business

  • Globus Medical, a medical device company in Audubon, PA
  • Globus (clothing retailer), an Indian clothing retail store
  • Globus (company), a Swiss department store chain
  • Globus (hypermarket), a hypermarket chain in Germany, the Czech Republic and Russia
  • Globus (publisher), a Spanish magazine publisher
  • Globus Alliance, an engineering association for grid computing infrastructure
    • Globus Toolkit, software that implements specifications proposed by the Globus Alliance
  • Globus service, research data management service.
  • Globus Capital Holdings, a global private equity firm

Transportation

Media

  • Globus, a weekly political magazine published in Croatia

Medicine

  • globus pallidus, a sub-cortical structure in the brain
  • globus pharyngis (also globus sensation or globus hystericus), a feeling of a lump at the back of the throat

Education

  • Globus Competence Centre for Globalisation and Sustainable Development, Tias Nimbus Business School, Tilburg University, the Netherlands

People

  • Globus, nickname of Eugene Kuziw, Ukrainian American
  • Globus, nickname of Odilo Globocnik, a World War II Nazi and SS leader
  • Solomon Globus (born 1856), Lithuanian chess master
  • Stephen Globus, New York City venture capitalist
  • Yoram Globus (born 1941), Israeli film producer

Other

See also

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