Jupiter (disambiguation)

Jupiter is a planet in the Solar System, named after Jupiter (mythology), the chief god of the Ancient Roman state religion.

Jupiter may also refer to:

Businesses

• Jupiter Fund Management, a British fund management company
• Jupiter Airlines, based in the United Arab Emirates
• Jupiter (company), a Japanese game and hardware development studio
• Jupiter Entertainment, an American television production company
• Jupiter Band Instruments, a brand of woodwind, brass, and percussion instruments
• Jupiter Hotel (Portland, Oregon), in the United States
• Jupiter Discount Stores, a former brand designation of Kmart for old S.S. Kresge stores
• Enterprise names beginning "Jupiters ...."
  • Jupiters Hotel & Casino (of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia; now rebranded as The Star Gold Coast)
  • Jupiters Limited, Australian gambling company that merged with Tabcorp Holdings

Fictional characters

• Sailor Jupiter or Makoto Kino, character in Sailor Moon
• Commander Jupiter, character in Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum
• Johnny Jupiter, title character in early American television program produced by two works
• Jupiter Jones:
  • from Three Investigators juvenile detective book series
  • from 2015 science-fiction film Jupiter Ascending

Military

• Naval craft:
  • HMS Jupiter, six ships of the British Royal Navy
  • USS Jupiter, two ships of the United States Navy
  • French Navy ships of the line:
    • French ship Jupiter (1789)
    • French ship Jupiter (1831)
  • Jupiter class minelayer, a four-ship class of Spanish mine layers which saw action in the Spanish Civil War
• Operation Jupiter (disambiguation), military operations
• Bristol Jupiter Fighter, an unsuccessful British biplane introduced in 1924
• PGM-19 Jupiter, a U.S. Air Force medium-range ballistic missile, produced from 1956 to 1961
• Jupiter Aerobatic Team, the Indonesian Air Force aerobatic display team

Music

Instruments

• "Strad" violins:
  • Jupiter Stradivarius
  • Jupiter, ex-Goding Stradivarius
• Roland Jupiter (disambiguation), various analog music synthesizers

Groups

• Jupiter (band), a Japanese power metal band
• Jupiters, a Pakistani band

Works

• Orchestral:
  • "Jupiter" or Symphony No. 41, a symphony by Mozart
  • "Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity", the fourth movement in Gustav Holst's The Planets
• "Jupiter" (hymn) or "I Vow to Thee, My Country", a British patriotic song and Anglican hymn
• Recordings:
  • "Jupiter", track on the album Interstellar Space by John Coltrane
  • Jupiter, disc 1 of Stadium Arcadium by the Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Albums:
    • Jupiter (Atheist album)
    • Jupiter (Cave In album)
    • Jupiter (Bump of Chicken album)
  • Songs:
    • "Jupiter" (Swallow the Moon), a song by Jewel from Spirit
    • "Jupiter" (Earth, Wind & Fire song)
    • "Jupiter" (Buck-Tick song)
    • "Jupiter", by 311 from Transistor
    • "Jupiter", by Ayaka Hirahara from
    • "Jupiter", by Minako Honda from Ave Maria
    • "Jupiter", by The Presidents of the United States of America from Freaked Out and Small
    • "Jupiter", by Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly and James McAlister from Planetarium

People

• Jupiter Hammon (1711–before 1806), poet and first African American writer to be published in the present-day United States
• Jupiter Apple (1968–2015), Brazilian singer
• Jupiter Yves Ngangue (born 1980), Cameroonian former footballer
• Jupiter Ghosh (born 1989), Bangladeshi cricketer

Places

United States

• Jupiter, California, United States, an unincorporated community
• Jupiter, Florida, United States, a town
• Jupiter Island, a barrier island in Florida, United States
• Jupiter, North Carolina, United States, an unincorporated community
• Jupiter Township, Kittson County, Minnesota, United States

Elsewhere

• Jupiter, Romania, a summer resort on the Black Sea
• Jupiter Glacier, Alexander Island, Antarctica
• Jupiter Formation, a geologic formation in Quebec, Canada
• Jupiter Reef, a supposed, likely "phantom", reef in the South Pacific Ocean

Science and technology

• Windows Runtime XAML Framework, code name "Jupiter"
• Jupiter JVM, the Java virtual machine
• Jupiter, the first stable version of the elementary OS Linux distribution
• Jupiter project, a DEC project for a PDP-10 replacement
• JUPITER trial, a clinical trial investigating rosuvastatin
• Jupiter (lens), a series of Soviet camera lenses

Space and rocketry

• Rockets:
  • Jupiter-C, for sounding
  • Jupiter-A
• Jupiter (rocket family), a proposed family of space shuttle-derived launch vehicles
• Jupiter (spacecraft), a proposed space tug being developed by Lockheed Martin
• Mercury-Jupiter, the Jupiter variant of the Project Mercury rockets

Science fiction

• Jupiter 2, spaceship in the television series Lost in Space
• Jupiter Award (science fiction award) for writing (presented infrequently from 1974 to 1978)
• Works:
  • Jupiter (novel), a 2000 novel by Ben Bova
  • Jupiter (magazine), edited by Ian Redman

Transportation

• Watercraft:
  • MV Jupiter, various ships
  • MS Jupiter, cruiseferry owned and operated by Vietnamese Jupiter Cruises
  • Jupiter (tugboat), tugboat preserved in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Land vehicles:
  • Jupiter (locomotive), a steam-powered, built 1868, best known for role in the "Golden Spike" ceremony
  • Jowett Jupiter, sports car
• Aircraft:
  • Moynet Jupiter, unsuccessful executive airplane model, introduced 1963
  • Bristol Jupiter, British radial aeroplane engine, developed during First World War

Other uses

• Sport organizations:
  • CE Júpiter, Spanish football club based in Barcelona
  • Jupiter (ice hockey team), defunct team that was based in Kharkiv, Ukraine
• Jupiter (roller coaster), a wooden roller coaster in Beppu, Ōita, Japan
• Botany:
  • Jupiter (apple), an apple cultivar
  • Jupiter grape, interspecific seedless Muscat grape developed at the University of Arkansas
• Institutions of Jupiter, Florida
  • Jupiter Community High School
  • Jupiter Christian School
• Oil & gas production:
  • Jupiter field, a natural gas and oil field in the Atlantic Ocean off Brazil
  • GSP Jupiter, a drilling rig in the Black Sea
• Gold, silver and bronze Jupiter, awards for the L'International des Feux Loto-Québec fireworks festival
• Winter Storm Jupiter, a 2017 U.S. storm named by The Weather Channel

See also

• Jupiter Amphitheatre, a valley in Victoria Land, Antarctica
• Jupiter and Lake Worth Railway in Florida
• Jupiter field, a natural gas and oil field in the Atlantic Ocean off Brazil Ace]], early home computer sold in Britain
• Other proper names suggestive of related eponyms:
  • Project Jupyter, nonprofit computing organization
  • Jupiler
• All pages with titles beginning with Jupiter
• All pages with titles containing Jupiter