Sapphire (disambiguation)

Sapphire is a blue gemstone in the corundum family.

Sapphire may also refer to:

Places

• Sapphire, North Carolina, a community in the United States
• Sapphire, Queensland, a town in Australia
• Sapphiretown, South Australia, a locality in Australia

People

• Olga Sapphire (1907–1981), stage name of the Russian-Japanese ballerina born Olga Ivanovna Pavlova
• Sapphire (author) (born 1950), African-American poet and author born Ramona Lofton
• Sapphire (wrestler) or Juanita Wright (1935–1996), professional wrestling valet and wrestler
• Sapphire Elia (born 1987), British actress

Animals

• Sapphire (horse), 2004 Olympic silver-medal-winning horse
• Sapphire butterfly, the gossamer-winged butterfly of the genus Heliophorus
• Sapphire hummingbird, a name used for several species of hummingbird, including:
  • Blue-chinned sapphire
  • Golden-tailed sapphire
  • Rufous-throated sapphire (Amazilia sapphirina), previously belonged to Hylocharis
  • Sapphire, several hummingbird species in the genus Hylocharis
    • Blue-headed sapphire (Hylocharis grayi)
    • Blue-throated sapphire (Hylocharis eliciae)
    • Flame-rumped sapphire (Hylocharis pyropygia), validity questionable
    • Gilded sapphire (Hylocharis chrysura)
    • Humboldt's sapphire (Hylocharis humboldtii)
    • White-chinned sapphire (Hylocharis cyanus)

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

• Sapphire (comics), a character in the DC Comics universe
• Sapphire, a character played by Jasmine Jardot in the British web series Corner Shop Show
• Sapphire, a main character in Pokémon Adventures
• Sapphire, a character in Sapphire & Steel, a British science fiction television series
• Sapphire, a character in Steven Universe
• Princess Sapphire, a character in the manga Princess Knight
• Sapphire Rhodonite, a character in the video game Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice
• Sapphire Stevens, a character in the 1920s–1950s radio/film/television series Amos 'n' Andy
• Sapphire Trollzawa, a character from the animated series Trollz
• Sapphire Kawashima, a main character in the Sound! Euphonium series

Films

• Sapphire (film), a 1959 British film starring Nigel Patrick
• The Sapphires (film), a 2012 Australian film about an Aboriginal singing group

Games

• Ginga Fukei Densetsu Sapphire, a 1995 rare video game for the PC Engine
• Pokémon Sapphire, a 2002 video game for the Game Boy Advance

Music

Groups

• Sapphire, a band that includes members of the band Alyson Avenue
• The Sapphires, a 1960s pop group

Albums

• Sapphire (John Martyn album), 1984
• Sapphire (Teena Marie album), 2006
• Sapphire, a 1995 album by the Japanese jazz musician Keiko Matsui

Songs

• "Sapphire", an instrumental piece by Norwegian band TNT from the 1987 album Tell No Tales

Television

• Sapphire & Steel, a British television science-fiction fantasy series produced by ATV, which ran from 1979 to 1982 on the ITV network

Brands and enterprises

• Sapphire (books), a British book publisher
• Sapphire (clothing brand), a Pakistani company
• Bombay Sapphire, a brand of London dry gin produced by the Bombay Spirits Company
• Chase Sapphire Preferred Visa, an Ultimate Rewards Visa Signature credit card of JPMorgan Chase
• Chase Sapphire Reserve Visa, an elite Ultimate Rewards Visa Infinite credit card of JPMorgan Chase similar to the JPMorgan Reserve that replaced the Palladium Card, in 2016
• Sapphire Energy is an energy company that produces oil made from algae
• Sapphire Gentlemen's Club, a chain of adult entertainment venues

Computing and technology

• Sapphire Technology, a manufacturer of PC hardware
• SAPPHIRE (Health care), a health information system based on Semantic Web and RDF language
• SAPPHIRE, SAP's customer-facing event
• Sapphire programming framework, a framework in the PHP language, distributed with the SilverStripe content management system
• Sapphire Worm, another name for the SQL slammer worm

Jubilee

• Sapphire jubilee, a celebration to mark a 65th anniversary
• Sapphire Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, commemoration of the 65th year of Queen Elizabeth's reign

Organizations

• Sapphire, the rape investigation unit of the Metropolitan Police Service of Greater London, UK
• SAPPHIRE, a human resource management committee of XLRI Jamshedpur

Ships

• HMS Sapphire, the name of several ships of the Royal Navy
• Sapphire Princess, a cruise ship
• USS Sapphire, more than one United States Navy ship

Transportation

• Sapphire (satellite), a Canadian space surveillance satellite launched in 2013
• Sapphire (train), (German: Saphir) a European express train
• Arriva Sapphire, a premium brand of Arriva bus services in the United Kingdom
• Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire (motor car), a series of UK post-war cars
• Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire, a jet engine also known as the Wright J65
• Ford Sapphire, a sedan version of the Ford Sierra, sold in South Africa and the United Kingdom
• Sapphire Aircraft Australia Sapphire LSA, an Austrian ultralight aircraft

Other uses

• Sapphire (color), an intense shade of blue
• Sapphire, an African-American stereotype also called Angry Black Woman
• Istanbul Sapphire, a skyscraper in Istanbul, Turkey
• Sapphire Stakes (ATC), an Australian Turf Club Group 2 Thoroughbred horse race for fillies and mares 3 years old and older

See also

• Saffire – The Uppity Blues Women, a three-woman blues band
• Safire (disambiguation)
• Saphir (disambiguation)
• SAPHIRE, Systems Analysis Programs for Hands-on Integrated Reliability Evaluations
• Zefir (disambiguation)
• Zephir (disambiguation)
• Zephyr (disambiguation)