Talisman (disambiguation)

A talisman is an object which is purported to possess certain magical properties.

Talisman may also refer to:

Places

• Talisman Centre, a Canadian multi-sports complex in Calgary, Alberta

Art, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

• Talisman (comics), a superhero from Marvel Comics who was a member of Alpha Flight
• Talisman, the player character from Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation

Gaming

• Talisman (board game), a board game from Games Workshop currently published by Fantasy Flight Games
• Talisman (video game), a 1985 video game based on the board game from Games Workshop

Literature

• Talisman (book series), a 2005 series of children's novels by Allan Frewin Jones
• Talisman: Sacred Cities, Secret Faith (2004), a non-fiction book by Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval
• The Talisman (Scott novel), an 1825 historical novel by Sir Walter Scott
• The Talisman (King and Straub novel), a 1984 fantasy novel by Stephen King and Peter Straub
  • The Talisman (comics), a comic book adaptation of the above novel

Music

Artists

• Talisman (band), a Swedish rock band
• Stanford Talisman, an American a cappella group from Stanford University

Albums

• Talisman (Alastair Galbraith album), 1995
• Talisman (Talisman album), 1990

Plays and ballets

• The Talisman (ballet), by the choreographer Marius Petipa and the composer Riccardo Drigo

Films

• Talisman, the edited re-release title of the 1987 Italian film Cross of the Seven Jewels

Computing and technology

• Microsoft Talisman, 3-D graphics architecture from Microsoft
• Talisman Desktop, a software desktop shell replacement for the Microsoft Windows operating system

Organizations

• Talisman Energy, a Canadian oil-and-gas company

Transportation

Automobiles

• Talisman, a limited-edition, 4-seater luxury Cadillac Sixty Special Fleetwood Brougham sedan, built from 1974 to 1976
• Renault Talisman, a mid-size sedan built since 2015

Ships

• HMS Talisman, the name of a number of British Royal Navy ships
• Talisman UUV, a multi-role unmanned underwater vehicle manufactured by BAE Systems
• Steamship Talisman, a 73-foot, 40-ton, upper-cabin sternwheel steamboat built in 1961, and put on display at Lincoln's New Salem on the Sangamon River near Petersburg, Illinois until the early 1990s.

Other

• Metro Talismán, a Mexico City Metro station
• The Talisman (painting), a painting by French artist Paul Sérusier

See also

• Talismán (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles beginning with talisman
• All pages with titles containing talisman