Hermes (disambiguation)
Hermes is the divine messenger of the Olympian gods in Greek mythology.
Hermes can also refer to:
Philosophy
- Hermes Trismegistus, a purported author of the antiquity considered by many scholars as prophet and precursor of Christianity.
Business
Shipping and aviation
- Hermes Airlines, a Greek charter airline founded in 2011
- Hermes Aviation, a start-up Maltese airline founded in 2014
- Hermes Group, a German parcel delivery company founded in 1972
Financial
- EFG Hermes Holding, an Egyptian investment bank founded in 1984
- Hermes Investment Management, a London-based firm founded in 1983
Fashion, music and literature
- Hermès, a Paris-based high-fashion luxury-goods manufacturer founded in 1837
- Hermes Press, an American publisher of art books and comic books, founded in 2001
- Hermes (publication), an annual literary journal at the University of Sydney published since 1866
- Hermes Records, an Iranian record label founded in 1999
Science and technology
Aerospace
- Hermes (spaceplane), a design of space shuttle proposed by the European Space Agency
- Elbit Hermes 450, a line of unmanned aerial vehicles manufactured by Elbit
- Hermes (satellite), a failed American satellite
Astronomy
- Hermes, the Greek name for the planet Mercury, as it appeared in the evening sky
- 69230 Hermes, a binary near-Earth asteroid rediscovered in 2003
- HERMES, a spectrograph to be installed on the Anglo-Australian Telescope in 2013
- HerMES, Herschel Multi-tiered Extragalactic Survey, a project using the Herschel Space Observatory
Computing
- HERMES-A/MINOTAUR, also known as Project HERMES, the first internet-to-orbit gateway
- Hermes (BBS), a Macintosh-based bulletin board system that was similar to MS-DOS-based WWIV
- Hermes (programming language), a distributed programming language developed at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center from 1986 through 1992
- Hermes Project, a C++/Python library comprising algorithms for rapid prototyping of adaptive higher-order modular finite element system solvers
- Hopkins Electronic Resources ManagEment System, an electronic resource management system at Johns Hopkins University
- Hermes, a converter for mass spectrometry data formats
- Hermes, codename of the ORiNOCO family of wireless networking technology by Proxim Wireless
Other
- HERMES experiment, a particle physics experiment
- HERMES Project, or the Hotspot Ecosystems Research on the Margins of European Seas
- HTC Hermes, the production code-name for the HTC TyTN smartphone
- Hermes protocol, a machine-to-machine communication standard used in the SMT assembly industry
- Hermes, a Swiss-manufactured line of typewriters including the Hermes 3000
Military
- HMS Hermes, various ships of the British Royal Navy
- Hermes-class post ship, a class of Royal Navy sailing ships built in the early 19th century
- Hermes-class sloop, a Royal Navy class of four paddlewheel steam sloops built in the 1830s
- Hermes (missile program), a United States Army Ordnance Corps missile program (1944–1954)
- Hermes (missile), a family of Russian guided missiles
- Operation Hermes, a coalition military operation of the Iraq War
Transportation
- Handley Page Hermes, a 1950s British four-engined transport aircraft
- Cirrus Hermes, a British aero engine of the 1930s
- MV Hermes, a cargo ship launched in 1945, completed in 1949 as Empire Dove
Sports
- Hermes F.C., a Scottish football club based in Aberdeen
- Kokkolan Hermes, a Finnish ice hockey team from Kokkola
- Hermes Ladies' Hockey Club, an Irish field hockey club
Fictional characters
- Hermes (Harry Potter), Percy Weasley's owl in the Harry Potter series
- Hermes (Marvel Comics), a Marvel Comics character
- Hermes Conrad, in the animated television series Futurama
- Hermes, a talking motorcycle in the anime Kino's Journey
Other uses
- Hermes (sculpture), a sculpture by an unknown artist in the Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Hermes, Oise, a commune in the Oise département of northern France
- HERMES method, a general project management method developed by the Swiss government
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