Jupiter is the largest planet in the Solar System, named after Jupiter (god), king of the gods in ancient Roman mythology.
Jupiter may also refer to:
Businesses
[edit]- 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
Fictional characters
[edit]- Sailor Jupiter or Makoto Kino, in Sailor Moon
- Commander Jupiter, in Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum
- Johnny Jupiter, title character in two separate early American television programs
- Jupiter Jones, from Three Investigators juvenile detective book series
- Jupiter Jones, from the 2015 science-fiction film Jupiter Ascending
Military
[edit]- HMS Jupiter, six ships of the British Royal Navy
- USS Jupiter, two ships of the United States Navy
- 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
[edit]Instruments
[edit]- Jupiter Stradivarius, a violin
- Jupiter, ex-Goding Stradivarius, a violin
- Roland Jupiter (disambiguation), various analog music synthesizers
Groups
[edit]- Jupiter (band), a Japanese power metal band
Works
[edit]- "Jupiter" or Symphony No. 41, a symphony by Mozart
- "Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity", the fourth movement in The Planets, Gustav Holst's orchestral suite
Albums
[edit]Songs
[edit]- "Jupiter" (hymn) or "I Vow to Thee, My Country", a British patriotic song and Anglican hymn
- "Jupiter" (Swallow the Moon), a song by Jewel from Spirit
- "Jupiter" (Earth, Wind & Fire song)
- "Jupiter" (Buck-Tick song)
- "Jupiter", from the album Transistor by 311
- "Jupiter", by Ayaka Hirahara
- "Jupiter", by Minako Honda from Ave Maria
- "Jupiter", from the album Freaked Out and Small by The Presidents of the United States of America
- "Jupiter", from the album Planetarium by Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly and James McAlister
Other
[edit]- "Jupiter", a track on the album Interstellar Space by John Coltrane
- Jupiter, disc 1 of Stadium Arcadium by the Red Hot Chili Peppers
People
[edit]- Jupiter Apple (1968–2015), Brazilian singer
- Jupiter Ghosh (born 1989), Bangladeshi cricketer
- Jupiter Hammon (1711–before 1806), poet and first African-American writer to be published in the present-day United States
- Jupiter Yves Ngangue (born 1980), Cameroonian former footballer
Places
[edit]United States
[edit]- Jupiter, Florida, a town
- Jupiter Island, a barrier island in Florida
- Jupiter, North Carolina, an unincorporated community
- Jupiter Township, Kittson County, Minnesota
Elsewhere
[edit]- Jupiter, Romania, a summer resort on the Black Sea
- Jupiter Glacier, Alexander Island, Antarctica
- Jupiter Formation, a geologic formation in Quebec, Canada
- Jupiter River, a river in Anticosti Island, Quebec, Canada
- Jupiter Reef, a supposed, likely "phantom", reef in the South Pacific Ocean
Science and technology
[edit]- Windows UI Library, code name "Jupiter" supports XAML controls for Windows Runtime
- 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
- Polyura jupiter, a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae
- Syntypistis jupiter, a species of moth of the family Notodontidae
Space and rocketry
[edit]- Rockets:
- 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
[edit]- Jupiter (novel), a 2000 novel by Ben Bova
- Jupiter (magazine), edited by Ian Redman
- Jupiter Award (science fiction award) for writing (presented infrequently from 1974 to 1978)
- Jupiter 2, a spaceship in the television series Lost in Space
Transportation
[edit]- Halton Jupiter, a 1970s British human-powered aircraft
- MV Jupiter, various ships
- MS Jupiter, a cruiseferry
- Jupiter (tugboat), preserved in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Jupiter (locomotive), a steam-powered locomotive
- Jowett Jupiter, a sports car
- Moynet Jupiter, unsuccessful executive airplane model, introduced 1963
- Bristol Jupiter, a British radial aeroplane engine, developed during First World War
- Júpiter (Mexico City Metrobús), a BRT station in Mexico City
- TVS Jupiter, a scooter manufactured by TVS Motor Company
- SS Jupiter (Ropner, 1895), a British cargo ship in service 1895-1926
- FV Jupiter, a German fishing trawler and vorpostenboot in service 1936-44
Other uses
[edit]- CE Júpiter, a Spanish football club based in Barcelona
- Jupiter (ice hockey team), a defunct team that was based in Kharkiv, Ukraine
- Jupiter (roller coaster), a wooden roller coaster in Beppu, Ōita, Japan
- Jupiter (apple), an apple cultivar
- Jupiter grape, an interspecific seedless Muscat grape
- Jupiter (given name)
- Jupiter Community High School, Jupiter, Florida
- Jupiter Christian School, Jupiter, Florida
- Jupiter field, a natural gas and oil field in the Atlantic Ocean off Brazil
- GSP Jupiter, a drilling rig in the Black Sea
- Jupiter, an award presented at the L'International des Feux Loto-Québec fireworks festival
- Winter Storm Jupiter, a 2017 U.S. storm
See also
[edit]- Jupiter Amphitheatre, a valley in Victoria Land, Antarctica
- Jupiter and Lake Worth Railway in Florida
- Project Jupyter, nonprofit computing organization
- Jupiters, a Pakistani music band
- Jupiters Hotel & Casino (of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia; now rebranded as The Star Gold Coast)
- Jupiters Limited, Australian gambling company that merged with Tabcorp
- Jupiler, a Belgian beer
- All pages with titles beginning with Jupiter
- All pages with titles containing Jupiter