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Helios is the personification of the sun in Greek mythology. It may also refer to:

[edit] Arts & literature

[edit] Literature

• Hélios, a French magazine
• Helios, a character in the anime Sailor Moon
• Helios (comic), a 30 issue comic book series published by Dakuwaka Productions, starting in 2004
• Helio (comics), a fictional character in the Marvel Universe
• Helios (Helios Eclipse character), from Helios Eclipse drawn by Kaoru and serialiized in Gempak.

[edit] Music

• The Helio Sequence, an indie electronica/shoegazer band
• Helio Alves (born São Paulo, 1966), jazz pianist and son of pianists
• Helios (artist), the moniker of ambient and experimental music producer and songwriter Keith Kenniff
• Helios (overture), an overture by Carl Nielsen

[edit] Business & industry

• Helios AG, a former German electrical engineering company based in Cologne
• Helios (chemical producer), a Slovenian chemical producer group, with its market comprising of Russia, Italy, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, Serbia and Montenegro and Poland
• Helios (cinemas), a multiplex cinema operator in Poland
• Helios (lens brand), a brand of lens, made in the USSR, supplied with Zenit cameras, often usable with other M42 lens mount cameras
• HELIOS, a humanitarian Supply Chain Management project
• Helios (motorcycles) early German manufacturer.

[edit] Military

• USS Helios (ARB-12), a World War II repair ship

[edit] Science & technology

• Heliotropism, the diurnal motion of plant parts (flowers or leaves) in response to the direction of the sun

[edit] Aviation

• Helio Courier, a light C/STOL utility aircraft designed in 1949
• Helios Prototype, a series of NASA solar- and fuel cell system-powered unmanned aircraft/planes
• Helios Airways, former low-cost airline operating scheduled and charter flights between Cyprus and many European destinations
  • Helios Airways Flight 522, a Helios Airways Boeing 737-31S flight that crashed on August 14, 2005 into a mountain north of Marathon and Varnavas, Greece

[edit] Electronics

• HΞLIO, U.S. wireless carrier, launched May 2006, joint venture between SK Telecom (South Korea) and Earthlink
• HeliOS, a Unix-like computer operating system

[edit] Video games

• Helios, a boss in the videogame Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
• Helios, an AI in the computer game Deus Ex, the sum of the merged Daedalus and Icarus AIs
• Helios, a “persona” in the Playstation games Persona 2: Innocent Sin and Eternal Punishment

[edit] Space

• Helios probes, deep space probes were launched in the mid 1970s by the Federal Republic of Germany and NASA
• 895 Helio, a minor planet orbiting the Sun
• Hélios 1B and Helios 2A, French military satellites
• Sun, a star
• Helios (propulsion system), a nuclear pulse propulsion system for spacecraft invented by Freeman Dyson, a precursor to his Project Orion

[edit] Sports & recreation

• Helios, a wrestler for Chikara (professional wrestling)
• FC Helios Kharkiv, a football (soccer) team from Ukraine
• KK Helios Domžale, a basketball club from Slovenia.
• Hélio Castroneves, Brazilian race car driver in the Indy Racing League series
• Hélio Gracie, Co-founder of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu

[edit] Other

Helios (Yacht), A super yacht

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