Helios is the personification of the sun in Greek mythology. It may also refer to:
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- 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.
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- Heliotropism, the diurnal motion of plant parts (flowers or leaves) in response to the direction of the sun
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- 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
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- HΞLIO, U.S. wireless carrier, launched May 2006, joint venture between SK Telecom (South Korea) and Earthlink
- HeliOS, a Unix-like computer operating system
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- 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
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Helios (Yacht), A super yacht