Centaur (disambiguation)

A centaur is creature from Greek mythology that is half human, half horse.

Centaur, Centaurs or The Centaur may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Fictional entities

• USS Centaur, a spaceship in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's "A Time to Stand"
• Narnian Centaurs, in C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia
• Centaur (Dungeons & Dragons)

Film and television

• Centaur (2016 film), a Kyrgyzstani film
• Centaur (2023 film), a Russian film
• The Centaurs (1921 film), an animated film

Literature

• The Centaur, a 1963 novel by John Updike
• The Centaur, a 1911 novel by Algernon Blackwood
• Centaur Publications (1938–1942), one of the earliest American comic book publishers

Music

• Centaur, an American rock band formed in 2000 by Hum founder Matt Talbott
• "The Centaur," a song by Buck 65 from the 1997 album Vertex

Businesses and organisations

• Centaur Media, a British marketing company
• Centaur Film Company, American motion picture production company founded in 1907
• Centaur Press, later Centaur Books, a New York small publisher, from late 1960s to 1981
• Centaur Press (British publisher), 1954–1998
• Centaur Publications, also known as Centaur Comics, an early American comic book publisher
• Centaur Records, a classical music record label in America
• Centaur Technology, a CPU design company

Military

• Centaur tank, a development of the British Cromwell tank
• AHS Centaur, an Australian hospital ship sunk by the Japanese during World War II
• HMS Centaur, the name of several Royal Navy ships
  • Centaur-class aircraft carrier
• Centaur-class fast assault craft, of the Ukrainian Navy

Science and technology

• Centaur (computing), a memory buffer chip in POWER8 microprocessors
• Centaur (rocket stage), used for space launches
• Centaur (small Solar System body), orbiting between Jupiter and Neptune

Transportation

• Centaur (1849 ship), a brig shipwrecked off Western Australia
• SB Centaur, an 1895 Thames sailing barge
• Acme Centaur, a development of the 1945 Stinson L-13 aircraft
• Rambler Centaur, a 1962 show car by American Motors

Other uses

• Centaur (pinball), a pinball machine
• Centaur (typeface), a serif typeface
• Centaur chess, or advanced chess
• Centaur Theatre, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Centaur
• All pages with titles containing Centaur
• Centaure (disambiguation)
• Centauri (disambiguation)
• Centauro (disambiguation)
• Centaurus (disambiguation)
  • Centaurus, a constellation