Jupiter (disambiguation)

Jupiter is a planet in the Solar System, named after Jupiter (mythology), the chief god of the Ancient Roman state religion.

Jupiter may also refer to:

Businesses

 * 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
 * Enterprise names beginning "Jupiters ...."
 * Jupiters Hotel & Casino (of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia; now rebranded as The Star Gold Coast)
 * Jupiters Limited, Australian gambling company that merged with Tabcorp Holdings

Fictional characters

 * Sailor Jupiter or Makoto Kino, character in Sailor Moon
 * Commander Jupiter, character in Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum
 * Johnny Jupiter, title character in early American television program produced by two works
 * Jupiter Jones:
 * from Three Investigators juvenile detective book series
 * from 2015 science-fiction film Jupiter Ascending

Military

 * Naval craft:
 * HMS Jupiter, six ships of the British Royal Navy
 * USS Jupiter, two ships of the United States Navy
 * French Navy ships of the line:
 * 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

Instruments

 * "Strad" violins:
 * Jupiter Stradivarius
 * Jupiter, ex-Goding Stradivarius
 * Roland Jupiter (disambiguation), various analog music synthesizers

Groups

 * Jupiter (band), a Japanese power metal band
 * Jupiters, a Pakistani band

Works

 * Orchestral:
 * "Jupiter" or Symphony No. 41, a symphony by Mozart
 * "Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity", the fourth movement in Gustav Holst's The Planets
 * "Jupiter" (hymn) or "I Vow to Thee, My Country", a British patriotic song and Anglican hymn
 * Recordings:
 * "Jupiter", track on the album Interstellar Space by John Coltrane
 * Jupiter, disc 1 of Stadium Arcadium by the Red Hot Chili Peppers
 * Albums:
 * Jupiter (Atheist album)
 * Jupiter (Cave In album)
 * Jupiter (Bump of Chicken album)
 * Songs:
 * "Jupiter" (Swallow the Moon), a song by Jewel from Spirit
 * "Jupiter" (Earth, Wind & Fire song)
 * "Jupiter" (Buck-Tick song)
 * "Jupiter", by 311 from Transistor
 * "Jupiter", by Ayaka Hirahara from ''
 * "Jupiter", by Minako Honda from Ave Maria
 * "Jupiter", by The Presidents of the United States of America from Freaked Out and Small
 * "Jupiter", by Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly and James McAlister from Planetarium

People

 * Jupiter Hammon (1711–before 1806), poet and first African American writer to be published in the present-day United States
 * Jupiter Apple (1968–2015), Brazilian singer
 * Jupiter Yves Ngangue (born 1980), Cameroonian former footballer
 * Jupiter Ghosh (born 1989), Bangladeshi cricketer

United States

 * Jupiter, California, United States, an unincorporated community
 * Jupiter, Florida, United States, a town
 * Jupiter Island, a barrier island in Florida, United States
 * Jupiter, North Carolina, United States, an unincorporated community
 * Jupiter Township, Kittson County, Minnesota, United States

Elsewhere

 * Jupiter, Romania, a summer resort on the Black Sea
 * Jupiter Glacier, Alexander Island, Antarctica
 * Jupiter Formation, a geologic formation in Quebec, Canada
 * Jupiter Reef, a supposed, likely "phantom", reef in the South Pacific Ocean

Science and technology

 * Windows Runtime XAML Framework, code name "Jupiter"
 * 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

Space and rocketry

 * Rockets:
 * Jupiter-C, for sounding
 * Jupiter-A
 * 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

 * Jupiter 2, spaceship in the television series Lost in Space
 * Jupiter Award (science fiction award) for writing (presented infrequently from 1974 to 1978)
 * Works:
 * Jupiter (novel), a 2000 novel by Ben Bova
 * Jupiter (magazine), edited by Ian Redman

Transportation

 * Watercraft:
 * MV Jupiter, various ships
 * MS Jupiter, cruiseferry owned and operated by Vietnamese Jupiter Cruises
 * Jupiter (tugboat), tugboat preserved in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
 * Land vehicles:
 * Jupiter (locomotive), a steam-powered, built 1868, best known for role in the "Golden Spike" ceremony
 * Jowett Jupiter, sports car
 * Aircraft:
 * Moynet Jupiter, unsuccessful executive airplane model, introduced 1963
 * Bristol Jupiter, British radial aeroplane engine, developed during First World War

Other uses

 * Sport organizations:
 * CE Júpiter, Spanish football club based in Barcelona
 * Jupiter (ice hockey team), defunct team that was based in Kharkiv, Ukraine
 * Jupiter (roller coaster), a wooden roller coaster in Beppu, Ōita, Japan
 * Botany:
 * Jupiter (apple), an apple cultivar
 * Jupiter grape, interspecific seedless Muscat grape developed at the University of Arkansas
 * Institutions of Jupiter, Florida
 * Jupiter Community High School
 * Jupiter Christian School
 * Oil & gas production:
 * Jupiter field, a natural gas and oil field in the Atlantic Ocean off Brazil
 * GSP Jupiter, a drilling rig in the Black Sea
 * Gold, silver and bronze Jupiter, awards for the L'International des Feux Loto-Québec fireworks festival
 * Winter Storm Jupiter, a 2017 U.S. storm named by The Weather Channel