Achilles (disambiguation)

Achilles is the name of a Greek mythological hero of the Trojan War. Achilles or Achilleus may also refer to:

Science and medicine

• Achilles tendon, the posterior tendon of the leg
• 588 Achilles, the first Trojan asteroid to be discovered

Fiction

• Achilleis (trilogy), a trilogy of plays by Aeschylus
• Achilles (Marvel Comics), a member of the fictional group the Pantheon in the Marvel universe
• Olympian (comics), whose second DC Comics incarnation is that of the Greek hero Achilles
• Achilles de Flandres, a villain in Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game novel series
• Achilles, Phoebus' horse in the animated film The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Music

• Achilles (opera), a 1733 ballad opera by John Gay
• Achilleus a 1886 secular oratorio by Max Bruch
• Achilles (band), an American hardcore band
• "Achilles", song by Jag Panzer from the album Casting the Stones, 2004

Places

• Achilles, Kansas, US, a ghost town
• Achilles, Virginia, US, an unincorporated community
• Achilles Point, a headland in Auckland, New Zealand

People

• Saints Nereus and Achilleus, 2nd century Christian saints and martyrs
• Achilles Tatius of Alexandria, 2nd century Greek writer
• Felix, Fortunatus, and Achilleus (died 212), Christian saints and martyrs
• Achilles or Achillius of Larissa (died 330), Christian saint
• Achilleus (Roman usurper), the ruler of Egypt for a very short time in the late 3rd century AD
• Achilles (judge royal) (died after 1201), Hungarian noble
• Achilles Alferaki (1846–1919), Russian-Greek composer and mayor
• Achilleus Kewanuka (1869–1886), Ugandan Christian saint and martyr
• Frederick Achilles, Duke of Württemberg-Neuenstadt (1591–1631)
• Kullervo Achilles Manner (1880–1939), Finnish politician and journalist
• Theodore Achilles (1905–1986), American diplomat

Transport

• Achilles (automobile), a British automobile maker, 1903–1908
• Achilles (1906–1912 motorcycle), a Czechoslovakian motorcycle manufacturer
• Achilles (1953–1957 motorcycle), a West German scooter and moped manufacturer
• Achilles (1873–1892), one of the ten South Devon Railway Buffalo class steam locomotives
• Achilles, one of the GWR 3031 Class locomotives that were built for and run on Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915
• SS Achilles (1866) was one of the first steamships that were fuel efficient enough to trade between the UK and China.

Military

• HMS Achilles, seven Royal Navy ships
• HMNZS Achilles, New Zealand Navy cruiser, 1932–1948
• USS Achilles, two US Navy ships
• 17pdr SP M10C Achilles and 3in SP M10 Achilles, British variants of the M10, a World War II tank destroyer
• Chilean ship Aquiles, four ships of the Chilean Navy with the name in Spanish

Sport

• Achilles '29, a Dutch football club based in Groesbeek
• Achilles F.C., an English football club based in Ipswich
• Achilles Athletics Club, a club in Mombasa, Kenya, founded and run by coach Ray Batchelor in the 1950s
• Achilles Club, an English a track and field club
• Achilles International, an international non-profit organization which provides support to athletes with disabilities

See also

• Acanthurus achilles, commonly known as Achilles tang or Achilles surgeonfish, a species of tropical marine fish
• Achille (disambiguation)
• Achillea, the yarrows, a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae
• Achilles' heel, a weakness or vulnerability
• Achilles number, a powerful number which is not a perfect power
• Achilleos, a surname
• †Archicebus achilles, an extinct species of primate
• Borgå Akilles, a Finnish sports club based in Provoo
• Morpho achilles, the Achilles morpho, blue-banded morpho, or banded blue morpho, a species of Neotropical butterfly
• Phyllonorycter achilleus, a species of moth from the family Gracillariidae
• Z Achilles and Turbo Achilles, "Beyblades" from the anime and toyline Beyblade Burst Turbo