Cactus (disambiguation)

A cactus is a member of the plant family Cactaceae. Cactus may also refer to:

Music

• Cactus (American band), a rock band
  • Cactus (Cactus album), their eponymous first album
• Cactus (Indian band), a Bangla band
• Cactus, an extension of the Bengali band Mohiner Ghoraguli
• Cactus (Bobby Kapp and Matthew Shipp album), 2016
• Cactus (record label), a UK record label
• "Cactus" (Pixies song), 1988
• "Cactus" (A.C.E song), 2017
• "Cactus" (Belinda song), 2024
• "Cactus", a 2021 song by Twice from Formula of Love: O+T=<3

Film and television

• Cactus (1986 film), an Australian drama directed by Paul Cox
• Cactus (2008 film), an Australian mystery-thriller
• Cactus (TV series), a 1998 Iranian satirical comedy

Technology

• Cactus Framework, a software framework
• CACTUS, an air Cherenkov telescope
• Citroën C4 Cactus, a small family car
• Cactus (camera equipment brand)

Military

• USS Cactus (1863), a Union Navy steamer in the American Civil War
• USCGC Cactus (WLB-270), a United States Coast Guard seagoing buoy tender
• Operation Cactus, the Indian Army intervention in the 1988 Maldives coup d'état
• Cactus, the South African designation for the Crotale missile system
• Cactus, a 1958 US nuclear test, part of Operation Hardtack I
• Kaktus, an improvement of Soviet Kontakt-5 armour
• Cactus, US military code name for Guadalcanal Island during World War II

Places

United States

• Cactus, Kansas, a former settlement
• Cactus, Texas, a city
• Cactus Plain, Arizona
• Cactus Range, a small mountain range in Nevada

Elsewhere

• Cactus Beach, a surfing beach in South Australia
• Cactus Ridge, Okinawa, site of fighting in World War II

Business

• Cactus (supermarket), in Luxembourg
• Cactus Theater, in Lubbock, Texas
• Cactus Motor Lodge, in Tucumcari, New Mexico, on the National Register of Historic Places
• Cactus (interbank network), an ATM network in Nevada

People

• Cactus Pete Piersanti (1916–1994), American hotel and casino promoter
• Françoise Cactus (1964–2021), French musician and author
• Richard Cactus Pryor (1923–2011), American broadcaster and humorist
• Jonatan Söderström (born 1985), Swedish independent game developer known as "Cactus"

Other uses

• Cactus, alternative name of the Mammillaria cactus genera
• Cactus (crustacean), the crustacean genus
• Cactus graph or cactus, a type of connected graph
• "The Cactus", a short story by O. Henry from the collection Waifs and Strays
• Cactus, callsign for US Airways
  • Cactus, callsign for the former America West Airlines, which merged into US Airways
• Cacti (software), an open-source, web-based network monitoring and graphing tool
• Cactus Yearbook, for the University of Texas, published by Texas Student Media

See also

• John Nance Garner (1868–1967), 32nd US vice president, nicknamed "Cactus Jack"
• Cactus Air Force, nickname for the USAAF, USMC, and USN air units on Guadalcanal in World War II
• "Les Cactus", a 1967 single by French singer-songwriter Jacques Dutronc
• The Cactus Album, the 1989 debut album of hip hop trio 3rd Bass
• Cactus Plant Flea Market, an American clothing brand established in 2015