Magneto (disambiguation)

A magneto is a permanent magnet electrical generator. Magneto may also refer to:

Fictional characters

• Magneto (Marvel Comics), a comic book character in the Marvel Comics Universe
  • Magneto (film series character), the X-Men film series adaptation
• Magneto (Amalgam Comics), based in part on the character Magneto from Marvel Comics
• Magneto (Atlas Comics), a different comic book character, created by Stan Lee before Atlas became Marvel
• Captain Lance Magneto, title character of the shareware adventure game Cap'n Magneto

Music

• Magneto (band), a Mexican boy band of the 1980s and 1990s
• "Magneto" (song), the debut single of the British group Brigade
• "Magneto", a track on Skeleton Tree, by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
• "Magneto", a song on Solid Pleasure, the first Yello album

Other uses

• Operation Magneto, a 1985 South African military operation
• Magneto, codename for Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0
• Portuguese name of Magnetum, an ancient town and former bishopric, now Meinedo in Portugal and a Latin Catholic titular see, now Lousada
• Ignition magneto, self-contained ignition system for internal combustion engines

See also

• Magento, an e-commerce software package