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Condor is the common name for two species of birds.
Condor, CONDOR, El Condor, or The Condor may also refer to:
Places
- Condor, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, a municipality
- Condor, Alberta, Canada, a hamlet
- Cerro El Cóndor, a stratovolcano in Argentina
- Condor Peninsula, Palmer Land, Antarctica
- Cordillera del Cóndor, a mountain range in the Andes on the border between Ecuador and Peru
- El Cóndor (Jujuy), Argentina, a town and municipality
- Kuntur (Hispanicized spelling: Condor), a mountain in Peru
People
- Sam Condor, Kittitian politician and the former Deputy Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Condor Laucke (1914-1993), Australian politician
- Mat Hoffman (born 1972), American BMX rider nicknamed "The Condor"
- Kevin Mitnick (born 1963), American computer security consultant, author, and hacker who uses the handle, "The Condor"
- Carlos Manuel Hoo Ramírez (born 1978), alias El Cóndor, imprisoned high-ranking member of the Sinaloa Cartel drug trafficking organization
- Alfred Williams (born 1968), American retired National Football League player nicknamed "The Condor"
Arts, entertainment, and media
Fictional characters
- Condor (comics), a Marvel Comics character
- Condor, a fictional starship featured in the 1964 novel The Invincible by Stanislaw Lem
- Captain Condor, a character in Lion, a weekly British comics periodical (1952-1974)
Films
- El Condor (film), a 1970 Western starring Jim Brown and Lee Van Cleef
- The Condor (film), a 2007 animated superhero film about a character created by Stan Lee
- Three Days of the Condor, 1975 film based on the 1974 novel
Literature
- Condor, a 1984 novel by Graham Masterton (originally published under the name Thomas Luke)
- Six Days of the Condor, 1974 novel
Periodicals
- Cóndor (newspaper), a German-language newspaper published in Chile
- El Cóndor (newspaper), a Chilean newspaper published in Santa Cruz, Colchagua, since 1917
- The Condor (journal), a quarterly scientific journal covering ornithology
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
- Condor (TV series), a television series based on the 1975 film
- The Condor (album), a 1986 album by saxophonist Steve Lacy
Attractions and rides
- Condor (ride), an amusement ride
- El Condor (roller coaster), at Walibi Holland in the Netherlands
Brands and enterprises
- Condor Club, an early strip club in San Francisco, California, that helped set precedent for the legality of nude dancing
- Condor Cycles, a bicycle manufacturer based in London, England
- Condor Films, a film and TV production company based in Zurich, Switzerland
- Stoeger Condor, a type of shotgun
Computing and technology
- Condor High-Throughput Computing System, a framework for distributed computing
- CONDOR secure cell phone, a prototype secure CDMA phone by Qualcomm
- Moto E (1st generation), an Android smartphone made by Motorola with the codename Condor
Military
Aviation
- Condor, a version of the BQM-147 Dragon unmanned aerial vehicle "navalized" for the United States Coast Guard
- AGM-53 Condor, a US Navy air-to-surface missile that did not enter service
- Amarah Air Base, a former Iraqi Air Force base captured by Coalition forces in 2003 and renamed Camp Condor* Antonov An-124, a Ukrainian/Soviet transport aircraft (NATO reporting name "Condor")
- Boeing Condor, a test bed unmanned aerial vehicle
- Condor Group, a fleet of helicopters operated by the Mexico City's Federal District Secretariat of Public Security
- Curtiss B-2 Condor, a 1920s American bomber
- Curtiss T-32 Condor II, a 1930s American biplane bomber, transport, and civilian airliner
- Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor, a German aircraft used for long range maritime patrol and reconnaissance during World War II, derived from an airliner
- HMH-464, United States Marine Corps helicopter squadron known as the Condors
- Schweizer RU-38 Twin Condor, a covert reconnaissance aircraft
Ships
- Condor-class gunvessel, a Royal Navy class of four gunvessels built between 1876 and 1877
- Condor-class sloop, a Royal Navy class of six sloops built between 1898 and 1900
- HMS Condor, two Royal Navy ships and a former Royal Naval Air Station
- SMS Condor, an Imperial German Navy unprotected cruiser
- USS Condor, three US Navy minesweepers
Other uses in military
- Condor (APC), a German armoured personnel carrier, best known for its use by Malaysian forces
- Condor (Argentine missile), a long-range missile developed by Argentina
- Condor A350, a Swiss military motorcycle
- Condor Legion, a Nazi military unit which fought on the Nationalist side during the Spanish Civil War
- Operation Condor (disambiguation), the codename of a number of military operations
- RM Condor, the home base of 45 Commando, Royal Marines, situated in Arbroath on the east coast of Scotland
Sports
- Condor (golf), a score of four under par on any given hole in the sport of golf
- Bakersfield Condors (1998–2015), a defunct minor-league ice hockey team based in California
- Bakersfield Condors (AHL), a minor-league ice hockey team based in California that plays in the American Hockey League
- Club El Condor, ancestor of Bogotá F.C., a Colombian football club
- Jonquière Condors, a former minor pro ice hockey team based in Jonquière, Quebec, Canada
- Pittsburgh Condors, a former American Basketball Association team
Transportation
Air
- ADI Condor, an American motor glider
- Aero Condor, an airline based in Lima, Peru
- Condor Flugdienst GmbH (usually shortened to Condor), a German airline
- Davis-Costin Condor, an all-wood UK sailplane first flown in 1953
- Druine Condor, a French 1950s light aircraft
- El Condor Airport, a former airstrip near El Condor, Tarija, Bolivia
- FMA IA 36 Cóndor, a 1950s projected Argentine jet airliner
- Rolls-Royce Condor, an aircraft piston engine
- Schleicher Condor, a German glider
- Seahawk Condor, an ultralight aircraft
- Southern Condor, an American powered parachute / ultralight aircraft
- TL Ultralight Condor, an ultralight aircraft built in the Czech Republic since the mid-1990s
- Wills Wing Condor, an American hang glider design
Land
- Condor, an express freight service operated by British Rail between London and Glasgow
- Cóndor station, a railway station in Bolivia
- Dennis Dragon (also sold as the Dennis Condor), a double-decker bus manufactured between 1982 and 1999
- Nissan Diesel Condor, a line of medium-duty commercial vehicles introduced in 1975
- Toyota Kijang, a series of pickup trucks and minivans, sold as the Toyota Condor in South Africa
Sea
- Condor (yacht), a racing yacht built in 1981
- Condor, the name of the MV Empire MacKendrick from 1949 to 1955
- Condor Ferries, a ferry company providing service between the Channel Islands, the United Kingdom and France
- Condor of Bermuda, a maxi yacht, earlier named Condor and Heath's Condor
- SS Condor (1893), captured and sunk by Germany in 1914
- SS Condor (1920), in service from 1927 to 1940
Other uses
- Comet Nucleus Dust and Organics Return (CONDOR), a spacecraft mission concept to retrieve a sample from comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko
- Condor Sea Scouts, a Scout Troop established in Chua Chu Kang Secondary School
- Iron condor, an options trading strategy
See also
- El Cóndor Pasa (disambiguation)
- HTCondor, an open-source high-throughput computing software framework
- Kondor (disambiguation)
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