Lightning (disambiguation)

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Lightning is an atmospheric discharge of electricity.

Lightning or Lightnin' may also refer to:

In the military

• Lockheed P-38 Lightning, an American fighter aircraft of World War II
• Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II, a US/UK fighter aircraft, the Joint Strike Fighter
• English Electric Lightning, a supersonic British fighter aircraft of the Cold War era
• HMS Lightning, various Royal Navy ships
• 78th Infantry Division (United States), nicknamed "Lightning"
• Operation Lightning (disambiguation), several military operations
• Forward Operating Base Lightning, a military base in Afghanistan operated by NATO

Firearms

• Colt Lightning Carbine, a rifle manufactured between 1884 and 1904
• AMT Lightning, a line of semi-automatic firearms in the 1980s and 1990s

• AMT Lightning pistol
• AMT Lightning 25/22 rifle

Sports teams

Computing

• Lightning (software), an extension that adds calendar and scheduling functionality to the Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail client
• GNU lightning, a library for Just-in-time compilation
• Lightning (connector), a power and data bus for Apple iPhone, iPod, and iPad products
• Salesforce.com#Lightning, the public frontend to the Salesforce.com platform

Transportation

Arts and entertainment

Places

• Lightning (Atlanta), a former neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia, United States
• Lightning Peak (disambiguation), several mountain peaks in Canada and the United States
• Lightning Lake, British Columbia, Canada

People

• Lightnin' Hopkins (1912-1982), American country blues singer, songwriter and guitarist Sam John Hopkins
• Lightnin' Slim (1913-1974), African-American blues musician born Otis V. Hicks
• Crystle Lightning (born 1981), American/Canadian actress and musician
• Cody Lightning (born 1986), Cree Native American actor
• Georgina Lightning, Canadian First Nations film director, screenwriter and actress, mother of Crystle and Cody Lightning
• Royston Lightning, Australian rugby league player
• Lightning (Gladiators), Kim Betts (born 1971), English bodybuilder and a star of the UK version of the TV show Gladiators
• Lightning, ring name of American professional wrestler Jeff Farmer, half of the tag-team the original Thunder and Lightning
• Lightning (wrestler), Puerto Rican professional wrestler, half of the tag-team Thunder and Lightning
• Lightning, female professional wrestler, half of the tag-team Thunderbolt and Lightning from the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling
• Lightning, female member of the TV show UK Gladiators
• Tim Horner, American professional wrestler, nicknamed White Lightning

Other uses

• Lightning, the horse of the mythical American cowboy Pecos Bill
• Lightning, the mascot of Middle Tennessee State University

See also

• All pages beginning with Lightning
• Lightning Stakes, an Australian thoroughbred horse race
• Lightning Network, a software that attempts to solve the bitcoin scalability problem by using off-chain transactions