Penguin (disambiguation)

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A penguin is a flightless bird from the Southern Hemisphere.

Penguin or penguins may also refer to:

• Penguin (solitaire), a card game.

Arts and entertainment

• Penguin (character), a villain in the Batman comic books
• The Penguins of Madagascar, an animated television series
• "Penguins", an episode of the television series Teletubbies
• Penguin (book), a children's picture book by Polly Dunbar
• Nickname for the nun who ran the Catholic orphanage in The Blues Brothers (film)
• Opus the Penguin, from the comic strip Bloom County by Berkeley Breathed
• Club Penguin and Club Penguin Island
• Pingu

Music

• The Penguins, a 1950s doo-wop band best known for the hit "Earth Angel"
• Penguin (album), by Fleetwood Mac

Places

• Penguin, Tasmania, Australia, a town
• Penguin Island (disambiguation)
• Penguin Islands, Namibia
• Penguin Islands (Newfoundland and Labrador), Canada
• Penguin River, South Georgia Island
• Penguin Bay, South Georgia Island
• Penguin Bight, Seymour Island
• Penguin Heights, Queen Maud Land, Antarctica
• Penguin Point (disambiguation), three points in the Antarctic

Businesses

• Penguin Group, a publishing company
  • Penguin Books, the British arm of the Penguin Group
• Penguin Computing, an American supplier of computing and cloud computing solutions
• Penguin Software, a 1980s video game publisher
• The Penguin, a Wilmington, North Carolina radio station brand that has broadcast on WGHJ, WFBT (FM), and WUIN (FM)

Sports

• Pittsburgh Penguins, a National Hockey League team
• Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins, an American Hockey League team
• Krefeld Penguins, a Deutsche Eishockey Liga team
• Penguin Football Club, an Australian rules football club based in Penguin, Tasmania
• Dominican Penguins, the sports teams of Dominican University of California
• Youngstown State Penguins, the sports teams of Youngstown State University
• Penguin (dinghy), a class of racing sailboat
• Ron Cey (born 1948), American retired Major League Baseball player nicknamed "The Penguin"
• Penguins Cup, an ice hockey tournament for over 80 high school teams from western Pennsylvania

In the military

• HMS Penguin, various Royal Navy ships
• USS Penguin, three United States Navy ships
• HMAS Penguin, various Royal Australian Navy ships and shore installations
• Penguin (missile), an anti-ship missile in service since 1972

Transportation

• MV Penguin, a cargo liner in commission with the United States Bureau of Fisheries from 1930 to 1940 and with the United States Fish and Wildlife Service from 1940 to 1950
• MV Penguin II, a United States Fish and Wildlife Service ship in commission from 1950 to 1963
• SS Penguin, a New Zealand ferry which sank near Wellington in 1909
• MacCready Gossamer Penguin, a solar-powered experimental aircraft
• Antarctic Snow Cruiser, a 1930s vehicle designed for transport in Antarctic, also known as "The Penguin" and "Penguin 1"

Food

• Penguin Mints, a brand of caffeinated mints
• Penguin (biscuit), a brand of chocolate biscuit

Other uses

• Google Penguin, an update to natural search engine rankings by Google
• Penguin Award, an annual award given for excellence in broadcasting by the Television Society of Australia
• Penguin High School, Penguin, Tasmania

See also

• Pinguin (disambiguation)