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Zephyr may refer to a light wind or west wind. It may also refer to:
Arts and media
Fiction
- Zephyr (film), a 2010 Turkish film
Fictional characters
- Zephyr (comics), a character in the Marvel Comics universe
- Zephyr (Queer as Folk), a fictional comic book character created by characters in Queer as Folk
- Characters named Zephyr also appear in:
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame II, a film (voiced by Haley Joel Osmond)
- Need for Speed Rivals, a video game
- One Piece, a manga series
- Ratchet & Clank, a video game series
- Resonance of Fate, a video game
- Tornado Outbreak, a video game
- Warframe, a video game
Fictional concepts and objects
- In Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series), a space ship
- In the novel Boy's Life, an Alabama town and setting of the novel
- In the 2010 film Knight and Day, a prototype battery, the Zephyr, capable of perpetual energy output
- In The Twilight Zone episode "The Mighty Casey", The Hoboken Zephyrs, a baseball team
- In the children's book The Wreck of the Zephyr, a sailboat
Music
Performers
- Zephyr (band), a blues-based hard rock band formed in 1968 in Boulder, Colorado
- Zephyr (musical project), music by composer Elizabeth Henshaw
- The Zephyrs, an Edinburgh, Scotland-based indie band
- Zephyr Quartet, a string quartet based in Adelaide, South Australia
Radio stations
Recordings
- Zephyr (Zephyr album)
- Zephyr (Basement Jaxx album), a 2009 EP by Basement Jaxx
- [[Zephyr (Madeon song)|"Zephyr" (Madeon song)]], written and produced by Madeon, from the album Adventure
- "Zephyr", a song from the Mary Chapin Carpenter album The Age of Miracles
- "Zephyr", a song by one man project Conjure One (Rhys Fulber) from the album Exilarch
- Zephyr National, Tom Fogerty's third solo album
- "The Zephyr Song", from the Red Hot Chili Peppers' album By the Way
- [[Zephyrus (Bloc Party song)|"Zephyrus" (Bloc Party song)]], by the band Bloc Party, on their album Intimacy
Other media
- Zephyr (sculpture), a 1998 stainless steel sculpture by Steve Wooldridge on the IUPUI campus
Businesses
- Zephyr Books, a publishing imprint of the Continental Book Company in the 1940s
- Zephyr Headwear, a headwear company
- Zephyr Technology, a medical technology company
People
- Zephyr (artist), graffiti artist from New York City
- Zephyr Teachout, professor at Fordham University and former candidate for governor of New York
- Mikhail Mukasei, codename Zephyr, Soviet spy active from the 1940s through the 1970s
Places
- Zephyr, Ontario, Canada
- Zephyr, North Carolina, US
- Zephyr, Texas, US
- Zephyr Cove, Nevada, US
- Zephyr Glacier, in Antarctica
Science and technology
Computing
- Xephyr, a KDrive-based X server which targets a window on a host X Server as its framebuffer
- Zephyr (operating system), small real-time operating system
- Zephyr (protocol), an instant messenger protocol and application-suite
- Zephyr, a hardware revision of Microsoft's Xbox 360 video game console
Other uses in science and technology
- Zephyranthes, a plant genus whose species include the zephyr lily
Transport
Aviation
- Advanced Aviation Zephyr, ultralight, homebuilt aircraft
- Addyman Zephyr, a one-off, single seat sailplane
- ATEC Zephyr, Czech ultralight aircraft manufactured by ATEC
- Bartlett Zephyr, light, civil aircraft of the 1940s
- Fouga Zéphyr, a carrier-capable jet trainer for the French Navy, based on the Fouga Magister
- Qinetiq Zephyr, a solar powered unmanned air vehicle
- RAE Zephyr, 1923 pusher biplane
Maritime
- Zephyr (dinghy), a New Zealand sailing dinghy class
- Zephyr (schooner), an 1842 opium clipper
- Zephyr (steamboat), a sternwheel steamboat of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet
- HMS Zephyr, eight ships of the British Royal Navy
- RV Zephyr, research vessel
- USS Zephyr (PC-8), United States Navy ship
- Zephyr Seaport Liberty Cruise, a sightseeing service operated by Circle Line Downtown in New York
Rail
- Ak-Sar-Ben Zephyr, a passenger train operated by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
- American Royal Zephyr, a streamlined passenger train service operated by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad between Chicago and Kansas City
- California Zephyr, a diesel-powered passenger train, originally famous for its use of Vista-Dome cars
- Denver Zephyr, passenger service between Denver and Chicago
- General Pershing Zephyr, the ninth of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad's Zephyr streamliners
- Illinois Zephyr, a 258-mile (415 km) passenger train service operated by Amtrak that runs between Chicago and Quincy, Illinois
- Kansas City Zephyr, a passenger train service between Kansas City and Chicago
- Mark Twain Zephyr, an early articulated trainset that was similar to the Pioneer Zephyr in style
- Minnesota Zephyr, a heritage railroad operating out of Stillwater, Minnesota
- Nebraska Zephyr, a named passenger train of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (CB&Q, commonly known by the shorter name of "Burlington")
- Pioneer Zephyr, a diesel-powered railroad train set built in 1934 for the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
- Rio Grande Zephyr, a passenger train operated by Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad (D&RGW or Rio Grande) between Denver, Colorado and Ogden, Utah
- Sam Houston Zephyr, a named passenger train operated by the Burlington-Rock Island Railroad, and the first streamlined passenger train in Texas
- San Francisco Zephyr, the name adopted in June 1972 for the Amtrak passenger train between Chicago, Illinois and the San Francisco Bay Area in California
- Silver Streak Zephyr, a train service of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad in the American midwest. It ran from 1940 through 1959
- Texas Zephyr, a passenger service between Denver and Dallas
- Twin Cities Zephyr, a streamlined passenger train service of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (CB&Q)
- Zephyr Rocket, a passenger train operated jointly by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad and Rock Island Railroad
- British Rail Class 180, Diesel Multiple Units operated by Grand Central in England
Road
- Ford Zephyr, an automobile
- Kawasaki Zephyr, a motorbike
- Lincoln-Zephyr, an automobile produced from 1936 to 1942
- Lincoln MKZ, an automobile, originally named the Lincoln Zephyr
- Mercury Zephyr, an automobile
Sport
- Zephyr (garment), a garment used in competitive rowing
- Chicago Zephyrs, former name of the NBA franchise currently known as the Washington Wizards
- Muskegon Zephyrs, former ice hockey team
- New Orleans Zephyrs, the former name of the Pacific Coast League franchise now known as the New Orleans Baby Cakes
- Zephyr skateboard team, also known as Z-boys, in the 1970s
Other uses
- Zephyrus, one of the Anemoi and the Greek god of the west wind
- Zephyr (cloth), a lightweight cotton fabric
- Zephyr, a cultural festival of Orissa Engineering College
- Zephyr, a wooden roller coaster which was a main attraction at Pontchartrain Beach, a former amusement park in New Orleans, Louisiana
See also
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