Edelweiss (disambiguation)
Edelweiss (German: Edelweiß) is a European mountain flower. (mentioned in a song sung by Captain in the movie The Sound of Music, 1965) Edelweiss may also refer to:
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People
- Edelweiss (actress) (born 1977), a Russian-Bulgarian pornographic actress
- Edelweiss Cheung (born 1985), Miss Hong Kong 2008
- Edelweis Rodriguez (1911–1962), Italian Olympic boxer
Plants
- Edelweiss (grape), a table and white wine grape
- Chasselas or Edelweiss, a wine grape
- Javanese edelweiss or Anaphalis javanica, a plant species found on the mountains of Indonesia
- Leontopodium
- Rauschling Edelweiss or Completer, a wine grape
Arts, entertainment, and media
Gaming
- Edelweiss, an expansion module for the Panzer Grenadier series board games
- Edelweiss, a tank prototype in the videogame Valkyria Chronicles
Literature
- Edelweiss (magazine), a magazine published by Ringier in Switzerland
- Edelweiss (visual novel), a 2008 Japanese visual novel developed by Overdrive
- Edelweiss, an online book publishers' catalogue by Above the Treeline
- Edelweiss, capital of the fictional European nation of Graustark.
Music
- Edelweiß (album), a 1982 album by Joachim Witt
- Edelweiss (band), an Austrian band in the late 1980s and early 1990s
- "Edelweiss" (song), a 1959 show tune from the Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music
- Edelweiss, a piano solo, Op. 31 by Gustav Lange
- "Es war ein Edelweiss", a 1941 marching song (popular during World War II) by Herms Niel
Brands and enterprises
- Edelweiss (beer), a brewery and beer in Austria
- Edelweiss Air, a Swiss charter airline
- Edelweiss Lodge and Resort, an AFRC hotel complex in Germany run by the United States military
- Edelweiss Pianos or Edelweiss, a British piano company
- Edelweiss Valley or Edelweiss, a ski resort in Quebec
Nazi-related
- Edelweiss (anti-partisan unit), a German anti-partisan unit organized on the Slovak territory during World War II
- Edelweiss Pirates, an anti-Nazi youth culture in Germany before, during, and after World War II
- Kampfgeschwader 51 "Edelweiss", a World War II German Luftwaffe bomber group
- Operation Edelweiss, a German plan to capture the Caucasus and the oil fields of Baku in World War II
Transport vehicles
- Edelweiss (train), an international express train in Europe
- Duruble Edelweiss or Edelweiss, a French light utility monoplane designed by Roland Duruble
- Siren Edelweiss, a French glider produced by SIREN as the C30S Edelweiss
Other uses
- Edelweiss (skyscraper), a building in Moscow
- Edelweiss (political party), a regional political party of Aosta Valley (Italy)
- EDELWEISS, a European experiment searching for dark matter
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