Hyperion

Not to be confused with hyperon.

Hyperion may refer to:

Greek mythology

• Hyperion (Titan), one of the twelve Titans
• Hyperion, a byname of the Sun, Helios
• Hyperion of Troy or Yperion, son of King Priam

Science

• Hyperion (moon), a moon of the planet Saturn
• Hyperion (beetle), a genus of beetles in the family Carabidae
• Hyperion (tree), a coast redwood in Northern California and the world's tallest known living tree
• Hyperion proto-supercluster, a supercluster of galaxy groups discovered in 2018
• Project Hyperion (interstellar), preliminary study of a crewed interstellar starship or generation ship

Literature

• Hyperion (Hölderlin novel), a 1799 book by Friedrich Hölderlin
• Hyperion (poem), a 1819 poem by John Keats
• Hyperion (Longfellow novel), an 1839 book by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Hyperion (Simmons novel), a 1989 novel by Dan Simmons
  • Hyperion Cantos , the series of novels that started with Hyperion
• Hyperion (magazine), a 1908–1910 German literary journal
• Hyperion (comics), the name of several characters in the Marvel Comics universe

Music

• Hyperion (Gesaffelstein album) or the title song, 2019
• Hyperion (Manticora album), 2002
• Hyperion (Marilyn Crispell, Peter Brötzmann and Hamid Drake album) or the title song, 1995
• Hyperion (EP), by Krallice, or the title song, 2016
• Hyperion, an album by St. Lucia, 2018
• "Hyperion", a song by McFly from The Lost Songs , 2020
• Hyperion Records, a British classical music label

Businesses and organizations

• Hachette Books, a book publishing division known until 2014 as Hyperion Books
• Hyperion Books for Children, a book publisher
• Hyperion Entertainment, a computer game producer
• Hyperion Pictures, a film production company
• Hyperion Power Generation, a nuclear power company
• Hyperion Press
• Hyperion Records, an independent British classical music label
• Hyperion Theatricals, part of Disney Theatrical Group
• Oracle Hyperion, a business software company owned by Oracle

Places and facilities

• Hyperion, California, a stop on the Redondo Beach via Playa del Rey Line
• Hyperion Theater, a theater at the Disney California Adventure theme park in Anaheim, California
• Hyperion sewage treatment plant, Playa del Rey, California
• Hyperion Tower (or Mok-dong Hyperion Towers), Seoul, South Korea

Fictional entities and characters

• Hyperion, the flagship of Jim Raynor in StarCraft
• Hyperion Corporation, an organization in the Borderlands series
• Hyperion, a Gallente battleship in Eve Online
• Hyperion UCS Mk.XII, a military satellite from Einhänder
• Hyperion, Seifer Almasy's weapon in Final Fantasy VIII
• Ark Hyperion, one of the four Ark starships in Mass Effect: Andromeda
• Hyperion, an airship in the film The Island at the Top of the World
• Hyperion, an airship in the novel Skybreaker
• Hyperion, a ship in the TV series Skyland
• Hyperion, the flagship of Yang Wenli, a Legend of the Galactic Heroes character
• Emperor Hyperion, chief of the alien villains' race in the anime series Gekiganger III
• Hyperion Hotel, a fictional home base for Angel in the television series Angel
• Hyperion, a fictional boss in the video game Returnal
• Hyperion Class Heavy Cruiser, a class of warship used by the Earth Alliance in J. Michael Straczynski's Babylon 5

Computing

• Hyperion (computer), an early portable computer
• Hyperion, a RuneScape emulator by Graham Edgecombe
• Hyperion, a hyperspectral imaging spectrometer on the NASA Earth Observing-1 satellite
• Hyperion, Disney's rendering system first used for Big Hero 6 (film)
• Nvidia Drive Hyperion, a series of semiconductor related evaluation board and software bundles for high end automotive computation purposes

Ships

• Hyperion (ship), three commercial ships
• Hyperion (yacht), a large sloop launched in 1998
• HMS Hyperion, three ships of the British Royal Navy
• USS Hyperion (AK-107), a World War II US Navy cargo ship

Other uses

• Hyperion (horse) (1930–1960), a British Thoroughbred horse
• Hyperion (roller coaster), a roller coaster in Poland
• Hyperion, a sculpture by Angela Laich after the Friedrich Hölderlin novel
• Hyperion, a version of the Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupé
• Hyperion XP-1 hydrogen-powered "supercar" from Hyperion Motors.

See also

• Hyper
• Hyperia