Oryx (disambiguation)

Oryx is an antelope genus.

Oryx or ORYX may also refer to:

Biology and medicine

• ORYX, The Joint Commission performance measurement initiative (healthcare)

Fiction

• Oryx, one of the title characters of the 2003 Margaret Atwood novel Oryx and Crake
• Oryx, name of the antagonist in the Destiny: The Taken King expansion of the video game Destiny
• Oryx, the antagonist in the MMORPG Realm of the Mad God
• Cthulhu Mythos deities § Oryx, an Elder god in the Cthulhu Mythos

Geography

• Oryx (ancient city), an ancient city in Arcadia
• Oryx, a name of the 16th nome of ancient Upper Egypt, centered on what is now Minya, Egypt

Media

• Oryx (journal), a scientific journal of conservation biology
• Oryx (website), an investigative OSINT research website, recently known for tracking equipment losses during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
• Oryx (publisher), an imprint subsumed by Greenwood Publishing

Sports

• Oryx Douala, a football club from Douala, Cameroon

Technology

• Atlas Oryx, a helicopter
• Oryx, the in-flight entertainment system on Qatar Airways
• Sea Oryx, a Taiwanese missile
• ORYX, an encryption algorithm
• ORYX GTL, a synthetic fuel plant in Qatar

See also

• Orix, a Japanese financial company