Ulysses

Last updated July 18, 2025

Ulysses is the Latin name for Odysseus, a legendary Greek hero recognized for his intelligence and cunning. He is famous for his long, adventurous journey home to Ithaca after the Trojan War, as narrated in Homer's Odyssey.

People

Ulysses (given name), including a list of people with this name

Places

5254 Ulysses, an asteroid

Places in the United States

Animals

Ulysses butterfly (Papilio ulysses) a butterfly endemic to Australasia
Ulysses (horse) (born 2013), a thoroughbred racehorse

Arts and entertainment

Literature

"Ulysses" (poem), by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Ulysses (play), a 1705 play by Nicholas Rowe
Ulysses, a 1902 play by Stephen Phillips
Ulysses (novel), by James Joyce
- Ulysses (broadcast), a 1982 RTÉ Radio broadcast of the entire text of the novel
HMS Ulysses (novel), by Alistair Maclean
Ulysses (comics), two members of a fictional group in the Marvel Comics universe
Ulysses Klaue, a character in Marvel comic books
Ulysses: Jeanne d'Arc and the Alchemist Knight, a light novel

Film and television

Ulysses (1954 film), starring Kirk Douglas based on the story of Homer's Odyssey
Ulysses (1967 film), based on Joyce's novel
Ulysses (2011 film), a 2011 Chilean film
Ulysses (broadcast), a dramatised radio broadcast of Joyce's novel
Ulysses 31 , a French-Japanese anime television program
Ulixes, a fictional spacecraft in the 4th season of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Music

Ulysse (Rebel), a 1703 French opera by Jean-Fery Rebel
Ulisse , a 1968 Italian opera by Luigi Dallapiccola
Ulysses, a 1947 English-language cantata by Mátyás Seiber
Ulysses (American band), an American indie rock band
Ulysses (German band), a German progressive rock band
Ulysses (EP), by Shimamiya Eiko, 2005
"Ulysses" (song), by Franz Ferdinand, 2008
"Ullyses", a song by Dead Can Dance from the 1988 album The Serpent's Egg
"tales of brave ulysses" - a song by the British rock group cream

Video games

Ulysses 1994XF04, a fictional asteroid in the video game Ace Combat
Ulysses, an assumed name of the antagonist of the Fallout: New Vegas expansion Lonesome Road

Events and storms

Typhoon Dolphin (2008), a 2008 Pacific Typhoon known as Ulysses in the Philippines
Typhoon Vamco, a 2020 Pacific Typhoon known as Ulysses in the Philippines

Science and technology

ULYSSES (cable system), a submarine communications cable network
Ulysses (robot), a bomb-detecting robot
Ulysses (spacecraft), a space probe designed to study the Sun
Ulysses (text editor), a software product for creative writing

Sport

Ulisses FC, a defunct Armenian football club
Ulysses F.C., a former English football club

Vehicles

Maritime

Ulysses (yacht), a 116-meter expedition yacht
HMS Ulysses, four ships of the British Royal Navy
MV Ulysses, any of several ships
SS Ulysses, any of several ships
- SS Ulysses (1914), a World War I-era steel-hulled screw steamer
USS Ulysses, any of several ships of the U.S. Navy
- USS Ulysses (ARB-9), a battle damage repair ship of the U.S. Navy

Other vehicles

Ulysses (spacecraft), a space probe designed to study the Sun
Ulysses, manufactured by the Buell Motorcycle Company
Ulysses (later Grierson), a GWR 3031 Class locomotive on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915
Fiat Ulysse

Other uses

Ulysses Club, an international motorcycling club