Charon (disambiguation)

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Charon, in Greek mythology, is the ferryman who carried the souls of the dead to the underworld.

Charon may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

  • Caronte (album) (Charon), a 1971 album by Italian band The Trip
  • Charon (band), a Finnish gothic metal band
  • Charon (CrossGen), a comic book character from CrossGen Entertainment's Sigilverse
  • Charon (Dungeons & Dragons), a lord of the Yugoloths whose primary function is to provide passage across the River Styx for a steep price
  • Charon (Marvel Comics), a villainous wizard
  • Charon (The Three Worlds), a fictional human species from Ian Irvine's arc of novels, The Three Worlds Cycle
  • Charon, an Eve Online freighter
  • Charon, a summon from a password-enhanced Golden Sun: The Lost Age and Golden Sun: Dark Dawn
  • Charon V, a fictional submarine in Michael Crichton's novel Sphere
  • Commander Charon, one of the Galactic Commanders from Pokémon Platinum

People with the name

  • Charon, a Theban military commander (fl. mid-4th century BC); see Androcydes
  • Charon of Naucratis, a historian
  • Charon of Carthage, a historian
  • Charon of Lampsacus, a historian
  • Alexios Charon, early 11th-century Byzantine official
  • Charon Asetoyer (born 1951), Comanche activist and women's health advocate
  • Carl Charon (born 1940), former American football player
  • Jacques Charon (1920–1975), French actor and film director
  • Jean-Émile Charon (1920–1998), French nuclear physicist, philosopher and writer.
  • Joel M. Charon (1939–2018), professor emeritus of sociology at Minnesota State University at Moorhead
  • Rita Charon (born 1949), physician and literary scholar
  • Viala Charon (1794–1880), French soldier, Governor General of Algeria, Senator of France

Places

  • Charon (moon), a moon of the dwarf planet Pluto
  • Charon, Louisiana, United States, an unincorporated community in Vermilion Parish

Science and technology

  • Charon (gun), an open source 3D-printable gun
  • Charon (arachnid), a genus of whipspider
  • Charon (software), a legacy hardware emulator for VAX, Alpha, HP 3000, PDP-11, and SPARC systems
  • Charon (web browser), a web browser for the Inferno operating system
  • Blue Origin Charon, the first flight test vehicle of Blue Origin

Other uses

  • Charon (horse), a racehorse
  • HMS Charon, several ships of the British Royal Navy

See also

  • Caron (disambiguation)
  • Eugenie Margeurite Honoree Charen (1786–1855), French painter
  • Mona Charen (born 1957), American columnist, political analyst and writer
  • Charron (disambiguation)
  • Charun (disambiguation)
  • Chaeron (disambiguation)
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