Draco
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Draco is the Latin word for dragon.
Draco can also refer to:
Science
- Draco (constellation), a constellation in the northern part of the sky
- Draco (dwarf galaxy), a dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way
- Draco (genus), a genus of gliding lizards
History
- Draco (lawgiver), the first lawgiver of ancient Athens, Greece, from whom the term draconian is derived
- Draco (physician), the name of several physicians in the family of Hippocrates
- Draco (military standard), a Roman cavalry military standard in the shape of a dragon
Literature, film, and television
- Draco Malfoy, a character in the Harry Potter series of books and movies
- Draco (comics), a dragon-like humanoid in Marvel Comics
- Draco, a dragon in the film Dragonheart
- Draco, a warlord character in the television series Xena: Warrior Princess
- Antares Draco, an Imperial Knight from Star Wars: Legacy
- Jaq Draco, an Inquisitor who is the protagonist of Ian Watson's Inquisition War Trilogy
Games
- Draco Centauros, a dragon-like humanoid from the Puyo Puyo video game series
- Draco, a 9/9 Artifact Dragon from the card game Magic: The Gathering
- Draco, a character in the fictional opera The Dream Oath: Maria and Draco in Final Fantasy VI
- Draco, a black dragon found in the Kasumanium Mines in Dark Ages (computer game)
- Draco Black, the Guild Leader of the legendary The Lost Haven guild in Guild Wars
Other uses
- Draco (programming language), a shareware programming language for CP/M and the Amiga
- Draco, a supposed reptilian humanoid alien race that has been purported to exist by certain UFO conspiracy theorists
- Draco Racing, a motorsports team
- An orbital maneuvering thruster being built for the SpaceX Dragon and upper stage of the Falcon 9 spacecraft
- Robi Draco Rosa, a Puerto Rican songwriter and member of the band Menudo
- Draco (Linux distribution), an operating system
- Draco (domain engineering system) a prototypical software system to develop applications by means of domain specific languages and transformation (see http://www.bayfronttechnologies.com/thesis.pdf)
- A guitar built by BC Rich guitars. It has a cutaway V body with Rockfeild pickups.
- B.C. Rich Draco V Electric Guitar, a heavy metal guitar.
- Polish Starcraft progamer, currently living in Korea
- An evil person who wants to take over the galaxy in the original play COSMICAL, played by Levi Kidder
- Draco (Roman god of dragon's fire), Draco Ketsoff the sun of Feronia (Roman goddess of fertility) and Soranus (Roman god of the underworld) and the god of dragons' fire
- Andres Salazar is called Draco
- Draco, a fictional lizard described in the 2005 book The World of Kong.
- Draco, a popular administrator of Wc3campaigns.
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