Dragon (disambiguation)

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Contents 1 Mythological dragons 2 Wikinfo articles 3 Real lizards 4 Other real animals 5 Plants 6 Culture & arts 6.1 Stories in text 6.2 Music 7 Games 8 Sport 9 Vehicles 10 Mathematics and computing 11 Companies and institutions 12 People 13 Religion 14 Dragons in fiction 15 Roller coasters 16 Other uses 17 See also

Dragon can mean:

Mythological dragons

• Dragon, a large and powerful mythological creature that appears throughout the world's cultures.
  • Chinese dragon
  • Chuvash dragon
  • European dragon
  • Japanese dragon
  • Korean dragon
  • Slavic dragon
  • Vietnamese dragon
  • Welsh dragon

Wikinfo articles

• Dragon Storm (astronomy)
• Dragon kill points

Real lizards

• Komodo Dragon (Varanus komodoensis), the largest living lizard in the world
• Bearded Dragon, the common name for any agamid lizard in the genus Pogona
• Australian Water Dragon (Physignathus lesueurii), an arboreal agamid native to Eastern Australia
• Military Dragon, a lizard Ctenophorus isolepis gularis or Ctenophorus maculatus
• Lake Eyre Dragon, a lizard Ctenophorus maculosus which lives on salt pans in Australia
• Various genera of Australian lizards: Amphibolurus, Caimanops, Chelosania, Cryptagama, Ctenophorus, Diporiphora, Hypsilurus, Lophognathus, Physignathus, Pogona, Tympanocryptis
• Flying Dragon, the common name for any species in the genus Draco but especially Draco volans

Other real animals

• Dragonfly, a flying insect of the order Odonata, infraorder Anisoptera
• Green Peafowl (Pavo muticus), nicknamed Dragonbird, an endangered species of Peafowl
• Leafy Sea Dragon (Phycodurus eques), a species of fish
• Weedy Sea Dragon (Phyllopteryx taeniolatus), a species of fish

Plants

• Dragon Spruce (Picea asperata), a medium-sized evergreen tree
• Dracaena (plant), a genus known as dragon trees
• Snapdragon (Antirrhinum majus), a small annual flowering plant
• Tarragon (Artemisia dracunculus), a perennial herb sometimes known as dragon

Culture & arts

• Dragon (zodiac), a sign in the Chinese zodiac
• Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, a fictionalized biographical film about Bruce Lee
  • The Dragon and The George (1976)
  • The Dragon Knight (1990)
• Dragons: A Fantasy Made Real, a fictional documentary depicting dragons as real, released in Europe as The Last Dragon
• The Flight of Dragons, an animated movie
• "The Dragon" (poem) (1996), by the Iraqi poet Abd al-Wahhab Al-Bayyati

Stories in text

• Dragon (novel), an adventure novel by Clive Cussler
• Dragon (Steven Brust novel), a fantasy novel by Steven Brust
• Dragon (fantasy series), a tetralogy of fantasy novels by Laurence Yep
• Dragon: the Old Potter's Tale, a short story by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
• "The Dragon (story)" (1955), a short story by Ray Bradbury
• Dragon Knight, a fantasy novel series by Gordon R. Dickson and novels that it includes
• Dragon (TV series), a children's animated show based on the character created by Dav Pilkey

Music

• Dragon (album), an album by ukelele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro
• Dragon Records (founded 1975), a Swedish Jazz record label
• "Dragon", a song by The Sugarcubes from their 1988 album Life's Too Good
• Dragon (band), a New Zealand rock band
• The Dragon, a 1978 album by Vangelis

Games

• Dragon (magazine), a magazine for Dungeons & Dragons players
• Snap-dragon (game), a parlour game popular from the 16th to 19th centuries
• Dragon's Lair, a popular laserdisc video game, released in 1983
• Double Dragon, a classic beat 'em up video game
• Dragon Quest, a series of role-playing video games created by Enix
• DragonQuest, a fantasy role-playing game originally published by Simulations Publications in 1980
• Sicilian Defence, Dragon Variation, an opening sequence in chess
• Dragon tiles, the red, green and white Mahjong honor tiles representing Chinese dragons
• Dragon weapon from the video game Perfect Dark for Nintendo 64
• DragonFable, the companion to AdventureQuest
• A type of Pokémon in the Pokémon games: see Dragon-type Pokémon
• A version of the video games Megaman Star Force, which is Gamestop exclusive
• The Dagger of Xian, featured in Tomb Raider II, gives its user the power to become a Dragon.
• Spyro the Dragon (series)
• A rare red color metal found in the MMORPG Runescape. It can also refer to the species of dragons as well.
• Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon, a re-make of the first Fire Emblem for the Nintendo DS.

Sport

• Dragon boat, a long and narrow boat used in the Chinese team paddling sport of Dragon boat racing
• Dragon (keelboat), a class of racing sailboats
• Newport Gwent Dragons, a rugby union team that plays in the Celtic League/Heineken Cup
• Catalans Dragons, a French rugby league team that plays in the Engage Super League
• St George Dragons, Australian rugby league team
• St George Illawarra Dragons, a team in the National Rugby League in Australia
• San Francisco Dragons, a Major League Lacrosse team based in California, United States
• Wales national rugby union team, nicknamed The Dragons
• Drexel Dragons, Drexel University's sport teams
• Welcoat Dragons, a team in the Philippine Basketball Association
• Chunichi Dragons, a Japanese baseball team
• MSUM Dragons, Mascot of the Minnesota State University Moorhead sports teams
• Dublin Dragons, an American Football team playing in Dublin, Ireland
• New York Dragons, an American Arena Football League team.
• Dragón, an El Salvadoran football club
• The Dragon (road), a popular motorsporting destination near Deals Gap, North Carolina, United States
• Don "The Dragon" Wilson (born 1954), American champion kickboxer and actor

Vehicles

• Dragon (rocket), a two-stage French sounding rocket
• HMS Dragon, one of several British Royal Navy ships
• SpaceX Dragon, a conventional blunt-cone ballistic capsule spacecraft
• B-23 Dragon, a twin-engined bomber developed by Douglas Aircraft Company
• de Havilland Dragon, wooden biplane with twin engines designed as an airliner
• de Havilland Dragon Rapide, its successor
• Dennis Dragon, a 3-axle double decker bus manufactured by Dennis Specialist Vehicles
• Dragon (1848­–1872), a GWR Iron Duke Class steam locomotive
• Dragon (1873–1892), one of the ten South Devon Railway Buffalo class steam locomotives
• Dragon (1880–1892), a GWR Rover class steam locomotive

Mathematics and computing

• Dragon chip, a name sometimes used for the Chinese Loongson (龙芯) CPU family
• Dragon curve, a family of fractal curves
• Dragon 32/64, home computers built in the 1980s
• Dragon (cipher), a stream cipher
• DragonDictate and Dragon NaturallySpeaking, speech recognition software
• DRAGON (program) an open source nuclear reactor simulator http://www.polymtl.ca/nucleaire/DRAGON/en/ http://www.polymtl.ca/merlin/faq.htm

Companies and institutions

• The Dragon Academy, a small, private high school in Toronto, Ontario
• Dragon Automobile Company, a defunct American automobile manufacturer
• Dragon Data, a defunct British computer manufacturer of the 1980s
• Dragon Models Limited, a Hong Kong-based manufacturer of plastic model kits and military figures
• Dragon Models USA, their American branch
• Dragon School, a renowned British preparatory school in Oxford, named after their rugby team, "The Dragons"

People

• Vlad II Dracul (cca. 1390–1447), or Vlad II the Dragon, a voivode (prince) of Wallachia
• Vlad III the Impaler (1431–1476), or Vlad Dracula, his son
• Carmen Dragon
• Daryl Dragon
• Justin Dragon (born 1976), a pornographic actor from the United States

Religion

• Satan, depicted as a red Dragon with seven heads and ten horns in the Book of Revelation

Dragons in fiction

See also List of fictional dragons.

• Dragon (Middle-earth), featured J. R. R. Tolkien's universe of Middle-earth
• Dragon (Wheel of Time), featured in Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time fantasy series
• Dragon (Dungeons & Dragons), featured in the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) role-playing game
• Dragons (Dragon Prince), featured in Melanie Rawn's Dragon Prince series
• Dragons (Pern), featured in Anne McCaffery's Dragonriders of Pern series
• Dragon (Shrek), featured in the Shrek film series
• Krayt dragon, a large carnivorous reptile native to Tatooine in the Star Wars universe
• Luckdragon, featured in Michael Ende's novel The Neverending Story
• Swamp dragon (Draco vulgaris), featured in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels

Roller coasters

• Dragon (Adventureland), a steel roller coaster located at Adventureland in Altoona, Iowa, United States.
• The Dragon (Ocean Park), a steel roller coaster located at Ocean Park in Hong Kong.

Other uses

• Draco (constellation)
• M47 Dragon, an American shoulder-fired anti-tank missile system
• HMM-265 - United States Marine Corps helicopter squadron known as the Dragons.
• Dragon Cone, a volcano in British Columbia, Canada
• The dragon, a handgun form of the blunderbuss, from which the name dragoon emerged.
• Dragon Magazine (Fujimi Shobo)
• 龍 (Chinese character for "dragon")

See also

• List of dragons
• Sea Dragon
• Draconity (see Otherkin)
• Dragoon (type of soldiers whose name was originally derived from "Dragon")
• Draco

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