APU explained

APU or Apu may refer to:

Film and television

• The Apu Trilogy, a series of three Indian films, directed by Satyajit Ray, with the fictional character Apu Roy, comprising:
  • Pather Panchali (Song of the Little Road) (1955), the first of the three films, covering the early childhood of Apu
  • Aparajito (The Unvanquished) (1956), the second film, covering the remaining years of Apu's youth and adolescence
  • Apur Sansar (The World of Apu) (1959), the final film of the trilogy, covering Apu's adulthood
• Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, a fictional character from the animated television series The Simpsons (appearing 1990–2020)

Literature

• Apu Roy, the fictional character in two novels by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay:
  • Pather Panchali (1929), the basis for the first film of The Apu Trilogy
  • Aparajito, a second novel by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, the basis of the second and third films of the trilogy
• Apu (magazine), a Finnish family magazine (1933–present)

Organizations

• Aliança Povo Unido, or United People Alliance, a political coalition in Portugal
• Applied Psychology Unit, now the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at the Medical Research Council, United Kingdom
• Evangelical Church of the old-Prussian Union, (Evangelische Kirche der altpreußischen Union) a former church
• Amherst Political Union, a student debating organization at Amherst College

Education

• Alaska Pacific University, in Anchorage, Alaska, United States
• American Public University, in Charles Town, West Virginia, United States
• Anglia Polytechnic University, former name of Anglia Ruskin University in England
• Azusa Pacific University, in Azusa, California, United States
• Asia Pacific University of Technology & Innovation, colloquially known as Asia Pacific University, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
• Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, in Beppu, Ōita, Japan
• Azim Premji University, in Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Technology

• AMD APU, marketing term from AMD for a microprocessor that includes a CPU and a GPU within a single chip
• Audio processing unit, a microprocessor for processing audio on computers
• Auxiliary power unit, a device on a vehicle that provides energy for functions other than propulsion

Transportation

• Apucarana Airport, Brazil, by IATA code
• Apu (1899), a Finnish icebreaker
• Apu (1970), a Finnish icebreaker, in the list of icebreakers

Other uses

• Apu, another name for Upu, an ancient region surrounding Damascus
• Apu (god), a deity or honorific in South American religion and Incan mythology
• Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, 31st President of Chile

See also

• Appu (disambiguation)
• Aşağı Apu, a village in Azerbaijan
• Yuxarı Apu, a village in Azerbaijan
• The Problem with Apu a 2017 documentary film critiquing stereotypes of people from India and the fictional character of Apu in The Simpsons