Archimedes (disambiguation) explained

Archimedes was a celebrated mathematician and engineer of ancient Greece.

Archimedes may also refer to:

People

Given name

• Archimedes of Tralles, ancient Greek writer
• Arquimedes Caminero (born 1987), Dominican baseball player
• Archimedes Patti (1913–1998), American intelligence officer
• Archimedes Robb (1814–1875), American politician from Pennsylvania
• Archimedes Russell (1840–1915), American architect
• Archimedes Trajano (1956–1977), Filipino torture victim
• Arquimedez Pozo (born 1973), Dominican baseball player

Other usages

• Alfred Thomas Archimedes Torbert (1833–1880), Union general officer during the American Civil War
• Pseudo-Archimedes, pseudo-anonymous writers of the Islamic Golden Age

Places

• Archimedes (crater), an impact crater on the Moon
• Archimedes Ridge, a ridge in Alaska, United States
• Montes Archimedes, a mountain range on the Moon
• 3600 Archimedes, an asteroid

Organizations

• Archimedes, Inc., an American healthcare modeling company
• Archimedes Foundation, an independent body established by the Estonian Ministry of Education and Research
• Archimedes Group, an Israeli intelligence agency

Entertainment and media

• Archimedes, Merlin's owl in T. H. White's 1958 novel The Once and Future King and Disney's 1963 film The Sword in the Stone
• Archimedes, a character in the TV series The Little Mermaid
• Archimedes, the Medic's dove from Team Fortress 2

Science and technology

• Archimedes (CAD), an open-source computer-aided design project
• Archimedes Geo3D, a software package for dynamic geometry in three dimensions
• Acorn Archimedes, a home computer
• Claw of Archimedes, an ancient weapon devised by Archimedes
• GNU Archimedes, the GNU package for Monte Carlo semiconductor devices simulations

Transportation

• Archimedes (1797), a ship built in Britain
• SS Archimedes, a steamship built in Britain in 1839
• Archimedes (ship)
• Archimedes (rocket engine)

Other uses

• Archimedes (bryozoan), an extinct genus of fenestrate bryozoan
• Archimedes pyrg, a species of mollusc in the family Hydrobiidae
• Crambus archimedes, a moth in the family Crambidae
• Garden of Archimedes, a museum of mathematics in Florence, Italy

See also

• Archimede (disambiguation)
• Archimedean (disambiguation)
• List of things named after Archimedes