Kingfisher (disambiguation) explained

The kingfisher is a bird in the family Alcedinidae.

Kingfisher can refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• The Kingfisher, an 1886 painting by Vincent Van Gogh
• Kingfisher, an album by the band Prawn
• "Kingfisher", a song on the 2010 album Have One on Me by Joanna Newsom
• "The Kingfishers", a poem by Charles Olson

Business

• Kingfisher Airlines, an airline based in India in operation from 2005 to 2012
• Kingfisher (beer), an Indian beer
• Kingfisher Books, a British children's book publisher
• Kingfisher plc, a British retail group
• Kingfisher International Pty Ltd an Australian fiber optic test equipment manufacturer
• Kingfisher Shopping Centre, Reddich, Worcestershire, England

Military uses

• , various British Royal Navy ships
• Kingfisher-class sloop, a patrol sloop class of the British Royal Navy
• , several United States Navy ships
• Operation Kingfisher, a Vietnam War United States Marine Corps operation
• Operation Kingfisher (World War II), a planned but never implemented operation to rescue prisoners of war from the Japanese
• Project Kingfisher, an American weapons development program 1944–1956
• Vought OS2U Kingfisher, an American observation floatplane
• Lockheed AQM-60 Kingfisher, a United States Air Force target drone
• CC-295 Kingfisher, a search-and-rescue variant of the EADS CASA C-295 transport aircraft

Ships

• Kingfisher (sloop), a 1860s merchant trader in British Columbia, Canada
• Kingfisher (clipper), a 1863 California clipper
• Kingfisher (yacht), a racing vessel used by Ellen MacArthur
  • Kingfisher 2, a catamaran MacArthur captained in the 2003 Jules Verne Trophy competition

Places

• Kingfisher County, Oklahoma
  • Kingfisher, Oklahoma, United States, a city and the county seat
• Kingfisher First Nation, a reservation in northern Ontario, Canada
  • Kingfisher 2A, a First Nations reserve in Ontario
  • Kingfisher 3A, a First Nations reserve in Ontario, on Kingfisher Lake
• Kingfisher Country Park, East Birmingham, West Midlands, England

Sports

• Eisvögel USC Freiburg (Kingfishers), a German women's basketball team
• Kingfisher East Bengal F.C., a football team based in Kolkata, India
• Kingfisher (horse) (1867–1890), an American Thoroughbred racehorse

Other uses

• Kingfisher College, Kingfisher, Oklahoma, a school from 1895 to 1922
• Kingfisher Tower, a folly on the eastern shore of Otsego Lake, New York, United States
• Kingfisher Tower (Utah), a sandstone landform, United States
• LNER Class A4 4483 Kingfisher, a UK steam locomotive
• T. Kingfisher, pen name of Ursula Vernon (born 1977), American freelance writer, artist and illustrator
• 500 Series Shinkansen, resembling a kingfisher birds beak

See also

• Kingfish (disambiguation)
• King Fisher (1853–1884), American Old West gunslinger
• Fisher King, a character in Arthurian lore
• The Fisher King, a 1991 American film starring Robin Williams and Jeff Bridges