Thor (disambiguation) explained

Thor is a Germanic god associated with thunder.

Thor may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Marvel Comics

• Thor in comics, various characters
• Thor (Marvel Comics), most notable comic book character with this name
  • Thor (Ultimate Marvel), the Ultimate Marvel version of the character
  • Thor (Marvel Cinematic Universe), the 21st-century film version of the Marvel Comics character
    • Thor (film), a 2011 American live-action superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character
    • , a 2013 American film sequel
    • , a 2017 American film sequel
    • , a 2022 American film sequel
    • , a 2011 American direct-to-video animated film based on the Marvel Comics character

Fictional characters and entities

• Thor (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
• Thor (Stargate)
• Thor (The Asylum)
• Phecda Gamma Thor, from the anime Saint Seiya

Film

Norse Mythology

• , 2011 CGI animated feature film

Music

• Thor (band), a Canadian heavy metal band
• Thor (soundtrack), to the 2011 Marvel Studios film
• Thor (Wizard album), 2009

Other media

• Thor (sculpture), an outdoor work by Melvin Schuler in Portland, Oregon, US
• The History of Rome (podcast), often abbreviated THoR

Companies

• Thor (motorcycles), American company founded 1901
• Thor Equities, a private equity corporation in New York City
• Thor Industries, world's largest manufacturer of recreational vehicles
• Thor Power Tool Company, a former U.S. manufacturer
  • Thor Power Tool Company v. Commissioner, a 1979 U.S. Supreme Court Case

Natural sciences

• Thor (crustacean), a genus of shrimps
• Thor (volcano), an active volcano on Jupiter's moon Io
• Thorium, a chemical element
• Thor (1903), a Danish Research vessel 1903-1927

People

• Thor (given name), including a list of individuals with the name Thor

Surname

• Brad Thor, author
• Cameron Thor, film and TV actor
• Ebba Busch Thor, Swedish politician
• Jon Mikl Thor (born 1955), Canadian heavy metal singer and bodybuilder
• JT Thor, basketball player

Nickname

• Bobby Nystrom, nicknamed "Thor", NHL ice hockey player
• Noah Syndergaard, nicknamed "Thor", MLB baseball player
• Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, nicknamed "Thor", Icelandic strongman

Stage name

• Thor (singer) (born 1982), Filipino singer, performer and songwriter
• Thor, early stage name for professional wrestler Kevin Wacholz
• Thor, a member of the TV show American Gladiators
• Thor/Thor "The Body" Olsen, a professional wrestler from NWA All-Star Wrestling
• The Mighty Thor, a professional wrestler in World Championship Wrestling who competed in SuperBrawl I
• "Finland Hellraiser" Thor, a stage name of professional wrestler Tony Halme

Places

• Thor (volcano), an active volcano on Jupiter's moon Io
• Thor, Iowa, a small town in the United States
• Le Thor, a town in southern France
• Mount Thor, Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada
• Mount Thor, Monashee Mountains, British Columbia
• Mount Thor (Alaska), Chugach Mountains, Alaska, US
• Thor's Cave, in Staffordshire, England
• Thorland Peninsula, Greenland
• Thor Fjord, Greenland

Technology

Computing

• THOR (trading platform), an electronic trading platform
• Thor (video codec), a candidate for the development of an open and royalty free next-generation video coding standard
• CST Thor, a series of personal computers designed by Cambridge Systems Technology
• Thor-CD, a recordable CD format proposed in 1988 by Tandy but never released in commercial version

Vessels

• German auxiliary cruiser Thor, a German surface raider in World War II
• HMS Thor, a cancelled British T-class submarine
• HNoMS Thor, three Royal Norwegian Navy warships
• ICGV Þór, the flagship of the Icelandic Coast Guard
• Thor (1903), Danish research vessel (1903-1920)
• Thor (1930), Danish hydrographical research vessel (1933-1936)
• USS Thor, American Navy support vessel (1945-1973)
• HSwMS Thor, Swedish coastal defence ship (1898-1937)

Weapons and military technology

Weapons

• PGM-17 Thor, an American intermediate range ballistic missile
• Bristol Thor, a ramjet engine used on the Bristol Bloodhound missile
• Project Thor, a theoretical US orbital kinetic bombardment weapons system
• Thor, an alternate name for the Karl-Gerät, a 600mm German mortar used in World War II
• THOR/Multi Mission System (MMS), a British Army vehicle-mounted Starstreak missile launcher
• "Thor", alternate name for the US Mark 7 nuclear bomb, the first US tactical nuclear bomb
• THOR (directed energy weapon)

Other military technology

• Theatre History of Operations Reports, a U.S. Air Force database endeavoring to catalog every bomb dropped by the US military since World War I
• Thor III, a man-portable device for remote-controlled IED jamming

Other technologies

• Thor (rocket family), a space launch vehicle derived from the PGM-17
• Thor (satellite) (previously known as Marcopolo), a satellite constellation owned by Telenor
• THOR, a type of crash test dummy
• Thor 1-A, a version of the Thor T/A ultralight aircraft
• Thor washing machine, the first electric clothes washer sold commercially in the United States
• Daihatsu Thor, a mini multi-purpose vehicle sold in Japan

Other uses

• Thor (walrus), a walrus sighted in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom in 2022–23
• Thor language, a Tibeto-Burman language of Chin State, Myanmar

See also

• Thar (disambiguation)
• Thaw (disambiguation)
• Thur (disambiguation)
• Tor (disambiguation)