Voltaire (disambiguation) explained

Voltaire is the pen name of French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher François-Marie Arouet.

Voltaire may also refer to:

Places

• Voltaire, North Dakota, a city in the United States
• Voltaire (crater), an impact crater on the Martian moon Deimos
• 5676 Voltaire, an asteroid

Ships

• French battleship Voltaire, a Danton-class pre-dreadnought battleship
• Voltaire, one of the names of the French ship Viala (1795), a ship of the line

Other uses

• Voltaire (given name)
• Boulevard Voltaire, a boulevard in Paris
• Voltaire (Paris Métro), a Paris Métro station
• Voltaire (film), a 1933 biographical film starring George Arliss as the French writer and philosopher
• Voltaire (show jumping horse), an influential sire of show jumpers and dressage horses
• Le Voltaire (newspaper), a French daily newspaper established in 1878
• Voltaire (racehorse), a Thoroughbred racehorse
• Voltaire, a computer network equipment manufacturer acquired by Mellanox Technologies in 2010
• Voltaire Network, an international non-profit organization
• Aurelio Voltaire, Cuban-American musician
• Cirqus Voltaire, a pinball machine released by Williams Electronics Games in 1997

See also

• Voltaire Foundation, at the University of Oxford, U.K.
• Voltaire Human Rights Awards, given by Liberty Victoria, Australia
• Voltaire Prize for Tolerance, International Understanding and Respect for Differences, given by the University of Potsdam, Germany