Icon (disambiguation)

An icon, from the Greek word for image, is a religious painting in the tradition of Eastern Christianity.

Icon may also refer to:

People with the name

• No Min-woo, a South Korean actor and musician whose stage name as a singer is ICON

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

• Icon (character), a Milestone/DC comic book superhero
• Icon the Ungodly, a character from The world of Legend

Literature

• Icon (novel), a 1997 fiction novel by Frederick Forsyth
• Icon, a novel by Bodie and Brock Thoene
• iCon: Steve Jobs, a 2005 biography of Steve Jobs by Jeffrey Young
• Icons: Creativity with Camera and Computer, an illustrated book by photographer Douglas Kirkland

Groups and labels

• Icon (band), an American heavy metal/glam metal band (1981–1990)
• Icon Records, a Canadian record label founded in 2006

Albums

• Icon (album series), a series of compilation albums released by Universal Music Enterprises
• Icon (Benighted album) (2007)
• Icon (Vince Gill album) (2010)
• Icon (Icon album) (1984)
• Icon (Paradise Lost album) (1993)
• Icon (Wetton and Downes album) (2005)
• Icon (Trisha Yearwood album) (2010)
• DAAS Icon, a 1990 comedy album by Doug Anthony All Stars
• Icon 2 (2011), an album by George Strait
• Iconic (EP), by Icona Pop
• Icons (None More Black album) (2010)

Periodicals

• Icon (architecture magazine), British architecture and design magazine
• Icon (lifestyle magazine), a fashion and celebrity magazine
• ICON, a magazine published by Singapore Press Holdings

Television

• "Icon" (Stargate SG-1), a 2004 television episode of Stargate SG-1
• Icons (TV series), an American documentary TV show

Other uses in architecture, arts, entertainment, and media

• Architectural icon, a groundbreaking or unique building
• Icon (film), a 2005 thriller film
• Def Jam: Icon, a 2007 fighting video game

Brands and enterprises

• Hotel Icon (Houston), a boutique hotel located in Houston, Texas, USA
• ICON Aircraft, a light-sport aircraft manufacturer in Vacaville, California, USA
• Icon Books, a London-based publisher
• Icon Comics, a Marvel comics imprint
• Icon Group International, a publisher of automatically generated books compiled from Internet sources
  • Icon Health Publications, an imprint of Icon Group International
• Icon Health & Fitness, an exercise equipment manufacturer and marketer based in Logan, Utah, USA
• Icon Productions, an American independent production company
• Icon Films, a British independent television production company
• ICON plc, an Irish-based global pharmaceutical company
• Nokia Lumia Icon, a high-end smartphone by Nokia that runs Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 operating system
• Geely Icon, a sport utility vehicle model

Computing and technology

• Icon (computing), a pictogram used in a graphical user interface
• Icon (programming language), a high-level programming language
• ICON (microcomputer), a computer built in the 1980s

Organizations

• Consorzio ICoN, a consortium of 21 Italian universities, focusing on philology
• Icon FC, an amateur association football club in New Jersey, United States
• Icon Theatre, a British theatre company
• Institute of Conservation, a British cultural heritage organisation
• International Council on Nanotechnology, a group concerned with risks and use of nanotechnology

Cultural and popular culture symbols

• Cultural icon, a visual identity that is associated with cultural significance to a cultural group
• Gay icon, an LGBT cultural icon
• Horror icon, a person or fictional character considered to be significant to one or more genres of horror
• Pop icon, a celebrity, character, or object whose exposure in pop culture constitutes a defining characteristic of a given society or era
• Secular icon, an image of a person or thing used for other than religious purpose

Science

• ICOsahedral Nonhydrostatic, the global numerical weather prediction model of the German weather service, see Numerical weather prediction
• Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON), a NASA satellite mission to study Earth's ionosphere

Science fiction conventions

• Icon (Iowa science fiction convention)
• I-CON, an American science fiction fan convention
• ICon festival, an Israeli science fiction and fantasy fan convention
• List of ICON science fiction conventions

Visual symbols

• Computer icon, a pictogram used in a graphical user interface
• Digital on-screen graphic, a logo or icon displayed on screen
• Iconicity, in linguistics
• Iconography, the content of images, and the study of that subject
• Pictogram, or icon, conveys its meaning through its pictorial resemblance to a physical object

Other uses

• Icon (roller coaster), a roller coaster at Blackpool Pleasure Beach, UK
• Icon Complex, a proposed, multi-purpose low-rise building in Hobart

See also

• Icahn (disambiguation)
• Icône, a residential tower in Montreal, Canada
• Ikon (disambiguation)