Ulysses

Ulysses is the Latin name for Odysseus, a legendary Greek hero recognized for his intelligence and cunning. He is famous for his long, adventurous journey home to Ithaca after the Trojan War, as narrated in Homer's Odyssey.

Ulysses may also refer to:

People

• Ulysses (given name), including a list of people with this name

Places

• 5254 Ulysses, an asteroid

Places in the United States

• Ulysses, Kansas
• Ulysses, Kentucky
• Ulysses, Nebraska
• Ulysses Township, Butler County, Nebraska
• Ulysses, New York
• Ulysses, Pennsylvania
• Ulysses Township, Pennsylvania

Animals

• Ulysses butterfly (Papilio ulysses) a butterfly endemic to Australasia
• Ulysses (horse) (born 2013), a thoroughbred racehorse

Arts and entertainment

Literature

• "Ulysses" (poem), by Alfred Lord Tennyson
• Ulysses (play), a 1705 play by Nicholas Rowe
• Ulysses, a 1902 play by Stephen Phillips
• Ulysses (novel), by James Joyce
  • Ulysses (broadcast), a 1982 RTÉ Radio broadcast of the entire text of the novel
• HMS Ulysses (novel), by Alistair Maclean
• Ulysses (comics), two members of a fictional group in the Marvel Comics universe
• Ulysses Klaue, a character in Marvel comic books
• Ulysses: Jeanne d'Arc and the Alchemist Knight, a light novel

Film and television

• Ulysses (1954 film), starring Kirk Douglas based on the story of Homer's Odyssey
• Ulysses (1967 film), based on Joyce's novel
• Ulysses (2011 film), a 2011 Chilean film
• Ulysses (broadcast), a dramatised radio broadcast of Joyce's novel
• Ulysses 31, a French-Japanese anime television program
• Ulixes, a fictional spacecraft in the 4th season of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Music

• Ulysse (Rebel), a 1703 French opera by Jean-Fery Rebel
• Ulisse, a 1968 Italian opera by Luigi Dallapiccola
• Ulysses, a 1947 English-language cantata by Mátyás Seiber
• Ulysses (American band), an American indie rock band
• Ulysses (German band), a German progressive rock band
• Ulysses (EP), by Shimamiya Eiko, 2005
• "Ulysses" (song), by Franz Ferdinand, 2008
• "Ullyses", a song by Dead Can Dance from the 1988 album The Serpent's Egg

Video games

• Ulysses 1994XF04, a fictional asteroid in the video game Ace Combat
• Ulysses, an assumed name of the antagonist of the Fallout: New Vegas expansion Lonesome Road

Events and storms

• Typhoon Dolphin (2008), a 2008 Pacific Typhoon known as Ulysses in the Philippines
• Typhoon Vamco, a 2020 Pacific Typhoon known as Ulysses in the Philippines

Science and technology

For vehicles, see § Vehicles.

• ULYSSES (cable system), a submarine communications cable network
• Ulysses (robot), a bomb-detecting robot
• Ulysses (spacecraft), a space probe designed to study the Sun
• Ulysses (text editor), a software product for creative writing

Sport

• Ulisses FC, a defunct Armenian football club
• Ulysses F.C., a former English football club

Vehicles

Maritime

• Ulysses (yacht), a 116-meter expedition yacht
• HMS Ulysses, four ships of the British Royal Navy
• MV Ulysses, any of several ships
• SS Ulysses, any of several ships
  • SS Ulysses (1914), a World War I-era steel-hulled screw steamer
• USS Ulysses, any of several ships of the U.S. Navy
  • USS Ulysses (ARB-9), a battle damage repair ship of the U.S. Navy

Other vehicles

• Ulysses (spacecraft), a space probe designed to study the Sun
• Ulysses, manufactured by the Buell Motorcycle Company
• Ulysses (later Grierson), a GWR 3031 Class locomotive on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915
• Fiat Ulysse

Other uses

• Ulysses Club, an international motorcycling club

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Ulysses
• All pages with titles containing Ulysses
• Odysseus (disambiguation), the Greek form of this name
• Ulysse (disambiguation), the French version of Ulysses
• Ulisses, the Portuguese version of Ulysses
• Ulises, the Spanish version of Ulysses
• Ulises (orca), a killer whale
• Ulisse, an Italian opera