Hermes (disambiguation)

Hermes is the divine messenger of the Olympian gods in Greek mythology.

Hermes can also refer to:

Business

• Hermès, a Paris-based, high-fashion luxury-goods manufacturer
• Hermes (parcels), a German parcel delivery company
• Hermes Abrasives, a German-based abrasive manufacturer
• Hermes Airlines, a Greek charter airline founded in 2011
• Hermes Aviation, a start-up Maltese airline founded in 2014
• EFG-Hermes Holding Company, an Egyptian financial group
• Hermes Investment Management, an organisation based within London
• Hermes Press, an American publisher of art books and comic books, founded in 2001
• Hermes Records, an Iranian record label

Science and technology

Aerospace

• Hermes (spaceplane), a design of space shuttle proposed by the European Space Agency
• Elbit Hermes 450, a line of unmanned aerial vehicles manufactured by Elbit
• Hermes (satellite), a failed American satellite

Astronomy

• Hermes, the Greek name for the planet Mercury, as it appeared in the evening sky
• 69230 Hermes, a binary near-Earth asteroid rediscovered in 2003
• HERMES, a spectrograph to be installed on the Anglo-Australian Telescope in 2013
• HerMES, Herschel Multi-tiered Extragalactic Survey, a project using the Herschel Space Observatory

Computing

• HERMES-A/MINOTAUR, also known as Project HERMES, the first internet-to-orbit gateway
• Hermes (BBS), a Macintosh-based bulletin board system that was similar to MS-DOS-based WWIV
• Hermes (programming language), a distributed programming language developed at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center from 1986 through 1992
• Hermes Project, a C++/Python library comprising algorithms for rapid prototyping of adaptive higher-order modular finite element system solvers
• Hopkins Electronic Resources ManagEment System, an electronic resource management system at Johns Hopkins University
• a mass spectrometry data formats converter software
• Hermes, codename of the ORiNOCO family of wireless networking technology by Proxim Wireless

Other

• HERMES experiment, a particle physics experiment
• HERMES Project, or the Hotspot Ecosystems Research on the Margins of European Seas
• HTC Hermes, the production code-name for the HTC TyTN smartphone

Military

• HMS Hermes, various ships of the British Royal Navy
• Hermes-class post ship, a class of Royal Navy sailing ships built in the early 19th century
• Hermes-class sloop, a Royal Navy class of four paddlewheel steam sloops built in the 1830s
• Hermes (missile program), a United States Army Ordnance Corps missile program (1944–1954)
• Hermes (missile), a family of Russian guided missiles
• Operation Hermes, a coalition military operation of the Iraq War

Transportation

• Handley Page Hermes, a 1950s British four-engined transport aircraft
• MV Hermes, a cargo ship launched in 1945, completed in 1949 as Empire Dove

People

• Hermes (given name)
• Hermes (surname)

Fictional characters

• Hermes (Harry Potter), Percy Weasley's owl in the Harry Potter series
• Hermes (Marvel Comics), a Marvel Comics character
• Hermes Conrad, a character in the animated television series Futurama
• Hermes, a talking motorcycle in the anime Kino's Journey

Other uses

• Hermes Trismegistus ("Hermes the thrice-greatest"), the Greek name for the Egyptian god Thoth
• Hermes, Oise, a commune in the Oise département of northern France
• Hermes (publication), an annual literary journal at the University of Sydney
• Hermes (sculpture), a sculpture by an unknown artist in the Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• Hermes F.C., a Scottish football club based in Aberdeen
• Hermes Hockey Team, a Finnish ice hockey team from Kokkola

See also

• HERMES method, a general project management method developed by the Swiss government