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An octopus is a sea animal with eight limbs.

Octopus may also refer to:

Film and television

• Octopus (2000 film), an American film produced by Nu Image
• Octopus (2015 film), an Indian Kannada-language mystery thriller film
• Is Your Daughter Safe? or The Octopus, a 1927 film
• La piovra or The Octopus, a 1984–2001 Italian television series
• Doctor Octopus, fictional Marvel character
• Lady Octopus, fictional Marvel character
• The Octopus, a fictional pair of Siamese twins in The City of Lost Children
• Octopus, a character in the 2002 Disney animated film Return to Never Land

Games

• OCTOPUS (fictional organisation), a fictional organisation in the From Russia with Love video game
• Name This Game or Octopus, an Atari 2600 video game
• Octopus, a 1981 Game & Watch game
• Octopus, a variant of British bulldog, a playground game
• In chess, a knight strongly placed in enemy territory; see glossary of chess

Literature

• The Octopus: A Story of California, a 1901 novel by Frank Norris
• The Octopus (comics), a character in The Spirit
• The Octopus, a title used for one issue in 1939 by the pulp magazine The Western Raider
• The Octopus, a 1940 book by Elizabeth Dilling
• "The Octopus", a fictional article in Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
• Octopus: Sam Israel, the Secret Market, and Wall Street's Wildest Con, a 2012 book by Guy Lawson

Music

Artists

• Octopus (Belgian band) (1973–1980)
• Octopus (English band), a 1969–1971 band featuring Paul Griggs and Nigel Griggs
• Octopus (Scottish band), a 1993–1997 Britpop band from Shotts, Lanarkshire
• The Octopus Project, a band from Texas
• Oktopus or Alap Momin, American musician, DJ, recording engineer

Albums

• Octopus (Gentle Giant album) (1972)
• Octopus (The Human League album) (1995)
• Octopus (The Bees album) (2007)
• The Octopus (album), a 2011 album by Amplifier
• Í Hakanum/Octopus or Octopus, a 1980 album by Mezzoforte
• Octopus: The Best of Syd Barrett (1992)
• Octopuss, a 1983 album by Cozy Powell
• Octopus (Kris Davis and Craig Taborn album) (2018)

Songs

• "Octopus" (Syd Barrett song) (1969)
• "Octopus" (Bloc Party song) (2012)
• "Octopus", a 1961 song by Billie Jean Horton
• "Octopus", an instrumental by Mezzoforte from Í Hakanum/Octopus
• "Octopus", a 1979 song by The Freshies

Computing and technology

• OCTOPUS (network), an early computer network at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• Octopus (software), for quantum-mechanical calculations of molecules and solids

Enterprises and organizations

• Octopus card, a Hong Kong stored value smart card launched in 1997
  • Octopus Cards Limited, the operator of Octopus card
  • Octopus Holdings Limited, holding company jointly owned by five major transport companies in Hong Kong
• Octopus Group, a British asset management company
  • Octopus Energy, a British energy supply company
• Octopus Publishing Group, a British subsidiary of Lagardère Publishing, specialising in illustrated books
• Organisation for Counter Terrorist Operations (OCTOPUS), a counter terrorism paramilitary unit in Andhra Pradesh & Telangana, India

Other uses

• Octopus (genus), a large genus of octopuses
• Octopus (ride), an amusement ride
• Octopus (yacht)
• Octopus, a spare scuba-diving regulator apparatus
• The Octopus, a news story written by Danny Casolaro

See also

• Al the Octopus, mascot of the Detroit Red Wings
• Doctor Octopus, a character created in 1963 for Spider-Man comics
• Legend of the Octopus, a Detroit team tradition
• Octopodidae, a family containing the majority of known octopus species
• Octopodoidea, a superfamily of all known octopods except for the argonautoids and vampyromorphs
• Octopus as food
• Octopus's Garden, song by the English rock band the Beatles
• Octopussy (disambiguation)
• Paul the Octopus, octopus with a history of correctly predicting the results of major German international football matches
• Squid, type of marine cephalopod related to the Octopus

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