Dragon

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A dragon is a legendary creature, typically with serpentine or otherwise reptilian traits.

Dragon may also refer to:

Literature

• Dragon (novel), an adventure novel by Clive Cussler
• Dragon (Steven Brust novel), a fantasy novel
• Dragon (fantasy series), a novel series by Laurence Yep
• "The Dragon" (story), by Ray Bradbury
• "The Dragon" (poem), by Abd al-Wahhab Al-Bayyati
• "Dragon: the Old Potter's Tale", a short story by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
• Dragon Magazine (Fujimi Shobo), a Japanese light novel magazine

Music

• Dragon (band)
• Dragon (album), by Jake Shimabukuro
• Dragon Records, a record label
• The Dragon, an album by Vangelis
• "Dragon", a song by The Sugarcubes on the album Life's Too Good

Film and television

• Dragon (TV series)
• Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, a biographical film
• The business experts on the reality TV series Dragons' Den

Games and sport

• Dragon boat, a long, narrow canoe-style boat
• Dragon (keelboat), a sailing yacht
• Dragon (magazine), a Dungeons & Dragons magazine
• The Dragon (road), a motorsporting destination in North Carolina, United States
• Sicilian Defence, Dragon Variation, a chess opening
• Dragon tiles, a type of honor tile in Mahjong
• Dragon, a version of the video game Mega Man Star Force

Teams

• Catalans Dragons, a rugby league club in France
• Chunichi Dragons, a baseball team in Japan
• Drexel Dragons, the sports teams of Drexel University in the United States
• Dublin Dragons, an American Football club in Ireland
• New York Dragons, an Arena Football League team in the United States
• Newport Gwent Dragons, a Rugby Union team in Wales
• St. George Illawarra Dragons, a rugby league football club in Australia
• San Francisco Dragons, a field lacrosse team in the United States
• Welcoat Dragons, a basketball team in the Philippines

Mathematics and computing

• Dragon (cipher)
• Dragon chip, a family of Chinese CPUs
• Dragon curve, a family of fractal curves
• Dragon Data, a Welsh computer manufacturer
  • Dragon 32/64, two 1980s home computers
• Dragon Systems, a speech recognition software company

Transport vehicles

• Dragon Automobile Company
• HMS Dragon, the name of several Royal Navy ships
• B-23 Dragon, a twin-engined bomber aircraft
• de Havilland Dragon, a wooden biplane designed as an airliner
  • de Havilland Dragon Rapide, successor to the Dragon
• Dennis Dragon, a double-decker bus
• SpaceX Dragon, a spacecraft
• Dragon (1848–1872), a GWR Iron Duke Class locomotive
• Dragon (1873–1892), a South Devon Railway Buffalo class locomotive
• Dragon (1880–1892), a GWR Rover class locomotive

Plants and animals

• Dragonfish
• Dragon Spruce (Picea asperata), an evergreen tree
• Dragon tree, a common name for the genus Dracaena
• Dragon herb, a common name for the herb tarragon (Artemisia dracunculus)

People

• Carmen Dragon (1914-1984), American conductor and composer
• Daryl Dragon (born 1942), American musician and member of Captain & Tennille
• Bruce Lee (1940-1973), Chinese actor and martial artist, nicknamed "The Dragon"
• Vlad II Dracul (c. 1390–1447), duke of Wallachia, nicknamed "Vlad the Dragon"
• Lyoto Machida (born 1978), Brazilian martial artist, nicknamed "The Dragon"
• Ricky Steamboat (born 1953), American professional wrestler, nicknamed "The Dragon"
• Don "The Dragon" Wilson (born 1954), American champion kickboxer and actor

Dragons in fiction

See also List of fictional dragons.

• Dragons (Dragon Prince), in the works of Melanie Rawn
• Dragon (Dungeons & Dragons)
• Dragon (Middle-earth), in the works of J. R. R. Tolkien
• Dragons (Pern), in the works of Anne McCaffrey
• Dragon (Shrek)
• Dragon (Wheel of Time), in the works of Robert Jordan

Other uses

• Dragon (rocket), a French sounding rocket
• Dragon (zodiac)
• Dragon (Adventureland), a roller coaster in Iowa, United States
• The Dragon (Ocean Park), a roller coaster in Hong Kong
• The Dragon Academy, a private school in Ontario, Canada
• Dragon Cone, a volcano in British Columbia, Canada
• Dragon Models Limited, a Hong Kong toy manufacturer
• Dragon School, a British preparatory school in Oxford, England
• HMM-265, a USMC helicopter squadron known as the Dragons
• M47 Dragon, a missile system
• The Dragon, a grouping of galaxies in the field of Abell 370
• A version of the blunderbuss firearm

See also

• List of dragons
• Draco (disambiguation)
• Sea Dragon (disambiguation)

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