Fox

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The fox is a carnivorous animal.

Fox may also refer to:

Contents 1 Animals 2 Sport 3 Computing 4 Entertainment 5 Companies 6 Military 7 Places 8 Transportation 9 Other uses 10 People 10.1 Given name (first name) 10.2 Nicknames and pseudonyms 11 Fictional characters 12 See also

Animals

• The fox terrier, a dog breed

Sport

• Cruzeiro Esporte Clube, a Brazilian football team who carry the nickname 'The Foxes'
• Leicester City FC, an English football team who carry the nickname 'The Foxes'
• Leicestershire CCC, the cricket team from that county, who are also sometimes known by that nickname
• Fred Snowden(1936-1994), American collegiate basketball coach nicknamed 'The Fox'
• Fox Racing, an apparel maker

Computing

• The FOX cipher, now known as IDEA NXT
• FOX toolkit, a cross-platform GUI toolkit
• Visual FoxPro, a DBMS and development language

Entertainment

• Fox Entertainment Group, a media network owned by News Corporation, and its subsidiaries:
  • Fox Broadcasting Company, a broadcast television network
  • Fox Film Corporation, a defunct movie studio
  • Fox Movie Channel, a cable film network
  • Fox News Channel, a cable television network
  • Fox Business Network
  • Foxtel, a cable and satellite television provider in Australia
  • FSN (Fox Sports Net), the name for a group of regional cable sports stations
  • FX Networks (short for Fox eXtended), a cable network
  • Fox Reality, a cable network for reality programming
• Fox (band), a British rock band of the 1970s
• "Fox" (song), a song by the punk rock band Millencolin
• Johnny the Fox, the seventh studio album by Irish band Thin Lizzy
• The Fox (brand), a brand name for several classic rock radio stations in the United States
• The Fox (novel), a novel by D. H. Lawrence
• The Fox (1921 film), a film starring Harry Carey
• The Fox (1967 film), a Mark Rydell movie based on the novel
• Foxes (1980 film), a movie starring Jodie Foster and Scott Baio
• Fox (TV series)
• Fox Theatre (disambiguation), any of several movie palaces
• Fox games, a group of board games
• Foxtrot (dance), a dance

Companies

• Fox (clothing), an Israeli based clothing company
• Fox 40 is a whistle commonly used in sporting and lifeguarding

Military

• Fox (code word), a brevity code for air-to-air munitions release
• HMS Fox, the name of several British ships and shore installations

Places

• Fox, Alaska, a census-designated place in the United States
• Fox, Indiana, an unincorporated place in the United States
• Fox River, various places and rivers

Transportation

• Audi Fox, a subcompact car
• Ford Fox platform, a platform used for several Ford Motor Company vehicles
• Fox (ship), a yacht used by Francis Leopold McClintock to explore the Arctic
• Fox armoured car, a Canadian military vehicle of World War II
• Fox Armoured Reconnaissance Vehicle, a British vehicle
• Fox, the name of a West Cornwall Railway steam locomotive
• FOX surf boat, built in 1886 and rowed across the Atlantic by Frank Samuelsen & George Harbo
• MDM-1 Fox, an aerobatic glider
• M93 Fox, NBC vehicle
• Volkswagen Fox, a subcompact car

Other uses

• Fox (tribe), the Meskwaki tribe of Native Americans
• FOX proteins, which regulate the expression of genes
• Foxing, the appearance of stains on books, documents, stamps, etc. over time
• Formosan languages (ISO 639-5 language code)

People

• Fox (surname)

Given name (first name)

• Fox Butterfield (born 1939), American journalist
• Fox Conner (1898–1938), American major-general and mentor of Dwight D. Eisenhower

Nicknames and pseudonyms

• "The Fox", nickname of British rapist Malcolm Fairley
• "The Fox", pseudonym of James F. Phillips, a 1970s Chicago-area environmental activist
• Bill "The Fox" Foster (1932–2000), an American entertainer
• "The Desert Fox", Erwin Rommel (1891–1944), German Field Marshal of World War II
• "Red Fox", nickname of Michael Sinclair (soldier), a World War II prisoner in Colditz Castle
• "Swamp Fox", nickname of American Revolutionary War general Francis Marion

Fictional characters

• Fox (Neighbours), character in the Australian soap opera Neighbours
• Chelsea Fox, Denise Fox and Libby Fox, characters in the UK soap opera EastEnders
• Carmelita Fox, inspector from Interpol in several Playstation2 games
• Crimson Fox, French superhero in the DC Comics Universe
• Fiona Fox, character in the Sonic the Hedgehog series of comics
• Fox (Farthing Wood), character from the animated children's television series The Animals of Farthing Wood
• Fox (Gargoyles), character from the animated television series Gargoyles and comics
• Fox McCloud, character from the Star Fox video game series
• Fox Mulder, character in the TV show The X-Files
• Fox, a fictional gang member in the 1979 film, The Warriors
• The Fox family of the comic strip FoxTrot
• Gray Fox (Metal Gear), character in the game series Metal Gear
• Katy Fox, Warren Fox and Stacey Foxx, characters in the UK soap opera Hollyoaks
• Lucius Fox, character in the Batman comic books
• Mrs Fox, character in the UK TV series Dad's Army
• Pablo the Little Red Fox, character in a UK TV cartoon show for preschool children
• Silver Fox, character in the Marvel Comics universe
• Steve Fox (Tekken), character in the fighting game series Tekken
• Dr. Myron L. Fox, pseudonym of the actor used in the psychological study of the Dr. Fox Effect

See also

• Foxe (disambiguation)
• Foxx (disambiguation)
• The Fox (disambiguation)
• Flying fox

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