Corvus (disambiguation)

Corvus is a genus of birds commonly known as crows and ravens.

Corvus may also refer to:

Companies

• Corvus Energy, a Norwegian supplier originally founded in Canada
• Corvus Hungary, an aircraft manufacturer
• Corvus Systems, an American defunct computer hardware manufacturer

Fictional characters

• Corvus, a main antagonist in movie Pompeii (film)
• Corvus, a character in Satyajit Ray's Professor Shonku series
• Corvus, a character in the video game Call of Duty: Black Ops III
• Corvus, a character in the video game Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies
• Corvus, a character in the video games Heretic and Heretic II
• Corvus Glaive, a Marvel comics character

Military

• ASM-N-8 Corvus, a United States Navy missile
• Corvus (boarding device), used by ancient Roman warships
• Corvus chaff launcher, a British shipborne chaff decoy system manufactured by Vickers
• SS Corvus, the name of two steamships, both put out of service in 1945
• USS Corvus, a U.S. Navy attack cargo ship of World War II

People

• Joannes Corvus (fl. 1512 – 1544), Flemish portrait painter
• Marcus Valerius Corvus (c. 370–270 BC), Roman military commander and politician
• Corvulus of Friuli, an 8th century AD Lombardic duke (name is a Latin diminutive of Corvus)

Publishing

• Corvus (imprint), an imprint of Atlantic Books
• Corvus: A Life with Birds, a 2008 non-fiction book by Esther Woolfson

Other uses

• Corvus (constellation), a small constellation in the Southern Celestial Hemisphere
  • Corvus in Chinese astronomy, the same constellation as considered in traditional Chinese uranography
• Corvus (heraldry), crows and ravens in heraldry
• Corvus, a ship in the 2017 video game Star Wars Battlefront II
• Corvus Corax (band), a German band known for playing neo-Medieval music
• Gibson Corvus, a guitar product line

See also

• All pages with titles containing Corvus