Owl (disambiguation)

An owl is a bird of prey.

Owl, Owls, or OWL may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Fictional entities

• Owl (comics), the name of several comics characters
• Owl (Winnie the Pooh)
• Ordinary Wizarding Level, a test of magical aptitude in the Harry Potter novel series

Film and television

• Owl (film), a 2003 Japanese black comedy
• The Owl (1927 film), a German silent film
• The Owl (1991 film), an American television film
• The Owl (TV series), a French series of animated shorts for children
• OWL/TV, a Canadian children's educational television series 1985–1994
• "Owls" (Millennium), a television episode

Literature

• "The Owl" (fairy tale), a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm
• OWL (magazine), a Canadian children's educational magazine; basis of the OWL/TV series
• The Owl (magazine): A Wednesday Journal of Politics and Society, a satirical society newspaper published in London 1864–1870

Music

• Owl (band), a Los Angeles–based hard-rock band, and their self-titled 2009 album
• Owls (band), a Chicago-based rock band
  • Owls (album), 2001
• Of Wondrous Legends, or O.W.L., an American psych folk band, and their self-titled 1971 album
• The Owl (album), by the Zac Brown Band, 2019
• Owl, an album by Qwel & Maker, 2010
• "Owl", a song by the Cat Empire from the album Where the Angels Fall, 2023

Other uses in arts and entertainment

• Owl (sculpture), a public statue in Canberra, Australia
• NASPA Word List, or OWL, the official word list for Scrabble in North America

Businesses and organizations

• Office Workstations Limited, a British software company
• Older Women's League, an American organization
• Order of Owls, an American fraternal order
• Owl Labs, a company that builds remote conferencing devices
• The Owl Drug Company, an American drug retailer

Languages

• Owl (hieroglyph), an Egyptian language uniliteral
• Old Welsh, ISO 639 language code owl

Military

• HMS Owl, the name of a British ship and a shore establishment
• USS Owl, the name of two American ships
• CSS Owl, a Confederate States Navy blockade runner in the American Civil War
• Curtiss O-52 Owl, an American observation aircraft before and during World War II

People

• Owl Chapman, a short-board surfer
• Owl Fisher (born 1991), an Icelandic journalist
• Owl Goingback (born 1959), American author

Places

• Owl Creek (disambiguation)
• Owl Mountains, Poland
• Owl Peak, Wyoming, U.S.
• Owl River (disambiguation)
• Olympic–Wallowa Lineament (OWL), a physiographic feature in Washington State, U.S.
• Ostwestfalen-Lippe (OWL), an area in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Science and technology

Astronomy

• NGC 457, an open star cluster also known as the Owl Cluster
• Owl Nebula, in the constellation Ursa Major
• Overwhelmingly Large Telescope, a proposed optical telescope

Computing

• Object Windows Library, a C++ object-oriented application framework
• Online Watch Link, a commercial web application for Neighbourhood Watch schemes
• Openwall Project (Owl), a security-enhanced Linux distribution
• Owl (AOL), a user-generated content site created by AOL in 2010
• Owl Scientific Computing, a software system for scientific and engineering computing
• Web Ontology Language, a family of knowledge representation languages

Sports

• Bielawa Owls, an American football team based in Bielawa, Poland
• Chicago Owls, a defunct professional American football team based in Chicago
• Clinton Owls, a defunct minor league baseball team, based in Clinton, Iowa (1937–1938)
• Dayton Owls, a minor league ice hockey team in the International Hockey League for the 1977–1978 season
• Florida Atlantic Owls, the athletics teams of Florida Atlantic University
• Forest City Owls, a baseball team in the Coastal Plain League, a collegiate summer league
• Grand Rapids Owls, a defunct International Hockey League team
• Owls, the athletic teams of Keene State College
• Kennesaw State Owls, the athletic teams of Kennesaw State University
• Owls, the athletic teams of the University of Maine at Presque Isle
• Orem Owlz, a minor league baseball team
• Rice Owls, the athletic teams of Rice University
• Temple Owls, the athletic teams of Temple University
• Topeka Owls, a defunct Western Association minor league baseball team based in Topeka, Kansas
• Uni-Norths Owls, an Australian rugby union club
• Owls, the athletic teams of Westfield State University
• Sheffield Wednesday F.C., an English football club nicknamed "The Owls"
• OWLS AC Leicester, an English athletics club
• Guildford Owls, an Australian rugby league club
• Overwatch League, a professional esports league

Transportation

• OWLS, a mnemonic used by general aviation airplane pilots
• Owl service, or public transport night service
• Night Owl (train), between Boston and Washington, D.C.
• Owl a train on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad and later Erie Lackawanna Railway
• Owl Limited a train of the Southern Pacific Transportation Company
• Aspark Owl, a Japanese electric sports car

Other uses

• Owl butterfly, a member of the genus Caligo
• Olympic–Wallowa Lineament, a geological feature in the state of Washington
• Online Writing Lab, an extension of a university writing center
• Our Whole Lives, a comprehensive sexuality curriculum from the Unitarian Universalist Association and the United Church of Christ

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Owl
• All pages with titles containing Owl
• Owl Club (disambiguation)
• Night owl (person), a nocturnal person
• OWLeS, the Ontario Winter Lake-effect Systems study project