Isis (disambiguation)

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Isis is a goddess from the polytheistic pantheon of Egypt.

Isis or ISIS may also refer to:

Organizations

• Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, a designated terrorist organization, also known by the names Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), Islamic State (IS), and its Arabic acronym Daesh

Enterprises

• Isis Innovation, a British technology transfer company owned by the University of Oxford
• Isis Equity Partners, a British private equity company now re-branded as Livingbridge

Law enforcement

• HM Prison Isis, a young offenders institution located in London

Non-profits

• Institute for Science and International Security, an American non-governmental institution to inform the public about science and policy issues affecting international security
• The Institute of Science in Society, a UK organization promoting homeopathy, ecological sustainability, and anti-GMO policies
• Institute for the Scientific Investigation of Sexuality, now known as the Family Research Institute, an American anti-gay organization
• Institute for the Secularisation of Islamic Society, an American organization promoting secularization and human rights within Islamic society, and part of the Center for Inquiry
• Institute for the Study of Interdisciplinary Sciences, a now-defunct British educational charity to examine and debate the revisionist theories of Immanuel Velikovsky
• International Society for Iranian Studies, a U.S.-based academic organization
• International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry
• International Species Information System, an international software developer and data-sharing organization for zoos and aquariums
• ISIS Group, the former name of the Adara Group, an international development organisation dealing with issues of human trafficking
• Isis-Urania Temple, a religious group

Places

Outer space

• Isis (lunar crater)
• 42 Isis, an asteroid

Geography and municipalities

• Isis, Ohio, also known as Saint Charles, an unincorporated community
• Electoral district of Isis, in Queensland
• Isis Downs Station, a cattle station
• Isis Highway, an Australian highway
• Isis Temple, a prominence in Grand Canyon, Arizona, US
• Shire of Isis, a former local government area in Queensland, Australia

Rivers

• Isis River (disambiguation), any of several rivers
  • The Isis, the upper part of the River Thames in Oxford
    • Isis Bridge, across the River Thames near Oxford

People

• Isis (given name)
• Isis (rapper) (born 1969)
• DJ Isis (Isis van der Wel, formerly known as 100% Isis) (born 1975), Dutch DJ
• Isis Anchalee, creator of the #ilooklikeanengineer campaign
• Isis the Amazon (born 1987), stage name of professional wrestler Lindsay Kay Hayward
• María Isis (María Jesús) (1818-1849), daughter of Mexican army general Agustín de Iturbide
• Isis (actor) (born 1969), pornographic actress of Middle Eastern descent

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

• Isis (Battlestar Galactica)
• Isis (Bluewater Comics), an American comic book character based on the goddess
• Isis (DC Comics), a superhero, or a separate Egyptian goddess also living in the DC Universe
• Isis (Marvel Comics), a goddess
• Isis (Stargate)
• Isis, a dog on the TV show Downton Abbey
• Isis Eaglet, a character in Magical Chronicle Lyrical Nanoha Force

Games

• Curse: The Eye of Isis, video game
• Isis Adventure, a puzzle game

Literature

• Isis Unveiled, an 1877 book by theosophist Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
• The Guardian of Isis, a novel
• The Tears of Isis, a children's book in the Talisman series

Music

• Isis (band), an American post-metal band
• Isis (horn-rock band), a 1970s all-female band
• Isis (Lully), a 1677 opera by Jean-Baptiste Lully and Philippe Quinault
• "Isis" (song), by Bob Dylan
• "Isis", a song from the album Voyage to Isis by Delta-S
• "Isis", a song from the EP Is Is by The Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Periodicals

• Isis (journal), focusing on the history of science, medicine and technology
  • IsisCB, bibliographic resource in the history of science associated with the Isis journal
• Isis magazine, a student magazine at Oxford University
• Isis, a periodical by Lorenz Oken

Television

• Isis (TV series) or The Secrets of Isis, 1970s
• "Isis" (Smallville), a TV episode
• Project Isis (Chuck), a fictional spy operation
• ISIS, a fictional spy agency in Archer

Computing

• ISIS (operating system), used on the Intel 8085 processor
• CDS ISIS, a non-numerical information storage and retrieval software developed by UNESCO
• Image and Scanner Interface Specification, an interface for image scanning technologies
• Infinitely Scalable Information Storage, a video storage system from Avid Technology
• Integrated Software for Imagers and Spectrometers, software to process images and spectra collected by NASA planetary missions
• IS-IS, a network routing protocol
• Integrated Scientific Information System, software programs including the MDL Chime plug-in
• ISIS, a variant of the JOSS programming language
• ISIS/Draw, a chemistry modelling program
• Isis Mobile Wallet, former name of Softcard, a mobile payment system
• Unity ISIS, a storage device

Science

• Isis (genus), a soft coral genus
• ISIS (satellite), a series of Canadian satellites designed to study the ionosphere
• Hippotion isis, a moth
• International Studies of Infarct Survival, a set of clinical trials
• ISIS Mapping, a mapping project
• ISIS neutron source, a pulsed neutron and muon source
• Isis Papers a genetic conspiracy theory

Ships

• Isis (ship), a grain ship of Ancient Rome, described by Lucian
• HMS Isis, any of several British Royal Navy ships
• USC&GS Isis, an early 20th-century survey ship

Sports

• Isis Waterski Club
• Isis, the Oxford University reserve rowing crew at the Boat Race

Transportation

• Integrated Sensor is Structure, a project to develop an airship for intelligence use
• Integrated standby instrument system, a backup instrument display for aircraft
• ISIS Drive, (International Splined Interface Standard) a bicycle bottom bracket interface specification
• Morris Isis, a car by Morris Motors from 1929 to 1931 and a car from the British Motor Corporation in the 1950s
• Toyota Isis, a seven-seat large MPV

Other uses

• Hurricane Isis, any of several tropical cyclones
• Integrated Secure Identification System
• Is, is, isis, or double copula, an English sentence with the word is twice in succession
• Isis District State High School
• "Isis" of the Suebi, a description of a goddess in the first century CE book Germania
• Mysteries of Isis, religious initiation rites performed in the Greco-Roman world

See also

• ISI (disambiguation)
• Isyss, an R&B group
• Name changes due to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant