Olympian

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Olympian or Olympians may refer to:

Sport

• A participant in the Olympic Games
• SoCal Olympians, an organization of the United States Olympic team
• London Olympians, a British amateur American football team based in Beckenham, London
• Beijing Olympians, a Chinese professional men's basketball team
• Indianapolis Olympians, a National Basketball Association (NBA) team based in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA from 1949 to 1953
• Olympian Swim Club (Canadian swim team), an Edmonton, Alberta based swim club
• World Olympians Association, an association of former Olympic athletes from all over the world
• Wenlock Olympian Society, an organisation begun in 1850 by William Penny Brookes to hold the annual Wenlock Olympian Games in Shropshire, England

Technology

• Olympian (automobile), an automobile built by the Olympian Motors Company from 1917–21
• Olympian (sidewheeler), a large sidewheel steamboat that operated on Puget Sound from about 1884 to 1890
• Leyland Olympian, a double-decker bus built by British Leyland/Leyland Bus
• Leyland-MCW Olympian, a single-deck bus built by Weymann Coachbuilders using Leyland Tiger Cub units
• Volvo Olympian, a rear-engine double decker bus built by Volvo from 1992 to 2000
• Volvo Olympian (low-floor) or Volvo B9TL, a low-floor double-decker bus built by Volvo Buses since 2002
• Olympian and Olympian Hiawatha, passenger trains operated by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad from 1911 to 1961
• Olympian (typeface), a typeface designed in 1970 by Matthew Carter

Literature and mythology

• The Twelve Olympians, leaders of the Gods in Ancient Greek mythology
• Olympians (Marvel Comics), a fictional species in the Marvel Comics universe, based loosely on the Twelve Olympians and other deities of Greek mythology
• Olympian (comics), a superhero from DC Comics
• Olympian Gods (DC Comics), characters based upon Greek mythology who appear primarily in Wonder Woman, Captain Marvel and Aquaman
• Percy Jackson & the Olympians, a series of adventure and fiction books written by Rick Riordan
• Olympian spirits, spirits mentioned in several renaissance and post-renaissance books of magic

Places

• Olympian High School, a public high school in San Diego County, California
• Olympian City, a shopping and residential complex on the reclaimed land of Tai Kok Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong
• Citizens of Olympia, Washington
• Citizens of the ancient Greek city-state of Olympia, Greece

Other uses

• Olympian (album), an album by British rock band Gene
• The Olympian, a daily newspaper based in Olympia, Washington
• The Olympians, an opera by Arthur Bliss to a libretto by J. B. Priestley, first performed in 1949
• Olympian Publishing, a publishing house with offices in Chicago, IL, USA
• Committee of 300, a conspiracy theory which alleges the existence of a group founded by the British aristocracy in 1727