Isis (disambiguation)

Isis is a goddess from the polytheistic pantheon of Egypt.

Isis or ISIS may also refer to:

Organisations

• Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, a former name of the Islamic State.
• Isis Innovation, a British technology transfer company owned by the University of Oxford
• ISIS Papyrus, a Swiss-based software vendor

Non-profits

• International Species Information System, an international software developer and data-sharing organization for zoos and aquariums
• Institute for the Scientific Investigation of Sexuality, now known as the Family Research Institute, an American anti-gay organization
• Institute for Science and International Security, an American non-governmental institution to inform the public about science and policy issues affecting international security
• ISIS Group, the former name of the Adara Group, an international development organisation dealing with issues of human trafficking
• 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
• The Institute of Science in Society, a UK organization promoting homeopathy, ecological sustainability, and anti-GMO policies
• 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 the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry
• Isis-Urania Temple, a religious group
• Isis Waterski Club

Arts, entertainment, and media

• Isis, a periodical by Lorenz Oken
• Isis (journal), focusing on the history of science, medicine and technology
• Isis magazine, a student magazine at Oxford University
• Isis Adventure, a puzzle game
• The tears of isis, a chapter in a children's book
• The Guardian of Isis, novel
• Curse: The Eye of Isis, video game

Fictional characters

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

Music

• DJ Isis (Isis van der Wel, formerly known as 100% Isis), Dutch DJ
• Isis (band), an American post-metal band
• Isis (Brisbane band), a rock 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

Television

• "Isis" (Smallville), a television episode
• International Secret Intelligence Service, a fictional spy agency in the TV series Archer
• Project Isis (Chuck), a fictional spy operation
• The Secrets of Isis, a 1970s television series originally titled Isis

Science

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

Computing

• ISIS (operating system), used on the Intel 8085 processor
• IS-IS, a network routing protocol
• Integrated Scientific Information System, software programs including the MDL Chime plug-in
  • ISIS/Draw, a chemistry modelling program
• Isis Mobile Wallet, former name of Softcard, a mobile payment system
• 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, a software to process images and spectra collected by NASA planetary missions
• ISIS, a variant of the JOSS programming language
• Unity ISIS, storage device

Places

• Isis Downs Station, a cattle station
• Isis Highway, an Australian highway
• Isis River (disambiguation), several rivers
• Isis Temple, a prominence in Grand Canyon, Arizona, US
• Shire of Isis, a former local government area in Queensland, Australia
• Electoral district of Isis, in Queensland

England

• The Isis, a part of the River Thames in Oxford
  • Isis Bridge, a bridge across the River Thames near Oxford
• Isis (HM Prison), a young offenders institution located in London

Transportation

• ISIS Drive, (International Splined Interface Standard) a bicycle bottom bracket interface specification
• Integrated Sensor is Structure, a project to develop an airship for intelligence use
• Integrated standby instrument system, a backup instrument display for aircraft
• 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 manufactured by Kanto Auto Works under contract for Japanese automaker Toyota

Ships

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

People

• Isis (given name)
• María Isis (María Jesús), daughter of Mexican army general Agustín de Iturbide
• Isis (rapper)

Other uses

• Hurricane Isis (disambiguation), several tropical cyclones
• Is, is, isis, or double copula, an English sentence with the word is twice in succession
• Isis, the Oxford University reserve rowing crew at the Boat Race
• Isis, Ohio, also known as Saint Charles, an unincorporated community in Butler County, Ohio, United States
• Isis District State High School
• "Isis" of the Suebi, a description in first century CE book Germania

See also

• Isis the Amazon, stage name of professional wrestler Lindsay Kay Hayward
• Isis Unveiled, an 1877 book by theosophist Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
• ISI (disambiguation)
• Isyss, an R&B group