Orca (disambiguation)

Orca is a name for the killer whale, a large marine mammal.

Orca or Orcas may also refer to:

People

• Quintus Valerius Orca (fl. 50s–40s B.C.), Roman praetor and officer under Julius Caesar

Places

• Orca Basin, a mini-basin in the northern Gulf of Mexico
• Orca Bay (Alaska), a bay near the town of Cordova
• Orca Inlet, serves as an inlet to Prince William Sound from the Gulf of Alaska
• Orcas Island, the largest of the San Juan Islands in Washington state
  • Orcas Island Airport, the correspondent airport of the island
  • Orcas Village, Washington (sometimes just called Orcas), a community on the island
• Sandford Orcas, a village and parish in north west Dorset, England

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters and vehicles

• Orca (comics), a villain in Batman comic books
• Orca (.hack), a character in the .hack video game series
• Orca (Jaws boat), a fictional fishing vessel in Jaws

Film

• Orca (film), a 1977 horror film

Literature

• Orca (novel), a 1996 fantasy novel by Steven Brust

Music

• Orcas (duo), a Pacific Northwest duo
• Orca (C-Bo album), 2012
• Orca Symphony No. 1, an album by Serj Tankian
• "Orca", a song by Deadmau5, as part of his compilation album At Play Vol. 2

Organizations

• Opinion Research Center of Afghanistan
• Organization for Respect and Care for Animals, an animal welfare organization
• Orca Air, a defunct Egyptian regional airline
• Orca Airways, a small scheduled and charter airline based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
• Orca Engineering, a Swiss sports car manufacturing company
• Orca wetsuits and sports apparel, a New Zealand wetsuit and sports apparel manufacturer

Technology and computing

• Orca (assistive technology), free and open source, assistive technology of the GNOME desktop environment
• Orcas, the codename for Visual Studio 2008
• Orca, a Windows Installer database editor; see Windows Installer § Developing installer packages
• ORCA (Online Representations and Certifications Application), a U.S. e-procurement system
• Project ORCA, a Get Out The Vote application created by Mitt Romney's 2012 U.S. presidential campaign
• ORCA Platform, an open source electronic payments processing platform
• ORCA (Quantum Chemistry Program)

Transportation

• Orca (supercar), a Swiss supercar
• ORCA Card, a smart card for public transit in the central Puget Sound region of Washington State, USA
• Orca-class patrol vessel, a class of training vessels for the Canadian Navy
• USS Orca, several United States Navy ships

Other

• Orca (dog), a golden retriever and winner of the PDSA Gold Medal

See also

• All pages with titles containing Orca
• Orka (comics), a villain in the Marvel comic books
• Orc