The 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)

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 Four Owls, or The Owls, a British hip hop group

• 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

• 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

• Henry Owl (1895–1980) Cherokee educator, activist, historian

• Lula Owl Gloyne (1891–1985), born as Louisiana Leta Owl, Cherokee nurse

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

• Kennesaw State Owls, the athletic teams of Kennesaw State University

• Orem Owlz, a minor league baseball team

• Owls, the athletic teams of Keene State College

• Owls, the athletic teams of the University of Maine at Presque Isle

• Lunar Owls BC, a basketball club based in Miami, Florida

• 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

• Owl Club (disambiguation)

• Night owl (person), a nocturnal person

• OWLeS, the Ontario Winter Lake-effect Systems study project