An octopus is a sea animal with eight limbs.

Octopus may also refer to:

Film and television

• Octopus (2000 film), an American film produced by Nu Image

• Octopus (2015 film), an Indian Kannada-language mystery thriller film

• Is Your Daughter Safe? or The Octopus, a 1927 film

• La piovra or The Octopus, a 1984–2001 Italian television series

• Doctor Octopus, fictional Marvel character

• Lady Octopus, fictional Marvel character

• The Octopus, a fictional pair of Siamese twins in The City of Lost Children

• Octopus, a character in the 2002 Disney animated film Return to Never Land

• Le Poulpe, a 1998 French film directed by Guillaume Nicloux

Games

• OCTOPUS (fictional organisation), a fictional organisation in the From Russia with Love video game

• Name This Game or Octopus, an Atari 2600 video game

• Octopus, a 1981 Game & Watch game

• Octopus, a variant of British bulldog, a playground game

• In chess, a knight strongly placed in enemy territory; see glossary of chess

Literature

• The Octopus: A Story of California, a 1901 novel by Frank Norris

• The Octopus (comics), a character in The Spirit

• The Octopus, a title used for one issue in 1939 by the pulp magazine The Western Raider

• The Octopus, a 1940 book by Elizabeth Dilling

• "The Octopus", a fictional article in Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

• Octopus: Sam Israel, the Secret Market, and Wall Street's Wildest Con, a 2012 book by Guy Lawson

Music

Artists

• Octopus (Belgian band) (1973–1980), a Belgian close-harmony group featuring English and Flemish members

• Octopus (English band), a 1969–1971 English band featuring the Griggs brothers: Paul Griggs and Nigel Griggs

• Octopus (Scottish band), a 1993–1997 Scottish Britpop band from Shotts, Lanarkshire

• The Octopus Project, an experimental band from Texas, also known as Octopus

• Oktopus or Alap Momin, a DJ, recording engineer and member of hip-hop group Dalek

Albums

• Octopus (Gentle Giant album) (1972)

• Octopus (The Human League album) (1995)

• Octopus (The Bees album) (2007)

• The Octopus (album), a 2011 album by English rock band Amplifier

• Í Hakanum/Octopus or Octopus, a 1980 album by Icelandic band Mezzoforte

• Octopus: The Best of Syd Barrett (1992)

• Octopuss, a 1983 album by Cozy Powell

• Octopus (Kris Davis and Craig Taborn album) (2018)

Songs

• "Octopus" (Syd Barrett song) (1969)

• "Octopus" (Bloc Party song) (2012)

• "Octopus", a 1961 song by singer-songwriter Billie Jean Horton

• "Octopus", a song by Icelandic band Mezzoforte from Í Hakanum/Octopus (1980)

• "Octopus", a 1979 song by British punk band The Freshies

Computing and technology

• OCTOPUS (network), an early computer network at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

• Octopus (software), for quantum-mechanical calculations of molecules and solids

Enterprises and organizations

Octopus card, a Hong Kong stored value smart card launched in 1997

• Octopus Cards Limited, the operator of Octopus card

• Octopus Holdings Limited, holding company jointly owned by five major transport companies in Hong Kong

Octopus Group, a British asset management company

• Octopus Energy, a UK-based energy supply company

• Octopus Publishing Group, a British subsidiary of Lagardère Publishing, specialising in illustrated books

• Organisation for Counter Terrorist Operations (OCTOPUS), a counter terrorism paramilitary unit in Andhra Pradesh & Telangana, India

Other uses

• Octopus (genus), a large genus of octopuses

• Octopus (ride), an amusement ride

• Octopus (yacht)

• Octopus, a spare scuba-diving regulator apparatus

• The Octopus, a news story written by Danny Casolaro

See also

• Al the Octopus, mascot of the Detroit Red Wings

• Doctor Octopus, a character created in 1963 for Spider-Man comics

• Legend of the Octopus, a Detroit team tradition

• Octopodidae, a family containing the majority of known octopus species

• Octopodoidea, a superfamily of all known octopods except for the argonautoids and vampyromorphs

• Octopus as food

• "Octopus's Garden", a song by the English rock band the Beatles (1969)

• Octopussy (disambiguation)

• Paul the Octopus, octopus with a history of correctly predicting the results of major German international football matches

• Squid, type of marine cephalopod related to the Octopus