Orca is another name for a killer whale, the world's biggest dolphin species.

Orca, 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 (carbon capture plant), facility that uses direct air capture to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere

• Orca gas field, a North Sea gas field

• 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 (DC Comics), the name of two different comic book characters

• Orca (.hack), a character in the .hack video game series

• Orca, a fictional fishing vessel in the 1975 film Jaws

Film

• Orca (1977 film), a horror film

• Orca (2020 film), a Swedish drama 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, from his 2006 album Vexillology and 2009 compilation album At Play Vol. 2

• Orca, an album by Gus Dapperton

Organizations

• Opinion Research Center of Afghanistan

• Orca Air, a 1996–2003 Egyptian regional airline

• Orca Airways, a 2005–2018 small scheduled and charter airline based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

• Orca Engineering, a Swiss sports car manufacturing company

• Orca (company), a New Zealand wetsuit and sports apparel manufacturer

• Otonabee Region Conservation Authority, a conservation authority in Ontario, Canada

Technology and computing

• The Online Representations and Certifications Application website, now superseded by the US government's System for Award Management

• Orca, a Windows Installer database editor

• Orca (assistive technology), part of the free and open source GNOME desktop environment

• ORCA (quantum chemistry program)

• Orcas, the codename for Visual Studio 2008

• Oscillation Research with Cosmics in the Abyss, part of the KM3NeT neutrino telescope

• ORCA (computer system), a "get out the vote" application created by Mitt Romney's 2012 U.S. presidential campaign

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

• Orca (AUV), autonomous underwater vehicle under development by Boeing and Huntington Ingalls Industries

Other

• Orca (dog) (2001–2014), a golden retriever and winner of the PDSA Gold Medal

• Omni Role Combat Aircraft (ORCA), an Indian aircraft development program

• Seattle Orcas, a team in Major League Cricket

See also

• Orka (character), a villain in the Marvel comic books

• Orc, a fictional humanoid monster

• AUKUS, a trilateral security pact

• Orcas (disambiguation)