The kingfisher is a bird in the family Alcedinidae.
Kingfisher may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment The Kingfisher, an 1886 painting by Vincent Van Gogh Kingfisher, an album by the band Prawn "Kingfisher", a song on the 2010 album Have One on Me by Joanna Newsom "The Kingfishers", a poem by Charles Olson "Kingfisher", a novel by Gerald Seymour Racing Mount Pleasant, a band formerly known as Kingfisher
Business Kingfisher Airlines, an airline based in India in operation from 2005 to 2012 Kingfisher (beer), an Indian beer Kingfisher Books, a British children's book publisher Kingfisher plc, a British retail group Kingfisher International Pty Ltd an Australian fiber optic test equipment manufacturer Kingfisher Shopping Centre, Redditch, Worcestershire, England
Military uses , various British Royal Navy ships Kingfisher-class sloop, a patrol sloop class of the British Royal Navy , several United States Navy ships Operation Kingfisher, a Vietnam War United States Marine Corps operation Operation Kingfisher (World War II), a planned but never implemented operation to rescue prisoners of war from the Japanese Project Kingfisher, an American weapons development program 1944–1956 Vought OS2U Kingfisher, an American observation floatplane Lockheed AQM-60 Kingfisher, a United States Air Force target drone CC-295 Kingfisher, a search-and-rescue variant of the EADS CASA C-295 transport aircraft
Ships Kingfisher (sloop), a 1860s merchant trader in British Columbia, Canada Kingfisher (clipper), a 1863 California clipper Kingfisher (yacht), a racing vessel used by Ellen MacArthur Kingfisher 2, a catamaran MacArthur captained in the 2003 Jules Verne Trophy competition
Places Kingfisher County, Oklahoma Kingfisher, Oklahoma, United States, a city and the county seat Kingfisher First Nation, a reservation in northern Ontario, Canada Kingfisher 2A, a First Nations reserve in Ontario Kingfisher 3A, a First Nations reserve in Ontario, on Kingfisher Lake Kingfisher Country Park, East Birmingham, West Midlands, England
Sports Eisvögel USC Freiburg (Kingfishers), a German women's basketball team Kingfisher East Bengal F.C., a football team based in Kolkata, India Kingfisher (horse) (1867–1890), an American Thoroughbred racehorse
Other uses Kingfisher College, Kingfisher, Oklahoma, a school from 1895 to 1922 Kingfisher Tower, a folly on the eastern shore of Otsego Lake, New York, United States Kingfisher Tower (Utah), a sandstone landform, United States LNER Class A4 4483 Kingfisher, a UK steam locomotive T. Kingfisher, pen name of Ursula Vernon (born 1977), American freelance writer, artist and illustrator 500 Series Shinkansen, resembling a kingfisher birds beak Since 2019, "The Kingfisher" has been proposed as a potential mascot for the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign after Chief Illiniwek was removed in 2007 http://kingfisheruiuc.org
See also Kingfish (disambiguation) King Fisher (1853–1884), American Old West gunslinger Fisher King, a character in Arthurian lore The Fisher King, a 1991 American film starring Robin Williams and Jeff Bridges Kingfishr, an Irish indie folk group
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