Pandora (disambiguation)  

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Pandora is a character in Greek mythology.

Pandora may also refer to:

Mythology

• Pandora (Greek myth), several characters

Places

Extraterrestrial

• Pandora (moon), one of the satellites of Saturn
• 55 Pandora, an asteroid

Terrestrial

North America

• Pandora, Colorado, an unincorporated community in the United States
• Pandora, Ohio, a village in the United States
• Pandora, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated community in the United States
• Pandora, Texas, an unincorporated community in the United States
• Pandora Island, Nunavut, Canada
• Pandora – The World of Avatar, a themed area at Disney's Animal Kingdom near the U.S. city of Orlando, Florida

Oceania

• Pandora Reef, Queensland, Australia
• Pandora River, Fiordland, New Zealand
• Pandora's or Pandoras Pass, a mountain pass in New South Wales, Australia

Elsewhere

• Pandora, Punjab, a village in Pakistan also known as Pindorah
• Pandora Islet, part of Ducie Island in the South Pacific Ocean
• Pandora mine, which supplied Klondyke mill in the Gwydyr Forest of north Wales in the United Kingdom
• Pandora Spire, Victoria Land, Antarctica

People

• Pandora (singer), Swedish Eurodance artist
• Pandora, a pseudonym of American clairvoyant Edith Hyde Robbins Macartney
• Pandora, a pseudonym of Polish writer Stefania Zahorska
• Pandora Boxx, American drag queen and comedian
• Pandora Clifford, British actress
• Pandora Gibson, Bahamian comedian, storyteller and actress
• Pandora Peaks, former exotic dancer
• Pandora Todd, Ken Todd and Lisa Vanderpump's daughter

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

• Pandora (Avatar), a fictional moon, and the setting for James Cameron's Avatar film and video game
• Pandora (comics), a comic book character from Avatar Press
• Pandora (DC Comics), a comic book interpretation of her namesake in Greek mythology
• Pandora (Re:Zero), a character in the light novel series Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World
• Pandora, the main character in the anime Because I'm the Goddess
• Pandora, the barren planet of the Borderlands universe
• Pandora, the artificially-created human key to opening Pandora's Box in God of War III
• Pandora, a character in the Guitar Hero series of video games
• Pandora, a character in the Kid Icarus series of video games
• Pandora, one of the antagonists in the Mega Man ZX series
• Pandora, a fictional planet in the Noon Universe by Soviet authors Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
• Pandora, the sister of the god Hades in the Saint Seiya anime and manga series
• Pandora, a fictional planet created by Frank Herbert, first introduced in The Jesus Incident
• Pandora Braithwaite, a fictional character in the Adrian Mole books
• Pandora Moon, a fictional character in the British drama Skins
• Pandora Pann, a DC Comics character

Film and television

• Pandora (2016 film), a South Korean film
• Pandora (TV series), a 2019 sci-fi television series.
• "Pandora" (Skins episode), an episode of the teen drama Skins
• "Pandora" (Smallville episode), an episode from the 9th season of the sci-fi series Smallville
• Pandora the Brat, a pig-tailed character with a Southern accent, played by Rita Moreno on the 70's PBS series The Electric Company

Gaming

• Pandora (console), a hand held video game console with open-source software
• Pandora (Interceptor Software), a game publishing label established in 1986
• Pandora, a video game released in 1988 on the Amiga and Atari ST, by Firebird Games
• Pandora: First Contact, a 4X game

Literature

• Pandora (novel), by Anne Rice; about a vampire of the same name
• Pandora, a novel by Jilly Cooper
• Pandora, a novel by Sylvia Fraser based on her own childhood
• "Pandora", a short story by Henry James, published in 1884
• Pandora, by Holly Hollander, a novel by Gene Wolfe

Music

Groups

• Pandora (musical group), a Mexican music group
• The Pandoras, an all-female rock and roll band from Los Angeles, California

Albums

• Pandora (Angela Chang album), 2006
• Pandora (SiM album), 2013
• Pandora (EP), or the title song, by Kara, 2012

Songs

• "Pandora", a song by Madina Lake from their album From Them, Through Us, to You
• "Pandora", a song by Róisín Murphy, the B-side of her single "You Know Me Better"
• "Pandora", a song by Parkway Drive from their album Killing with a Smile
• "Pandora (For Cindy)", a song by the Cocteau Twins from their album Treasure (Cocteau Twins album)

Other uses in music

• Pandora (streaming service), an automated music recommendation service and custodian of the Music Genome Project
• Pandora, alternate spelling for the bandora (instrument), a stringed musical instrument

Other uses in arts and entertainment, and media

• Pandora (painting), a c. 1896 painting by John William Waterhouse
• Pandora (sculpture), an 1819 marble by Jean-Pierre Cortot
• Pandora, the name of a comic strip and its lead character in the UK music magazine Kerrang!
• "Gallifrey: Pandora", episode 2.3 of the Doctor Who spin-off audio series

Organisms

• Pandora (fungus), a genus of fungi
• Pandora, established by Doubleday around 1848, an invalid name of the butterfly genus Panacea (butterfly)
• Pandora, a genus of bivalves in family Pandoridae
• Pandora pinemoth or Pandora moth (Coloradia pandora)
• Pandoras, several ray-finned fish species in the genus Pagellus
• Symbion pandora, a jug-shaped microscopic aquatic animal
• Yucatan brown brocket (Mazama pandora), a small species of deer

Technology

• Pandora (marketplace), a defunct darknet market
• Pandora Archive, an online archive run by the National Library of Australia
• Pandora FMS (Flexible Monitoring System), a distributed computer monitoring system

Other uses

• Pandora (jewelry), a global jewelry manufacturing company founded in Denmark
• Pandora, a civil transport version of the Argentine DINFIA IA 35 1950s airplane
• Operation PANDORA, 1971 KGB plan

See also

• Pandora Project (disambiguation)
• Pandora's box (disambiguation)