Commodore

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Contents 1 Aircraft 2 Animals 3 Automobiles 4 Computers and software 5 Fiction 6 Music and music venues 7 People 8 Places 9 Ranks 10 Ships 11 Sports mascots and team names

Commodore may refer to:

[edit] Aircraft

• Consolidated Aircraft Commodore, a flying boat used for passenger travel in the 1930s

[edit] Animals

• Brush-footed butterflies of the genera Auzakia, Parasarpa and Sumalia in the Limenitidinae, in particular A. danava
• Brush-footed butterflies of the genus Junonia in the Nymphalinae, otherwise known as "pansies" or, least ambiguously, buckeyes

[edit] Automobiles

• Hudson Commodore, an automobile produced in the 1940s and 1950s by Hudson Motor Car Company
• Holden Commodore, an automobile produced by the Holden division of General Motors in Australia
• Opel Commodore, an intermediate-sized car from Opel of Germany

[edit] Computers and software

• Commodore International, a computer company, also known as Commodore Business Machines, founded in 1954, which declared bankruptcy in 1994. The following articles are associated with Commodore International:
  • Amiga, a family of personal computers originally developed by Amiga Corporation; Commodore International purchased Amiga Corporation and introduced the Amiga machine to the market in 1985
  • Commodore 64, an 8-bit home computer released by Commodore International in August 1982
  • Commodore 128 (or C128, CBM 128, or C=128), a home/personal computer introduced in January 1985, the last 8-bit machine commercially released by Commodore Business Machines
  • Commodore PET, and Commodore's first full-featured computer, a home/personal computer produced by Commodore starting in 1977
  • Commodore VIC-20, an 8-bit home computer sold by Commodore Business Machines, announced in 1980
  • Commodore Semiconductor Group, also known as MOS Technology, Inc., famous for its various designs for Commodore International's range of home computers.
  • Commodore Gaming, a 2007 rebirth of Commodore International that manufactures gaming-oriented PCs
  • Commodore International Corporation, a Netherlands-based company that bought all the global rights, patents and assets to the Commodore brand in 2005

[edit] Fiction

• The Commodore, a Horatio Hornblower novel by C. S. Forester
• The Commodore (book), a novel in the Aubrey–Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian
• Commodore (Star Trek), a fictional Starfleet rank in Star Trek
• Commodore James Norrington, a character in Pirates of the Caribbean

[edit] Music and music venues

• Commodore Ballroom, a nightclub and music venue in Vancouver, British Columbia
• Commodore Records, a jazz and swing music record label
• The Commodores, a soul/funk band in the 1970s

[edit] People

• "The Commodore," the nickname of American entrepreneur Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794–1877)
• Mike Commodore (b. 1979), a Canadian ice hockey defenseman who plays for the Columbus Blue Jackets in the United States

[edit] Places

• Commodore, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated village in Pennsylvania in the United States
• Commodore Island, an island in Hudson Bay in the territory of Nunavut in Canada

[edit] Ranks

• Commodore (rank), a naval rank
  • Commodore (Royal Navy), in the Royal Navy
  • Commodore (United States), in the United States Navy and United States Coast Guard
• Air Commodore, a rank in the Royal Air Force and other Commonwealth air forces
• Commodore (yacht club), an officer of a yacht club
• Commodore (Sea Scouts), a position in the Boy Scouts of America's Sea Scout program

[edit] Ships

• Commodore (shipwreck), an 1897 maritime disaster that occurred off the coast of Daytona Beach, Florida, in which the steamer Commodore was lost; American novelist Stephen Crane was one of the surviving passengers
• USS Commodore, the name of various United States Navy ships

[edit] Sports mascots and team names

• Commodores, the nickname of Vanderbilt University intercollegiate athletics teams
• The Commodore, the mascot of Vanderbilt University intercollegiate athletics teams

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