Castor

Castor may refer to:

Historical people

* Julius Caesar Drusus, son of the Emperor Tiberius, nicknamed "Castor"
* Castor of Rhodes, a Greek grammarian and rhetorician
* Saint Castor, name of several Christian saints, such as Castor of Apt
* A family name.

Fictional people

* Castor (mythology), one of the Gemini twins
* Castor Oyl, a fictional character in the Popeye cartoons and brother of Olive Oyl.
* the villain in the movie "Face/Off", Castor Troy, portrayed by Nicolas Cage before the surgery and John Travolta after the surgery.
* One of the Spartan's allies in the game .

cience and Technology

* Castor (star), α Geminorum
* Castor (software), a data binding framework for Java
* Castor bean, a poisonous spurge seed
* Castor oil, the oil of the castor bean
* Castor oil plant, the plant from which the castor bean grows
* Castor wax, a type of wax produced from castor oil
* Castor angle, alignment in the vertical longitudinal plane of a motor vehicle's wheels (misspelling of caster)
* CASTOR at CERN is the acronym for CERN Advanced STORage manager, a data storage system used at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland. CERN is the European Laboratory for the Research in Particle Physics.
* CASTOR, an acronym for "Centauro And Strange Object Research," a forward CMS calorimeter
* CASTOR is the acronym for Cask for storage and transport of radioactive material (containers used to transport highly nuclear waste)
* "Castor", the genus name of (and in many Romance languages the word for) the beaver
* the Castor (rocket stage)
* a variant spelling of caster, a type of wheel
*on the Saturnian moon Janus (moon)
* a South Devon Railway 4-4-0ST steam locomotive of the South Devon Railway Eagle class

Music

* Castor (band), an independent rock band from Champaign, IL
* Castor Cracking Group, a demo group from Sweden active on ZX Spectrum

Places

* Castor, Alberta, Canada
* Castor, Cambridgeshire, England
* Castor, Louisiana, United States
* Castor (mountain), in the Pennine Alps
* Castor Bay in North Shore City, Auckland, New Zealand
* Castor Creek in Louisiana, United States
* Castor River (Missouri)
* Castor River (Ontario)
* an old name for Caistor St. Edmund, in Norfolk, England

HMS "Castor"

Four ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS "Castor". Named after one of the Gemini twins in Greek mythology. "Castor" also means "he who excels".

*HMS "Castor" was a 36-gun fifth-rate captured from the Dutch in 1781 by HMS "Flora". One month later she was captured by the French "Frippone" off Cadiz.
*HMS "Castor" was a 32-gun fifth-rate launched in 1785. She was briefly in French hands in 1794, but was recaptured. She was sold in 1819.
*HMS "Castor" was a 26-gun fifth-rate launched in 1832. In 1860 she became a training ship. She was sold in 1902.
*HMS "Castor" was a C-class light cruiser launched in 1915. She was sold in 1936.