Sphinx (disambiguation)

Sphinx or Sphynx can refer to:
*Sphinx, an iconic image of a recumbent lion with a human head in Egyptian and Greek mythology
**Great Sphinx of Giza, a giant Sphinx statue near the Great Pyramids

Entertainment and fiction

*"Sphinx (film)", an American movie fra 1981 starring Lesley-Anne Down
*"Sphynx (album)", an album by black metal band Melechesh
*Sphinx (comics), the name of two Marvel Comics characters
*Sphinx (Dungeons & Dragons): a monster in the Dungeons and Dragons role-playing game
*Sphinx (Marc Quinn sculpture), a sculpture of the model Kate Moss by the artist Marc Quinn
*"Sphinx (novel)", by Robin Cook
*Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy, a 3rd person action-adventure video game
*Sphinx Systems, a Swiss pistol manufacturer

Nature

*Sphynx (cat), a breed of hairless cat
*"Sphinx (moth)", a genus of hawkmoth; for species see Sphingidae species list
*Sphinx (rock), a natural rock formation, famous tourist attraction in the Bucegi subdivision of the Carpathian Mountains
*The Sphinx, a subglacial volcano in southwestern British Columbia
*the Sphinx, a rock formation on the Turkish peninsula of Gallipoli

Technology

*Sphinx (satellite), an American test satellite
*Sphinx (search engine), Free open-source SQL full-text search engine
*Sphinx (python package), Free open-source python documentation generator
*CMU Sphinx, a free voice recognition engine from Carnegie Mellon University
*Sphinx, the name of a GoTo telescope produced by Vixen
*SPHINX (SPH code), a Smoothed particle hydrodynamics computer code developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory, not currently supported

Other

*Sphinx Head, a secret society at Cornell University
*Sphinx (senior society), a secret society at Dartmouth College
* Le Sphinx, a Paris brothel founded in 1635
*A sphinx, the occasional term for a Brazilian bikini wax