Sun (disambiguation)

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Contents 1 Newspapers 1.1 Historical newspapers 1.2 Canadian newspapers owned by Sun Media 1.3 Fictional newspapers 2 Other organizations, companies, and products 3 People named Sun 3.1 Prominent figures during the Three Kingdoms period 3.2 Fictional characters 4 Vehicle classes 5 Music 6 Acronym, code

Sun or The Sun may refer to:

• The Sun, in astronomy, the star in our solar system
  • Articles related to that star and its uses also include:
  • List of Solar Cycles
  • List of Solar System bodies formerly regarded as planets
  • Formation and evolution of the Solar System
  • The Sun in human culture
  • Solar deity
  • Sun (astrology), for its astrological significance
  • Sun unit, a unit of solar irradiation
• Sun Microsystems, a computer system, storage and software company
• Sun, a parent star of another solar system
• The Sun (Tarot card), a trump or "Major Arcana" card
• The Sun (film), 2005 film about Emperor Hirohito meeting General Douglas MacArthur
• "The Sun", a frequently-used name for a public house
• Sun, a traditional Japanese measure of length, corresponding to the Chinese cun
• Sun, Louisiana, a village in Louisiana, United States
• Sun River, a river in Montana, United States

[edit] Newspapers

• The Sun, a British tabloid newspaper, the largest English-language daily newspaper by circulation
• The Budapest Sun, a newspaper published in Hungary
• The Sun Daily, a Chinese language-newspaper in Hong Kong
• The Sun (Lowell), a newspaper in Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
• The Sun (Hummelstown), a newspaper in Hummelstown, Pennsylvania, USA
• The Sun (Malaysia), a major English-language newspaper in Malaysia
• The Sun (San Bernardino), a daily newspaper in San Bernardino, California, USA
• The Sun (Nigeria), a daily English-language newspaper based in Lagos, Nigeria, Africa
• Sun (supermarket tabloid), a United States supermarket tabloid
• Sun Herald, a daily newspaper in the Gulf Coast of the United States
• The Baltimore Sun, a major broadsheet newspaper in Baltimore, Maryland, USA
• Kitsap Sun, a daily newspaper in Bremerton, Washington, USA
• The New York Sun, a broadsheet newspaper in New York City, USA
• Vancouver Sun, a daily newspaper in British Columbia, Canada
• Chicago Sun-Times, a daily newspaper in Chicago, Illinois, USA
• Herald Sun, a newspaper in Melbourne, Australia
• The Sun-Herald, a Sunday tabloid newspaper in Sydney, Australia
• The Sun (magazine), a nonprofit literary magazine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• The Sun (Sheridan), a newspaper covering Sheridan, Oregon, USA
• The Las Vegas Sun, a daily newspaper in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
• Sun Newspapers, a chain of 25 weekly newspapers serving 82 different communities in the Greater Cleveland and Akron, Ohio areas

[edit] Historical newspapers

• The Sun News-Pictorial, a former tabloid in Melbourne, merged with The Herald to become The Herald Sun
• The Sun (Rangoon) (Thuriya), a Burmese language newspaper published from 1915 to 1954
• The Sun (New York), a newspaper in New York from 1833-1950

[edit] Canadian newspapers owned by Sun Media

• Calgary Sun of Calgary, Alberta
• Edmonton Sun of Edmonton, Alberta
• Ottawa Sun of Ottawa, Ontario
• Toronto Sun of Toronto, Ontario
• Winnipeg Sun of Winnipeg, Manitoba

[edit] Fictional newspapers

• The Sun, a tabloid newspaper in One Life To Live

[edit] Other organizations, companies, and products

• Connecticut Sun, a Women's National Basketball Association team
• Sunoco, The Sun Company, previously the Sun Oil Company of Ohio
• Sun, a brand of dishwasher detergent
• The Sun (insurance), a company founded in 1710, now part of Royal & SunAlliance
• Sunstone Circuits, a PCB manufacturer
• Sun Media
• The Phoenix Suns, a professional basketball team
• Soul of the Ultimate Nation, an MMORPG game
• Sun Cellular, one of the 3 major mobile telecommunications provider in the Philippines

[edit] People named Sun

• Sun (surname), a Chinese family name
• Ho Yeow Sun, a Singaporean pop singer famous in Asia and the United States
• Sun Myung Moon (born 1920)
• Sun Jihai (born 1977), a Chinese soccer player
• Stefanie Sun (born 1978), a Singaporean pop singer
• Sun Tzu (6th century BC), a military general of the State of Wu and author of The Art of War
• Sun Yat-sen (1866 – 1925), Chinese revolutionary leader
• Zhi-Wei Sun (born 1965), Chinese mathematician
• Sun Ra (1914 - 1993), jazz musician

[edit] Prominent figures during the Three Kingdoms period

• Sun Jian (155 – 191), military general loyal to the emperor of the Han Dynasty
• Sun Ce (175 – 200), son of Sun Jian and a rising warlord in southeastern China
• Sun Quan (182 – 252), younger brother of Sun Ce and the first emperor of the Kingdom of Wu
• Sun Xiu (235 – 264), third emperor of the Kingdom of Wu
• Sun Hao (242 - 284), final emperor of Wu
• Sun Liang (243 - 260), emperor of Wu
• Sun Shangxiang (184 – ?), daughter of Sun Jian, married to Liu Bei (founder of the Kingdom of Shu)

[edit] Fictional characters

• Sun Wukong, often referred to as the Monkey King, central character of the Journey to the West
• Sun-Hwa Kwon of the TV series Lost
• Aeryn Sun and her mother Xhalax Sun of the TV series Farscape
• The Sun, a boss from the game The House of the Dead III
• Spinel Sun, from Cardcaptor Sakura

[edit] Vehicle classes

• Sun class, a class of cruise ships
• GWR Sun Class, a class of steam locomotives

[edit] Music

• The Sun (band), a rock and roll group from Columbus, Ohio
• The Sun, a rock band from Estonia fronted by Tanel Padar
• Sun Records, a record label
• Sun International Records, a record label
• "Sun", a song by Lamb from their album Between Darkness and Wonder
• Sun (R&B band), band that was active mainly during the late 1970s
• Sunn O))), a band whose name is pronounced 'sun'
• The Sun (Cat Empire album)
• The Sun (Fridge album)
• "The Sun" or "Why Does The Sun Shine? (The Sun Is a Mass of Incandescent Gas)", a song by Tom Glazer popularized by They Might Be Giants
• "The Sun", a song by the band Maroon 5 from their album Songs about Jane
• The Sun, an album by FanFan
• Sun, an Australian folk-pop group featuring Oren Ambarchi

[edit] Acronym, code

• The SUN study (Seguimiento Universidad de Navarra), Spanish scientific epidemiological research
• Scientific Users Nineteenhundred (SUN), the user group for ICT/ICL 1900 computers
• SUN-TV (株式会社サンテレビジョン), a TV station in Japan
• SUN TV, marketing name for CKXT-TV in Toronto, Ontario
• Friedman Memorial Airport (IATA airport code SUN, previously Sun Valley Airport)
• Sunset Railway (AAR reporting marks SUN)
• SU(n), in mathematics, the special unitary group of degree n