Sapphire (disambiguation)

A sapphire is a blue gemstone.

Sapphire may also refer to:

Biology

• Sapphire butterflies, the gossamer-winged butterfly of the genus Heliophorus
• Sapphire hummingbird, a name used for several species of hummingbird, including:
  • the Blue-chinned Sapphire
  • the Golden-tailed Sapphire
  • several species in the genus Hylocharis

Businesses

• Sapphire (books), a British book publisher
• Sapphire Energy is a energy company that produces oil made from algae
• Sapphire Technology, a manufacturer of PC hardware
• Sapphire Gentlemen's Club, a chain of adult entertainment venues

Film and television

• Sapphire (film), a 1959 British film starring Nigel Patrick
• "Sapphire," the name given to Blue Saphir in the English dub of the anime Sailor Moon
• Sapphire Trollzawa, a character from the animated series Trollz
• Sapphire, a character in the 1920s-1950s radio/film/television series Amos 'n' Andy
• Sapphire, a character in Sapphire & Steel, a British science fiction television series

Games

• Ginga Fukei Densetsu Sapphire, a 1995 very rare video game for the PC Engine
• Pokémon Sapphire, a video game for the Game Boy Advance
• Sapphire, a main character in Pokémon Adventures; see List of Pokémon Adventures characters#Sapphire
• Sapphire Rhodonite, a character in the video game Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice

Music

• Sapphire (John Martyn album), 1984
• Sapphire (Teena Marie album), 2006
• Sapphire, an album by the Japanese jazz musician Keiko Matsui
• The Sapphires, a 1960s pop group
• Sapphire, a band which include members of the band Alyson Avenue
• "Sapphire," an instrumental piece by TNT from the 1987 album Tell No Tales

People

• Sapphire (author) (born 1950), African-American poet and author born Ramona Lofton
• Sapphire, or "Sweet" Sapphire (1935–1996), a professional wrestling valet and wrestler born Juanita Wright

Places

• Sapphire, Queensland, a town in Australia
• Sapphire, North Carolina, a community in the United States

Ships

• Sapphire Princess, a cruise ship
• HMS Sapphire, the name of several ships of the Royal Navy
• USS Sapphire, more than one United States Navy ship

Software

• SAPPHIRE (Health care), a health information system based on Semantic Web and RDF language
• Sapphire programming framework, a framework in the PHP language, distributed with the SilverStripe content management system
• Sapphire Software, a browser based suite of computer software developed by K12 Systems
• Sapphire Worm, another name for the SQL slammer worm

Other

• Sapphire (color), an intense shade of blue
• Saphira, the main dragon from Eragon
• Sapphire (comics), a character in the DC Comics universe
• Sapphire (horse), 2004 Olympic silver-medal-winning horse
• Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire, a jet engine also known as the Wright J65
• Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire (motor car), a series of UK post-war cars
• Bombay Sapphire, a brand of London dry gin produced by the Bombay Spirits Company
• SAPPHIRE, a human resource management committee of XLRI Jamshedpur
• Sapphire, the rape investigation unit of the Metropolitan Police Service of Greater London in the United Kingdom
• Istanbul Sapphire, a skyscraper in Istanbul, Turkey

Related spellings

• Saphir, a 1960s French rocket system
• Safire
  • William Safire (1929–2009), American author
• Saffire – The Uppity Blues Women, a 3-woman blues band
• SAPHIRE, Systems Analysis Programs for Hands-on Integrated Reliability Evaluations