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Siren

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Siren or sirens may refer to:

Common meanings

  • Siren (alarm), a loud acoustic alarm used to alert people to emergencies
  • Siren (mythology), a monster in Greek mythology

Places

People

  • Siren (surname)
  • Siren, stage name of female bodybuilder Shelley Beattie on the TV show American Gladiators
  • Siren, stage name of Valerie Waugaman on the 2008 revival of American Gladiators
  • Alexander Brandon (born 1974), American musician, known as "Siren" in the demoscene
  • Siren Sundby (born 1982), Norwegian Olympic sailor

Animals

  • Siren (genus), a genus of aquatic salamanders in the family Sirenidae
  • Hestina, a genus of brush-footed butterfly commonly called sirens
  • Sirenia, an order of aquatic mammals including dugongs and manatees
  • Sirenidae, a family of aquatic salamanders

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

  • Siren (DC Comics), the name of two DC Comics characters
  • Siren (Transformers), a character from The Transformers: Headmasters
  • Siren, a character in Ice Age: Continental Drift
  • Siren, a minor character in Passions
  • Sirens, video game characters in Borderlands
  • The Siren, a character from the 1960s Batman TV series unrelated to the DC Comics Siren
  • Siren (Malibu Comics), a character from Malibu Comics' Ultraverse imprint

Films

  • The Siren (1917 film), a lost Fox film starring Valeska Suratt
  • The Siren (1927 film), an American melodrama directed by Byron Haskin
  • Sirens (1994 film), starring Hugh Grant, directed by John Duigan
  • Sirens (1999 film), starring Dana Delany
  • Siren, a 2010 horror film starring Eoin Macken
  • Siren (film), a 2016 horror film

Games

Literature

  • Siren (play), a 1990 play by David Williamson
  • Siren, a book by Tara Moss
  • "Sirens" (Ulysses episode) an episode in James Joyce's novel Ulysses

Music

Groups

  • Sirens (American band), metalcore band from Terre Haute, Indiana
  • Sirens (British band), a Newcastle upon Tyne based girl group
  • Siren, a rock band featuring Kevin Coyne

Albums

  • Siren (Roxy Music album), 1975
  • Siren (Heather Nova album), 1998
  • Siren (Susumu Hirasawa album), 1996
  • Sirens (Kenneth Newby album), 1997
  • Sirens (Savatage album), 1983
  • Sirens (On the Might of Princes album), 2003
  • Sirens (Astarte album), 2004
  • Sirens (It Dies Today album), 2006
  • Sirens (S. J. Tucker album), 2006
  • Sirens (Nine Black Alps album), 2012
  • Sirens (May Jailer album)
  • Sirens (Gorgon City album), 2014
  • Sirens (The Weepies album), 2015
  • Sirens (Woodlock EP), 2015
  • Sirens, by Ben Abraham, 2016
  • Sirens (Sublime with Rome album)
  • Sirens (Nicolas Jaar album), 2016

Songs

  • "Siren" (Malcolm Lincoln song)
  • "Siren" (Asian Kung-Fu Generation song), 2004
  • "Siren" (Ruby Gloom song), 2008
  • "Siren" (Paces song), 2018
  • "Siren (Never Let You Go)", by the Divinyls, 1983
  • "Siren" (Sunmi song), 2018
  • "Siren", by Tori Amos on the soundtrack on the 1998 film Great Expectations
  • "Siren", by Theater of Tragedy on the 1998 album Aégis
  • "Sirens" (Jeff Lynne song), 1990
  • "Sirens" (Dizzie Rascal song), 2007
  • "Sirens" (Pearl Jam song), 2013
  • "Sirens" (Cher Lloyd song), for her album Sorry I'm Late
  • "Sirens", by Angels & Airwaves on the 2007 album I-Empire
  • "Sirens", by Markus Feehily on the 2015 album Fire
  • "Sirens", by Kelsea Ballerini on the 2015 album The First Time
  • "Sirens", the title track on the album Sirens by Savatage
  • "Sirens", by The String Cheese Incident on the album Untying the Not
  • "Sirens", 2012 song by Nell Bryden, also covered by Cher for the album Closer to the Truth
  • "Sirens", 2001 song by Tim Deluxe
  • "The Siren" (song), by Nightwish
  • "The Siren", by Graveyard on the 2011 album Hisingen Blues
  • "The Siren", a song on the album A Violent Emotion by Aesthetic Perfection
  • "The Sirens", song by George and Ira Gershwin from A Dangerous Maid 1921

Other uses in music

  • Acme Siren, a varying-pitch wind instrument, often found in the percussion section of orchestras
  • Sirènes ("Sirens"), a movement in the Debussy suite Nocturnes
  • The Sirens, Op. 33, by Reinhold Glière (1875-1956)

Paintings

  • The Siren (Waterhouse painting), a 1900 painting by John William Waterhouse
  • The Siren, 1888 painting by Edward Armitage

Sculptures

  • Siren (statue), a 2008 life-size statue by Marc Quinn
  • The Siren (sculpture), a 2005 sculpture by Norman J. Gitzen
  • Siren (bronze sculpture), Roman bronze sculpture ca. 1571–90

Television

Series

  • Sirens (1993 TV series), an American crime drama series
  • Sirens (2002 TV serial), a two-part British serial
  • Sirens (2011 TV series), a British television programme broadcast on Channel 4
  • Sirens (2014 TV series), an American comedy program based on the Channel 4 series
  • Siren (TV series), a 2018 American fantasy drama series

Episodes

Other arts, entertainment, and media

  • Company of Sirens, a Canadian feminist theatre company
  • Siren (magazine), a bimonthly Canadian magazine
  • Siren FM, a community radio station based at the University of Lincoln in the United Kingdom
  • Siren Music Festival, an annual outdoor concert held at Coney Island, New York, from 2001 to 2010
  • The Siren (musical), a 1911 Broadway musical

Court cases

Military

  • HMS Siren, several Royal Navy ships
  • SS-N-9 Siren, NATO reporting name for the P-120 Malakhit, a Russian anti-ship missile
  • USS Siren, several US Navy ships

Sports

  • Sacramento Sirens, a woman's football team
  • Saskatoon Sirens, an expansion team in the Legends Football League
  • Sirens A.S.C., a waterpolo club in Malta
  • Sirens F.C., a football club in Malta
    • Sirens Stadium, the club's home ground

Other uses

  • Siren (codec), an audio codec
  • Siren (fragrance), a perfume endorsed by Paris Hilton
  • SIREN code, a nine-digit number given to all French businesses
  • Siren Visual, an Australian-based DVD distribution company
  • SIREN, an open energy system model developed for Western Australia
  • Standard siren, a unit of gravitational waves

See also

  • All pages with titles beginning with siren
  • All pages with titles containing siren
  • Siran (disambiguation)
  • Sirena (disambiguation)
  • Sirene (disambiguation)
  • Syreen, an alien race in the computer game series Star Control
  • Syren (disambiguation)
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