Raven (disambiguation)

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Contents 1 Birds 2 People 3 Sport 4 US Military 5 Television 6 Fictional characters 7 Computer games 8 Other 9 Music 10 See also

Raven may refer to:

[edit] Birds

• Raven, a large black bird in the crow family (Corvidae)
• Raven, often used in the Northern Hemisphere as a synonym for the Common Raven (Corvus corax)
• Raven (mythology), a bird in mythology

[edit] People

• Alexander Raven Thomson, a British fascist politician
• Raven Chacon, Navajo composer and artist
• Raven Grimassi, author
• Raven-Symoné, an American actress and singer
• Raven (actress), stage name of American pornographic actress Rachel Vickers
• Raven Riley, an American pornographic actress
• Robert Raven Kraft, an American athlete and runner based in South Beach, Miami, Florida
• Scott Levy, an American professional wrestler who wrestles under the name Raven.
• Peter H. Raven, a professor at Missouri Botanical Gardens & Washington University
• Paul Raven, a british bassist mostly known for his work with the punk/rock band Killing Joke

[edit] Sport

• Baltimore Ravens, a team in the National Football League
• Carleton Ravens, the men's basketball team at Carleton University
• Raven, ring name of Scott Levy (wrestler) (b 1964), an American professional wrestler

[edit] US Military

• USS Raven, several U.S.A. warships have been named Raven
• EF-111A Raven, a U.S. Air Force electronic warfare aircraft derived from the F-111 Aardvark tactical bomber
• RQ-11 Raven, a short-range UAV used by the U.S. military
• Raven, a United States Air Force Electronic Warfare Officer

[edit] Television

• Raven (UK TV series), a British TV series (1977)
• Raven (U.S. TV series), an American TV series (1992-1993)
• Raven (game show), a BBC Scotland children's game show; also the two spin-offs, Raven: The Island and Raven: The Secret Temple
• That's So Raven, an American sitcom television series broadcast on the Disney Channel

[edit] Fictional characters

• Matthew Joseph Cable a superhero in the DC Comics universe who died and became a Raven in The Sandman
• Raven (comics), a superheroine from the Teen Titans series in the DC Comics universe
• Raven Darkholme, a Marvel Comics character also known as Mystique
• Raven (novel), a character - swordmistress and bearer of destiny - in a fantasy novel series by Richard Kirk
• Raven Baxter, title character of the American sitcom television series That's So Raven
• Sir Raven, a fictional character from The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy
• Mr. Raven, an allegorical figure in George Macdonald's fantasy novel Lilith
• Dmitri "Raven" Ravinoff, an Aleut character in the Neal Stephenson book Snow Crash
• Raven, the lead character in Demonology 101
• Raven (Zoids), an antagonist from Zoids: Chaotic Century/Zoids: Guardian Force
• Vulcan Raven, a character from the Metal Gear Solid videogame
• Duchess Raven Waves, a character from the animated series Lady Lovely Locks

[edit] Computer games

• Raven Software, a computer game developer
• Armored Core: Last Raven, a 2006 computer game
• Raven (Tekken), a character from the Tekken fighting game series (starting from Tekken 5)
• Raven, the driver of the car shadow in the video game Twisted Metal: Black
• Raven, the pseudonym of the fictional character April Ryan in the videogame Dreamfall
• Raven, a character in the game Fire Emblem: Blazing Sword
• Raven, a mercenary AC pilot in the Armored Core series of mecha combat games
• Raven, The Caldari State tier I battleship in EVE Online

[edit] Other

• The Raven (roller coaster), a roller coaster at Holiday World in Santa Claus, Indiana
• Raven (mythology), a trickster in Native American mythology of the Pacific Northwest
• Raven Clothing, a brand name UK Gothic clothing business
• Raven's Progressive Matrices, a psychological test to measure intelligence
• Raven, a hair color, specifically black
• Raven class, (1874 - 1892), a class of South Devon Railway 0-4-0 locomotives, steam locomotives
• Raven Society, a student society at the University of Virginia
• "Ravens", an alternative name for the Eucleian Society, a secret student society originally at New York University, founded in 1832
• Raven or corvus, a device used by the Romans in the First Punic War
• Raven paradox, also known as "Hempel's paradox" reveals the problem of induction in logic
• Raven, a city in Virginia at 37.09415 degrees N, 81.86202 degrees W

[edit] Music

Songs

• Raven, a song by an alternative metal Canadian band, Kittie
• Raven, a song by a Japanese band, Do As Infinity
• Raven, a song by The Four Seasons
• Raven, a song by Lisa Marie Presley
• "Ravens", a song by Patti Smith from her album Gone Again

Bands

• Raven (band), a British heavy metal band
• The Ravens, an R&B group
• The Ravyns, a rock band

Record labels

• Raven Records, an Australian record label
• Raven Recording, an American record label
• Ravenous Records, an American record label

[edit] See also

• The Raven (disambiguation)
• The Raven, a narrative poem by the American writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe
• Ravenmaster, the Yeoman Warder (or Beefeater) with responsibility for the welfare of Ravens at the Tower of London
• Ravenclaw, one of the houses of Hogwarts in the Harry Potter series called Hogwarts Houses
• "Mr. Raven", a song by MC Lars from The Laptop EP, based on Poe's poem
• Le Corbeau (French for "The Raven"), a 1943 French film.