Pallas
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Pallas may refer to:
Greco-Roman mythology
- Male (Πάλλας, gen. Πάλλαντος)
- Pallas (Giant), a son of Uranus and Gaia, killed and flayed by Athena
- Pallas (son of Evander), a prominent character in the Aeneid
- Pallas (son of Lycaon), a teacher of Athena
- Pallas (son of Pandion), the son of Pandion II, king of Athens, and father of the 50 Pallantides
- Pallas (Titan), the son of Crius and Eurybia, brother of Astraeus and Perses, and husband of Styx
- Pallas, the father of Euryalus by Diomede
- Female (Παλλάς, gen. Παλλάδος)
- Pallas (daughter of Triton)
- Athena, one of whose epithets is "Pallas Athena"
People
- Pallas (freedman), Marcus Antonius Pallas, a freedman and favorite of Emperor Claudius
- David Pallas (born 1980)
- Janette Pallas
- José Ignacio Pallas (born 1983), Uruguayan football defender
- Peter Simon Pallas (1741–1811), German naturalist
- Simon Pallas (1694–1770), German physician
- Theodoros Pallas (born 1949), Greek footballer
- Tim Pallas (born 1960), Australian politician
- Pallas, a wife of Herod the Great
Places
- Finland
- Pallas-Yllästunturi National Park, Finland
- Pallastunturi, a group of fells in Finland
- Ireland
- Pallas, County Westmeath, a townland in the civil parish of Durrow, barony of Moycashel
- Pallasgreen, a village in County Tipperary, Ireland
Art, entertainment, and media
- Music
- Pallas (band), a British neo-progressive rock band
- Literature
- Pallas (1993), book 1 in L. Neil Smith's science fiction-fantasy Ngu Family Saga
- Manga
- Sailor Pallas, aka PallaPalla, a character in Sailor Moon
Astronomy
- Pallas (crater), a crater on Earth's moon
- Pallas family, a group of asteroids that includes 2 Pallas
- 2 Pallas, one of the earliest-discovered and largest asteroids in the solar system
Birds
- Pallas's cormorant
- Pallas's fish eagle
- Pallas's gull
- Pallas's grasshopper-warbler
- Pallas's reed bunting
- Pallas's rosefinch
- Pallas's sandgrouse
- Pallas's warbler
Mammals
Vehicles and vessels
- MV Pallas, a Dutch coastal tanker
- Pallas class frigate (1808), warship during the Napoleonic Empire
- Pallas, luxury versions of the Citroën DS, Citroën CX, Citroën XM and Citroën C6, automobiles built in France
- Pallas, a French Minerve class submarine
Other uses
- PALLAS, a research group working on parallel computing at University of California, Berkeley
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