Walrus (disambiguation)

A walrus is a large, flippered marine mammal.

Walrus may also refer to:

Music

• "Walrus", a song by the industrial metal band Ministry, from their 2004 album Houses of the Molé
• "Walrus", a song by the punk rock band Unwritten Law, from their 2005 album Here's to the Mourning

People

• Barry White, popularly known as "The Walrus of Love"
• Craig Stadler, professional PGA Tour golfer, popularly known as "The Walrus"

Places

• Walrus Islands, a group of craggy coastal islands in the Bering Sea
• Walrus Island (Bathurst Inlet, Nunavut), an island in Nunavut, Canada
• Walrus Island, Pribilof Islands, a small island in Alaska, United States

Transport

Aviation

• Supermarine Walrus, a British amphibious aircraft of World War II
• Westland Walrus, a British reconnaissance aircraft of the 1920s
• Walrus HULA, a heavy-lift hybrid airship studied by the American Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration (DARPA)

Maritime

• HNLMS Walrus, two submarines of the Royal Netherlands Navy
• HMS Walrus, the name of two ships and one submarine of the Royal Navy
• SS Walrus, a 19th-century vessel that operated in Australia as a floating, illegal moonshine still before being replaced by the legal Beenleigh Rum Distillery
• USS Walrus, three submarines of the United States Navy
• Walrus-class submarine, a type of submarine currently operated by the Royal Netherlands Navy
• Walrus (1851 HBC vessel), a Hudson's Bay Company vessel, 1851–1857
• Walrus (1872 HBC vessel), a Hudson's Bay Company vessel, 1872–1876

Other transport

• Walrus (locomotive), a narrow–gauge, diesel locomotive on the Groudle Glen Railway
• An ITSO smartcard issued by Merseytravel in the UK

Other uses

• Wally Walrus, an animated character in several Woody Woodpecker films
• The Walrus, a Canadian general interest magazine
• Walrus (comics), a minor Marvel Comics supervillain of Spider-Man
• A storage service included with Eucalyptus software
• Walrus moustache, a style of moustache that resembles the whiskers of the walrus
• WLRS, known as "The Walrus" (1964–2000), a radio station in Louisville, Kentucky, with a frequency currently having call sign WXMA
• An informal term for the operator :=, used in mathematics and programming languages such as Python for assignment

See also

• Léon Walras, French economist
• "I Am the Walrus", a 1967 song by the Beatles
• "The Walrus and the Carpenter", a poem by Lewis Carroll that appeared in his book Through the Looking-Glass