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Fireball may refer to:

Science

• Fireball (meteor), a brighter-than-usual meteor
• Ball lightning, an atmospheric electrical phenomenon
• Bassia scoparia, a plant species

Arts and entertainment

Films

• The Fireball, a 1950 film starring Mickey Rooney and Pat O'Brien
• Fireball (film), a 2009 Thai martial arts action film directed by Thanakorn Pongsuwan
• Fireball (anime), a series of CGI anime shorts
• Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds, a 2020 documentary film directed by Werner Herzog and Clive Oppenheimer

Fictional characters

• Fireball Hikari, a protagonist of Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs American animated TV series (1987–1988)
• the main character from the 70s comic book Bullet (DC Thomson)
• a member of the Crusaders (DC Comics) team of superheroes
• a member of the All-Star Squadron
• a member of the New Crusaders (Archie Comics) superhero team
• one of the "stalkers" from the film The Running Man
• Rudolph's friend who is a reindeer in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

Music

• Fireballs (band), an Australian Punkabilly band
• The Fireballs, an American rock and roll band
• Fireball (album), a 1971 hard rock album by British band Deep Purple
  • "Fireball" (Deep Purple song), a 1971 Deep Purple song from the album of the same name
• "Fireball" (Dev song), the debut single by American singer Dev
• "Fireball" (B'z song), a 1997 single by Japanese band B'z
• "Fireball" (Pitbull song), a 2014 song by Pitbull featuring John Ryan
• "Fireball" (Willow Smith song), a 2011 song by Willow Smith

Other arts and entertainment

• Fireball (manga), a 1979 unfinished manga
• Fireball (novel), a science fiction novel and the first in the Fireball trilogy by John Christopher
• Fireball (pinball), a pinball machine
• Hadouken (Street Fighter), also referred to as fireball, a ki-energy attack in the game Street Fighter
• Fireball (Dungeons & Dragons), a fictional magic spell in Dungeons & Dragons
• Fire Ball, an amusement ride

Ammunition

• .221 Remington Fireball, a centerfire cartridge
• .17 Remington Fireball, based on the .221 Fireball
• .300 Whisper, sometimes known as the .300 Fireball

Sports

• Fireball (nickname), various sportspeople
• Fireball (wrestling move), an illegal professional wrestling move
• Augusta FireBall, an American soccer team in 2005 and 2006
• Tucson Fireballs, an American United Soccer Leagues team from 1997 to 2001, originally the Los Angeles Fireballs
• Fireball (wrestler), a Mexican professional wrestler
• Fireball (dinghy), a type of small sailing boat

Transportation

• Ryan FR Fireball, an American aircraft
• Fireball (dinghy), a sailing boat
• Buick V6 engine, originally marketed as Fireball

Other uses

• Fireball (search engine), a web search engine
• Fireball (software), a browser-hijacking malware
• Fireball Cinnamon Whisky, a cinnamon flavoured Canadian whisky liqueur
• 522d Special Operations Squadron, a US Air Force squadron nicknamed the Fireballs
• McMaster Engineering Fireball, official symbol of the Faculty of Engineering McMaster University
• Atomic Fireball, a round, cinnamon-flavored hard candy invented by Nello Ferrara
• The Fireballs annual ceremony in Stonehaven

See also

• Fireball XL5, a British TV series
• Fireball 500, a 1966 stock car racing film
• Ball of Fire (disambiguation)
• Great Balls of Fire (disambiguation)

• Disambiguation pages