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Greek mythology
- Argus Panoptes (Argus "All-Eyes"), a giant with a hundred eyes
- Argus (king of Argos), son of Zeus (or Phoroneus) and Niobe
- Argus (son of Arestor), builder of the ship Argo in the tale of the Argonauts
- Argus, the eldest son of Phrixus and Chalciope
- Argus, the son of Phineus and Danaë, in a rare variant of the myth in which she and her two sons (the other being Argeus) travel to Italy
- Argus or Argos (dog), the faithful dog of Odysseus
- Argus or Argeus (king of Argos), the son of Megapenthes
- Argus, one of Actaeon's dogs
Technology
- Argus (automobile), a German automobile manufactured between 1901 and 1909
- Argus (camera company), a brand of camera
- Argus Coastal Monitoring, a video system for observing coastal processes and related phenomena
- Argus - Audit Record Generation and Utilization System, a network auditing system
- Argus - The all seeing, a network and systems monitoring application
- Argus (programming language), an extension of the CLU language designed for distributed systems
- Argus Motoren, a German aircraft engine manufacturing firm
- ARGUS reactor, an aqueous homogeneous nuclear reactor at the Russian Kurchatov Institute
- Ferranti Argus, a line of industrial control computers
- Argus Retinal Prosthesis, a bionic eye implant manufactured by Second Sight
- ARGUS-IS, a wide-area surveillance system produced by BAE Systems
Entertainment
- Argus (album), a 1972 album by Wishbone Ash
- "The Argus", a song by Ween on the album Quebec
- Argus (comics), a fictional character who has associated with The Flash in the DC comics universe
- A.R.G.U.S., a fictional government agency in the DC comics universe
- Argus Filch, a fictional character in the Harry Potter series
- "Argus", an episode in the TV comedy series 30 Rock
- Argus, a fictional deity in the Mortal Kombat series
- ARGUS (Splinter Cell), a fictional private military contractor in the Splinter Cell series
- Argus (video game), a 1986 Famicom game by NMK
- "Argus (or "Argos") no Senshi", the original Japanese title for Rygar (arcade game)
- Argus, a prototype-only arcade video game by Gottlieb, also known as Protector
- Argus (TV series), a Norwegian TV debate series that aired between 1993 and 1994
- Argus, a Mexican metal band
- Argus, a fictional planet in the Warcraft computer game franchise.
- The Manhattan Argus, a fictional newspaper in the 1994 Coen brothers film, The Hudsucker Proxy
Military
- CP-107 Argus, a Royal Canadian Air Force maritime patrol aircraft
- HMS Argus, the name of many ships in the British Royal Navy
- RFA Argus (A135), a Primary Casualty Receiving Ship in Britain's Royal Fleet Auxiliary
- USS Argus, various ships of the United States Navy
- The French brig Argus, a French naval ship that took part in the Battle of Trafalgar
- Fairchild Argus, a British version of the C-61 Forwarder light military transport aircraft
Publishing
- See The Argus (disambiguation) for publications named "The Argus"
- The Argus (Brighton), a newspaper serving Brighton and Hove, England
- Cape Argus, a newspaper printed in Cape Town, South Africa
- Argus Press, a British publishing company
- Argus, a newspaper in Albany, New York, which long functioned as the organ of the Albany Regency
- Argus Leader, American newspaper that covers Sioux Falls, South Dakota
- The Argus (Melbourne), former Australian newspaper of record, established in 1846 and closed in 1957.
- The Dispatch / The Rock Island Argus, American newspaper that covers the Quad Cities in Illinois and Iowa
- Argus, Midwood High School's school newspaper
- Carlsbad Current-Argus, a New Mexico newspaper
- Livingston Daily Press & Argus, a newspaper that covers Livingston County, Michigan.
Biology
- Argus (bird), pheasants from the genera Argusianus and Rheinartia
- Argus butterflies, including:
- Nymphalidae, e.g. Erebia, Junonia
- Polyommatinae (Lycaenidae), e.g. as Aricia, Plebeius, Polyommatus
- Theclinae (Lycaenidae): the invalid genus Argus (described by Gerhard, 1850), now in Satyrium
- Argus (described by Bohadsch in 1761): a gastropod genus in the family Discodoridae
- Argus monitor (Varanus panoptes), a species of lizard
Other fields
- Argus contracting lp the best insulators in the world
- Argus, Iran, a village in Kerman Province, Iran
- Argus Corporation, a Canadian holding company once controlled by Conrad Black
- Argus distribution, a probability distribution used in particle physics
- Argus Media Ltd, a business information company
- Argus Range, a mountain range in Inyo County, California
- Cape Argus Cycle Race, a major cycling event in South Africa, colloquially referred to as The Argus
- Operation Argus, a 1958 US military effort to create orbital electron belts using atomic bombs
- Two systems for determining the Premiers of the Victorian Football League's competition in 1901, and from 1902 to 1930 respectively:
See also
- The Argus (disambiguation), the name of several newspapers
- Argos (disambiguation)
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