Sun (disambiguation)

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Contents 1 Periodicals 1.1 Newspaper companies and chains 1.2 Canadian newspapers owned by Sun Media 1.3 Other current or recent newspapers 1.4 Historical newspapers 1.5 Other periodicals 2 Other organizations, companies, and products 3 People named Sun 3.1 Prominent figures during the Three Kingdoms period 4 Vehicle classes 5 Music 6 Acronyms or code 7 Fiction 7.1 Fictional characters 7.2 Other fiction 8 See also

The Sun is the star at the centre of the Solar System.

Sun(n) may also refer to:

• The Sun in human culture
• Solar deity
• Sun (astrology)
• Sun unit, a unit of solar irradiation
• Sun Microsystems, a computer system, storage and software company
• Sun, a parent star of another solar system
• The Sun (Tarot card), a trump or "Major Arcana" card
• The Sun (film), 2005 film about Emperor Hirohito meeting General Douglas MacArthur
• "The Sun", a frequently-used name for a public house
• Sun, a traditional Japanese measure of length, corresponding to the Chinese cun
• Sun, Louisiana, a village in Louisiana, United States
• Sun River, a river in Montana, United States

[edit] Periodicals

[edit] Newspaper companies and chains

• Sun Media, an owner of several newspapers in Canada
• Sun Newspapers, a chain of 25 weekly newspapers serving 82 different communities in the Greater Cleveland and Akron, Ohio areas

[edit] Canadian newspapers owned by Sun Media

• Calgary Sun of Calgary, Alberta
• Edmonton Sun of Edmonton, Alberta
• Ottawa Sun of Ottawa, Ontario
• Toronto Sun of Toronto, Ontario
• Winnipeg Sun of Winnipeg, Manitoba

[edit] Other current or recent newspapers

• The Sun, a British tabloid newspaper
• The Budapest Sun, a newspaper published in Hungary
• The Sun Daily, a Chinese language-newspaper in Hong Kong
• The Sun (Lowell), a newspaper in Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
• The Sun (Hummelstown), a newspaper in Hummelstown, Pennsylvania, USA
• The Sun (Malaysia), a major English-language newspaper in Malaysia
• The Sun (San Bernardino), a daily newspaper in San Bernardino, California, USA
• The Sun (Nigeria), a daily English-language newspaper based in Lagos, Nigeria, Africa
• Sun (supermarket tabloid), a United States supermarket tabloid
• Sun Herald, a daily newspaper in the Gulf Coast of the United States
• The Baltimore Sun, a major broadsheet newspaper in Baltimore, Maryland, USA
• Kitsap Sun, a daily newspaper in Bremerton, Washington, USA
• Vancouver Sun, a daily newspaper in British Columbia, Canada
• Chicago Sun-Times, a daily newspaper in Chicago, Illinois, USA
• Herald Sun, a newspaper in Melbourne, Australia
• The Sun-Herald, a Sunday tabloid newspaper in Sydney, Australia
• The Sun (Sheridan), a newspaper covering Sheridan, Oregon, USA
• The Las Vegas Sun, a daily newspaper in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
• South Florida Sun-Sentinel, a daily newspaper in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
• Arizona Daily Sun, a daily newspaper in Flagstaff, Arizona, USA
• The Gainesville Sun, a daily newspaper in Gaineville, Florida, USA
• The Westerly Sun, a daily newspaper in Westerly, Rhode Island

[edit] Historical newspapers

• The Sun News-Pictorial, a former tabloid in Melbourne, merged with The Herald to become The Herald Sun
• The Sun (Rangoon) (Thuriya), a Burmese language newspaper published from 1915 to 1954
• The Sun (New York), a newspaper in New York from 1833 to 1950
• The New York Sun, a newspaper in New York from 2002 to 2008
• The Sun (Carbon County, Utah), from 1915 to 1932

[edit] Other periodicals

• The Sun (magazine), a nonprofit literary magazine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

[edit] Other organizations, companies, and products

• Connecticut Sun, a Women's National Basketball Association team
• Sunoco, The Sun Company, previously the Sun Oil Company of Ohio
• Sunstone Circuits, a PCB manufacturer
• Phoenix Suns, a professional basketball team
• Soul of the Ultimate Nation, a massive multiplayer online role-playing game
• Sun Cellular, one of the three major mobile telecommunications providers in the Philippines
• Sun (motorcycle), a British motorcycle manufacturer
• Sun Sports, a Florida sports broadcasting network

[edit] People named Sun

• Sun (surname), a Chinese family name
• Ho Yeow Sun, a Singaporean pop singer famous in Asia and the United States
• Sun Myung Moon (born 1920)
• Sun Jihai (born 1977), a Chinese soccer player
• Stefanie Sun (born 1978), a Singaporean pop singer
• Sun Tzu (6th century BC), a military general of the State of Wu and author of The Art of War
• Sun Yat-sen (1866 – 1925), Chinese revolutionary leader
• Zhi-Wei Sun (born 1965), Chinese mathematician
• Sun Ra (1914 - 1993), jazz musician

[edit] Prominent figures during the Three Kingdoms period

• Sun Jian (155 – 191), military general loyal to the emperor of the Han Dynasty
• Sun Ce (175 – 200), son of Sun Jian and a rising warlord in southeastern China
• Sun Quan (182 – 252), younger brother of Sun Ce and the first emperor of the Kingdom of Wu
• Sun Xiu (235 – 264), third emperor of the Kingdom of Wu
• Sun Hao (242 - 284), final emperor of Wu
• Sun Liang (243 - 260), emperor of Wu
• Sun Shangxiang (184 – ?), daughter of Sun Jian, married to Liu Bei (founder of the Kingdom of Shu)

[edit] Vehicle classes

• Sun class, a class of cruise ships
• GWR Sun Class, a class of steam locomotives

[edit] Music

• The Sun (band), a rock and roll group from Columbus, Ohio
• The Sun (Estonian band), a rock band from Estonia fronted by Tanel Padar
• Sun (Australian band), an Australian folk-pop group featuring Oren Ambarchi
• Sun (R&B band), band that was active mainly during the late 1970s
• Sunn O))), a band whose name is pronounced 'sun'
• Sun Records, a record label from Memphis, Tennessee
• Sun International Records, a record label
• The Sun (Cat Empire album), a 2002 alternative album by Cat Empire
• The Sun (FanFan album), a 2001 album by FanFan
• The Sun (Fridge album), a 2007 post-rock album by Fridge
• Sun (German Crossover Band)

[edit] Acronyms or code

• Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli, a university located in Naples, Italy
• The SUN study (Seguimiento Universidad de Navarra), Spanish scientific epidemiological research
• Scientific Users Nineteenhundred (SUN), the user group for ICT/ICL 1900 computers
• SUN-TV (株式会社サンテレビジョン), a TV station in Japan
• SUN TV, marketing name for CKXT-TV in Toronto, Ontario
• Friedman Memorial Airport (IATA airport code SUN, previously Sun Valley Airport)
• SU(n), in mathematics, the special unitary group of degree n

[edit] Fiction

[edit] Fictional characters

• Sun Wukong, often referred to as the Monkey King, central character of the Journey to the West
• Sun-Hwa Kwon of the TV series Lost
• Aeryn Sun and her mother Xhalax Sun of the TV series Farscape
• The Sun, a boss from the game The House of the Dead III
• Spinel Sun, from Cardcaptor Sakura

[edit] Other fiction

• The Sun, a fictional tabloid newspaper in One Life to Live

[edit] See also

• Son (disambiguation)

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