Firebird

Firebird and fire bird may refer to:

Automobiles

• Pontiac Firebird, American muscle car
• General Motors Firebird, series of concept cars

Birds

• Baltimore oriole
• Scarlet tanager
• Sharp-tailed grouse
• Vermilion flycatcher

In print

• Firebird (Lackey novel), a 1996 novel retelling the Russian folk tale, by Mercedes Lackey
• Firebird (Tyers novel), a 1986 science fiction novel by Kathy Tyers
• Firebird, a 2011 science fiction novel by Jack McDevitt
• Firebirds (anthology), a 2003 collection of short stories for young adults by Firebird Books
• Firebird (Amalgam Comics), an amalgamated character appearing in the Amalgam comic books jointly published by both DC and Marvel Comics
• Firebird (Marvel Comics), a character in Marvel Comics publications
• Firebird Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., launched January 2002
• Firebird (Pirotta picture book),an award winning picture book by Saviour Pirotta and Catherine Hyde, published by Templar and Candlewick 2010/2014

Films

• The Firebird (1934 film), a murder mystery directed by William Dieterle
• The Firebird (1952 film), a musical drama film directed by Hasse Ekman
• Fire Birds, a 1990 action film directed by David Green

Folklore

• Phoenix (mythology), sacred firebird found in the mythologies of many cultures
• Bennu, Egyptian firebird
• Huma (mythology), Persian firebird
• Firebird (Slavic folklore) (Жар-Птица)

Music

• The Firebird, ballet for which Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971) composed the music
• Firebird (band), late 1990s/2000s/2010s blues-based power trio
• The Firebirds, a rock and roll band from Bristol
• The Firebird Band, an indie rock band hailing from Chicago, Illinois
• Firebirds (album), a 1968 jazz album by Prince Lasha and Sonny Simmons
• "The Firebird", a song by Priestess from the album Prior to the Fire

Instrument

• Firebird (trumpet), trumpet with valves and slide invented by Maynard Ferguson
• Gibson Firebird, solid-body electric guitar from the early 1960s

Software

• Firebird (database server), database management system forked from the open sources of InterBase from Borland
• Firebird Software, defunct games software label owned by Telecomsoft
• Hino Tori, computer game known as Firebird in Europe, developed by Konami, Japan in 1987
• Mozilla Firebird, former name of the Mozilla Firefox browser
• Firebird BBS, one of two main telnet-based systems developed in Taiwan
• Space Firebird, a 1980 arcade game developed by Nintendo R&D1
• Firebirds (video game), computer game for the ZX Spectrum released in 1983
• Firebird (chess engine), open source software

Sport

• Albany Firebirds, American Arena Football team
• Indiana Firebirds, former Arena Football team
• Phoenix Firebirds, former Minor League Baseball team
• Queensland Firebirds, Australian netball team based in Brisbane, Queensland
• UDC Firebirds, University of the District of Columbia Athletics program
• Wellington Firebirds, New Zealand First-Class cricket team based in Wellington
• Firebird International Raceway, dragstrip and motorsports park in Phoenix, Arizona

Other uses

• AAM-A-1 Firebird, an American air-to-air missile of the 1940s
• Northrop Grumman Firebird, a reconnaissance and surveillance aircraft developed by Northrop Grumman