List of things named after Leonardo da Vinci
Appearance
This is a list of things named after Leonardo da Vinci.
Places
[edit]- Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport, Rome, Italy
- Museo della Scienza e della Tecnologia "Leonardo da Vinci", Milan, Italy
- Da Vinci, a crater on the Moon
- Da Vinci-Broen (Da Vinci Bridge), a small-scale replica of the bridge Leonardo designed to span the Golden Horn, in Ås, Viken, Norway
- Da Vinci Research Park, a science park located in Brussels, Belgium
- Da Vinci, a Michelin-starred restaurant in Maasbracht, Netherlands
- Da Vinci Tower, a proposed 420-metre (1,378 ft), 80-floor tower in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Leonardo Da Vinci Centre, a community centre in Victoria, BC run by the Italian Cultural Society
Streets and squares
[edit]- Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, Milan
- Leonardo da Vinci Street, Budapest, Hungary
- Leonardo-da-Vinci-Platz, Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
- Via Leonardo da Vinci, Guidonia Montecelio, Rome, Italy
- Via Leonardo da Vinci, Merano, South Tyrol, Italy
- Rue Léonard de Vinci, Massy, Essonne, France
- Leonardo da Vinci streets in Ashdod and Tel Aviv in Israel
Schools and colleges
[edit]- Colégio Anglo Leonardo da Vinci, São Paulo, Brazil
- DaVinci Academy of Science and the Arts, a charter high school in Ogden, Utah
- Leonardo da Vinci Art Institute, Cairo, Egypt
- Leonardo da Vinci Art School, formerly in New York City
- Leonardo da Vinci Gymnasium, Neckargemünd, Germany
- Leonardo da Vinci High School, Davis, California
- Leonardo da Vinci High School, Buffalo, New York
- Da Vinci College, Chaddesden, Derbyshire, England
- Scuola elementare "Leonardo da Vinci", Vergaio, Prato, Tuscany, Italy
- da Vinci Arts Middle School, Portland, Oregon
Ships
[edit]- Leonardo da Vinci, a Conte di Cavour class battleship of the Italian navy. (1910–1923)
- Leonardo da Vinci, a Marconi class submarine of the Italian Navy. (1940–1943)
- SS Leonardo da Vinci, an ocean liner in service for Italian Line between 1960 and 1978. (1960–1982)
- GTS Da Vinci, briefly (in 2008) the name of a cruise ship owned by Club Cruise (1977–2008)
Technology
[edit]- DAVINCI+, a planned NASA mission to send an atmospheric probe to Venus
- Da Vinci Machine, a Sun Microsystems project aiming to prototype the extension of the Java Virtual Machine to add support for dynamic languages
- da Vinci Project, a former project to launch a suborbital crewed spacecraft
- Da Vinci Surgical System, a robotic surgery system
- da Vinci Systems, Color Correctors
- DaVinci Works, industrial automation software for window and door manufacturers
- Leonardo MPLM, a multi-purpose logistics module used to re-supply the International Space Station
- Texas Instruments DaVinci, a system-on-a-chip for digital video
- DaVinci Resolve, a video editor produced by Blackmagic Design
Music
[edit]- Da Vinci, a Portuguese pop rock band
- Da Vinci's Notebook, an American a cappella group.
Fictional characters
[edit]- Leonardo, a lead character in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Léonard, lead character of the eponymous comic series by Philippe Liégeois and Bob De Groot
- Leonardo Acropolis, a painter in the BBC sitcom Blackadder II
- Giulietta da Vinci, fictional character from the 1999 James Bond film The World Is Not Enough
- Leonard of Quirm, the analogue of Da Vinci in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series of novels.
- Larry Da Vinci, a character in the LittleBigPlanet series of games.
- Da Vinci, a character in 101 Dalmatian Street.
Awards
[edit]- Leonardo da Vinci International Award, awarded by an international consortium of Rotary Clubs
- ASME Leonardo Da Vinci Award, awarded by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts, awarded by the World Cultural Council (Mexico)
- Leonardo da Vinci Medal, awarded by the Society for the History of Technology
Business
[edit]- Leonardo S.p.A., an Italian multinational aerospace, defence and security company
- da Vinci Designs, a manufacturer of tandem bicycles in Denver, Colorado
Other
[edit]- Leonardo davincii, a species of moth from Sudan
- Leonardo da Vinci programme (European Commission funding programme)
- Da Vinci's Challenge, a board game
- The House of Da Vinci, a video game
- Italdesign DaVinci , a concept electric GT car.
External links
[edit]Media related to Things named after Leonardo da Vinci at Wikimedia Commons