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A sphinx is a mythical creature with the head of a human and the body of a lion.

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• In Egypt
• Geographic features
• Antarctica
• Canada
• Europe
• United States
• Arts and entertainment
• Fictional entities
• Film and television
• Literature and periodicals
• Music
• Other media
• Organisations
• Science and technology
• Computing
• Transport
• Other uses
• See also

Sphinx or Sphynx may also refer to:

In Egypt

• Great Sphinx of Giza, the giant Sphinx statue near the Great Pyramids
• Sphinx of Memphis, a stone sphinx located near the ruins of Memphis
• Sphinx International Airport, a public airport serving the city of Giza

Geographic features

Arts and entertainment

Organisations

• Sphinx (senior society), a secret society at Dartmouth College
• Sphinx Senior Society, a senior society at the University of Pennsylvania
• Sphinx Organization, aiding the development of young Black and Latino classical musicians
• Sphinx Resources, a Canadian mining company
• Sphinx Systems, a Swiss firearms manufacturer

Science and technology

• Sphinx (gene), a non-coding RNA in Drosophila
• Sphinx (moth), the common name of many moths in the family Sphingidae
  • Sphinx (genus), a genus of moths in the family Sphingidae
• Sphinx (satellite), an American test satellite
• Sphynx cat, a breed of hairless cat
• Sphinx tiling, a geometric tiling using the "sphinx" hexiamond

Transport

• CSS Sphynx, later the Japanese ironclad Kōtetsu, a 19th-century warship
• HMS Sphinx, several ships of the Royal Navy
• French ship Sphinx, several ships of the French Navy
• La Mouette Sphinx, a French hang glider design

Other uses

• Le Sphinx, a Paris brothel founded in 1931
• Sphinx Ting, Taiwanese actor and model
• Sphinx, a typeface produced by Deberny & Peignot
• Sphinx, a disc golf fairway driver by Infinite Discs
• Sphinx, a nickname for Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president of United States
• Sphinx Observatory at the Jungfraujoch glacier saddle in Switzerland

See also

• All pages with titles containing Sphinx
• Sfinks (disambiguation)
• Sfinx (disambiguation)
• SPHINCS
• SPHINCS+

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