Polaris may also mean:

Astronomy

• Polaris Australis, a star that is currently the South Star, Sigma Octantis

Business

• Polaris Award, a recognition given by IFALPA to airline crews for acts of exceptional airmanship or heroism
• Polaris Fashion Place, a mall in Columbus, Ohio
• Polaris Industries, manufacturer of all-terrain vehicles (ATV), snowmobiles, Ranger utility vehicles, and other offroad vehicles as well as Victory brand motorcycles
• Polaris Mine, the most poleward base-metal mine in the world located at Little Cornwallis Island
• Polaris Software Lab, an Indian financial software company

Computing

• Polaris (poker bot), artificial intelligence program developed to play Texas Hold'em variant of poker
• Polaris operating system, a PowerPC port of the Solaris Operating System
• Polaris experimental 80-core chip from Intel Corporation
• POLARIS database, Province of Ontario Land Registration Information System, managed by Teranet
• HP Polaris, a system for running Microsoft Windows applications with limited authority
• The codename for version 11 of the Windows Media Player, released in 2006

Culture

• Polaris (Convention), an annual science fiction convention held in Toronto, Canada
• Polaris Amphitheater, former name for Germain Amphitheater

Written

• Polaris (comics), a superheroine in Marvel Comics
• Doctor Polaris, a fictional villain from DC Comics
• "Polaris" (short story), by H. P. Lovecraft
• Polaris (novel), a science fiction novel by Jack McDevitt

Music

• Polaris (band)
• "Polaris", a song by the rock band Jimmy Eat World, taken from the album Futures
• "Rust in Peace...Polaris", a song from the "Rust in Peace" album by thrash metal band Megadeth and a reference to the UGM-27 Polaris nuclear missile
• Polaris (album), is an album by South Korean singer Kangta
• Polaris (song), is a song by the British band Ash, taken from their album Twilight of the Innocents
• Polaris Music Prize, a music award annually given to the best full-length Canadian album based on artistic merit, regardless of genre, sales, or record label.
• Tears from Polaris (song), is a song sung by Nicholas Teo in the Taiwanese drama, Smiling Pasta
• "Polaris" is a song from the album "Nocturne" by metalcore band "The Human Abstract"

Games

• Polaris (arcade game)
• Polaris (role-playing game), several role-playing games
• Tears of Polaris, a science fiction MUD under development by Iron Realms entertainment

Weapons and Ships

• Polaris (ship), ship of Charles Francis Hall's third Arctic expedition
• USS Polaris (AF-11), a Type C2 standard freighter of the WWII "Liberty fleet"
• UGM-27 Polaris ballistic missile
• CC-150 Polaris, a Canadian military transport plane derived from Airbus A310

History

• Operation Stella Polaris, Finnish radio intelligence