People

• Medusa, one of the daughters of the Trojan King Priam

Places

• Medusa, New York, a community in Albany County, New York
• Medusa's Head is a mountain a few hundred metres high that lies hard on the left bank of the Orange River, downstream of Vioolsdrif in South Africa. It is comprised of folded sedimentary rocks and bears a startling resemblance to classic portrals of Medusa.

Biology and medicine

• Medusa (biology) (alternate spelling Medusae), a form of cnidaria similar to the polyp
• Meduse, the French word for jellyfish
• Caput medusae (medicine), a symptom of portal hypertension

Art works

• Medusa (Leonardo da Vinci), the painting by Leonardo da Vinci
• Medusa (Caravaggio), the painting by Caravaggio
• Medusa (Trapeze album) (1971) by Trapeze
• Medusa (Annie Lennox album) (1995) by Annie Lennox
• Medusa (Clan of Xymox album) (1986) by Clan of Xymox
• The Raft of the Medusa, a painting of a French shipwreck

Astronomy

• 149 Medusa, an asteroid
• NGC 4194, the Medusa Galaxy Merger galaxy
• Medusa Nebula, a planetary nebula

In entertainment and fiction

• The Medusa Touch (film), a British thriller-movie from 1978 with Richard Burton.
• Ensemble Medusa, a record label
• Madame Medusa is the name of the villainess from Disney's 1977 animated film, The Rescuers
• Madusa, a stage name used by former professional wrestler Debra Miceli, whose name is commonly misspelled as Medusa
• Medusa (comics), a superhero in the Marvel Universe
• Medusa (Honorverse), a fictional planet in in David Weber's Honor Harrington novels
• Medusa, the title character of comedienne Julie Brown's TV movie Medusa: Dare to Be Truthful, a 1992 parody of the Madonna Blonde Ambition Tour documentary Truth Or Dare
• Medusa, the name of a secret organization in the classic Bourne series of novels written by Robert Ludlum
• Medusa, a novel written by Thomas Thiemeyer
• Medusa, a song by Anthrax (band)

Ships and military uses

• Medusa (ship), one of the most infamous shipwrecks of the Age of Sail and inspiration for the controversial painting, Raft of the Medusa.
• USS Medusa (AR-1), a Pearl Harbor survivor
• Operation Medusa, part of the War on Terrorism in Afghanistan.
• Medusa, a variety of AA Missiles
• Medusa (weapon), a directional, non-lethal weapon for mob control designed to induce noise in the head
• Medusa, an Italian submarine of the Argo class, sunk in 1915 by an Austrian submarine; it was the first submarine to be sunk by another.

In games

• Medusa (Dungeons & Dragons), a creature in the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game similar to the creature of Greek myth
• Medusa (Kid Icarus), the main villain from the Kid Icarus video game series.
• Medusa, a boss in the video game God of War
• Medusa (Lolo), an enemy in The Adventures of Lolo
• Madame Medusa, the blackhearted villainess from Walt Disney Productions' The Rescuers
• Medusa, the true identity of Rider from the Japanese visual novels Fate/stay night and Fate/hollow ataraxia
• Medusa Card Game, a gambling playing card game which is a form of poker
• Medusa (game engine), a proprietary C++ game engine developed by PaleStar and used in the game DarkSpace
• Medusa, the codename for Blizzard Entertainment's upcoming computer game StarCraft II

Roller coasters

• Medusa (Great Adventure), a floorless roller coaster at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey.
• Medusa (Six Flags Discovery Kingdom), roller coaster located at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom.
• Medusa, roller coaster located at Six Flags México

Other

• Medusa piercing, a facial piercing in the upper lip.
• Medusa, a proposed type of nuclear pulse propulsion using a solar sail as its "pusher plate"

References