Eureka often refers to:
- Eureka (word), a famous exclamation attributed to Archimedes
- Eureka effect, the sudden, unexpected realization of the solution to a problem
Eureka may also refer to:
History
edit- Eureka Rebellion, an 1854 goldminers' rebellion in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
- Eureka Flag, the battle flag of the Eureka Rebellion
- Tehran Conference, codenamed Eureka, an Allied meeting during World War II
Businesses
edit- Eureka (company), a manufacturer of vacuum cleaners
- Eureka! Restaurant Group, California-based hamburger restaurant chain
- Eureka! Tent Company, an American company
- Kværner Eureka, a Norwegian engineering and construction services company
Media and entertainment
editCharacters
edit- Eureka O'Hara, an American drag queen, popularized on Rupaul's Drag Race
- Eureka (Oz), Dorothy Gale's cat in The Wizard of Oz, so named because Uncle Henry found her
- Eureka (Eureka Seven), a main character in Eureka Seven
Film and television
edit- Eureka (1983 film), a British-American drama directed by Nicolas Roeg
- Eureka (2000 film), a Japanese drama directed by Shinji Aoyama
- Eureka (2020 film), an Indian Telugu-language thriller film by Karteek Anand
- Eureka (2023 film), an Argentine drama directed by Lisandro Alonso
- Eureka! (Canadian TV series), a 1980s Canadian educational series
- Eureka! (2022 TV series), a 2020s American educational series
- Eureka (British TV series), a 1980s British educational series
- Eureka (2006 TV series), an American science fiction series aired 2006–2012
- Eureka (soundtrack), a 2008 soundtrack album
- Eureka TV, a British children's science show aired 2001–2005
- Eureka Learning Channel, a defunct Singaporean educational television channel
Music
edit- Eureka (Jim O'Rourke album), whose title track was featured in the 2000 film
- Eureka (Mother Mother album)
- Eureka (Rooney album), 2010
- Eureka (Leslie Clio album)
- "Eureka" (song), 2014 song by Sakanaction
Literature
edit- Eureka (University of Cambridge magazine), published by the Cambridge University Mathematical Society
- Eureka (Italian magazine), a monthly comic magazine published between 1967 and 1989
- Eureka (Japanese magazine) , a monthly general art magazine with a focus on poetry and criticism
- Eureka: A Prose Poem, a 1848 essay by Edgar Allan Poe
- Eureka, a monthly science magazine for primary school students in Malayalam language published by Kerala Sasthra Sahithya Parishad, Kerala, India
- Eureka (journal), the original name of the Canadian mathematical problem-solving journal Crux Mathematicorum
Other media
edit- Eureka (musical), a 2004 Australian musical
- Eureka! (video game), a 1984 text adventure
Places
editAustralien
edit- Eureka, New South Wales, a suburb in Byron Shire
- Eureka, Queensland, a locality in the Bundaberg Region
- Eureka, Victoria, a small eastern suburb of Ballarat
Kanada
edit- Eureka, Nova Scotia
- Eureka, Nunavut
- Eureka Pass, Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut
- Eureka Sound, Nunavut
Neuseeland
edit- Eureka, New Zealand, rural settlement in the Waikato District
Vereinigte Staaten
edit- Eureka, California, the largest US city named Eureka
- Eureka, Colorado
- Eureka, Marion County, Florida
- Eureka, Miami-Dade County, Florida, part of Richmond West, Florida
- Eureka, Illinois
- Eureka, Lawrence County, Indiana, an unincorporated community
- Eureka, Spencer County, Indiana, an unincorporated community
- Eureka, Kansas
- Eureka, Michigan, an unincorporated community
- Eureka, Missouri
- Eureka, Perry County, Missouri
- Eureka, Montana
- Eureka, Nevada
- Eureka, North Carolina
- Eureka, Oregon, an unincorporated community and ghost town
- Eureka, Pennsylvania
- Eureka, South Carolina, an unincorporated community in Aiken County, South Carolina
- Eureka, South Dakota
- Eureka, Texas (disambiguation)
- Eureka, Utah
- Eureka (Baskerville, Virginia), a historic home near Baskerville, Mecklenburg County, Virginia
- Eureka, Washington
- Eureka, West Virginia
- Eureka, Polk County, Wisconsin, a town
- Eureka, Winnebago County, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
- Eureka Center, Minnesota
- Eureka Center, Wisconsin
- Eureka County, Nevada
- Eureka Springs, Arkansas
- Eureka Township, Adair County, Iowa
- Eureka Township, Michigan
- Eureka Township, Dakota County, Minnesota
- Eureka Township, Valley County, Nebraska
- Eureka Valley (Inyo County), California
- Eureka Valley, San Francisco, California
Science and technology
edit- Eureka (organisation), an international research and development funding and coordination network
- Eureka (OPAC), a library search engine developed by RLG
- Eureka! (museum), a museum in Halifax, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
- The Eureka, a machine for generating Latin verses
- Eureka-147, a system for digital audio broadcast
- Eureka Streams, an open source software project
- Eureka theorem, a result of Gauss that every natural number is the sum of three triangular numbers
- 5261 Eureka, an asteroid co-orbital with Mars
- Constantan, also known as Eureka, a metal alloy
- Heureka, a science centre in Vantaa, Finland
- Eureka, the transponder component of the World War II Rebecca/Eureka transponding radar
- Eureka: The Solver, numerical solver for mathematical systems of equations, released by Borland, 1987
Transport
edit- Eureka (1900 automobile), an American automobile
- Eureka (1907 automobile), an American automobile
- Eureka (airship), a Zeppelin NT owned by Airship Ventures
- Eureka (French automobile), a French automobile
- Eureka (ferryboat), an 1890-built steam ferryboat now preserved in San Francisco
- Ameri-Cana Eureka, a Canadian ultralight aircraft
Other uses
edit- Eureka Diamond, the first diamond found in South Africa
- Eureka Mountain (Colorado), a summit in the Sangre de Cristo Range
- Eureka Poker Tour, poker tour in the central and eastern Europe
- Eureka Prizes, annual Australian science prizes presented by the Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia
- Eureka Shipyard, a shipyard of the early 20th century in New York State
- Eureka Tower, a 2006 91-storey residential building in Melbourne, Australia
- Disney's Eureka! A California Parade, a former parade in Disney's California Adventure Park
- Eureka! Program, a teen girls' achievement program run by Girls, Inc.
- Asociación Atlética Eureka, known as Eureka, a former football team in Argentina
- Eureka O'Hara, American drag queen
See also
edit- EURECA (disambiguation)
- Eurekha, 1999 biography of Indian actress Rekha by Mohan Deep