An owl is a bird of prey.
Owl, Owls, or OWL may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Fictional entities
- Owl (comics), the name of several comics characters
 - Owl (Winnie the Pooh)
 - Ordinary Wizarding Level, a test of magical aptitude in the Harry Potter novel series
 
Film and television
- Owl (film), a 2003 Japanese black comedy
 - The Owl (1927 film), a German silent film
 - The Owl (1991 film), an American television film
 - The Owl (TV series), a French series of animated shorts for children
 - OWL/TV, a Canadian children's educational television series 1985–1994
 - "Owls" (Millennium), a television episode
 
Literature
- "The Owl" (fairy tale), a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm
 - OWL (magazine), a Canadian children's educational magazine; basis of the OWL/TV series
 - The Owl (magazine): A Wednesday Journal of Politics and Society, a satirical society newspaper published in London 1864–1870
 
Music
- Owl (band), a Los Angeles–based hard-rock band, and their self-titled 2009 album
 - Owls (band), a Chicago-based rock band
- Owls (album), 2001
 
 - Of Wondrous Legends, or O.W.L., an American psych folk band, and their self-titled 1971 album
 - The Owl (album), by the Zac Brown Band, 2019
 - Owl, an album by Qwel & Maker, 2010
 - "Owl", a song by the Cat Empire from the album Where the Angels Fall, 2023
 
Other uses in arts and entertainment
- Owl (sculpture), a public statue in Canberra, Australia
 - NASPA Word List, or OWL, the official word list for Scrabble in North America
 
Businesses and organizations
- Office Workstations Limited, a British software company
 - Older Women's League, an American organization
 - Order of Owls, an American fraternal order
 - Owl Labs, a company that builds remote conferencing devices
 - The Owl Drug Company, an American drug retailer
 
Languages
- Owl (hieroglyph), an Egyptian language uniliteral
 - Old Welsh, ISO 639 language code owl
 
Military
- HMS Owl, the name of a British ship and a shore establishment
 - USS Owl, the name of two American ships
 - CSS Owl, a Confederate States Navy blockade runner in the American Civil War
 - Curtiss O-52 Owl, an American observation aircraft before and during World War II
 
People
- Owl Chapman, a short-board surfer
 - Owl Fisher (born 1991), an Icelandic journalist
 - Owl Goingback (born 1959), American author
 
Places
- Owl Creek (disambiguation)
 - Owl Mountains, Poland
 - Owl Peak, Wyoming, U.S.
 - Owl River (disambiguation)
 - Olympic–Wallowa Lineament (OWL), a physiographic feature in Washington State, U.S.
 - Ostwestfalen-Lippe (OWL), an area in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
 
Science and technology
Astronomy
- NGC 457, an open star cluster also known as the Owl Cluster
 - Owl Nebula, in the constellation Ursa Major
 - Overwhelmingly Large Telescope, a proposed optical telescope
 
Computing
- Object Windows Library, a C++ object-oriented application framework
 - Online Watch Link, a commercial web application for Neighbourhood Watch schemes
 - Openwall Project (Owl), a security-enhanced Linux distribution
 - Owl (AOL), a user-generated content site created by AOL in 2010
 - Owl Scientific Computing, a software system for scientific and engineering computing
 - Web Ontology Language, a family of knowledge representation languages
 
Sports
- Bielawa Owls, an American football team based in Bielawa, Poland
 - Chicago Owls, a defunct professional American football team based in Chicago
 - Clinton Owls, a defunct minor league baseball team, based in Clinton, Iowa (1937–1938)
 - Dayton Owls, a minor league ice hockey team in the International Hockey League for the 1977–1978 season
 - Florida Atlantic Owls, the athletics teams of Florida Atlantic University
 - Forest City Owls, a baseball team in the Coastal Plain League, a collegiate summer league
 - Grand Rapids Owls, a defunct International Hockey League team
 - Owls, the athletic teams of Keene State College
 - Kennesaw State Owls, the athletic teams of Kennesaw State University
 - Owls, the athletic teams of the University of Maine at Presque Isle
 - Orem Owlz, a minor league baseball team
 - Rice Owls, the athletic teams of Rice University
 - Temple Owls, the athletic teams of Temple University
 - Topeka Owls, a defunct Western Association minor league baseball team based in Topeka, Kansas
 - Uni-Norths Owls, an Australian rugby union club
 - Owls, the athletic teams of Westfield State University
 - Sheffield Wednesday F.C., an English football club nicknamed "The Owls"
 - OWLS AC Leicester, an English athletics club
 - Guildford Owls, an Australian rugby league club
 - Overwatch League, a professional esports league
 
Transportation
- OWLS, a mnemonic used by general aviation airplane pilots
 - Owl service, or public transport night service
 - Night Owl (train), between Boston and Washington, D.C.
 - Owl a train on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad and later Erie Lackawanna Railway
 - Owl Limited a train of the Southern Pacific Transportation Company
 - Aspark Owl, a Japanese electric sports car
 
Other uses
- Owl butterfly, a member of the genus Caligo
 - Olympic–Wallowa Lineament, a geological feature in the state of Washington
 - Online Writing Lab, an extension of a university writing center
 - Our Whole Lives, a comprehensive sexuality curriculum from the Unitarian Universalist Association and the United Church of Christ
 
See also
- All pages with titles beginning with Owl
 - All pages with titles containing Owl
 - Owl Club (disambiguation)
 - Night owl (person), a nocturnal person
 - OWLeS, the Ontario Winter Lake-effect Systems study project
 
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