Circus (disambiguation)

A circus is a traveling company of performers that may include acrobats, clowns, trained animals, and other novelty acts.

Circus may also refer to:

In music

Bands

• Circus, UK band, formed by Mel Collins, 1967–69, also known as Cirkus
• Circus (American band), USA band in the 1970s
• Circus (French band), French band established in 2012
• Circus (Swiss band), Swiss band in the 1970s

Albums and album tracks

• Circus (Argent album), Argent's 1975 seventh album
• The Circus (Erasure album), a 1987 album
  • "The Circus" (Erasure song), the title track of the above album
• Circus (Eraserheads album), 1994 album
• Circus (Lenny Kravitz album), 1995
• "Circus", a 1996 single by Japanese rock singer Tomoyasu Hotei
• Psycho Circus, 1998 album by the rock band Kiss
• "Circus", a song from the album Passenger by Passenger, 2003
• Circus (FictionJunction Yuuka album), 2007
• Circus (Britney Spears album), 2008 album by Britney Spears
  • "Circus" (song), second single and title track of the above
  • The Circus Starring Britney Spears, tour for album above
• The Circus (Take That album), 2008 album
• The Circus (The Venetia Fair album), 2009 album
• Rock 'n' Roll Circus, 2010 album by Ayumi Hamasaki

Events

• The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, a 1968 event hosted by The Rolling Stones

In film

• The Circus (film) (1928), directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin
• Circus (1936 film), Soviet melodramatic comedy
• Circus (2000 film), crime thriller
• Circus (2009 film), India Kannada film

In television

• Circus (TV series), an Indian TV series starring Shahrukh Khan and Ashutosh Gowariker, 1989–1990
• "Circus", an episode of the Adult Swim animated television series Aqua Teen Hunger Force, 2002
• Circus Action, a Taiwanese television series consisting of four young men engaging in ridiculous behavior, 2005
• A six part PBS documentary about the 2008–09 season of the Big Apple Circus
• An episode of Glenn Martin, DD], now the episode is called "The Grossest Show On Earth", 2009

In literature

• Circus (novel), a 1975 novel by Alistair MacLean
• Circus (magazine), a now-defunct publication which covered the rock scene, much like Rolling Stone magazine

In other entertainment

• Circus (video game), a Breakout clone released by Exidy in 1977
  • Circus Atari, a spinoff of the above game for the Atari 2600 console
• Circus (company), a Japanese visual novel studio

Open spaces

• A busy open space, usually circular, where a number of roads meet, such as:
  • Cabot Circus, Bristol
  • Cambridge Circus, London
  • Drake Circus (traffic junction), Plymouth
  • Oxford Circus, London
  • Piccadilly Circus, London
  • The Circus (Bath)

Other uses

• Circus (building), an open-air venue used for public events in the Roman Empire
• Circus (genus), the largest genus of harriers, a type of bird of prey
• Media circus, overblown media coverage of a news event, such as a trial
• The Circus, a nickname for Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (or MI6). Some say this was coined by John le Carré in his espionage novels. Leo Marks in his autobiographical Between Silk and Cyanide explains (page 21) that the name arose because a section of Britain's WWII SOE was housed in a building at 1 Dorset Square, London, which had formerly belonged to the directors of Betram Mills circus. "This inspired continuity was one of SOE's favourite in-jokes."
• The Creative Circus, an advertising portfolio school in Atlanta, Georgia

See also

• Flea circus, a very small circus pretending to show performing fleas
• Flying circus (disambiguation)
• Circus Maximus (disambiguation)