Sun (disambiguation)

• In astronomy, the Sun is the star in our solar system, and a "sun" is the star around which no star bodies orbit, also called an object's "primary".
• The astrological significance of the Sun is described in the article Solar system in astrology.
• The technology company, Sun Microsystems is a Silicon Valley-based computer, semiconductor and software manufacturer.
  • Sun Microsystems' signature operating system was SunOS, now known as Solaris

• The name Sun is a Chinese family name (simplified Chinese: 孙; traditional Chinese: 孫; pinyin: Sūn). Notable people named Sun include
  • Sun Jian (155 – 191), Sun Ce (175 – 200) and Sun Quan (182 – 252), military generals and warlords during the Three Kingdoms period
  • Sun Jihai (b. 1977), a Chinese soccer player currently playing for Manchester City
  • Stefanie Sun (b. 1978), a Singaporean pop singer
  • Sun Tzu (6th century BC), military general of the State of Wu and author of The Art of War, an influential ancient Chinese book on military strategy
  • Sun Wukong, often referred to as Monkey King, central character of the classical Chinese literature Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en
  • Sun Yat-sen (1866 – 1925), Chinese revolutionary leader who co-founded the Kuomintang and served as first provisional president of the Republic of China
  • Sun Zhiwei (b. 1965), a Chinese mathematician
  • Sun Zhonghua, a Chinese peasant woman executed because she refused to be sterilized

• There are a number of newspapers called The Sun:
  • The Sun, a British tabloid
  • New York Sun, a broadsheet newspaper
  • New York Sun, an earlier and unrelated New York newspaper
  • The Baltimore Sun, a broadsheet newspaper
  • Chicago Sun-Times,
  • Several tabloids owned by Sun Media including
    • Calgary Sun of Calgary, Alberta
    • Edmonton Sun of Edmonton, Alberta
    • Ottawa Sun of Ottawa, Ontario
    • Toronto Sun of Toronto, Ontario
    • Winnipeg Sun of Winnipeg, Manitoba
  • Vancouver Sun, a newspaper by CanWest Global Communications
  • The Sun, a minor English language newspaper in Malaysia
  • The Sun Daily, a Chinese language newspaper in Hong Kong
  • The Sun News-Pictorial, a morning tabloid in Melbourne, Australia for many years, until it merged with its afternoon broadsheet sister paper The Herald to form the Herald Sun. It is similar in scope to the UK Sun.
  • Sun (supermarket tabloid) is also the name of a supermarket tabloid published in the United States by American Media, Inc. The first death during the 2001 anthrax attacks was a photo editor of this paper who worked at their Boca Raton, Florida offices.

• The Connecticut Sun are a Women's National Basketball Association team based in Uncasville, Connecticut.
• SUN-TV (株式会社サンテレビジョン;, Kabushiki-Gaisha San Terebijon) is a television station in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan.
• The Sun Company, previously the Sun Oil Company of Ohio, changed its name in 1998 to Sunoco.
• The sun is a Japanese length unit, around 3,03 cm.
• The Sun (XIX) is a Major Arcana card in Tarot.
• The Sun is a Rock and Roll group from Columbus, Ohio
• The Sun is a song by Los Angeles Rock and Roll band Maroon 5.