Iris

Iris typically refers to:

Iris (mythology), in Greek mythology, a messenger goddess and the personification of rainbows
Iris (plant), a genus of flowering plants
Iris (given name), a popular given name for girls
Iris (color), an ambiguous color ranging from blue-violet to violet, from the flower of the same name
Iris (anatomy), the sphincter around the pupil of the eye, named for the colors in human and animal eyes

Iris may also refer to:

Places

Iris (Romanian band), a hard-rock band
Iris (British/French band), an instrumental rock band
Iris (American band), an electropop/indietronica band
Iris (opera), an opera by Pietro Mascagni
"Iris" (song), a song by The Goo Goo Dolls from the film City of Angels, covered by New Found Glory and Ronan Keating
Iris (EP), by the band Miranda Sex Garden
"Iris" (Split Enz song)
"Iris", a song by American band Live from their album Throwing Copper

Iris (Mega Man), a character in the video game Mega Man X4
The character Iris in the video game Megaman Battle Network 6
The character Iris in the video game Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals
IRIS, a hostile artificial intelligence in the Sega Saturn video game Solar Eclipse
Iris (Pokémon), a Gym Leader in Pokémon Black and White.

The character Iris in Piers Anthony's Xanth novel Magicians of Xanth
Iris, a pre-teen prostitute played by Jodie Foster in the 1976 film Taxi Driver
The character Iris in the series Ruby Gloom
Iris, a tentacled mutant Gyaos from the 1999 kaiju film Gamera 3: Awakening of Irys
Iris Irine, a character in the manhwa series, Ragnarok
Iris (Pokémon anime), a main character in the Pokémon: Best Wishes! anime series.

Irises (painting), a painting of iris flowers by Vincent Van Gogh
Iris (TV series), a 2009 South Korean drama about espionage and terrorism starring Lee Byung-hun and Kim Tae-hee.
Iris (2001 film), a film about Irish novelist Iris Murdoch
Iris (1987 film)
Iris (game), a game created to promote the video game Halo 3
Iris (TV channel), an Italian movie TV channel
Iris (Stargate), a mechanical iris seen on the television show Stargate SG-1

Iris (plant), a genus and subgenus of flowering plants, named for the Greek mythological figure
Iris (insect), a genus of insects of the praying mantis family, in the subfamily Mantinae
7 Iris, an asteroid named after the mythological figure
Iris Nebula, a reflection nebula, NGC 7023
Iridescence, an optical phenomenon in which hue changes with the angle at which a surface is viewed
Iris recognition, a personal identification technique that identifies an individual via the human iris
Iris flower data set, a well-known data set in statistics and machine learning.

Diaphragm (optics), a mechanical device found in cameras, which mimics the function of the biological iris
Iris (diaphragm), any such mechanical device, as used in doors, pipes, or electrical engineering
Iris printer, a true color inkjet printer used for industrial prepress proofs and fine art printing
Iris Browser, a web browser for Windows Mobile devices, phones and PDAs
Iris XMPP Library, a Qt/C++ library for working with the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) protocol
Iris Mote, a ubiquitous wireless sensor network device
Iris Software, a software company

HMS Iris, six historical warships of the British Royal Navy
USS Iris, any of several ships in the US Navy that have been named after the mythological figure
The Abraham Iris, a touring plane built in France before World War II
The Blackburn Iris, a British military flying boat first flown in 1926
The MV Royal Iris of the Mersey, name of two Mersey Ferries operating on the River Mersey, England

Tropical Storm Iris, any of several tropical storms
Iris Associates, the company which developed Lotus Notes
Iris Fund for Prevention of Blindness
The Iris Project, an educational charity
International Resources for the Improvement of Sight, charity specializing in prevention of blindness and restoration of sight
Sheffield Iris, a defunct newspaper in England