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)