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Fox is a common name for many species of omnivorous mammals belonging to the Canidae family. Foxes are small to medium-sized canids , characterized by possessing a long narrow snout, and a bushy tail .Members of about 37 species are referred to as foxes, of which only 12 species actually belong to...

is a carnivorous animal.

Fox may also refer to:

Sport

  • Leicester City FC, an English football team who carry the nickname 'The Foxes'
  • Leicestershire CCC, the cricket team from that county, who are also sometimes known by that nickname
  • Fred Snowden
    Fred Snowden
    Frederick Snowden was an American businessman and men's basketball coach at the University of Arizona. Nicknamed "The Fox" for his cool demeanor, he was the first African-American head coach at a major university...

     (1936–1994), American collegiate basketball coach nicknamed 'The Fox'
  • Fox Racing
    Fox Racing
    Fox Head, Inc. is privately owned action sports brand founded in 1974. Fox designs, develops and distributes clothing and accessories to over fifty countries primarily focusing on off-road motorized biking.- History :...

    , an apparel maker

Computing

  • The FOX cipher, now known as IDEA NXT
    IDEA NXT
    In cryptography, the IDEA NXT algorithm is a block cipher designed by Pascal Junod and Serge Vaudenay of EPFL . It was conceived between 2001 and 2003, the project was originally named FOX and was published in 2003. In May 2005 it was announced by MediaCrypt under the name IDEA NXT...

  • FOX toolkit
    FOX toolkit
    The FOX toolkit is an open source, cross-platform widget toolkit, that is, a library of basic elements for building a graphical user interface...

    , a cross-platform GUI toolkit

Entertainment

  • Fox Entertainment Group
    Fox Entertainment Group
    The Fox Entertainment Group is an American entertainment industry company that owns film studios and terrestrial, cable, and direct broadcast satellite television properties...

    , a media network, and its subsidiaries:
    • Fox Broadcasting Company
      Fox Broadcasting Company
      Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...

      , a broadcast television network
    • Fox Film Corporation, a defunct movie studio
    • Fox Movie Channel
      Fox Movie Channel
      The Fox Movie Channel is a channel which shows movies uncut and commercial-free.-Overview:Movie content consists mainly of selections from 20th Century Fox's library of releases through the 1990s and movies produced exclusively for television. Widescreen versions are shown whenever available....

      , a cable film network
    • Fox News Channel
      Fox News Channel
      Fox News Channel , often called Fox News, is a cable and satellite television news channel owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of News Corporation...

      , a cable television network
    • Fox Business Network
      Fox Business Network
      Fox Business Network is an American cable news and satellite news television channel that began broadcasting on October 15, 2007. It is owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation...

    • Foxtel
      Foxtel
      Foxtel is an Australian pay television company, operating cable, direct broadcast satellite television and IPTV services. It was formed in 1995 through a joint venture established between Telstra and News Corporation....

      , a cable and satellite television provider in Australia
    • Fox Sports Net
      Fox Sports Net
      The Fox Sports Regional Networks, or simply Fox Sports Net , are a collection of cable TV regional sports networks in the United States owned and operated by News Corporation.- Beginnings :...

      , the name for a group of regional cable sports stations
    • FX Networks
      FX Networks
      FX is the name of a number of related pay television channels owned by News Corporation's Fox Entertainment Group...

       (short for Fox eXtended), a cable network
    • Fox Reality, a defunct cable network for reality programming
    • Fox Soccer Channel
      Fox Soccer Channel
      Fox Soccer is an American television specialty channel, owned by News Corporation's Fox Entertainment Group, that specializes in soccer. It formerly broadcast rugby and Australian rules football, but is now dedicated strictly to soccer...

       a channel dedicated to soccer and rugby
    • Fox Soccer Plus
      Fox Soccer Plus
      Fox Soccer Plus is an American premium channel dedicated to soccer and rugby. It was formed as a spin-off of Fox Soccer when its owner Fox Entertainment Group re-acquired rights from competitor Setanta Sports USA in January 2010, putting the latter channel out of business...

       a spinoff of the above also dedicated to soccer and rugby
  • Fox Sports (Australia)
    Fox Sports (Australia)
    Fox Sports is an Australia group of sports channels. They are owned by the Premier Media Group, which is in turn owned by News Corporation, and Consolidated Media Holdings. Its main competitors are ESPN, which has little local content and the free-to-air digital channel One HD...

    , an Australian sports network
  • Fox (band)
    Fox (band)
    Fox was a British-based pop band popular in the mid 1970s. Led by American songwriter and record producer Kenny Young, the band was perhaps best known for its charismatic Australian lead singer Susan Traynor, who performed under the name Noosha Fox....

    , a British rock band of the 1970s
  • "Fox" (song)
    Fox (song)
    "Fox" is a song by the Swedish punk rock band Millencolin from the album Pennybridge Pioneers. It was released as a single on June 5, 2000 by Burning Heart Records, including the b-side song "Kemp" from the album's recording sessions and live versions of "Penguins & Polarbears" and "No Cigar"...

    , a song by the punk rock band Millencolin
  • Johnny the Fox
    Johnny the Fox
    Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic stated that Johnny the Fox fell short in comparison to the previous album, Jailbreak, suggesting that the album veers towards "an odd, half-baked concept album", despite showing the same strengths as its predecessor, i.e. Lynott's lyrics and the group's musical...

    , the seventh studio album by Irish band Thin Lizzy
  • The Fox (brand)
    The Fox (brand)
    The Fox is a brand name used for a variety of radio stations in numerous broadcast markets in the United States, many of which are owned by Clear Channel Communications, though there are several that are not owned by Clear Channel...

    , a brand name for several classic rock radio stations in the United States
  • The Fox (novel)
    The Fox (novel)
    The Fox is a novella by D. H. Lawrence published in 1923.Set in Berkshire, England during World War I, The Fox, like many of D. H. Lawrence’s other major works, treats the psychological relationships of three protagonists in a triangle of love and hatred...

    , a novel by D. H. Lawrence
  • The Fox (1921 film)
    The Fox (1921 film)
    The Fox is a 1921 silent Western film starring Harry Carey.-Cast:* Harry Carey - Ol' Santa Fe* C. E. Anderson - Rollins* Harley Chambers - Hubbs* Gertrude Claire - Mrs. Farwell* Betty Ross Clarke - Annette Fraser...

    , a film starring Harry Carey
  • The Fox (1967 film), a Mark Rydell film based on the novel
  • Foxes (film), a film starring Jodie Foster and Scott Baio
  • Fox (film), 2009 Hindi film
  • Fox (TV series)
    Fox (TV series)
    Fox is a British television drama series produced by Euston Films and Thames Television for the ITV network in 1980.The thirteen-part series was based around the lives of the titular Fox family, who lived in London and had gangland connections....

  • Fox Theatre (disambiguation)
    Fox Theatre (disambiguation)
    Fox Theatre or Fox Theater or Fox Theater Building and variations may refer to:*Fox Theatres, a defunct chain of movie theatersin Canada*Fox Theatre in the United States...

    , any of several movie palaces
  • Fox games
    Fox games
    Fox games are a category of board games where one player is the fox and tries to eat the geese/sheep, and the other player directs the geese/sheep and attempts to trap the fox, or reach a destination on the board. In another variant, Fox and Hounds, the fox merely tries to evade the hounds...

    , a group of board games

Companies

  • Fox (clothing)
    Fox (clothing)
    Fox is an Israel-based fashion chain specializing in women's, men's, children's, and babies' fashions. Respectively, those brands are FOX, FOX MEN, FOX KIDS, and FOX BABY....

    , an Israel-based clothing company
  • Fox (automobile company)
    Fox (automobile company)
    The Fox Motor Company was an automobile company in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from 1921–1923.- History :The Fox Motor Company was founded by Ansley H. Fox as his second idea for a company. It was organized on November 21, 1919, but did not begin production until March 1921...

    , a defunct automobile manufacturer
  • Fox 40
    Fox 40
    Fox 40 International Inc. is a company founded by Ron Foxcroft in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The company's main success is in the whistle industry but it also produces other equipment such as mouthguards, coaching boards, custom imprinted products, marine safety products and first aid...

    , a whistle commonly used in sporting and lifeguarding
  • Fox Brothers
    Fox Brothers
    Fox Brothers & Co is a clothmaker based in Wellington, Somerset, England. The company is one of the few working cloth mills still producing cloth entirely in England.-History:...

    , a British cloth company founded in 1772
  • WeMade FOX, an electronic sports team

Military

  • Fox (code word)
    Fox (code word)
    Fox is a brevity code used by NATO pilots to signal the simulated or actual release of an air-to-air munition or other combat function. Army aviation elements may use a different nomenclature, as the nature of helicopter fired weapons is almost always air-to-surface. 'Fox' is short for 'foxtrot',...

    , a brevity code for air-to-air munitions release
  • HMS Fox
    HMS Fox
    Sixteen ships and two shore establishments of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Fox, after the fox.Ships was a 22-gun ship captured from the French in 1650 and expended as a fireship in 1656. was a 14-gun ship captured in 1658 and expended as a fireship in 1666. was an 8-gun fireship launched in...

    , the name of several British ships and shore installations
  • Fairey Fox
    Fairey Fox
    The Fairey Fox was a British light bomber and fighter biplane of the 1920s and 1930s. It was originally produced in Britain for the RAF, but continued in production and use in Belgium long after it was retired in Britain.-Fox I:...

    , a British light bomber biplane of the 1920s-1930s

Places

  • Fox, Alaska
    Fox, Alaska
    Fox is a census-designated place in Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska, United States. It is part of the Fairbanks, Alaska Metropolitan Statistical Area. At the 2007 census the population was 353.-Geography:...

    , a census-designated place in the United States
  • Fox, Indiana
    Fox, Indiana
    Fox is an unincorporated town in Pleasant Township, Grant County, Indiana....

    , an unincorporated place in the United States
  • Fox Creek (disambiguation), several places
  • Fox River (disambiguation), several places

Transportation

  • Audi Fox, a subcompact car
  • Ford Fox platform
    Ford Fox platform
    The Ford Fox platform is a rear wheel drive, unitized-chassis, automobile architecture used by Ford Motor Company in North America. Introduced for the 1978 model year, it would go on to be produced until 1993 in its original version; a substantial redesign of the Ford Mustang in 1994 extended its...

    , a platform used for several Ford Motor Company vehicles
  • Fox (ship)
    Fox (ship)
    The steam yacht Fox was the vessel commanded by Francis Leopold McClintock on an expedition of the Arctic in northern Canada searching for the fate of the missing expedition of Sir John Franklin in 1857-1859.-Construction and Early History:...

    , a yacht used by Francis Leopold McClintock to explore the Arctic
  • Fox armoured car
    Fox Armoured Car
    The Fox Armoured Car was a wheeled armoured fighting vehicle produced by Canada in the Second World War.- History :Built by General Motors, Canada, based on the British Humber Armoured Car. The four man crew consisted of the vehicle commander, the driver, a gunner and a wireless operator. 1506...

    , a Canadian military vehicle of World War II
  • Fox Armoured Reconnaissance Vehicle
    Fox Armoured Reconnaissance Vehicle
    The FV721 Fox Combat Vehicle Reconnaissance was a 4x4 armoured car deployed by the British Army as a replacement for the Ferret scout car and the Saladin Armoured Car...

    , a British vehicle
  • Fox, the name of a West Cornwall Railway
    West Cornwall Railway
    The West Cornwall Railway was a railway company in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, formed in 1846 to operate the existing Hayle Railway between Hayle and Redruth and extend the railway to Penzance and Truro....

     steam locomotive
  • FOX surf boat
    FOX surf boat
    The Fox was a specially built surf boat to be rowed across the Atlantic Ocean. It was custom built in 1896 by Seaman Sea Skiffs of Branch Port, New Jersey by William A...

    , built in 1886 and rowed across the Atlantic by Frank Samuelsen & George Harbo
  • MDM-1 Fox, an aerobatic glider
  • M93 Fox
    M93 Fox
    The Fox vehicle is a chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear reconnaissance vehicle. This vehicle is a variant of the German TPz1 Fuchs manufactured by Rheinmetall to survive and provide reconnaissance on a CBRN-affected battlefield...

    , Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear reconnaissance vehicle
  • Volkswagen Fox
    Volkswagen Fox
    The Volkswagen CrossFox is a mini SUV version which sets it apart from the standard Fox. As is the case for other similar models, it is available only with front-wheel drive....

    , a subcompact car

Other uses

  • Fox (tribe), the Meskwaki tribe of Native Americans
  • FOX proteins
    FOX proteins
    FOX proteins are a family of transcription factors that play important roles in regulating the expression of genes involved in cell growth, proliferation, differentiation, and longevity...

    , which regulate the expression of genes
  • Foxing
    Foxing
    Foxing is a term describing the age-related spots and browning seen on vintage paper documents such as books, postage stamps, certificates, and so forth. The name may derive from the fox-like reddish-brown color of the stains, or the rust chemical ferric oxide which may be involved...

    , the appearance of stains on books, documents, stamps, etc. over time
  • ISO 639-5 language code of Formosan languages
    Formosan languages
    The Formosan languages are the languages of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan. Taiwanese aborigines currently comprise about 2% of the island's population. However, far fewer can still speak their ancestral language, after centuries of language shift...

  • Fox statues, symbolic guardians of Inari Shinto shrines
    Inari Shrine
    is a shinto shrine to worship the god Inari. There are many Inari shrines in Japan. The deity is worshiped also in some Buddhist temples.-Shrines and offerings:Inari is a popular deity with shrines and Buddhist temples located throughout most of Japan...

    ; see komainu
    Komainu
    , often called lion-dogs in English, are statue pairs of lion-like creatures either guarding the entrance or the inner shrine of many Japanese Shinto shrines or kept inside the inner shrine itself, where they are not visible to the public. The first type, born during the Edo period, is called , the...


Given name

  • Fox Butterfield
    Fox Butterfield
    Fox Butterfield is an American journalist who spent much of his 30-year career reporting for The New York Times....

     (born 1939), American journalist
  • Fox Conner
    Fox Conner
    Fox Conner was a major general of the United States Army. He served as operations officer for the American Expeditionary Force during World War I, but is best remembered as "the man who made Eisenhower".-Early career:...

     (1898–1938), American major-general and mentor of Dwight D. Eisenhower

Nicknames and pseudonyms

  • "The Fox", nickname of British rapist Malcolm Fairley
  • "The Fox", pseudonym of James F. Phillips
    James F. Phillips
    James F. Phillips was an environmental activist who was known in the Chicago area during the 1970s for his direct action activities under the pseudonym The Fox....

    , a 1970s Chicago-area environmental activist
  • Bill "The Fox" Foster (1932–2000), an American entertainer

Fictional characters

  • Fox (Neighbours), character in the Australian soap opera Neighbours
  • Chelsea Fox
    Chelsea Fox
    Chelsea Fox is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by Tiana Benjamin. She first appeared on 5 May 2006 and was joined by her mother Denise and her half sister Libby. Benjamin announced her departure from the show in April 2010...

    , Denise Fox
    Denise Fox
    Denise Celeste Fox is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by Diane Parish. She made her first appearance on 11 May 2006. Parish temporarily left EastEnders in early 2008 to give birth to her second child...

     and Libby Fox
    Libby Fox
    Elizabeth "Libby" Fox is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera, EastEnders, played by Belinda Owusu. She made her first appearance on 22 May 2006 and left in 2010. She is the daughter of Denise Fox and Owen Turner, and half sister of Chelsea Fox. The Fox family were introduced by executive...

    , characters in the UK soap opera EastEnders
  • Carmelita Fox, inspector from Interpol in several Playstation2 games
  • Crimson Fox
    Crimson Fox
    Crimson Fox is a fictional character, a French comic book superhero from the DC Comics universe. Identical twins Vivian and Constance D'Aramis shared the role of Crimson Fox to allow each something of a normal life, although Vivian was much more enthusiastic about their superheroic life...

    , French superhero in the DC Comics Universe
  • Fiona Fox
    Fiona Fox
    Fiona Fox can refer to:* The UK press officer* The Sonic the Hedgehog character...

    , character in the Sonic the Hedgehog series of comics
  • Fox (Farthing Wood)
    Fox (Farthing Wood)
    Fox is a fictional character from the animated children's television series The Animals of Farthing Wood based upon the books of the same name by author Colin Dann....

    , character from the animated children's television series The Animals of Farthing Wood
  • Fox (Gargoyles), character from the animated television series Gargoyles and comics
  • Fox McCloud
    Fox McCloud
    is an anthropomorphic video game character and the main protagonist of the Star Fox series. He was created by Shigeru Miyamoto and designed by Takaya Imamura. As his name implies, he is a red fox and the main player character of the series....

    , character from the Star Fox video game series
  • Fox Mulder
    Fox Mulder
    FBI Special Agent Fox William Mulder is a fictional character and protagonist in the American Fox television shows The X-Files and The Lone Gunmen, two science fiction shows about a government conspiracy to hide or deny the truth of Alien existence. Mulder's peers consider his theories on...

    , character in the TV show The X-Files
  • Fox, a fictional gang member in the 1979 film, The Warriors
  • The Fox family of the comic strip FoxTrot
  • Gray Fox (Metal Gear)
    Gray Fox (Metal Gear)
    is a fictional video game character in the Metal Gear series.-In video games:Gray Fox first appears in the original Metal Gear as a high-ranking agent of FOXHOUND who goes missing during a mission prior to the events of the game, his last transmission being a cryptic message simply saying "Metal...

    , character in the game series Metal Gear
  • Katy Fox
    Katy Fox
    Katy Fox is a fictional character from the long-running Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks, played by actress Hannah Tointon, who was in the serial for just under a year. Katy was central to storylines, including Clare Devine's revenge....

    , Warren Fox
    Warren Fox
    Warren Fox is a fictional character from the British Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks, played by Jamie Lomas. He first arrived in 2006 as an old acquaintance of Sean Kennedy and quickly became known as the show's main villain...

     and Stacey Foxx, characters in the UK soap opera Hollyoaks
  • Lucius Fox
    Lucius Fox
    Lucius Fox is a fictional character appearing in Batman comic books by DC Comics. He was created by Len Wein and John Calnan, and first appeared in Batman #307 . As a supporting character, he acts as Bruce Wayne's business manager who supposedly unknowingly runs the business interests that supply...

    , character in the Batman comic books
  • Mrs Fox
    Mrs Fox
    Mrs Marcia Jones is a minor character, played by the actress Pamela Cundell in Dad's Army, a situation comedy depicting life in wartime England that ran between 1968 and 1977 on BBC TV...

    , character in the UK TV series Dad's Army
  • Pablo the Little Red Fox
    Pablo the Little Red Fox
    Pablo the Little Red Fox is a British Animated Series designed for preschool children which ran from early 1999 to late 1999. The main characters are three fox cub siblings named Pablo, Pumpkin and Poppy, their parents, Rose and Red Fox, a dog named Baxter, a cat named Finbar, a frog called...

    , character in a UK TV cartoon show for preschool children
  • Silver Fox
    Silver Fox
    Silver Fox is a fictional character, a human in the Marvel Comics universe.- Fictional character biography :Silver Fox is a lover of Wolverine who first appeared in Wolverine vol.2 #10, where she is killed by Sabretooth...

    , character in the Marvel Comics universe
  • Steve Fox (Tekken), character in the fighting game series Tekken
  • Dr. Myron L. Fox, pseudonym of the actor used in the psychological study of the Dr. Fox Effect

See also

  • Foxe (disambiguation)
  • Foxx (disambiguation)
  • The Fox (disambiguation)
  • Flying fox
  • Furry Fandom
    Furry fandom
    Furry fandom is a fandom for fictional anthropomorphic animal characters with human personalities and characteristics. Examples of anthropomorphic attributes include exhibiting human intelligence and facial expressions, the ability to speak, walk on two legs, and wear clothes...

  • FX (disambiguation)
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