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Harlequin is a comic servant character from the Italian commedia dell'arte.

Harlequin may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

• Harlequin (DC Comics), the name of four clown-themed characters
• Harlequin (The Seven Deadly Sins), or King, in the manga series
• Harlequin, in Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood

Music

• Harlequin (Lady Gaga album), 2024
• Harlequin (Dave Grusin and Lee Ritenour album), 1985
• Harlequin (band), a Canadian rock group
• "Harlequin", a song by Audience on thec 1969 album Audience (album)
• "Harlequin", a song by Genesis on the 1971 album Nursery Cryme
• "Harlequin", a by The Hollies on the 1979 album Five Three One - Double Seven O Four
• "Harlequin", a song by Violet Chachki on the 2015 EP Gagged
• The Harlequins (Dartmouth College), a student music production group

Novels

• Harlequin (Cornwell novel), by Bernard Cornwell, 2000
• Harlequin, a Warhammer novel by Ian Watson (author), 1994
• Harlequin (West novel), by Morris West, 1974
• The Harlequin (novel), by Laurell K. Hamilton, 2007

Other uses in arts and entertainment

• Harlequin (Picasso), a 1913 painting
• Harlequin (1915), a painting by Picasso
• Harlequin (film), a 1980 Australian fantasy thriller
• Harlequin (video game), 1992
• Harlequin (Shadowrun), a 1990 role-playing game book
• Harlequin, one of the three figures in Pablo Picasso's painting Three Musicians

Businesses and organisations

• Harlequin Enterprises, a publishing company
  • List of Harlequin Romance novels
• Harlequin (software company), a defunct British technology business
• Harlequin Games, a play-by-mail game moderator

Science

• 'Harlequin', a cultivar of Berberis thunbergii, a flowering plant
• Harlequin rabbit
• Harmonia axyridis, or harlequin, a ladybird
• Taxila haquinus, or harlequin, a butterfly

Sports

Rugby teams

• Aberavon Quins RFC, a rugby union club in Wales
• Cardiff Harlequins RFC, a rugby union club in Wales
• Dallas Harlequins R.F.C., in the United States
• Hamilton Harlequins, in New Zealand
• Harlequin Amateurs, an amateur rugby union club
• Harlequin F.C., a rugby union club in London, England
  • Harlequins Women
• Harlequin Rugby Club, in Melbourne, Australia
• Harlequins Rugby League, now London Broncos
• Hawick Harlequins RFC, a rugby union club in Scotland
• Hobart Harlequins Rugby Union Club, in Australia
• Kenya Harlequin F.C., in Kenya
• Maesteg Harlequins RFC, a rugby union club in Wales
• Ottawa Harlequins, a rugby union club in Canada
• Oxford Harlequins RFC, a rugby union club in England
• Pembroke Dock Harlequins RFC, a rugby union club in Wales
• Pittsburgh Harlequins, a rugby union club in the United States
• Porth Harlequins RFC, a rugby union club in Wales
• Quins-Bobbies Rugby Club, formerly Pretoria Harlequins, in South Africa

Other sports

• Belfast Harlequins, a multi-sport club in Northern Ireland
• Cork Harlequins, a cricket and hockey club
• Harlequins Cricket Club, an English team

Transportation

• Harlequin Air, a former Japanese airline
• Harlequin, a version of the Volkswagen Golf Mk3 car

Other uses

• HMS Harlequin, the name of several ships
• USS Harlequin, a World War II United States Navy minesweeper
• Harlequin, Nottinghamshire, England
• Harlequin (color), a color between green and yellow
• Harlequin-type ichthyosis, a genetic disorder that results in thickened skin over nearly the entire body at birth
• Operation Harlequin, a World War II deception operation

See also

• All pages with titles containing harlequin
• All pages with titles beginning with Harlequin
• Arlequin (disambiguation)
• Arlecchino (disambiguation)
• Harlequin print, a repeating pattern of diamonds
• Harley Quin, an Agatha Christie character
• Harley Quinn (disambiguation)
  • Harley Quinn, a fictional villain in DC Comics
• Harlekin, a 1975 composition for clarinet by Karlheinz Stockhausen