Courier (disambiguation)

A courier is a person, company or vessel that transports mail and small items. As well as the legal activity, the word is also used for a smuggling mule.

Courier may also refer to:

People

• Jim Courier (born 1970), American tennis player
• Paul Louis Courier (1773 – 1825), French author and translator

Technology

• Courier (typeface), a monospaced slab serif typeface
• Courier, a line of modems, manufactured by USRobotics
• Courier 1B, telecommunications satellite
• Courier (e-mail client), e-mail client used in Microsoft Windows
• Courier Mail Server, computer software
• Microsoft Courier, a prototype tablet computer from Microsoft

Transport

Aviation

• Airspeed Courier, a pre-World War 2, British, single engined light aircraft
• C-38 Courier, the US military designation for the Gulfstream G100
• Consolidated O-17 Courier, observation and training biplane flown by the United States National Guard
• Helio Courier, a STOL, light aircraft
• Rans S-7 Courier, modern, two–seat light aircraft

Maritime

• Hired armed cutter Courier, a privately–owned warship used by the Royal Navy, 1799–1806
• Ocean Courier, a Cameron class steamer
• USCGC Courier (WAGR-410), a propaganda broadcast ship used during the Cold War by the United States Information Agency
• USNS Courier (T-AK-5019), originally known as SS Export Courier, a former cargo ship of the National Defense Reserve Fleet, which ran aground during Hurricane Gustav
• USS Courier, the name of three ships of the United States Navy

Rail

• Courier, a GWR Iron Duke Class steam locomotive
• Courier was one of the GWR 3031 Class locomotives that were built for, and run on, the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915

Road

• Courier (automobile), a brass era manufacturer of automobiles in Sandusky, Ohio in 1904 and 1905
• Courier Car Co, an automobile manufacturer formed in 1909 by the Stoddard-Dayton Company
• Ford Courier, a light truck

Fiction

• Courier (comics), Marvel, comic book character
• The Couriers, a series of graphic novels
• The Courier and Come Again Courier, two novels in British author Stanley Morgan's Tobin series, published in the 1970s
• "The Courier" is the player character in the video game Fallout: New Vegas.

Film and Music

• Courier (album), 2002 album by Richard Shindell
• The Courier (micro-series), a 2006, CBS, micro-series
• Kuruvi, which means Courier, a 2008 Tamil film
• Courier (film), a 1987 Soviet film directed by Karen Shakhnazarov
• The Courier (film), an action film

Periodicals

• The Courier, also known as The Courier & Advertiser, a broadsheet newspaper published by DC Thomson in Dundee, Scotland
• The Courier (Ballarat), a daily regional newspaper published in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
• The Courier (Findlay), a daily newspaper published in Findlay, Ohio
• The Courier (Hobart), a now defunct newspaper published in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, during the 19th Century
• The Courier (magazine), a gaming magazine
• The Courier (Waterloo-Cedar Falls), a daily newspaper published in Waterloo / Cedar Falls, Iowa, United States
• The Courier (ACP-EU), a magazine published by the Development Directorate General of the European Commission
• The Courier (Timaru), an A3 tabloid community newspaper in the Timaru South Canterbury area of New Zealand
• The Courier (Newcastle University), a weekly student newspaper
• The Courier, name used by the Champaign-Urbana Courier from 1971 to 1977
• Courier (Quarterly), a magazine published in Britain during the period 1938-1951
• The Courier-Journal, a newspaper in Louisville, Kentucky, USA
• Bristol Herald Courier, a 39,000 circulation daily newspaper in Bristol, Virginia
• The Capilano Courier, a Canadian student newspaper published at Capilano College
• Courier (Israeli newspaper), a Russian language Israeli newspaper published in Tel Aviv
• The Daily Courier, a newspaper for Yavapai County, Arizona, United States
• Dhaka Courier, a Bangladeshi English language weekly newsmagazine
• The Houma Courier, a daily newspaper published in Houma, Louisiana, United States
• The News Courier, a daily newspaper published in Athens, Alabama
• Ottumwa Courier, a newspaper published in Ottumwa, Iowa, USA
• Pittsburgh Courier, an American newspaper published in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which was published from 1907 to 1965
• South Oxfordshire Courier, a free newspaper, distributed throughout Southern Oxfordshire in the United Kingdom
• Tyrone Courier, a weekly newspaper based in Dungannon, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
• Vancouver Courier, a Canadian semiweekly local newspaper

Places

• Courier City-Oscawana, a neighborhood within the city limits of Tampa, Florida

Other

• Courier chess, a variant on the game of chess

See also

• Courier Mail (disambiguation)