Enigma

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An enigma is someone or something that is mysterious or puzzling.

Enigma or aenigma may refer to:

Science and technology

• Enigma machine, a family of German electro-mechanical encryption machines
• Aenigma, a replaced name for a genus of jumping spiders from South Africa now called Zulunigma
• Aenigma (beetle), a genus of beetles
• ENIGMA, a class of gene - see LIM domain
• Enigma, the codename for Red Hat Linux 7.2
• Dynamic Sport Enigma, a Polish paraglider design

Places

• Enigma, Georgia, USA, a town
• Enigma, Tennessee, USA, an unincorporated community
• Enigma Peak, Palmer Land, Antarctica

Music

• Enigma Variations, fourteen variations composed by Edward Elgar on a hidden theme he called the Enigma
• Enigma Records, a popular rock and alternative American record label in the 1980s
• Enigma (musical project), an electronic music project founded in Germany by Michael Cretu
• Enigma (UK band), a 1980s band

Albums

• Ænigma (In Vain album), and album by the Norwegian progressive death metal band In Vain
• Enigma (Ill Niño album)
• Enigma (Keith Murray album), 1996
• Enigma (Aeon Zen album)
• Enigma (Tak Matsumoto album)

Songs

• "Enigma (Give a Bit of Mmh to Me)", a 1978 song by Amanda Lear
• "Enigma", a song by Trapt from 2002's Trapt
• "Enigma", a song by Amorphis from 2007's Silent Waters
• "Enigma", a song by Within The Ruins from the 2014 album Phenomena
• "Aenigma", a song by Luca Turilli from the album Prophet of the Last Eclipse

Film and television

• Enigma (1982 film), starring Martin Sheen and Sam Neill
• Aenigma (film), a 1987 film by Lucio Fulci
• Enigma (2001 film), adapted from the Robert Harris novel
• Enigma (2009 film), a short film by the Shumway Brothers
• Enigma (TV series), a Biography Channel TV series
• "Enigma" (Stargate SG-1), an episode of Stargate SG-1
• "Enigma" (NCIS), an episode of NCIS
• Enigma (Derren Brown), a televised tour show
• Enigma, a character in the TV series Nip/Tuck

Publications

• Enigma (novel), a 1995 novel by Robert Harris
• "Enigma" and "An Enigma", two poems by Edgar Allan Poe
• Enigma, the second novel in The Trigon Disunity series by Michael P. Kube-McDowell
• The Enigma, a monthly publication of the National Puzzlers' League
• Enigma, a mathematical puzzle published in New Scientist between February 1979 and December 2013.
• Enigma (comics), several comic related topics
• Enigma (manga), a 2010 manga published in Weekly Shōnen Jump

Video games

• Enigma: Rising Tide, a 2003 video game
• Enigma (video game), a 2007 video game

Other uses

• The Enigma (performer) (born Paul Lawrence), American sideshow performer, actor, and musician
• Enigma (yacht), one of the world's largest private superyachts
• Enigma (roller coaster), a roller coaster at Pleasurewood Hills, Suffolk, England
• Enigma Titanium, a British bicycle company
• Enigma Motorsport, a British motor-racing team

See also

• Enigmata (disambiguation)
• Enigmatic (disambiguation)
• Publius Enigma, an unsolved Internet-based puzzle
• All pages with titles containing Enigma