Excelsior

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Excelsior may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Excelsior Recordings, a record label from the Netherlands
Excelsior Brass Band, an 1879-1931 brass band from New Orleans
"Excelsior", a setting of Longfellow's poem to music by Michael William Balfe
"Excelsior!", a concert overture by Wilhelm Stenhammar
Excelsior (Steven Page album), 2022
Excelsior (Slauson Malone 1 album), 2023
"Excelsior", a song by the Smashing Pumpkins from Atum: A Rock Opera in Three Acts, 2023

Excelsior (comics), in Runaways, a support group for former teenage superheroes
USS Excelsior, a Federation starship first seen in the movie Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

Excelsior!, 1901 short film
TV Excelsior, a defunct Brazilian television network
Excelsior, an 1881 ballet by Luigi Manzotti
Excelsior Wet Plate Camera, an early camera model used in the collodion process of photography

"Excelsior" (motto), official motto of the state of New York
"Excelsior!", catchphrase of Stan Lee, who often used it at the end of his "Stan's Soapbox" column in Marvel Comics
"Excelsior", sign-off of Detroit radio personality Mark Scott
"Excelsior", motto of the Finnish Army's Special Jaegers
"Excelsior", mantra of Patrizio "Pat" Solitano, Jr. in the 2012 film Silver Linings Playbook
"Excelsior!", motto of the fictional Weldon Institute in Jules Verne's Robur the Conqueror
"Excelsior!", one of the catchphrases of Martin Prince, Jr., a recurring character in The Simpsons

Excelsior '31, Rijssen, Netherlands
Excelsior AC, a Haitian association football club
Excelsior AC Roubaix, a French association football club
Excelsior Maassluis, a football club from Maassluis, Netherlands
Excelsior Mouscron, a former Belgian association football club
Excelsior Rotterdam, a Dutch association football club
Excelsior Stadium, the home of Airdrie United F.C. of the Scottish Football League Second Division
AS Excelsior, an association football club from Saint-Joseph, Réunion Island
Birmingham Excelsior F.C., a defunct English association football club
F.C. Excelsior, Mexican football club that plays in the Segunda División Profesional
SV Excelsior, a Surinamese association football club
SS Excelsior (football club), a club from Réunion Island established in 1940

Excelsior Stakes previously the Excelsior Handicap, an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually
Excelsior Rugby Club, an amateur rugby club in New Zealand
Excelsior of Brooklyn, an amateur baseball team that played in Brooklyn, New York
New York Excelsior, an American professional Overwatch eSports team based in New York City, New York
Brampton Excelsiors (disambiguation)

Excelsior Academy, a school in Newcastle upon Tyne, England
Excelsior College, in Albany, New York
Excelsior, a common high school and grammar school name
- Excelsior High School (Norwalk, California) (1903–1981)
- Excelsior Public School (Excelsior, Minnesota) (1904–1964)
- Excelsior School, a non-denominational school in Pasadena, California
- Excelsior High School, Washougal, Washington

Excelsior (restaurant), a former restaurant located in Hotel de l'Europe, Amsterdam
Excelsior, a common hotel name
- Hotel Excelsior, Berlin (1908–1945)
- Hôtel Excelsior, Casablanca (est. 1916)
- Excelsior Hotel Ernst, Cologne (est. 1863)
- The Excelsior (Hong Kong), a former hotel in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong

Excelsior, California, former name of Meadow Lake, Nevada County, California
Excelsior, Georgia
Excelsior (Oak Ridge, Louisiana), listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Louisiana
Excelsior, Minnesota
Excelsior, Missouri
Excelsior, Atchison County, Missouri
Excelsior, Nevada
Excelsior, West Virginia (disambiguation)
Excelsior, Wisconsin (disambiguation)
- Excelsior, Richland County, Wisconsin
- Excelsior, Sauk County, Wisconsin
The Excelsior District, San Francisco, a neighborhood in San Francisco, California
Excelsior Geyser in the Middle Geyser Basin of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Excelsior Mountain (Yosemite), in Yosemite National Park
Excelsior Mountains, in western Nevada in the United States
Excelsior Springs, Missouri
Excelsior Township, Michigan

Excelsior-Henderson Motorcycle (Belle Plaine, MN), founded in 1993
Excelsior Motor Manufacturing & Supply Company (Chicago, IL), a U.S. motorcycle manufacturer operating in Chicago from 1907 to 1931
- Henderson Motorcycle, a division of the above company from 1919 to 1931
- Excelsior Super X, a motorcycle made by the above company from 1925 to 1931
Motorwagenfabrik Excelsior, a Swiss car maker in business between 1896 and 1919
Compagnie Nationale Excelsior, a Belgian car manufacturer existing between 1904 and 1932
Excelsior Motor Company, a British bicycle, motorcycle and car maker
- Excelsior Manxman, a motorcycle made by the above company
Xcelsior (bus), a transit bus manufactured by New Flyer Industries
Excelsior tank, a British experimental heavy assault tank
St Croix Excelsior, ultralight aircraft
Excelsior (smack), the last surviving fishing smack of the Lowestoft fishing fleet and a member of the National Historic Fleet
SS Excelsior (ship), one of several steam-powered ships named Excelsior

Fraxinus excelsior, the scientific name for the European ash tree
Excelsior eight-eight (Callicore excelsior), a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae found in South America
Acraea excelsior, a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae found in eastern Africa

Excelsior (chess problem), a chess problem by Sam Loyd
Excelsior Amusement Park, located on Lake Minnetonka in the town of Excelsior, Minnesota
Excelsior Brigade, a New York infantry brigade in the Union Army in the American Civil War
Excelsior Diamond, a famous diamond, once the largest known
Excelsior JET, a Java compiler
Project Excelsior, a high-altitude skydiving project in the 1950s
Wood wool, commonly known as excelsior, a packing material