Pygmalion is a Greek name. Pygmalion—or Pygmaion according to Hesychios of Alexandria—is probably a Cypriot form of Adonis, a Levantine vegetation-god.

It may refer to:

• Pygmalion (mythology), in ancient Greek mythology, a sculptor who fell in love with his statue
• 96189 Pygmalion, a minor planet named after the sculptor
• Pygmalion of Tyre, a King of Tyre
• Pygmalion, a character in Virgil's masterpiece the Aeneid

In the arts, the mythical character is depicted or is alluded to in (listed in roughly chronological order) the following:

• Pigmalion (opera), a 1748 opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau
• Pygmalion (Rousseau), a melodrama by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Pygmalion (opera), a late 18th century duodrama opera by Georg Anton Benda
• Pimmalione, an 1809 opera by Luigi Cherubini
• Il Pigmalione, an 1816 opera by Gaetano Donizetti
• Pygmalion and Galatea, an 1871 play by W. S. Gilbert
• Galatea, or Pygmalion Reversed a musical comedy composed by Meyer Lutz
• Pygmalion, ou La Statue de Chypre (Pygmalion, or The Cyprus Statue) is an 1883 ballet with choreography by Marius Petipa
• Pygmalion (play), a 1913 play by George Bernard Shaw
• Pygmalion (1938 film), a movie based on the play by George Bernard Shaw
• My Fair Lady a 1956 musical and a 1964 movie by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe based on Shaw's play
• Pygmalion (album), by Slowdive
• Pygmallion, a song by Lycia
• "Pigmalion" (Back at the Barnyard episode)

In psychology:

• The pygmalion effect, a concept in psychology describing the behavior of individuals as people expect them to behave
• Pygmalionism or agalmatophilia, an erotic attraction to statues or immobility

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