Sequoia

Sequoia, Sequoya or Sequoyah refers to a type of tree in the cypress family which includes the redwood trees. By extension the name may refer to:

Science and technology

Biology

• Sequoioideae, a three-genus subfamily of the cypress family
  • Sequoia (genus), a genus with one living and several fossil species
    • Sequoia sempervirens, coast redwood, found along the coast of California and Oregon
  • Sequoiadendron giganteum (giant sequoia), the sequoia tree found on the slopes of the Sierra Nevada of California
  • Metasequoia, dawn redwood
• The Great Sequoia, a sequoia tree in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country, Spain

Other science and technology

• macOS Sequoia, an Apple computer operating system version (2024)
• 1103 Sequoia, a minor planet
• Sequoia (supercomputer), an IBM supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, US
• HFS Plus, an Apple file system codenamed Sequoia

Arts and entertainment

• Old Sequoia, a 1945 American animated short film directed by Jack King
• Sequoia (1934 film), an American drama film
• Sequoia (2014 film), an American comedy film
• Sequoia (comics), a Marvel Comics character
• Sequoia (composition), by American composer Joan Tower
• "Sequoia", a song by Way Out West from Way Out West
• Sequoya (Ream), a bronze sculpture
• Sequoya (St. John's University's Literary Magazine)

Places

United States

• State of Sequoyah, an attempt in the early 20th century by Native Americans to form their own state
• Canyon, California, formerly Sequoya
• Mount Sequoyah, Great Smoky Mountains
• Sequoia Hall, home of the Statistics Department of Stanford University
• Sequoia Hospital, Redwood City, California
• Sequoia National Park, a national park in the southern Sierra Nevada, California
  • Sequoia National Forest, adjacent to the Sequoia National Park
    • Giant Sequoia National Monument, monument administered as part of the National Forest
• Sequoia Park Zoo, in Eureka, California
• Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, a county in mid-eastern Oklahoma bordering Arkansas
• Sequoyah Nuclear Plant, Tennessee
• Sequoyah, Oklahoma, an unincorporated community in northeastern Oklahoma

Elsewhere

• Tour Sequoia, an office skyscraper in Paris, France

Schools

• Sequoia Middle School (disambiguation), several schools
• Sequoia High School (disambiguation), several schools
• Sequoyah High School (Georgia), public school in Canton, Georgia
• Sequoyah High School (Claremore, Oklahoma), public school
• Sequoyah High School (Tahlequah, Oklahoma), high school and Native American boarding school
• Sequoyah School, a non-profit, independent alternative school in Pasadena, California
• Sequoia University, a defunct Los Angeles diploma mill

Companies

• Sequoia Capital, a venture capital firm
• Sequoia Voting Systems, a California company that provides electronic voting systems
• Sequoia Fund, a Ruane, Cunniff & Goldfarb investment fund
• Sequoia -- Managed Benefits solution for employers

Transport

• Piper Sequoya, a variant of the Piper Aerostar, a light twin-engine utility aircraft
• Sequoia Falco, a light, acrobatic aircraft
• Sequoia Field Airport, near Visalia, California, US
• Toyota Sequoia, a sport utility vehicle
• USS Sequoia, several US Navy ships
  • USS Sequoia (presidential yacht), U.S. presidential yacht
• USS Sequoyah (SP-426), a patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1919

People

• Sequoyah (1767–1843), American Indian silversmith and inventor of the Cherokee syllabary
• Johnny Sequoyah (born 2002), American actress
• Sequoia Holmes, American basketball player
• Sequoia Nagamatsu, American writer and professor
• Billy Ray Waldon, also known as Nvwtohiyada Idehesdi Sequoyah (born 1952), American former fugitive, American Indian Movement activist, and Esperantist

Other uses

• Sequoyah (horse), Irish Thoroughbred racehorse
• Secoya (disambiguation)

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