Pygmalion

Pygmalion may refer to the following:

Pygmalion, a king of Tyre, brother of Queen Dido of Carthage.
Pygmalion, Cyprus, a mythical king of Cyprus, father of Metharme, grandfather of Adonis.
Pygmalion, a 1912 play by George Bernard Shaw.
Pygmalion, a 1938 movie based on the play by George Bernard Shaw and produced by Gabriel Pascal.
The mythological sculptor Pygmalion who falls in love with a statue he has made, from a poem by the roman poet Ovid.
In Virgil's masterpiece The Aeneid, Pygmalion is the cruel-hearted brother of Dido who secretly kills Dido's husband Sychaeus because of his lust for gold.
The pygmalion effect, a concept in psychology describing the behavior of individuals as people expect them to behave, named after the myth of Pygmalion.
Pygmalionism (aka statuephilia or agalmatophilia), an erotic attraction to statues or immobility.
An adventure and role playing game system currently under development.

Pygmalion is a Greek name, probably going back to Phoenician roots. Pygmalion—or Pygmaion according to Hesychios of Alexandra—is probably a Cypriote form of Adonis, a Levantine vegetation-god.