- a person who rises at an early hour.
- a person who arrives before others, as for the purpose of gaining some advantage: The early birds got the best seats for the play.
- the first of the Intelsat series of communications satellites, orbited (1965) by Intelsat.
- a person who rises early or arrives in good time
- one of a number of communications satellites, the first of which was launched in 1965 into a stationary orbit and provided telephone channels between Europe and the US
