title: Magneto (disambiguation)
text: # Magneto (disambiguation)
  
  A magneto is a permanent magnet electrical generator.
  
  Magneto may also refer to:
  
  ## Fictional characters
  
  * Magneto (Marvel Comics), a comic book character in the Marvel Comics Universe
     * Magneto (film series character), the X-Men film series adaptation
  * Magneto (Amalgam Comics), based in part on the character Magneto from Marvel Comics
  * Magneto (Atlas Comics), a different comic book character, created by Stan Lee before Atlas became Marvel
  * Captain Lance Magneto, title character of the shareware adventure game Cap'n Magneto
  
  ## Music
  
  * Magneto (band), a Mexican boy band of the 1980s and 1990s
  * "Magneto" (song), the debut single of the British group Brigade
  * "Magneto", a track on Skeleton Tree, by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
  * "Magneto", a song on Solid Pleasure, the first Yello album
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Operation Magneto, a 1985 South African military operation
  * Magneto, codename for Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0
  * Portuguese name of Magnetum, an ancient town and former bishopric, now Meinedo in Portugal and a Latin Catholic titular see, now Lousada
  * Ignition magneto, self-contained ignition system for internal combustion engines
  