Vega (disambiguation)

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Vega is a star in the constellation Lyra.

Vega or VEGA may also refer to:

Aerospace

• Vega (crater), a lunar crater
• Vega (rocket), an expendable launch system in use by Arianespace, jointly developed by the Italian Space Agency and the European Space Agency
• Lockheed Vega, an American monoplane produced 1927–1931
• Percival Vega Gull, a British aircraft produced 1935–1939
• Slingsby Vega, a British glider
• Stern ST 87 Vega, a French homebuilt aircraft design
• Vega Aircraft Corporation, a subsidiary of Lockheed
• Vega program, a series of space missions
• VEGA Space GmbH, a European aerospace company that merged into Telespazio VEGA Deutschland
• Vega Space UK, a UK-based space company
• Walter Vega, a Czechoslovak radial aeroengine

Places

• Vega (Aller), a parish of the municipality of Aller, Asturias, Spain
• Vega (island in Norway), an island in Nordland county, Norway
• Vega Archipelago, Norway
• Vega, Alberta, Canada
• Vega, Georgia, United States
• Vega, Gijón, a parish of the municipality of Gijón, Asturias, Spain
• Vega de Granada, a comarca in Andalusia, Spain
• Vega, Haninge, Sweden
  • Vega Station, on Stockholm commuter rail
• Vega, Norway, a municipality in Norway
• Vega, Ohio, United States
• Vega, Texas, United States
• Vega Island, an island in Antarctica
• La Vega, Dominican Republic

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fiction

Characters

• Vega (Street Fighter), a Street Fighter character, named Balrog in Japan
  • M. Bison, the main antagonist of the Street Fighter universe, known as Vega in Japan
• King Vega, a Ufo Robot Grendizer character
• Vega Obscura, a Zoids: New Century Zero character
• Vega, a Gear Fighter Dendoh character
• General Vega, a characters from the video game Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun
• James Vega, a character in the Mass Effect series
• Tori Vega and Trina Vega, characters in the Nickelodeon sitcom Victorious
• Vic and Vincent Vega, brothers from the Quentin Tarantino films Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs
• VEGA, a sentient artificial intelligence that runs the UAC Mars facility in Doom and also runs the Fortress of Doom in Doom Eternal

Music

• Vega Company, a musical instruments manufacturer
• Vega (British band), a melodic rock/AOR band formed in 2009
• Vega (Turkish band), an alternative rock band formed in 1996
• Vega, Copenhagen, a concert hall in Copenhagen
• Vega (radio network), a now-defunct Australian network now known as smoothfm
• Yle Vega, a Finnish radio channel broadcasting in Swedish
• Vega (album), an album by Janvs
• "Vega", an outro song by Breaking Benjamin from the 2018 album Ember
• Vega, a 2018 album by Danheim
• "Vega", a song by Ed Sheeran from -, 2023

Organizations and enterprises

• Vega (company), a brand of vegan products
• Facel Vega, a French car manufacturer in operation 1954–1964
• Vega Company, a musical instrument manufacturer
• Vega Group, a Russian special forces unit
• Vega Industries, a New Zealand marine light manufacturer
• Vega Radio Engineering Corporation, a Russian company specializing in military surveillance radio systems
• Vega Sicilia, Spanish winery in the Ribera del Duero
• Vega Telecommunications Group, a Ukrainian telecommunications provider
• Volunteers for Economic Growth Alliance, international development group
• Smooth 95.3, radio station in Sydney, Australia formerly named Vega 95.3

People

• Vega (singer) (born 1979), born Mercedes Mígel Carpio, Spanish singer/songwriter
• Vega Jurij (1754–1802), Slovene mathematician, physicist and artillery officer
• Vega Tamotia (born 1985), Indian actress
• Vega (surname), a list of people with the name Vega

Schools

• Vega (South Africa), a private university in South Africa
• Vega High School, Vega, Texas, U.S.
• Vega Schools, Gurgaon, Haryana state, India

Science, technology and medicine

• Vega, the GPU architecture from Vivante Corporation
• Vega, line of GPUs manufactured by Video Seven
• AMD Vega, the GPU architecture featured in the Radeon RX Vega line of GPUs
• Radeon RX Vega series, graphics processors developed by AMD
• Vega machine, an electrodiagnostic device
• Vertebrate and Genome Annotation Project (VEGA), a biological database
• Vega and Vega-Lite visualisation grammars, visualization tools implementing a grammar of graphics in JavaScript

Ships

• HMS Vega, several ships of the British Royal Navy
• MS Vega, now MS Mytilene, a Greek ferry ship
• SS Vega, various steamships
• USS Vega, several ships of the United States Navy
• Vega, a Finnish schooner; see Finnish war reparations to the Soviet Union
• Private Security Vehicle Garuda Vega, a fictional ship in the 2017 Indian Telugu-language film PSV Garuda Vega

Other uses

• Vega (grape), a white Italian wine grape
• Vega, or grass valley, a meadow located within a forested and relatively small drainage basin
• Vega, in finance a measure of sensitivity to volatility; see Greeks (finance)
• Chevrolet Vega, an American subcompact automobile produced in the 1970s
• Vega EVX, a Sri Lankan two-seater electric sports car
• Ford Vega, a concept car
• Facel Vega, a French performance luxury car produced in the 1950s
• Vega Medal, awarded by the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography

See also

• All pages with titles containing Vega (disambiguation)
• Vegam (disambiguation)
• Bega (disambiguation)
• De la Vega (disambiguation)
• Vegan (disambiguation)
• Vegas (disambiguation)
• Viga (disambiguation)
• WEGA, a radio company, acquired by Sony in 1975