Vega (disambiguation) explained

Vega is a star in the constellation Lyra.

Vega or VEGA may also refer to:

Places

Norway

• Vega Municipality, a municipality in Nordland county
• Vega (island in Norway), an island within Vega Municipality in Nordland county
• Vega Archipelago, an archipelago and UNESCO site in Nordland county
• Vega Church, a church in Vega Municipality in Nordland county

Spain

• Vega (Aller), Asturias
• Vega, Gijón, Asturias
• Vega de Granada, Andalusia

United States

• Vega, Georgia
• Vega, Ohio
• Vega, Texas

Elsewhere

• Vega (crater), the Moon
• Vega, Alberta, Canada
• Vega, Copenhagen, a concert hall in Copenhagen
• Vega, Haninge, Sweden
  • Vega Station, on Stockholm commuter rail
• La Vega, Dominican Republic
• Vega Island, Antarctica

Aerospace

• Vega (crater), on the Moon
• 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

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional 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
• 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 Danish concert hall
• Vega (album), an album by Janvs
• Vega (Anberlin album), 2024
• "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 the album -, 2023

Other media

• Vega (radio network), a now-defunct Australian network
  • Smooth 95.3 (formerly Vega 95.3), an Australian radio station
• Yle Vega, a Finnish radio channel broadcasting in Swedish

Businesses and organizations

• Vega (company), a nutrition brand
• Vega Company, a musical instrument manufacturer
• Facel Vega, a French car manufacturer (1954–1964)
• Vega Group, a Russian special forces unit
• Vega Industries, a New Zealand marine light manufacturer
• Vega Radio Engineering Corporation, a Russian military surveillance radio maker
• Vega Sicilia, a Spanish winery
• Vega Telecommunications Group, a Ukrainian telecommunications provider
• Volunteers for Economic Growth Alliance, an international development group

People

• Vega (singer) (born 1979), Spanish singer-songwriter
• Vega (surname), a list of people so named
• Vega Jurij (1754–1802), Slovene mathematician, physicist and artillery officer
• Vega Tamotia (born 1985), Indian actress

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

Vehicles

• Chevrolet Vega, an American subcompact made in the 1970s
• Vega EVX, a Sri Lankan electric coupe
• Ford Vega, a concept car
• Facel Vega, a French performance luxury car made in the 1950s

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)
• Vega Medal, awarded by the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography

See also

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