Vesper Explained
Vesper means evening in Classical Latin. It may also refer to:
Places
- Vesper, Kansas, an unincorporated community in the United States
- Vesper, Oregon, an unincorporated community in the United States
- Vesper, Wisconsin, a village in the United States
- Vesper, an abandoned village southwest of Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Canada
- Vesper Peak, a mountain in Washington State, United States
People
- Heike Vesper (born 1970), German marine biologist
- Iulian Vesper (1908–1986), Romanian writer
- Rose Vesper, member of the Ohio House of Representatives (1993–2000)
- Rudolf Vesper (born 1939), East German Olympic gold medalist in Greco-Roman wrestling
- Will Vesper (1882–1962), German author and literary critic
Arts, entertainment, and media
- Vesper (novel), a young-adult novel by Jeff Sampson
- Vesper (film), a 2022 Lithuanian-French-Belgian science-fiction film directed by Kristina Buožytė and Bruno Samper
- Vesper, an organization in the manga and anime series Mahoromatic
- Vesper, a banshee with unusually magical singing abilities from animated television series Mysticons
- Vesper Family, a family in the book series The 39 Clues
- Vesper Holly, a character from a book series by Lloyd Alexander
- Vesper Lynd, a character in the James Bond novel and film Casino Royale
- Vesper, a village in the Ultima series of video games
Organizations
Science
Other uses
- Vesper (cocktail), an alcoholic beverage recipe popularized by Ian Fleming
- The Roman equivalent of Hesperus, the Greek name given to the planet Venus at sunset
- Hesperus, the personification of the evening star Vesper in Greek mythology
- , a British destroyer in commission in the Royal Navy from 1918 to the 1920s and from 1939 to 1945
See also