The vanguard is the leading part of an advancing military formation.

Vanguard may also refer to:

Military

China

  • Chengdu J-10 "Vanguard", a 4.5-generation Chinese fighter plane
  • QW-1 Vanguard, an advanced Chinese surface-to-air missile

United Kingdom

  • Vanguard-class ship of the line, a class of warship deployed during the 19th century by the Royal Navy
  • Vanguard-class submarine, the Royal Navy's current nuclear ballistic missile submarines
  • HMS Vanguard, several British Royal Navy ships

United States

  • Vultee P-66 Vanguard, an American fighter plane built from 1939 to 1943
  • Vanguard, nickname of the army 297th Military Intelligence Battalion
  • Vanguard, nickname of navy helicopter squadron HM-14
  • Vanguards, nickname of the army 18th Infantry Regiment
  • Vanguards, nickname of the air force 76th Fighter Squadron
  • Vanguards, an early nickname of the defunct Navy squadron VX-4

Other countries

  • Operation Vanguard, Ghana
  • Vanguards, nickname of No. 110 Helicopter Unit, IAF, India
  • Vanguard-class multirole warship, a proposed Norwegian class
  • Vanguard, nickname of the 1st Brigade of the 2nd Marine Division (South Korea)
  • 52nd Marine Vanguard Regiment of the Tunisian Navy
  • Quân Tiên Phong, (Vanguard) nickname of the 308th Infantry Division, Vietnam

Businesses and brands

  • Vanguard Airlines, a defunct American airline that operated from 1994 to 2002
  • Vanguard Automotive Group, an American car rental company
  • Vanguard Cellular, an American cellular phone company that was acquired by AT&T in 1999
  • Vanguard Dutch Marine, a Netherlands-based yacht manufacturing company
  • Vanguard Healthcare, a British medical company
  • Vanguard Health Systems, an American operator of hospitals and other medical facilities
  • Vanguard Industries, an American manufacturer of military badges
  • Vanguard International Semiconductor Corporation, an IC foundry in Taiwan founded in 1994
  • Vanguard Managed Solutions, an American company (2001–2007) of which part is now Vanguard Networks
  • Vanguard Sailboats, an American builder of racing and recreational sailboats
  • The Vanguard Group, an American investment management company founded in 1975
  • China Resources Vanguard, one of the largest supermarket chain companies in Hong Kong
  • Vanguard, a 1970s American running shoe made by Brooks Sports
  • Vanguard, a former American cigarette made by Brown & Williamson
  • Vanguard, a 1960s Eversharp fountain pen made in England
  • Vanguard, a line of Swiss watches made by Franck Muller
  • Vanguard, a former cigarette made by John Player & Sons
  • Vanguard, a line of Swiss watches made by Roamer
  • Vanguard, a mid-twentieth century American lighter made by Ronson
  • Vanguard, a line of American pocket watches made by the Waltham Watch Company
  • Vanguard, a 1960s Italian-made Waterman fountain pen
  • Vanguard, an American line of sporting rifles made by Weatherby
  • Vanguard Knife, a hunting knife made by the American company Buck Knives
  • Vanguard 888, a mid-twentieth century American radio made by Emerson

Education

Canada

  • Vanguard College, a private Christian college in Edmonton, Alberta
  • Vanguard School (Quebec), a private high school in Montreal, Quebec

New Zealand

  • Vanguard Military School, a charter school in Auckland

United States

  • Vanguard College Preparatory School, a private high school in Waco, Texas
  • Vanguard High School, a public high school in Ocala, Florida
  • Vanguard School (Illinois), a public high school in Arlington Heights, Illinois
  • Vanguard University of Southern California, a private Christian university in Costa Mesa, California
  • The Vanguard School (Colorado), a public K-12 charter school in Colorado Springs, Colorado
  • Vanguard School (Florida), a private boarding high school in Lake Wales, Florida
  • The Vanguard School (Pennsylvania), a private school in Malvern, Pennsylvania
  • Vanguard School of Coconut Grove, a private day school in Coconut Grove, Florida
  • Carnegie Vanguard High School, a public magnet high school in Houston, Texas

Arts, entertainment and media

Film and television

  • Vanguard Animation, an American production studio
  • Vanguard Films, a defunct American film production company
  • Vanguard Films, a defunct Philippine film production company
  • Vanguard (film), a 2020 Chinese action film
  • News Vanguard, an Indian TV channel
  • Vanguard (TV series), a journalistic reporting series on Current TV

Music

  • Vanguard (synthesizer), a software synthesizer developed by reFX
  • Vanguard Records, an independent record label founded in 1950
  • The Vanguards, a 1960s Norwegian rock band
  • Santa Clara Vanguard Drum and Bugle Corps, a competitive drum and bugle corps, based in Santa Clara, California
  • Vanguard -of the muses-, an album by Japanese band Exist Trace
  • "Vanguard", a single by Violet Chachki from her 2015 EP Gagged

Publications

  • Vanguard (journal), published by the anarchist Vanguard Group
  • Vanguard (Nigeria) (Daily Vanguard), a daily newspaper based in Lagos, Nigeria
  • Vanguard (magazine), a defunct Canadian magazine
  • Vanguard Press, a publishing label now owned by Random House
  • Portland State Vanguard (formerly Daily Vanguard), the student newspaper at Portland State University
  • Vanguard, student newspaper of the University of South Alabama in Mobile, Alabama
  • The Vanguard, the student weekly of Bentley University, Waltham, Massachusetts
  • The Vanguard (Bentley University), a student newspaper at Bentley University
  • The Vanguard (Buckingham Browne & Nichols), a student newspaper at Buckingham Browne & Nichols
  • Vanguard, official press organ of hardline, a radical deep ecology movement
  • The Vanguard (1922–28), a publication of the émigré Communist Party of India, founded and edited by Manabendra Nath Roy
  • The Vanguard (January–March 1853), a short-lived socialist paper published by George Julian Harney
  • The Vanguard (1996–2001), a Vancouver, Washington alternative newspaper, some former staff of which would found The Vancouver Voice

Comics and anime

  • Vanguard (Image Comics), a superhero from Megaton Comics and Image Comics
  • Vanguard (Marvel Comics), a name shared by a mutant Russian character as well as a fictional team of characters
  • Vanguard, a high-tech humanoid robot in the anime Vandread
  • Cardfight!! Vanguard an anime series, based on the trading card game

Games and toys

  • Vanguard (video game), a 1981 shooter game, with the 1984 sequel Vanguard II
  • Vanguard: Saga of Heroes, a 2007 MMORPG created by Sigil Games Online and Sony Online Entertainment
  • Medal of Honor: Vanguard, a first-person shooter game created by Electronic Arts for PlayStation 2 and Wii
  • Cardfight!! Vanguard a trading card game
  • Vanguard, an organization in the computer game The Longest Journey
  • Vanguard, a faction in the video game, Destiny
  • Vanguard, the droid partner of the Transformers toy Sideswipe
  • Vanguard, a variant of the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering
  • Vanguard, the main battle tank used by the New Conglomerate in PlanetSide and PlanetSide 2
  • Vanguard, a character class in the video game, Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2, and Mass Effect 3
  • Vanguard, a UN-funded military organisation in the City of Heroes universe
  • Vanguard, a group of characters in the video game Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World
  • Vanguard, a demon (opponent) in the game, Demon's Souls
  • Vanguard, a character class in the video game, Chivalry: Medieval Warfare
  • Vanguard, the highest rank in Spiral Knights
  • Vanguards, a line of die-cast model cars made by Lledo, now owned by British company Corgi
  • Call of Duty: Vanguard, a 2021 installment of the Call of Duty franchise
  • Vanguard, an in-development first-person shooter game developed by CCP Games
  • UC Vanguard, a faction in the video game Starfield.
  • Vanguard, a type of hero class in the 2024 hero shooter Marvel Rivals
  • Riot Vanguard, a kernel-level anti-cheat software developed by Riot Games

Other arts, entertainment and media

  • Vanguard Radio Network, a Philippine radio network
  • Star Trek: Vanguard, a series of novels about a space station called Vanguard
  • The Vanguard, a painting which was the basis of the design of Western Cattle in Storm, an American stamp
  • The Vanguard, a boys' story paper published in the 1920s by D. C. Thomson & Co.

Organizations

  • Vanguard (organization), a defunct American LGBT rights organization
  • Vanguard Public Foundation, a defunct American social justice foundation
  • U.P. Vanguard, alumni association of the University of the Philippines ROTC

Politics

  • Vanguard, a former name of the Russian Unity party of Ukraine
  • Vanguard Group (anarchist), an American anarchist group in the 1930s
  • Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party, a unionist political party in Northern Ireland during the 1970s
  • Vanguard Organization, a secret unit of the Arab Socialist Union (Egypt) during the presidency of Gamal Abdel Nasser and Anwar Sadat

Sports

  • LGU Vanguards, a defunct Philippine basketball team in the UNTV Cup league
  • Nueva Ecija Rice Vanguards, a Philippine professional basketball team
  • Vanguard (American racehorse)
  • Vanguard (steeplechaser), winner of the 1835 Grand National
  • Vanguard Volley Hitters, a Philippine volleyball team of the Spikers' Turf volleyball league

Science and technology

  • Project Vanguard, an American satellite launch project begun in 1957
  • Vanguard (rocket), a launch vehicle used in Project Vanguard
  • Vanguard TV3, the first satellite launch attempt in 1957
  • Vanguard 1, an artificial satellite launched in 1958
  • Vanguard 2, an artificial satellite launched in 1959
  • Vanguard 3, an artificial satellite launched in 1959
  • Vanguard (microkernel), a discontinued experimental microkernel developed at Apple Computer

Transportation

Aviation

  • Vickers Vanguard, a British short/medium-range turboprop airliner (first flown 1959)
  • Vickers Type 170 Vanguard, a 1920s British airliner
  • Briggs & Stratton Vanguard Big Block V-Twin, a series of piston engines, adapted to propel ultralights

Automobiles

  • Standard Vanguard, a car produced by the British Standard Motor Company from 1947 to 1963
  • Toyota Vanguard, a Japanese compact crossover sport utility vehicle

Ships and boats

  • BOKA Vanguard, the largest heavy lift ship ever built
  • ST Vanguard, a 250 GRT tugboat formerly the Empire ship named Empire Pine
  • USNS Mission San Fernando (T-AO-122), renamed USNS Vanguard in 1965 for role as tracking vessel
  • Vanguard 15, one-design racing dinghy made by Vanguard Sailboats

Other uses

  • Vanguard, Saskatchewan, Canada, a village
  • Ulmus 'Morton Plainsman', an elm cultivar sold under the trade name Vanguard

See also

  • Daniel Vangarde, French songwriter and producer
  • The Vanguard (disambiguation)
  • Vanguard Award (disambiguation)
  • La Vanguardia ("The Vanguard"), a Spanish newspaper founded in 1881
  • La Vanguardia (Argentina) ("The Vanguard"), an Argentinian newspaper founded in 1894