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 <!-- intentional duplicate-->
  • Vega, Alberta, Canada
  • Vega, Copenhagen, a concert hall in Copenhagen
  • Vega, Sweden, Sweden
  • Vega railway station, on Stockholm commuter rail
  • La Vega, Dominican Republic
  • Vega Island, Antarctica

Aerospace

  • Vega (crater), on the Moon
  • Vega (rocket), a European expendable small-lift launch vehicle
  • 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 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 self-aware artificial intelligence in Doom and Doom Eternal

Music

  • Vega Company, a musical instruments manufacturer
  • Vega (British band), a melodic rock/AOR band formed in 2009
  • Vega (singer), a Spanish singer-songwriter
  • Vega (Turkish band), an alternative rock band formed in 1996
  • Vega, Copenhagen, a Danish concert hall <!-- intentional duplicate -->
  • Vega, an album by Janvs
  • Vega, a 2024 album by Anberlin
  • "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 <!-- intentional duplicate -->
  • 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 Ioane (born 2004), American football player
  • Vega Jurij (1754–1802), Slovene mathematician, physicist and artillery officer
  • Vega Tamotia (born 1985), Australian actress

Schools

  • Vega School, 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
  • , several ships of the Swedish 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

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 (horse), a Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse
  • 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