Vela or Velas may refer to:

Astronomy

  • Vela (constellation), a constellation in the southern sky (the Sails)
  • Vela (Chinese astronomy)
  • Vela Pulsar
  • Vela X-1, a pulsing, eclipsing high-mass X-ray binary system

Places

  • Vela Bluff, Antarctica
  • Vela, Dolj, Romania
  • Vela (Ilidža – Sarajevo), Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Velas, Maharashtra, India

Ships

  • CMA CGM Vela, a container ship in service since 2008
  • USNS Vela (T-AK-89), US Army port repair ship
  • Vela-class submarine, of the Indian Navy
  • INS Vela (S40), in service 1973–2010

Technology

  • Project Vela, a system developed by the United States to monitor compliance with the Partial Test Ban Treaty
  • Vela (satellite), a series of satellites launched by the United States to monitor nuclear testing
  • Vela incident, an international incident, in which a Vela satellite is thought to possibly have observed a nuclear test
  • Versatile Laboratory Aid (VELA), a data logging tool used in education

People

Given name

  • Vela Jiménez (fl. 882–883), Count of Álava
  • Vela Ladrón (fl. 1136–1174), Spanish nobleman
  • Vela Manusaute, Niuean writer and director
  • Vela Ovéquiz (fl. 1065–1085), count in the Kingdom of Galicia
  • Vela Peeva (1922–1944), Bulgarian partisan
  • Vela Velupillai (born 1947), Sri Lankan-American economist

Surname

  • Alejandro Vela (born 1984), Mexican footballer
  • Alexandra Vela, Ecuadorian lawyer and politician
  • Arqueles Vela (1899–1977), Guatemalan-Mexican writer, journalist, and teacher
  • Blanca Vela (1936–2014), American politician
  • Blasco Núñez Vela (1490–1546), viceroy of Peru
  • Carlos Vela (born 1989), Mexican footballer
  • Carmen Vela (born 1955), Spanish entrepreneur, researcher, and cabinet minister
  • Cindy Vela (born 1979), American actress, model, and saxophonist
  • Cristóbal Vela (1588–1654), Spanish Baroque painter and gilder
  • Ernesto Vela (born 1968), Mexican Olympic swimmer
  • Filemon Vela, Jr. (born 1963), American lawyer and politician
  • Filemon Vela, Sr. (1935–2004), United States federal judge
  • Giuseppe Vela Júnior (born 1977), Brazilian footballer
  • Gonzalo Vázquez Vela (1893–1963), Mexican politician
  • José Manuel Vela Bargues (1962–2022), Spanish economist and politician
  • Josh Vela (born 1993), English footballer
  • Lucé Vela, First Lady of Puerto Rico from 2009 to 2013
  • Marco Alonso Vela (born 1961), Mexican politician
  • Moises Vela, American lawyer and government advisor
  • Nallely Vela (born 1986), Mexican sprinter
  • Norma Safford Vela, American television writer, director, and producer
  • Orlando Vela (born 1994), Mexican footballer
  • Rafael Cárdenas Vela, Mexican drug cartel leader
  • Ricky Vela, American songwriter and keyboardist
  • Rodolfo Neri Vela (born 1952), Mexican scientist and astronaut
  • Rosie Vela (born 1954), American model and singer-songwriter
  • Sergio Vela (born 1964), Mexican-American opera director
  • Spartaco Vela (1853–1895), Italian painter, son of Vincenzo Vela
  • Vincenzo Vela (1820–1891), Swiss-Italian sculptor

Other uses

  • Nemmara Vallangi Vela, an annual festival of a village called Nemmara in South India
  • Vela International Marine, a subsidiary of Saudi Aramco
  • Vela, a playable character in the video game Jet Force Gemini
  • Vela, a religious, cultural celebration from the city of Tehuantepec, Mexico
  • Vela, an alternative appellation for Mokosh, the consort of the Slavic god of thunder
  • Vela, a genus of land crabs in the family Gecarcinucidae
  • Vela (film), a 2023 Indian crime drama

See also

  • Vella (disambiguation)
  • Velan (disambiguation)
  • Vala (disambiguation)
  • Velar (disambiguation)
  • Velar (caste), a caste in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu
  • Velas, Azores
  • Velada, Spain