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
  • ', a pre-Revolution Mexican feminist weekly published by Juana Belén Gutiérrez de Mendoza and Elisa Acuña
  • 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

  • Vesper Boat Club, an amateur rowing club in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
  • Vesper Country Club, one of the first golf courses in the United States

Science

  • Vesper bat, the largest, best-known family of bats
  • Vesper mouse, a rodent genus
  • Vesper sparrow, a medium-sized bird
  • Vesper (plant), a genus of plants in the family Apiaceae
  • Vesper mission, a planned Venus chemistry and dynamics orbiter of the NASA Discovery Program

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

  • Vespa
  • Vespers (disambiguation)
  • VSEPR theory in chemistry, often pronounced "Vesper"