Vega (disambiguation)
# Vega (disambiguation)

Vega is a star in the constellation Lyra.

Vega or VEGA may also refer to:

## Aerospace

* Vega (crater), a lunar crater
* Vega (rocket), an expendable launch system in use by Arianespace, jointly developed by the Italian Space Agency and the European Space Agency
* 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

## Places

* Vega (Aller), a parish of the municipality of Aller, Asturias, Spain
* Vega (island in Norway), an island in Nordland county, Norway
* Vega Archipelago, Norway
* Vega, Alberta, Canada
* Vega, Georgia, United States
* Vega, Gijón, a parish of the municipality of Gijón, Asturias, Spain
* Vega de Granada, a comarca in Andalusia, Spain
* Vega, Haninge, Sweden
   * Vega Station, on Stockholm commuter rail
* Vega, Norway, a municipality in Norway
* Vega, Ohio, United States
* Vega, Texas, United States
* Vega Island, an island in Antarctica
* La Vega, Dominican Republic

## Arts, entertainment, and media

### Fiction

**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 sentient artificial intelligence that runs the UAC Mars facility in Doom and also runs the Fortress of Doom in Doom Eternal

### Music

* Vega Company, a musical instruments manufacturer
* Vega (band), a Turkish alternative rock band founded in 1996
* VEGA (UK rock band), a melodic rock/AOR band from the United Kingdom
* Vega, Copenhagen, a concert hall in Copenhagen
* Vega (radio network), a now-defunct Australian network now known as smoothfm
* Yle Vega, a Finnish radio channel broadcasting in Swedish
* Vega (album), an album by Janvs
* "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 -, 2023

## Organizations and enterprises

* Vega (company), a brand of vegan products
* Facel Vega, a French car manufacturer in operation 1954–1964
* Vega Company, a musical instrument manufacturer
* Vega Group, a Russian special forces unit
* Vega Industries, a New Zealand marine light manufacturer
* Vega Radio Engineering Corporation, a Russian company specializing in military surveillance radio systems
* Vega Sicilia, Spanish winery in the Ribera del Duero
* Vega Telecommunications Group, a Ukrainian telecommunications provider
* Volunteers for Economic Growth Alliance, international development group
* Smooth 95.3, radio station in Sydney, Australia formerly named Vega 95.3

## People

* Vega (singer) (born 1979), born Mercedes Mígel Carpio, Spanish singer/songwriter
* Vega Jurij (1754–1802), Slovene mathematician, physicist and artillery officer
* Vega Tamotia (born 1985), Indian actress
* Vega (surname), a list of people with the name Vega

## Schools

* Vega (South Africa), 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
* 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
* 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
* Private Security Vehicle Garuda Vega, a fictional ship in the 2017 Indian Telugu-language film PSV Garuda Vega

## 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)
* Chevrolet Vega, an American subcompact automobile produced in the 1970s
* Vega EVX, a Sri Lankan two-seater electric sports car
* Ford Vega, a concept car
* Facel Vega, a French performance luxury car produced in the 1950s
* Vega Medal, awarded by the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography
