Wasp (disambiguation)
# Wasp (disambiguation)

A wasp is a type of flying insect.

Wasp may also refer to:

## Art, entertainment, and media

### Fictional entities

* Several Marvel characters, including:
   * Wasp (character), introduced in 1963
   * Hope van Dyne, the Marvel Cinematic Universe character
   * Nadia van Dyne, who was introduced in 2016
* Lisbeth Salander, a character in the Millennium series nicknamed Wasp
* Waspinator or Wasp, several Transformers characters
* World Aquanaut Security Patrol, an organization in the television series Stingray

### Films

* Wasp (2003 film), a film by Andrea Arnold
* Wasp (2015 film), a British-French film
* The Wasp (1915 film), a short by B. Reeves Eason
* The Wasp (1918 film), a lost silent film comedy drama

### Literature

* Wasp (novel), a novel by Eric Frank Russell
* The Wasps, a comic play by Aristophanes

### Music

* W.A.S.P. (band), an American rock/metal band
   * W.A.S.P. (album), their 1984 self-titled album
* "Wasp", a song by Black Sabbath from the album Black Sabbath
* Wasp (album), a 1980 album by Shaun Cassidy
* "W.A.S.P.", a song from the Dayglo Abortions album, Two Dogs Fucking
* The Wasps (Vaughan Williams), a 1909 suite for orchestra composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
* "The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)", a song by The Doors from the album L.A. Woman
* EDP Wasp, a monophonic synthesizer by Electronic Dream Plant

### Periodicals

* The Wasp (magazine), a 19th-century San Francisco magazine
* The Wasp (newspaper), a 19th-century newspaper published in Nauvoo, Illinois

### Radio

* WASP-LP, a low-power radio station (104.5 FM) licensed to serve Huntington, West Virginia, United States
* WASP (AM), a defunct radio station (1130 AM) formerly licensed to serve Brownsville, Pennsylvania, United States

## Science and technology

### Information technology

* Web Standards Project
* WAsP, Wind Atlas Analysis and Application Program
* Wireless application service provider

### Weapons

* AGM-124 Wasp, an American experimental air-to-ground anti-tank missile
* Wasp 58, a recoilless rocket launcher

### Other uses in science and technology

* Wiskott–Aldrich syndrome protein
* Wide Angle Search for Planets (WASP), a British group searching for extra-solar planets

## Sport

* Wasps FC, an amateur English rugby union club
* Wasps Ladies, an English women's rugby union club
* Wasps RFC, a professional English rugby union club based in the Coventry area (known from 1999 to 2014 as London Wasps)
* York Wasps, former English rugby league club
* Chalfont Wasps F.C., English football club
* Durham Wasps, former British ice–hockey team
* Newport Wasps, British speedway team
* Emory and Henry Wasps, NCAA Division III intercollegiate sport team
* WASP (cricket calculation tool), an algorithm used in limited overs cricket matches to predict the outcome of games

## Transportation

### Aviation

* ABC Wasp, a British World War I aero engine by ABC Motors
* AeroVironment Wasp III, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) developed for United States Air Force special forces
* Airspeed Queen Wasp, British unmanned target-aircraft
* Curtiss 18 Wasp, a little-used American triplane fighter of World War I
* Pratt & Whitney Wasp series, a series of piston engines common in the 1930s and 1940s
* Westland Wasp, a British-built light shipborne helicopter
* Women Airforce Service Pilots, World War II American female aviators
* Williams Aerial Systems Platform, from Williams International
* Wasp Flight Systems, a British powered hang glider manufacturer
   * Wasp SP Mk2, a British powered hang glider design

### Land

* Hudson Wasp, 1950s, American automobile
* Martin Wasp, 1910s and 20s, American automobile
* Wasp Motorcycles, British motorcycle and sidecar manufacturer
* Wasp, a variant of the Universal Carrier armored vehicle that was armed with a flamethrower

### Ships

* HMS Wasp, several ships of the Royal Navy
* USS Wasp, several ships of the United States Navy
* Wasp-class amphibious assault ship, ships of the United States Navy
* Wasp (1809 ship), a ship that made a whaling voyage in the 1820s
* Wasp (1776 ship), British slaving vessel

## Other uses

* White Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPs), an upper class elite in the United States
* Wasp, Pleasants County, West Virginia, a community in the United States
* Workers and Socialist Party, a South African political party
