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Hesperus (or Hesperos) was a Greek mythological figure.

Hesperus may also refer to:

People

• Hesperos or Wesparos, a name for the Western Locrians

Places in the United States

• Hesperus, Colorado, an unincorporated community in Colorado
• Hesperus Mountain (Colorado), a mountain in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado
• Hesperus Ski Area, a ski area near Hesperus, Colorado
• Mount Hesperus (Alaska), a mountain in the Revelation Mountains of Alaska

Arts, entertainment, and media

• Hesperus (ensemble), an early-music ensemble
• Hesperos, a periodical newspaper, issued in Leipzig, in the late 19th cenrury, in Greek
• Hesperus Press Ltd., a British independent publisher
• Hesperus oder 45 Hundposttage, a 1795 novel by the German Romantic writer Jean Paul

Ships

• Hesperus (clipper ship), traded between England and Adelaide, South Australia
• HMS Hesperus (H57), a destroyer in the Royal Navy

Other uses

• Hesperus (beetle), a genus of rove beetles

See also

• Esperos, a modern Greek football club
• Hesperides
• Hesperis
• Hesperium
• Hesperius
• Wreck of the Hesperus (band)
• "Wreck of the Hesperus" (song)
• "Wreck of the Hesperus", a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow