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
See also
- All pages with titles containing Vega (disambiguation)
- Vegam (disambiguation)
- Bega (disambiguation)
- De la Vega (disambiguation)
- Vegan (disambiguation)
- Vegas (disambiguation)
- Viga (disambiguation)
- WEGA, a radio company, acquired by Sony in 1975
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