Venus (disambiguation)

Venus is a planet in the Solar System, named after Venus (mythology), the Ancient Roman goddess of love.

Venus may also refer to:

Businesses

Venus Centre, a dubbing company located in Damascus, Syria
Venus Optics, a manufacturer of innovative photographic lenses
Venus Pencils, a pencil brand
Venus Records & Tapes, an Indian music record label company
Venus Records, a Japanese jazz record label
Venus Swimwear, online and catalog retailer of women's clothing and swimwear

Fictional characters

Venus (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), a character from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise
Venus (Marvel Comics), comic book character
- Venus (comic book), a series featuring the above character
Sailor Venus or Minako Aino, one of the Sailor Senshi from the anime/manga Sailor Moon

Film

Venus (1929 film), a silent French film
Venus (1932 film), an Italian film
Venus (2006 film), a British comedy-drama
Venus (2017 film), a Canadian comedy-drama

Literature

Venus (novel), a science fiction novel by Ben Bova, published in 2000
Venus series, a series of science fiction novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Music

Venus (opera) by Othmar Schoeck 1922
Venus (Belgian band), a Belgian pop group
Vênus, a Brazilian heavy metal group

Albums

Venus (We Are the Fury album), 2007
Venus (Joy Williams album), 2015
Venus (Hello Venus EP), 2012
Vénus, a 2008 album by Sheryfa Luna
Venus, a 2014 EP by Jett Rebel

Songs

"Venus" (Frankie Avalon song)
"Venus" (Lady Gaga song)
"Venus" (Shocking Blue song), later recorded by Bananarama
"Venus" (Tackey and Tsubasa song)
"Venus, the Bringer of Peace", a movement from Gustav Holst's The Planets
"Venus", a song by Air from Talkie Walkie
"Venus", a song by Azealia Banks
"Venus", a song by Billy Idol from Cyberpunk
"Venus", a song by Butthole Surfers from Weird Revolution
"Venus", a single by Low
"Venus", a song by Shinhwa from The Return
"Venus", a track on Television's 1977 album Marquee Moon
"Venus", a single by The Feelers from Supersystem
"Venus", a song by Theatre of Tragedy from the album Aégis

People

Places

United States

Venus, Florida, an unincorporated community
Venus, Missouri, an unincorporated community
Venus, Nebraska, an unincorporated community
Venus, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated community
Venus, Texas, a town
Venus, West Virginia, an unincorporated community

Other places

Venus, Romania, a resort
Venus Bay (New Zealand)
Venus Bay, South Australia, a town and a bay
Venus Bay, Victoria, Australia
Venus Glacier, Alexander Island, Antarctica
Point Venus, Tahiti

Science

Venus (bivalve), a genus of clams in the bivalve mollusc family Veneridae
VENUS (Victoria Experimental Network Under the Sea), an oceanographic observatory near Victoria, B.C., Canada
Venus, a yellow fluorescent protein derivative

Ships

French ship Vénus, sixteen French Navy ships
HMS Venus, five ships of the Royal Navy
Venus-class frigate, three Royal Navy sailing frigates
Swedish frigate Venus (1783), a frigate of the Swedish navy
USS Venus (AK-135), a cargo ship of the United States Navy
Venus (yacht), built for Steve Jobs
MV Venus, several ships
SS Venus, several steamships
TSS Princess Maud (1934), named Venus while operating in the Mediterranean 1966—1969

Technology

Microsoft Venus, an aborted venture into the low-end personal computing market in China
LG Venus (VX8800), a Verizon mobile phone manufactured by LG Electronics
Venus Automobile, a 1950s American custom car, of which less than ten were built
Venus Engine, an image processing system used in Panasonic digital cameras
Walter Venus, an aircraft engine built in Czechoslovakia in the 1930s
Gillette Venus razor, see Gillette Mach3

Other uses

VENµS, a joint satellite mission between the Israeli Space Agency and the CNES
Venus (astrology), a set of qualities and influences
Venus București, a defunct Romanian football team
Venus (cat), a cat with unusual markings
Venus figurines, Paleolithic carvings
Venus (mural), a ten-story-high painting by New York artist Knox Martin
Venus (play), a 1996 play by Suzan-Lori Parks
Stadionul Venus, a multi-purpose stadium, former home ground of football team Venus Bucharest
The Venus Project, an organization that promotes and advocates American futurist Jacque Fresco's visions of the future
Venus Zine, a quarterly US magazine
Venus Award, a German adult film award

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