Venus (disambiguation)

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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 Airlines, a defunct Greek airline
• Venus Centre, a dubbing company located in Damascus, Syria
• Venus Swimwear, online and catalog retailer of women's clothing and swimwear
• Venus Pencils, a pencil brand

Fictional characters

• Venus Flytrap (WKRP in Cincinnati), on-air name of a disc jockey in the television comedy WKRP in Cincinnati
• Sailor Venus or Minako Aino, one of the Sailor Senshi from the anime/manga Sailor Moon
• Lieutenant Colonel Venus Rosemaria, a minor character from the video game Fullmetal Alchemist 3: Kami o Tsugu Shōjo
• Venus Van Dam, a fictional transvestite prostitute in the American TV series Sons of Anarchy
• 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

Film

• Venus (1929 film), a silent French film
• Venus (film), a 2006 movie starring Peter O'Toole

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

People

• Venus (given name)
• Venus (surname)

Places

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 de Milo, an ancient Greek statue
• Venus figurines, Paleolithic carvings
• Venus (mural), a ten-story-high painting by New York artist Knox Martin
• 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
• Venus (play), a 1996 play by Suzan-Lori Parks

See also

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• Venous, blood vessels
• All pages beginning with Venus
• All pages with a title containing Venus