Vulcan

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Vulcan may refer to:

Mythology

• Vulcan (mythology), the god of fire, volcanoes, metalworking, and the forge in Roman mythology

Arts, entertainment, and media

• Vulcan statue, the world's largest cast-iron statue and the city symbol of Birmingham, Alabama
• Vulcan (EP), an EP by Snake River Conspiracy
• Vulcan, an album by Chris Wood
• Vulcan Raven, a character in the Metal Gear Solid video games
• Aegis Vulcan, a spaceship in the Star Citizen video game

Organisations

• Vulcan (Turku shipyard), a former shipyard in Turku, Finland
  • Crichton-Vulcan, an abandoned shipyard in Turku, Finland
• Stettiner Vulcan AG, a former shipyard in Hamburg, Germany
• Vulcan (motor vehicles), a car and commercial vehicle manufacturer based in Southport, England
• Vulcan Corporation, a materials manufacturing company in Clarksville, Tennessee, US
• Vulcan Foundry, a former British locomotive builder, and "Vulcan village" workers cottages
• Vulcan Iron Works, any of several mechanical engineering companies in the nineteenth century in England and the United States
• Vulcan Materials Company, a construction materials company headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama
• Vulcan Inc., an investment company formed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen
• Vulcan Software, a British computer game company
• Vulcan Capital Management, a private equity firm

Places

Science and technology

• Vulcan (hypothetical planet), a hypothetical planet between Mercury and the Sun
  • Vulcanoid asteroid, hypothetical population of asteroids that might orbit the Sun closely
• Vulcan (programming language), a programming language, now known as dBase
• Vulcan laser, a laser at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Chilton, Oxfordshire, England

Sports

• Vulcan changeup, a type of baseball pitch
• Auckland Vulcans, a rugby league team that plays in the NSW Cup
• Birmingham Vulcans, a 1975 World Football League team
• California Vulcans, the sports teams of California University of Pennsylvania
• The Vulcans, the University of Hawaii at Hilo's athletic teams

Vehicles

Weapons

• M167 Vulcan, a U.S. Army towed, short-range, antiaircraft Gatling gun
• M61 Vulcan, a 20mm six-barreled Gatling gun
• Vulcan M-11-9, a semiautomatic, closed-bolt pistol manufactured by Vulcan Armament
• M163 VADS or Vulcan Air Defense System a self-propelled, antiaircraft Gatling gun

Other uses

• Vulcan (surname), a surname
• Operation Vulcan, an Allied action in Tunisia during World War II
• The Vulcan, Cardiff, a historic public house, demolished in 2012
• The Vulcans, George W. Bush's foreign policy advisory team for the 2000 U.S. election
• Hawaiian vulcan palm, an alternative name for the Brighamia insignis or "cabbage on a stick"

See also

• Volcan (disambiguation)
• Volcano (disambiguation)
• Vulcan (comics), several meanings
• Vulcan Hotel (disambiguation)
• Vulcain (disambiguation)
• Vulcana (1875–1946), Welsh female bodybuilder
• Vulcanair, an Italian-based manufacturer of light twin-engined aircraft
• Vulcanization, a chemical process to improve the strength and durability of rubber
• Vulcanite, a rare copper telluride mineral
• Vulcano, a volcanic island in the Tyrrhenian Sea
• Vulkan (disambiguation)
• All pages beginning with Vulcan
• All pages with a title containing Vulcan