Venus (disambiguation)

Venus is the second planet from the sun.

Venus or VENUS may also refer to:

• Venus (mythology), the Roman goddess of love

Places

United States

• Venus, Florida, an unincorporated community
• Venus, Nebraska, 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

People

• Venus (given name)
• Venus (surname)

Science

• Venus (genus), 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

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

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 de Milo, a character from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise

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

Groups

• Venus (Belgian band), a Belgian pop group
• Vênus, a Brazilian heavy metal group

Albums

• Vénus, a 2008 album by Sheryfa Luna
• Venus, a 2015 album by Joy Williams
• Venus, the first full-length album from American rock group We Are the Fury

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 Shinwa 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

Businesses

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

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

Other uses

• Venus (astrology), a set of qualities and influences
• VENµS, a joint satellite mission between the Israeli Space Agency and the CNES
• Venus București, a defunct Romanian football team
  • Stadionul Venus, a multi-purpose stadium, former home ground of the football team
• The Venus Project, an organization that promotes and advocates American futurist Jacque Fresco's visions of the future
• Venus Zine, a quarterly magazine
• Venus (mural), ten-story-high painting by New York artist Knox Martin

See also

• Venous, blood vessels
• All pages with titles containing Venus