Venus (disambiguation)

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Contents 1 TV, arts & entertainment 2 Music 3 Fictional characters 4 People and groups of people 5 Places 6 Science 7 Also see

Venus may refer to:

• Venus (planet), the second-closest planet to the Sun
• Venus (mythology), the Roman goddess of love, in Greek mythology known as Aphrodite
• Venus symbol (♀), disambiguation page

[edit] TV, arts & entertainment

• The Rokeby Venus, a painting by the Spanish artist Velázquez
• Venus (film), 2006 movie starring Peter O'Toole
• Venus (mural), 10-story-high painting by New York artist Knox Martin
• The Venus series of science fiction novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs
• Venus, a novel in the series Grand Tour by Ben Bova
• many artworks, not necessarily of the classical goddess, referred to as "the X Venus", or "the Venus of X", see this list

[edit] Music

• Venus (band), a Belgian pop group
• "Venus" (Shocking Blue song)
• "Venus" (Frankie Avalon song)
• "Venus" (Ruslana song)
• "Venus" (Tackey and Tsubasa song)
• "Venus", a 2004 song by Air on their album Talkie Walkie
• Venus, a track on Television's 1977 album Marquee Moon

[edit] Fictional characters

• Venus (comics), the Marvel Comics character, based on the above
• Venus (comic), a Wonder Woman pastiche from Big Bang Comics
• Venus (TMNT), the short-lived sister of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Venus A, a female mecha from the Great Mazinger manga and anime series
• Sailor Venus, alias of Minako Aino in Sailor Moon
• Venus, the female ninja in the Uesugi clan in Devil Kings whose name is only Kasuga, and Venus is her Devil Kings name.

[edit] People and groups of people

• Venus Bucureşti, a Romanian football team.
• Venus Williams, female tennis champion
• Venus, an alias for Angelica Costello, a pornographic actress
• the so-called Hottentot Venus, Saartjie Baartman

[edit] Places

• Venus, Texas, a town in the United States
• Venus, Romania, a resort in Romania

[edit] 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.
• Venus Flytrap (Dionaea muscipula), a carnivorous plant

[edit] Also see

• venous, blood vessels