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Vega can mean several things:
[edit] Astronomy and aerospace
[edit] Companies
- Vega Aircraft Corporation, a subsidiary of Lockheed
- VEGA Group PLC, a consulting, technology and managed solutions company
- WEGA (pronounced "vega"), a German audio/video manufacturer that was purchased by Sony, who now releases products under the WEGA brand
[edit] Finance
[edit] Places
- Vega, Norway, a municipality in Norway
- Vega, Haninge, Sweden, a town district in the municipality of Haninge in Sweden
- Vega, Texas, a small town, home of CMT's Popularity Contest
- Vega, Bulgaria, a small town with many people
- Vega Baja and Vega Alta, two municipalities in Puerto Rico.
- Las Vegas, Nevada
- Las Vegas, New Mexico
[edit] People
- Amelia Vega (1984-), Miss Universe 2003 from the Dominican Republic
- Ed Vega, U.S. Puerto Rican novelist
- Garcilaso de la Vega (1501-1536), Spanish soldier and writer
- Janine Pommy Vega (born 1942), American poet
- Jesse Vega, Porn Star
- Jurij Bartolomej Vega (1754-1802), Slovene mathematician, physicist and artillery officer
- Félix Lope de Vega Carpio (1562–1635), Spanish playwright
- Lydia de Vega, Filipino athlete
- Mayra Vega Award winning rock music critic and shower singing enthusiast
- Oscar Vega (born 1965), Spanish boxer
- Rómulo Díaz de la Vega, Mexican president
- Suzanne Vega, American singer
[edit] Entertainment
- Al Vega (1948-), the singer for the post punk/no wave band Suicide
- Isidra Vega (1979-), a Hispanic actress in the USA
- Paz Vega (1976-), a Spanish actress
- Suzanne Vega (1959-), an American songwriter and singer
- Vega (band), a Turkish alternative rock band
- Vega (singer), a Spanish singer.
- Antonio Vega (1990-), aspiring hip-hop artist (USA)
- Alexa Vega, (1988-), an American actress.
- Makenzie Vega, (1994-), an American actress.
- Krizia Vega, (1990-), an American actress.
- Fiel a la Vega, Puerto Rican rock band.
- John "Vega" Crouch a metal drummer & a computer personality.
- Tetra Vega a sprite comic author.
- (V.E.G.A.), Italian black metal band
[edit] Fiction
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- Vega (planet), a fictional planet in Isaac Asimov's Foundation universe
[edit] Fictional characters
- Zorro or don Diego de la Vega, a fictional masked hero and swordsman
- Vega (Street Fighter), a video game character from the Street Fighter series
- M. Bison or Vega, as known in Japan
- Vega (cat-person), the main character in the popular teen fantasy book series, "Gargoyle High" and several spin-off§
- Vincent Vega, a main character in the film Pulp Fiction
- Vic Vega, aka Mr. Blonde, a main character in the film Reservoir Dogs
- Vega Obscura, a character from Zoids: New Century Zero and the pilot of the Berserk Fury.
- King Vega, the villain in Ufo Robot Grendizer.
- Vega, a character from Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun, part of the Brotherhood of Nod.
- Vega, a character from the Nickelodeon cartoon series My Life As a Teenage Robot
[edit] Military
- Vega, Russian counter-terrorism unit.
[edit] Automotive
- Chevrolet Vega, an American automobile model from the 1970s
- The Lambretta Vega was a motorscooter designed by Bertone sold as "Luna" in Italy it was marketed under this name in the UK.
- Facel Vega, a French builder of luxury cars in the late 1950s
- Vega (ship), the ship used by Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld on his expedition through the Northeast passage
- VEGA computer algebra system, meant for manipulating discrete mathematics in Mathematica
- Vega Machines, electrodiagnostic devices commonly used in alternative medicine
- Vega Science Trust [1] An educational trust which streams freeview science programmes.
- Vega (radio network), two radio networks in Australia, broadcasting into Sydney and Melbourne
- Radio Vega, a radio channel of the Finnish broadcasting company YLE sending in Swedish
- Vega Selina and Vega VEF [2], brands of radio receivers exported from the Soviet Union during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s
- Volunteers for Economic Growth Alliance (VEGA), a US-based international economic development group
- Vega (finance), the sensitivity of an option's price to volatility
- Percival Vega Gull, an aircraft
- Vega, a Spanish surname.
- Vega, the food supplement, a vegan meal replacement powder
- Vega, Vertebrate and Genome Annotation Project, a bioinformatics database
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