Venus (disambiguation)
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Venus is the second planet from the sun.
Venus or VENUS may also refer to:
- Venus (deity), the Roman goddess of love
Places
United States
- Venus, Florida, an unincorporated community
- Venus, Nebraska, unincorporated community
- Venus, Texas, a town
- Venus, West Virginia
Other places
- Venus, Romania, a resort
- Venus Bay, South Australia, a town and a bay
- Venus Bay, Victoria, Australia
- Venus Bay, New Zealand
- Venus Glacier, Alexander Island, Antarctica
- Point Venus, Tahiti
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
Arts and entertainment
- Venus series, a series of science fiction novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Venus (novel), a science fiction novel by Ben Bova
- Venus (1929 film), a silent French film
- Venus (film), 2006 movie starring Peter O'Toole
- Venus (mural), ten-story-high painting by New York artist Knox Martin
Music
- Venus (Belgian band), a Belgian pop group
- Vênus, a Brazilian heavy metal group
- "Venus, the Bringer of Peace", from Gustav Holst's The Planets
- Venus, the first full-length album from American rock group We Are the Fury
- Vénus, a 2008 album by Sheryfa Luna
Songs
- "Venus" (Frankie Avalon song)
- "Venus" (Lady Gaga song)
- "Venus" (Shocking Blue song), later recorded by Bananarama
- "Venus" (Tackey and Tsubasa song)
- "Venus", a track on Television's 1977 album Marquee Moon
- "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 The Feelers from Supersystem
- "Venus", a single by Low
- "Venus", a song by Shinwa from The Return
- "Venus", a song by Theatre of Tragedy from the album Aégis
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
Ships
- HMS Venus, five ships of the Royal Navy
- Venus-class frigate, three Royal Navy sailing frigates
- French ship Vénus, sixteen French Navy ships
- SS Venus, several steamships
- USS Venus (AK-135), a cargo ship of the United States Navy
- Swedish frigate Venus (1783), a frigate of the Swedish navy
- MV Venus, several ships
- Venus (yacht), built for Steve Jobs
Business
- Microsoft Venus, an aborted venture into the low-end personal computing market in China
- Venus Airlines, a defunct Greek airline
- Venus Pencils, a pencil brand
- Venus Swimwear, online and catalog retailer of women's clothing and swimwear
- LG Venus (VX8800), a Verizon mobile phone manufactured by LG Electronics
- VENUS Engine, an image processing system used in Panasonic digital cameras
- Walter Venus, an aircraft engine built in Czechoslovakia in the 1930s
- Venus Automobile, a 1950s American custom car, of which less than ten were built
- Gillette Venus razor, see Gillette Mach3
People
- Venus (given name)
- Venus (surname)
- Venus, an alias for pornographic actress Angelica Costello
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
- Venus Center
- The Venus Project, an organization that promotes and advocates American futurist Jacque Fresco's visions of the future
- Venus Zine, a quarterly magazine
See also
- Black Venus (film), 2009 movie directed by Abdellatif Kechiche and starring Yahima Torres
- venous, blood vessels
- Saartjie Baartman (died 1815), freak show attraction called the "Hottentot Venus"
- Venus Throw, the highest roll in the Ancient Roman gambling game of 'tali' or knucklebones
- All pages with titles containing "Venus"