Venus (disambiguation)

Venus is the second-closest planet to the Sun.

Venus may also refer to:

• Venus (mythology), the Roman goddess of love, in Greek mythology known as Aphrodite

People

• Venus Lacy (born 1967), American former Olympic and professional basketball player
• Venus Raj (born 1988), Miss Philippines Universe 2010 and 4th runner-up at Miss Universe 2010
• Venus Ramey (born 1924), Miss America in 1944
• Venus Terzo (born 1967), actress
• Venus Williams (born 1980), professional tennis player
• Brenda Venus, American actor and ballet dancer
• Mark Venus (born 1967), English football coach and former player
• Michael Venus, Canadian television personality
• Michael Venus (born 1987), New Zealand tennis player
• Venus, an alias for pornographic actress Angelica Costello

Places

• Venus, Florida, an unincorporated community in the United States
• Venus, Texas, a town in the United States
• Venus, West Virginia
• 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

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 (YFP) derivative

Arts and entertainment

Paintings and sculptures

• Venus (mural), ten-story-high painting by New York artist Knox Martin
• Venus de Milo, an ancient Greek statue
• Venus of Mierlo, prehistoric engraving
• Venus of Willendorf, prehistoric statuette
• Venus figurines, group of prehistoric objects

Films

• Venus (film), 2006 movie starring Peter O'Toole
• Black Venus (film), 2009 movie directed by Abdellatif Kechiche and starring Yahima Torres

Music

• Venus (band), a Belgian pop group
• Vênus, a Brazilian heavy metal group
• Vénus, a 2008 album by Sheryfa Luna
• Venus, the first full length album from Toledo, Ohio rock group We Are the Fury
• Venus, the Bringer of Peace, from Gustav Holst's The Planets
• "Venus" (Frankie Avalon song)
• "Venus" (Shocking Blue song), with a successful cover by Bananarama
• "Venus", a track on Television's 1977 album Marquee Moon
• "Dune", a song by Susumu Hirasawa, from the cancelled P-MODEL album MONSTER and the 1989 album Water in Time and Space
• "Venus", a track on Billy Idol's 1993 album Cyberpunk
• "Venus" (Low song)
• "Venus", a single by The Feelers from their first album Supersystem
• "Venus", a song by gothic metal band Theatre of Tragedy on their album Aégis
• "Venus" (Butthole Surfers song) is a song by the Butthole Surfers on their 2001 album, Weird Revolution
• "Venus", a 2004 song by Air on their album Talkie Walkie
• "Venus" (Tackey and Tsubasa song)
• "Venus", a track on Shinhwa's 2012 album The Return
• "Venus of the Hardsell", a song in the comic book series Hellblazer

Writings

• The Venus series, science fiction novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs
• Venus (novel), a science fiction novel by Ben Bova

Fictional characters

• Venus (Tannhäuser opera), leading role in Wagner's opera Tannhäuser
• Venus (Marvel Comics), two Marvel Comics characters
• Venus (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), the short-lived sister of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Venus Flytrap (WKRP in Cincinnati), on-air name of a disc jockey in the television comedy WKRP in Cincinnati
• Venus A, a female mecha from the Great Mazinger manga and anime series
• Venus Smith, an early associate of John Steed in The Avengers (TV series)
• Sailor Venus or Minako Aino, one of the Sailor Senshi from the anime/manga Sailor Moon
• Venus Bluegenes, in the British comic 2000 AD and in comic strips
• Kasuga, the female ninja in the Uesugi clan in Devil Kings whose Devil Kings' name is Venus
• Venus, a glamorous doctor of French origin on the television show Fireball XL5
• Venus, the female protagonist in the PSP video game Metal Gear Acid 2

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, various steamships
• USS Venus (AK-135), a Crater-class 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, completed after his death

Business

• Microsoft Venus, an aborted venture into the low-end personal computing market in China
• Venus Swimwear, online and catalog retailer of women's clothing and swimwear
• Venus Airlines, a defunct Greek airline
• Venus Pencils, a pencil brand
• 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

Other uses

• 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

See also

• venous, blood vessels
• Sarah Baartman (died 1815), freak show attraction called the "Hottentot Venus"
• All pages with titles containing "Venus"