Vanguard (disambiguation)

The vanguard is the leading part of an advancing military formation.

Vanguard may also refer to:

Businesses and brands

• Vanguard Airlines, a defunct U.S. airline that operated from 1994 to 2002
• Vanguard Automotive Group, an U.S. car rental company
• Vanguard Dutch Marine, a Netherlands-based yacht manufacturing company
• Vanguard Health Systems, a U.S. operator of hospitals and other medical facilities
• Vanguard Industries, a U.S. manufacturer of military badges
• Vanguard Records, a U.S. record label founded in 1950
• Vanguard Sailboats, a U.S. builder of racing and recreational sailboats
• The Vanguard Group, a U.S. investment management company founded in 1975
• China Resources Vanguard, one of the largest supermarket chain companies in Hong Kong
• Vanguard, a 1970s American running shoe made by Brooks Sports
• Vanguard, a former American cigarette made by Brown & Williamson
• Vanguard, a line of Swiss watches made by Franck Muller
• Vanguard, a former cigarette made by John Player & Sons
• Vanguard, a line of Swiss watches made by Roamer
• Vanguard, a mid-twentieth century American lighter made by Ronson
• Vanguard, a 1960s Italian-made Waterman fountain pen
• Vanguard, an American line of sporting rifles made by Weatherby
• Vanguard Knife, a hunting knife made by the American company Buck Knives
• Vanguard Soap, an American soap production company which dates from the 1940s
• Vanguard 888, a mid-twentieth century American radio made by Emerson

Information and communications technology

• Vanguard Animation, a computer animation movie studio
• Vanguard Cellular, a U.S. cellular phone company that was acquired by AT&T in 1999
• Vanguard International Semiconductor Corporation, an IC foundry in Taiwan founded in 1994
• Vanguard Managed Solutions, U.S. company (2001–2007) of which part is now Vanguard Networks
• Vanguard (microkernel), a discontinued experimental microkernel developed at Apple Computer

Education

Canada

• Vanguard College, a private Christian college in Edmonton, Alberta
• Vanguard School (Quebec), a private high school in Montreal, Quebec

New Zealand

• Vanguard Military School, a charter school in Auckland

United States

• Vanguard College Preparatory School, a private high school in Waco, Texas
• Vanguard High School, a public high school in Ocala, Florida
• Vanguard School (Illinois), a public high school in Arlington Heights, Illinois
• Vanguard University of Southern California, a private Christian university in Costa Mesa, California
• The Vanguard School (Colorado), a public K-12 charter school in Colorado Springs, Colorado
• Vanguard School (Florida), a private boarding high school in Lake Wales, Florida
• The Vanguard School (Pennsylvania), a private school in Malvern, Pennsylvania
• Vanguard School of Coconut Grove, a private day school in Coconut Grove, Florida
• Carnegie Vanguard High School, a public magnet high school in Houston, Texas

Media and entertainment

Film and television

• Vanguard Films, a defunct American film production company
• Vanguard (film), a 2020 Chinese action film
• News Vanguard, an Indian TV channel
• Vanguard (TV series), a journalistic reporting series on Current TV

Music

• Vanguard (synthesizer), a software synthesizer developed by reFX
• Vanguard Records, an independent record label founded in 1950
• The Vanguards, a 1960s Norwegian rock band
• Village Vanguard, a jazz club in New York City, founded in 1935
• MTV Video Music Award – Video Vanguard, an award started in 1984 and given intermittently to musicians, music video directors and filmmakers
• Santa Clara Vanguard Drum and Bugle Corps, A World Class corps and six time DCI world champion based in Santa Clara, California
• Vanguard -of the muses-, an album by Japanese band Exist Trace
• "Vanguard", a single by Violet Chachki from her 2015 EP Gagged

Publishing

• Vanguard (journal), published by the anarchist Vanguard Group
• Vanguard (Nigeria), a daily newspaper based in Lagos, Nigeria
• Vanguard, a defunct Canadian magazine
• Vanguard Press, a publishing label now owned by Random House
• Daily Vanguard, the student newspaper at Portland State University
• Star Trek: Vanguard, a series of novels about a space station called Vanguard
• Vanguard, student newspaper of the University of South Alabama in Mobile, Alabama
• Vanguard, official press organ of hardline, a radical deep ecology movement
• The Vanguard (1922–28), a publication of the émigré Communist Party of India, founded and edited by Manabendra Nath Roy
• The Vanguard (January–March 1853), a short-lived socialist paper published by George Julian Harney
• The Vanguard, student weekly of Bentley University, Waltham, Massachusetts
• Workers Vanguard, a newspaper published by the U.S. wing of the International Communist League
• Osprey Publishing has the series of books called Air Vanguard and New Vanguard
• La Vanguardia, ("The Vanguard") a Spanish newspaper founded in 1881
• La Vanguardia, ("The Vanguard") an Argentinian newspaper founded in 1894

Radio

• Vanguard Radio Network

Comics and anime

• The Vanguard (comic), a boys' story paper published in the 1920s by D. C. Thomson & Co.
• Vanguard (Image Comics), an alien superhero in Megaton and Savage Dragon
• Vanguard (Marvel Comics), a name shared by a mutant Russian character as well as a fictional team of characters
• Vanguard, a high-tech humanoid robot in the anime Vandread
• Cardfight!! Vanguard an anime series, based on the trading card game

Games and toys

• Vanguard (video game), a 1981 shooter game with 1984 sequel, Vanguard II
• Vanguard Bandits, a 2000 Japanese tactical role-playing game for PlayStation
• Vanguard: Saga of Heroes, a 2007 MMORPG created by Sigil Games Online and Sony Online Entertainment
• Medal of Honor: Vanguard, a first person shooter game created by Electronic Arts for PlayStation 2 and Wii
• Cardfight!! Vanguard a trading card game
• Vanguard, an organization in the computer game, The Longest Journey
• Vanguard, a faction in the video game, Destiny
• Vanguard, the droid partner of the Transformers toy, Sideswipe
• Vanguard, a variant of the collectible card game, Magic: The Gathering
• Vanguard, the main battle tank used by the New Conglomerate in PlanetSide and PlanetSide 2
• Vanguard, a character class in the video game, Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2, and Mass Effect 3
• Vanguard, a UN-funded military organisation in the City of Heroes universe
• Vanguard, a group of characters in the video game, Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World
• Vanguard, a demon (opponent) in the game, Demon's Souls
• Vanguard, a character class in the video game, Chivalry: Medieval Warfare
• Crystal Defenders: Vanguard Storm, a game that uses elements from Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift
• Vanguard Princess, a fighting game for Windows
• Vanguard is the highest rank in Spiral Knights
• Vanguards, a line of die-cast model cars made by the British company Corgi Classics

Military

• Ghana
  • Operation Vanguard
• India
  • Vanguards, nickname of No. 110 Helicopter Unit
• Norway
  • Vanguard-class multirole warship
• Philippines
  • U.P. Vanguard, alumni association of the University of the Philippines ROTC
• United States
  • Vanguard, nickname of the army 297th Military Intelligence Battalion
  • Vanguard, nickname of navy helicopter squadron HM-14
  • Vanguard for Support, motto of the army 7th Support Command, and 9th Finance Battalion
  • Vanguard of the Pacific, motto of the army 368th Military Intelligence Battalion
  • Vanguard of Victory, motto of the army 91st Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 541st Reconnaissance Battalion, the navy cruiser USS Normandy
  • Vanguard of Vigilance, motto of the army 205th Military Intelligence Brigade
  • Vanguards, nickname of the air force 76th Fighter Squadron, and early nickname of the defunct navy squadron VX-4
  • Vanguards of Justice, motto of the Army Corrections Command
  • Viking Vanguard, motto of the 94th Armored Regiment Minnesota Army National Guard
  • Viking Vanguard, motto of the 94th Cavalry Regiment
• Vietnam
  • Quân Tiên Phong, (Vanguard) nickname of the 308th Infantry Division

Non-profits

• Vanguard (organization), an American LGBT rights organization
• Vanguard Public Foundation, an American social justice foundation

Places

• Vanguard, California, a community in the San Joaquin Valley, United States
• Vanguard, Saskatchewan, Canada

Politics

• Vanguardism, a strategy whereby an organization attempts to place itself at the center of a revolutionary movement
• Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party, a unionist political party in Northern Ireland during the 1970s
• National Vanguard (American organization)
• Vanguard Group (anarchist), an American anarchist group in the 1930s
• Vanguard, a former name of the Russian Unity party of Ukraine

Sports

• Vanguard (steeplechaser), winner of the 1835 Grand National
• Vanguard (American racehorse)
• Avangard Omsk, a Russian ice hockey team

School nicknames and mascots

• Faith Academy (Philippines)

Vehicles

Aerospace

• Chengdu J-10 "Vanguard", a 4.5-generation Chinese fighter plane
• Project Vanguard, a U.S. satellite launch project begun in 1957
  • Vanguard (rocket), launch vehicle used in Project Vanguard
  • Vanguard TV3, first satellite launch attempt in 1957
  • Vanguard 1, artificial satellite launched in 1958
  • Vanguard 2, artificial satellite launched in 1959
  • Vanguard 3, artificial satellite launched in 1959
• QW-1 Vanguard, an advanced Chinese surface-to-air missile
• Vickers Vanguard, a British short/medium-range turboprop airliner (first flown 1959)
• Vickers Type 170 Vanguard, a 1920s British airliner
• Vultee P-66 Vanguard, U.S. fighter plane built from 1939 to 1943

Automobiles

• Standard Vanguard, a car produced by the British Standard Motor Company from 1947 to 1963
• Toyota Vanguard, a Japanese compact crossover sport utility vehicle

Engines

• Briggs & Stratton Vanguard Big Block V-Twin

Locomotives

• The "Vanguard" class of locomotives built by Thomas Hill (Rotherham) Ltd

Ships and boats

• Dockwise Vanguard, the largest heavy lift ship ever built
• HMS Vanguard, any of several British Royal Navy ships
• Ocean Vanguard, a British freighter sunk in 1942 by the German submarine German submarine U-515
• South African Vanguard, a former Safmarine cargo ship
• ST Vanguard, a 250 GRT tugboat formerly the Empire ship named Empire Pine
• USNS Mission San Fernando (T-AO-122), renamed USNS Vanguard in 1965 for role as tracking vessel
• Vanguard-class multirole warship, a proposed Norwegian naval vessel
• Vanguard-class ship of the line, a class of warship deployed during the 19th century by the Royal Navy
• Vanguard-class submarine, the Royal Navy's current nuclear ballistic missile submarines
• Vanguard 15, one-design racing dinghy made by Vanguard Sailboats

See also

• Avant-garde
• Daniel Vangarde, French songwriter and producer
• The Vanguard (disambiguation)
• Vanguard Award (disambiguation)