Venus (disambiguation)

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Contents 1 People 2 Places 3 Science 4 Arts and entertainment 4.1 Paintings and sculptures 4.2 Films 4.3 Music 4.4 Writings 4.5 Fictional characters 5 Maritime 6 Technology 7 Other 8 See also

Venus principally refers to the second-closest planet to the Sun, Venus, and Venus (mythology), the Roman goddess of love, in Greek mythology known as Aphrodite. It may also refer to:

[edit] People

• Venus Williams, professional tennis player.
• Venus, an alias for Angelica Costello, a pornographic actress.
• Venus Terzo, an actress.
• The so-called Hottentot Venus, Saartjie Baartman.

[edit] Places

• Venus, Florida, a town in the United States.
• 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., Canada
• Venus Flytrap (Dionaea muscipula), a carnivorous plant
• a Yellow fluorescent protein, a yellow Green fluorescent protein derivative

[edit] Arts and entertainment

[edit] Paintings and sculptures

• Rokeby Venus, a painting by the Spanish artist Velázquez
• Venus (mural), 10-story-high painting by New York artist Knox Martin
• The Birth of Venus (Botticelli), a famous painting
• Venus de Milo, an ancient Greek statue
• Venus figurines, group of prehistoric objects
• Many artworks, not necessarily of the classical goddess, see the list in Venus (mythology)
• Venus of Mierlo, prehistoric engraving
• Venus of Willendorf, prehistoric statuette

[edit] Films

• Venus (film), 2006 movie starring Peter O'Toole

[edit] Music

• Venus (band), a Belgian pop group
• "Venus" (Frankie Avalon song)
• "Venus" (Low song)
• "Venus" (Shocking Blue song), notably covered by Bananarama
• "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
• Venus, the Bringer of Peace, from Gustav Holst's The Planets
• Venus is the first full length album from Toledo, Ohio rock group We Are The Fury
• Venus is a single by The Feelers off their first album Supersystem
• "Venus" (Butthole Surfers song) is a song by the Butthole Surfers on their 2001 album, "Weird Revolution".
• "Venus" (Koda Kumi Song)
• Vénus, a 2008 album by Sheryfa Luna

[edit] Writings

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

[edit] Fictional characters

• Venus (Marvel Comics), the Marvel Comics character, based on the goddess Venus
• 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 or Minako Aino, one of the Sailor Senshi from the anime/manga, Sailor Moon
• Venus, a nightclub singer from the game EarthBound
• Venus, the female ninja in the Uesugi clan in Devil Kings whose name is only Kasuga, and Venus is her Devil Kings name
• Venus Flytrap (WKRP in Cincinnati), the on-air name of a disc jockey in the television situation comedy WKRP in Cincinnati
• Venus, a glamorous doctor of French origin on Fireball XL5.

[edit] Maritime

• HMS Venus, the name of five ships of the Royal Navy (1758 - 1972).
• USS Venus, a Crater class cargo ship of the United States Navy.
• Vénus, a corvette of the French Navy, launched in 1794.
• Venus, Junon class frigate of the French Navy, launched in 1806.

[edit] Technology

• LG Venus (VX8800), a Verizon mobile phone manufactured by LG Electronics
• VENUS Engine, an image processing system used in Panasonic digital cameras

[edit] Other

• Venus symbol (♀) (disambiguation page)
• Venus Swimwear, online and catalog retailer of women's clothing and swimwear
• Venus Bucureşti, a defunct Romanian football team
• A street name of the drug 2C-B

[edit] See also

• venous, blood vessels

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