Vesper

Vesper means evening in Classical Latin. It may also refer to:

Places

 * Vesper, Kansas, an unincorporated community in the United States
 * Vesper, Oregon, an unincorporated community in the United States
 * Vesper, Wisconsin, a village in the United States
 * Vesper, an abandoned village southwest of Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Canada
 * Vesper Peak, a mountain in Washington State, United States

People

 * Heike Vesper (born 1970), German marine biologist
 * Iulian Vesper (1908–1986), Romanian writer
 * Rose Vesper, member of the Ohio House of Representatives (1993–2000)
 * Rudolf Vesper (born 1939), East German Olympic gold medalist in Greco-Roman wrestling
 * Will Vesper (1882–1962), German author and literary critic

Arts, entertainment, and media

 * Vesper (novel), a young-adult novel by Jeff Sampson
 * Vesper (film), a 2022 science-fiction movie by Kristina Buožytė and Bruno Samper
 * Vesper, an organization in the manga and anime series Mahoromatic
 * Vesper, a banshee with unusually magical singing abilities from animated television series Mysticons
 * Vesper Family, a family in the book series The 39 Clues
 * Vesper Holly, a character from a book series by Lloyd Alexander
 * Vesper Lynd, a character in the James Bond novel and film Casino Royale
 * Vesper, a village in the Ultima series of video games

Organizations

 * Vesper Boat Club, an amateur rowing club in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
 * Vesper Country Club, one of the first golf courses in the United States

Science

 * Vesper bat, the largest, best-known family of bats
 * Vesper mouse, a rodent genus
 * Vesper sparrow, a medium-sized bird
 * Vesper (plant), a genus of plants in the family Apiaceae
 * Vesper mission, a planned Venus chemistry and dynamics orbiter of the NASA Discovery Program

Other uses

 * Vesper (cocktail), an alcoholic beverage recipe popularized by Ian Fleming
 * The Roman equivalent of Hesperus, the Greek name given to the planet Venus at sunset
 * Hesperus, the personification of the evening star Vesper in Greek mythology
 * HMS Vesper (D55), a British destroyer in commission in the Royal Navy from 1918 to the 1920s and from 1939 to 1945