Vulcan

Vulcan may refer to:

Mythology

 * Vulcan (mythology), the god of fire, volcanoes, metalworking, and the forge in Roman mythology

Film and television

 * Vulcan (Star Trek), name of a fictional race and their home planet and language in the Star Trek franchise
 * Black Vulcan, a fictional African American superhero on the animated series Super Friends
 * Kamen Rider Vulcan, a character in the series Kamen Rider Zero-One
 * Vulcan, a fictional planet in the Doctor Who season The Power of the Daleks

Print

 * Vulcan (Fleetway), a 1975–1976 IPC Comic
 * Vulcan (DC Comics), a fictional character
 * Vulcan (Marvel Comics), a fictional supervillain
 * Vulcan!, a 1978 Star Trek novel by Kathleen Sky
 * The Vulcan, a magazine from various organizations within the Young Fine Gael
 * Vulcan, a gay pornography magazine, made famous in a High Court test case by serial killer Dennis Nilsen
 * Vulcan, a fictional series of artificial intelligences (Vulcan 2 and 3) in Vulcan's Hammer
 * Vulcan (comics), several meanings

Other arts, entertainment and media

 * Vulcan statue, the world's largest cast-iron statue and the city symbol of Birmingham, Alabama, US
 * Vulcan (EP), an EP by Snake River Conspiracy
 * Vulcan, an album by Chris Wood
 * Vulcan Raven, a character in the Metal Gear Solid video games
 * Aegis Vulcan, a spaceship in the Star Citizen video game
 * "Vulcan Bomber", a song by Nebula from the 1998 EP Let It Burn

Volcanoes

 * Vulcano or Vulcan, an active volcano island in Italy
 * Vulcan (volcano), a volcano in Papua New Guinea
 * Vulcan (inactive volcano), a dormant volcano in Albuquerque, New Mexico, US

Canada

 * Vulcan, Alberta, a town in the province of Alberta
 * Vulcan Airport
 * Vulcan County, a municipal district
 * RCAF Station Vulcan, a former Commonwealth and RCAF training station

Romania

 * Vulcan, Brașov, a commune in Brașov County
 * Vulcan, Hunedoara, a city in Hunedoara County
 * Vulcan, a village in Apold Commune, Mureș County
 * Vulcan, a village in Ciuruleasa Commune, Alba County
 * Blăjeni-Vulcan, a village in Blăjeni Commune, Hunedoara County
 * Buceș-Vulcan, a village in Buceș Commune, Hunedoara County

United States

 * Vulcan, Colorado, a ghost town, where Vulcanite was discovered
 * Vulcan, Michigan
 * Vulcan, Missouri
 * Vulcan, West Virginia

Extraterrestrial

 * Vulcan Planitia, a plain on Pluto's moon Charon

Science and technology

 * Vulcan (hypothetical planet), a hypothetical planet once thought to be between Mercury and the Sun
 * Vulcanoid, a hypothetical population of asteroids between Mercury and the Sun
 * Vulcan (programming language), a database/programming language, now known as dBase
 * Vulcan laser, a laser at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, England
 * Vulcan palm (Brighamia insignis), a plant

Military

 * Avro Vulcan, a British delta-winged strategic bomber
 * HMS Vulcan, various ships
 * USS Vulcan, three ships
 * M163 VADS (Vulcan Air Defense System), a US self-propelled, antiaircraft Gatling gun
 * M167 VADS (Vulcan Air Defense System), a US Army towed, short-range, antiaircraft Gatling gun
 * M61 Vulcan, a 20mm six-barreled Gatling gun
 * Vulcan M-11-9, a semiautomatic, closed-bolt pistol manufactured by Vulcan Armament

Organisations

 * Vulcan (Turku shipyard), a former shipyard in Turku, Finland
 * Crichton-Vulcan, an abandoned shipyard in Turku, Finland
 * Stettiner Vulcan AG, a former shipyard in Hamburg, Germany
 * Vulcan (motor vehicles), a car and commercial vehicle manufacturer based in Southport, England
 * Vulcan Foundry, a former British locomotive builder, and "Vulcan village" workers cottages
 * Vulcan Iron Works, several mechanical engineering companies in the nineteenth century in England and the US
 * Vulcan Materials Company, a construction materials company headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, US
 * Vulcan Inc., an investment company formed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen
 * Vulcan Software, a British computer game company
 * Vulcan Capital Management, a US private equity firm

Sports

 * Vulcan changeup, a type of baseball pitch
 * Auckland Vulcans, a rugby league team that plays in the NSW Cup
 * Birmingham Vulcans, a 1975 World Football League team
 * California Vulcans, the sports teams of California University of Pennsylvania
 * The Vulcans, the athletic teams of the University of Hawaii at Hilo

Cars and motorcycles

 * Aston Martin Vulcan, a 2015 sports car only for the racetrack
 * Ford Vulcan engine, an automobile engine
 * Kawasaki Vulcan, a series of cruiser-type motorcycles

Trains

 * NZR RM class (Vulcan), a former type of railroad car found in preservation in New Zealand
 * Vulcan (1874-1892), a South Devon Railway Buffalo class steam locomotives
 * Vulcan (1951-1967), a BR 'Britannia' Class locomotive
 * Vulcan, a British Rail Class 47 diesel locomotive no: D1676 (later 47090, 47623, 47843), used since April 1965

Other vehicles

 * Vickers Vulcan, a biplane airliner of the 1920s
 * Vulcan Centaur, a rocket launch system developed by the United Launch Alliance
 * Vulcan (barge) (1819), the world's first all iron-hulled boat

Other uses

 * Vulcan (surname), a surname
 * Operation Vulcan, an Allied action in Tunisia during World War II
 * The Vulcan, Cardiff, a former historic public house in Wales
 * Vulcan Hotel (Saint Bathans), Saint Bathans, New Zealand
 * The Vulcans, George W. Bush's foreign policy advisory team for the 2000 U.S. election
 * Vulcan Nuclear Reactor Testing Establishment, in Dounreay, Scotland