Wasp (disambiguation)

A wasp is a type of flying insect.

Wasp may also refer to:

Fictional entities

 * Several Marvel characters, including:
 * Wasp (character), introduced in 1963
 * Hope van Dyne, the Marvel Cinematic Universe character
 * Nadia van Dyne, who was introduced in 2016
 * Lisbeth Salander, a character in the Millennium series nicknamed Wasp
 * Waspinator or Wasp, several Transformers characters
 * World Aquanaut Security Patrol, an organization in the television series Stingray

Films

 * Wasp (2003 film), a film by Andrea Arnold
 * Wasp (2015 film), a British-French film
 * The Wasp (1915 film), a short by B. Reeves Eason
 * The Wasp (1918 film), a lost silent film comedy drama

Literature

 * Wasp (novel), a novel by Eric Frank Russell
 * The Wasps, a comic play by Aristophanes

Music

 * W.A.S.P. (band), an American rock/metal band
 * W.A.S.P. (album), their 1984 self-titled album
 * "Wasp", a song by Black Sabbath from the album Black Sabbath
 * Wasp (album), a 1980 album by Shaun Cassidy
 * "W.A.S.P.", a song from the Dayglo Abortions album, Two Dogs Fucking
 * The Wasps (Vaughan Williams), a 1909 suite for orchestra composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
 * "The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)", a song by The Doors from the album L.A. Woman
 * EDP Wasp, a monophonic synthesizer by Electronic Dream Plant
 * WASP, a library music ensemble founded by Steve Gray

Periodicals

 * The Wasp (magazine), a 19th-century San Francisco magazine
 * The Wasp (newspaper), a 19th-century newspaper published in Nauvoo, Illinois

Radio

 * WASP-LP, a low-power radio station (104.5 FM) licensed to serve Huntington, West Virginia, United States
 * WASP (AM), a defunct radio station (1130 AM) formerly licensed to serve Brownsville, Pennsylvania, United States

Information technology

 * Web Standards Project
 * WAsP, Wind Atlas Analysis and Application Program
 * Wireless application service provider

Weapons

 * AGM-124 Wasp, an American experimental air-to-ground anti-tank missile
 * Wasp 58, a recoilless rocket launcher

Other uses in science and technology

 * Wiskott–Aldrich syndrome protein
 * Wide Angle Search for Planets (WASP), a British group searching for extra-solar planets

Sport

 * Wasps FC, an amateur English rugby union club
 * Wasps Ladies, an English women's rugby union club
 * Wasps RFC, a professional English rugby union club based in the Coventry area (known from 1999 to 2014 as London Wasps)
 * York Wasps, former English rugby league club
 * Chalfont Wasps F.C., English football club
 * Durham Wasps, former British ice–hockey team
 * Newport Wasps, British speedway team
 * Emory and Henry Wasps, NCAA Division III intercollegiate sport team
 * WASP (cricket calculation tool), an algorithm used in limited overs cricket matches to predict the outcome of games

Aviation

 * ABC Wasp, a British World War I aero engine by ABC Motors
 * AeroVironment Wasp III, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) developed for United States Air Force special forces
 * Airspeed Queen Wasp, British unmanned target-aircraft
 * Curtiss 18 Wasp, a little-used American triplane fighter of World War I
 * Pratt & Whitney Wasp series, a series of piston engines common in the 1930s and 1940s
 * Westland Wasp, a British-built light shipborne helicopter
 * Women Airforce Service Pilots, World War II American female aviators
 * Williams Aerial Systems Platform, from Williams International
 * Wasp Flight Systems, a British powered hang glider manufacturer
 * Wasp SP Mk2, a British powered hang glider design

Land

 * Hudson Wasp, 1950s, American automobile
 * Martin Wasp, 1910s and 20s, American automobile
 * Wasp Motorcycles, British motorcycle and sidecar manufacturer
 * Wasp, a variant of the Universal Carrier armored vehicle that was armed with a flamethrower

Ships

 * HMS Wasp, several ships of the Royal Navy
 * USS Wasp, several ships of the United States Navy
 * Wasp-class amphibious assault ship, ships of the United States Navy
 * Wasp (1809 ship), a ship that made a whaling voyage in the 1820s
 * Wasp (1776 ship), British slaving vessel

Other uses

 * White Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPs), an upper class elite in the United States
 * Wasp, Pleasants County, West Virginia, a community in the United States
 * Workers and Socialist Party, a South African political party