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 Lithuanian-French-Belgian science-fiction film directed by Kristina Buožytė and Bruno Samper
• Vésper [es], a pre-Revolution Mexican feminist weekly published by Juana Belén Gutiérrez de Mendoza and Elisa Acuña
• 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

See also

• Vespa
• Vespers (disambiguation)
• VSEPR theory in chemistry, often pronounced "Vesper"