Vesper
Vesper means evening in Classical Latin. It may also refer to:
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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, 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
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), a martini-style alcoholic beverage recipe created by Ian Fleming
- Vesper, the Roman equivalent of the Greek demigod (later deified) Hesperus
- HMS Vesper (D55), a British destroyer in commission in the Royal Navy from 1918 to the 1920s and from 1939 to 1945
- Vesper, name given to planet Venus at sunset
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