Wasp (disambiguation)

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A wasp is a type of flying insect.

Wasp may also refer to:

• 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

• 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
• The Wasp (2024 film), a British thriller film

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

• 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

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

• 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

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

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

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

• 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

• 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

• 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
• ICNG (Wasp), 2020s, Passenger rail vehicle built for NS & SNCB

• 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

• Wasp, Pleasants County, West Virginia, a community in the United States
• Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP), Sweden’s largest individual research program
• White Anglo-Saxon Protestants, a sociological group in the United States
• Workers and Socialist Party, a South African political party

• Wasp waist, a silhouette given by a style of corset
• WWASP, World Wide Association of Specialty Programs