A wasp is a type of flying insect.
Wasp may also refer to:
Art, entertainment, and media Fictional entities In Marvel Comics and Marvel Entertainment Several Marvel Comics characters have donned the Wasp mantle including: Wasp (character), introduced in 1963 Nadia van Dyne, introduced in 2016 as the Unstoppable Wasp Two Marvel Cinematic Universe characters have donned the mantle: Hope van Dyne Janet van Dyne (Marvel Cinematic Universe), Hope's mother Wasp suit (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
Others 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 The Wasp (2024 film), a British thriller film
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
Science and technology
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
Transportation 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 ICNG (Wasp), 2020s, Passenger rail vehicle built for NS & SNCB
Ships , several ships of the Royal Navy , several ships of the United States Navy , 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 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
See also Wasp waist, a silhouette given by a style of corset WWASP, World Wide Association of Specialty Programs