Vesper
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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, 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"