title: Wasp (disambiguation)
text: # Wasp (disambiguation)
  
  A wasp is a type of flying insect.
  
  Wasp may also refer to:
  
  ## Art, entertainment, and media
  
  ### Fictional entities
  
  * 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
  
  ### 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
  
  ### 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
  
  ### 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
  
  ### Ships
  
  * 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
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * White Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPs), an upper class elite in the United States
  * Wasp, Pleasants County, West Virginia, a community in the United States
  * Workers and Socialist Party, a South African political party
  