Vulcan may refer to:

Mythology

Vulcan (mythology) Vulcan (, in archaically retained spelling also ''Volcanus'', both pronounced ) is the god of fire including the fire of volcanoes, deserts, metalworking and the forge in ancient Roman religion and Roman mythology, myth. He is often depicted wi ...

, the god of fire, volcanoes, metalworking, and the forge in Roman mythology

Arts, entertainment and media

Film and television

* Vulcan (''Star Trek''), name of a fictional race and their home planet and language in the ''Star Trek'' franchise * Black Vulcan, a fictional African American superhero on the animated series ''Super Friends'' * Kamen Rider Vulcan, a character in the series ''Kamen Rider Zero-One'' * Vulcan, a fictional planet in the ''Doctor Who'' story ''

The Power of the Daleks ''The Power of the Daleks'' is the Doctor Who missing episodes, completely missing third serial of the Doctor Who (season 4), fourth season of British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', which was first broadcast in six weekly part ...

Print

* ''Vulcan'' (Fleetway), a 1975–1976 IPC Comic *

Vulcan (DC Comics) Vulcan is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by DC Comics. He is the second character to star in a book titled ''Son of Vulcan'', the first being Son of Vulcan, Johnny Mann, who was created by Charlton Comics in 1965 and l ...

, a fictional character *

Vulcan (Marvel Comics) Vulcan (Gabriel Summers) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He first appeared in '' X-Men: Deadly Genesis'' #1 (January 2006). He is the third Summers brother to be revealed, the younger broth ...

, a fictional supervillain * '' Vulcan!'', a 1978 ''Star Trek'' novel by Kathleen Sky * ''The Vulcan'', a magazine from various organizations within the

Young Fine Gael Young Fine Gael (YFG) is the autonomous youth wing of Fine Gael, one of Ireland’s major centre-right political parties. It offers its members scope to assist in formulation of political policy, and the day-to-day running of the senior party. ...

* ''Vulcan'', a gay pornography magazine, made famous in a High Court test case by serial killer

Dennis Nilsen Dennis Andrew Nilsen (23 November 1945 – 12 May 2018) was a Scottish serial killer and Necrophilia, necrophile who murdered at least twelve young men and boys between 1978 and 1983. Convicted at the Old Bailey of six counts of murder and two ...

* Vulcan, a fictional series of artificial intelligences (Vulcan 2 and 3) in ''

Vulcan's Hammer ''Vulcan's Hammer'' is a 1960 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. It was released originally as an Ace Double. This has been considered to be the final outing of Dick's 1950s style pulp science fiction writing, before his ...

'' * Vulcan (comics), several meanings

Other arts, entertainment and media

* ''Vulcan'' statue, the world's largest cast-iron statue and the city symbol of Birmingham, Alabama, US * ''Vulcan'' (EP), an EP by Snake River Conspiracy * ''Vulcan'', an album by Chris Wood *

Vulcan Raven The ''Metal Gear'' franchise, created by Hideo Kojima and featuring character and mecha designs by Yoji Shinkawa, features a large cast of characters, several of whom are soldiers with supernatural powers provided by scientific advancements. ...

, a character in the ''Metal Gear Solid'' video games * ''Aegis Vulcan'', a spaceship in the ''

Star Citizen ''Star Citizen'' is a multiplayer, space trading and combat simulation video game currently under development by Cloud Imperium Games for Windows. An extended retry of unrealized plans for ''Freelancer'' (2003), ''Star Citizen'' is led by dire ...

'' video game * "Vulcan Bomber", a song by Nebula from the 1998 EP '' Let It Burn''

Volcanoes

Vulcano Vulcano () or Vulcan is a small volcanic island belonging to Italy in the Tyrrhenian Sea, about north of Sicily and located at the southernmost end of the seven Aeolian Islands. The island is known for its volcanic activity and contains severa ...

or Vulcan, an active volcano island in Italy *

Vulcan (volcano) Vulcan is a pumice cone in Papua New Guinea. It is a sub-vent of the Rabaul caldera and lies on its western rim. Its most recent eruption was in 1994, when it and another vent, Tavurvur, forced the city of Rabaul to be temporarily abandoned a ...

, a volcano in Papua New Guinea *

Vulcan (inactive volcano) Vulcan, named after the Roman god of fire, is an inactive volcano on the West Mesa near Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is the largest of six volcanoes in the Albuquerque volcanic field within Petroglyph National Monument. Vulcan is a spatter cone ...

, a dormant volcano in Albuquerque, New Mexico, US

Places

Canada

Vulcan, Alberta Vulcan is a town in southern Alberta, Canada that is surrounded by Vulcan County. It is on Alberta Highway 23, Highway 23, midway between the cities of Calgary and Lethbridge. The population of the town was 1,769 in 2021. Now known as the "Offic ...

, a town in the province of Alberta **

Vulcan Airport Vulcan Airport is located immediately west of Vulcan, Alberta, Canada. The airport served until 2015 as the base for the Southern Alberta Gliding Center, a part of the Air Cadet Gliding Program. The centre has moved to the former site of RCAF ...

Vulcan County Vulcan County is a municipal district in Alberta, Canada. Located in Census Division No. 5, its municipal office is located in the Town of Vulcan. History Vulcan County was originally established in 1951. Geography Communities and loc ...

, a municipal district **

RCAF Station Vulcan RCAF Station Vulcan, also referred to as RCAF Aerodrome Vulcan, was a Second World War flying training station located southwest of the town of Vulcan, Alberta, Canada. It was one of many stations that were established in Canada under the Brit ...

, a former Commonwealth and RCAF training station

Romania

Vulcan, Brașov Vulcan (; ) is a commune in Brașov County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of two villages, Colonia 1 Mai (''Konkordiabányatelep'') and Vulcan. It also included Holbav village until 2004, when it was split off to form a separate commune ...

, a commune in Brașov County *

Vulcan, Hunedoara Vulcan (; formerly ''Jiu-Vaidei-Vulcan''; , ''Zsilyvajdejvulkán'' (''Zsily-Vajdej-Vulkán''); ) is a city in Hunedoara County, Transylvania, Romania. With a population of 19,772 as of 2021, it is the second-largest city in the Jiu Valley. It adm ...

, a city in Hunedoara County * Vulcan, a village in

Apold Apold () is a commune in Mureș County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of four villages: Apold, Daia (''Denndorf''; ''Dálya'' or ''Szászdálya''), Șaeș (''Schaas''; ''Segesd''), and Vulcan (''Wolkendorf''; ''Volkány''). The route of t ...

Commune, Mureș County * Vulcan, a village in

Ciuruleasa Ciuruleasa () is a commune located in Alba County, Transylvania, Romania. It has a population of 1,110 as of 2021, and is composed of nine villages: Bidigești, Bodrești, Boglești, Buninginea (''Buninzsina''), Ciuruleasa, Ghedulești, Mătișeș ...

Commune, Alba County * Blăjeni-Vulcan, a village in

Blăjeni Blăjeni () is a commune in Hunedoara County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of eight villages: Blăjeni, Blăjeni-Vulcan, Criș, Dragu-Brad, Groșuri, Plai, Reț, and Sălătruc. At the 2002 census, the commune had 1,530 inhabitants; 100% ...

Commune, Hunedoara County * Buceș-Vulcan, a village in

Buceș Buceș () is a commune in Hunedoara County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of seven villages: Buceș, Buceș-Vulcan, Dupăpiatră (''Dupapiátra''), Grohoțele, Mihăileni (''Miheleny''), Stănija (''Sztanizsa''), and Tarnița. At the 20 ...

Commune, Hunedoara County

United States

Vulcan, Colorado Vulcan is a ghost town in Gunnison County, Colorado, Gunnison County, Colorado, United States, approximately southwest of the Gunnison, Colorado, City of Gunnison. Vulcan was a mining camp established along Camp Creek in 1894 and was deserted ...

, a ghost town, where Vulcanite was discovered * Vulcan, Michigan * Vulcan, Missouri *

Vulcan, West Virginia Vulcan is an unincorporated community in Mingo County, West Virginia, United States. Vulcan is located along the Tug Fork across from the state of Kentucky. The community was named after Vulcan, the god of fire in Roman mythology. Vulcan recei ...

Extraterrestrial

* Vulcan Planitia, a plain on Pluto's moon Charon

Science and technology

Vulcan (hypothetical planet) Vulcan () was a proposed planet that some pre-20th century astronomers thought existed in an orbit between Mercury (planet), Mercury and the Sun. Speculation about, and even purported observations of, intermercurial bodies or planets date back t ...

, a hypothetical planet once thought to be between Mercury and the Sun *

Vulcanoid The vulcanoids are a hypothetical population of asteroids that orbit the Sun in a dynamically stable zone inside the orbit of the planet Mercury. They are named after the hypothetical planet Vulcan, which was proposed on the basis of irregulari ...

, a hypothetical population of asteroids between Mercury and the Sun *

Vulcan (programming language) dBase (also stylized dBASE) was one of the first database management systems for microcomputers and the most successful in its day. The dBase system included the core database engine, a query system, a Form (programming), forms engine, and a pr ...

, a database/programming language, now known as dBase * Vulcan laser, a laser at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, England *

Vulcan palm ''Brighamia insignis'', commonly known as ''ʻŌlulu'' or ''Alula'' in Hawaiian, or colloquially as the vulcan palm or cabbage on a stick, is a species of Hawaiian lobelioid in the bellflower family, Campanulaceae. It is native to the islands o ...

(''Brighamia insignis''), a plant

Military

Avro Vulcan The Avro Vulcan (later Hawker Siddeley Vulcan from July 1963) was a jet-powered, tailless, delta-wing, high-altitude, strategic bomber, which was operated by the Royal Air Force (RAF) from 1956 until 1984. Aircraft manufacturer A.V. Roe ...

, a British delta-winged strategic bomber * , various ships * USS ''Vulcan'', three ships *

M163 VADS The M163 Vulcan Air Defense System (VADS), officially Gun, Air Defense Artillery, Self-Propelled 20-mm, M163, is a self-propelled anti-aircraft gun (SPAAG) primarily used by the United States Army. The M163 provides mobile, short-range air defe ...

(Vulcan Air Defense System), a US self-propelled, antiaircraft Gatling gun *

M167 VADS The M167 Vulcan Air Defense System (VADS) is a towed, short-range United States Army anti-aircraft gun designed to protect forward area combat elements and rear area critical assets. It was also used to protect U.S. Air Force warplane airfields an ...

(Vulcan Air Defense System), a US Army towed, short-range, antiaircraft Gatling gun *

M61 Vulcan The M61 Vulcan is a Hydraulic machinery, hydraulically, electrically, or pneumatics, pneumatically driven, six-Gun barrel, barrel, air-cooled, electrically fired Gatling gun, Gatling-style rotary cannon which fires 20 mm caliber, rounds at an e ...

, a 20mm six-barreled Gatling gun *

Vulcan M-11-9 The Military Armament Corporation Model 10, officially abbreviated as "M10" or "M-10", and more commonly known as the MAC-10, is a compact, blowback operated machine pistol/submachine gun that was developed by Gordon Ingram in 1964. It is cham ...

, a semiautomatic, closed-bolt pistol manufactured by Vulcan Armament

Organisations

Vulcan (Turku shipyard) Aktiebolaget Vulcan was an engineering works and shipbuilding company that operated in Turku, Finland between 1898 and 1924. The company was founded by local businessmen, who bought the production facilities from previously ceased Åbo Mekaniska ...

, a former shipyard in Turku, Finland **

Crichton-Vulcan Crichton-Vulcan is an abandoned shipyard in Turku, Finland, that once formed the cornerstone of the Finnish shipbuilding industry. The shipyard is best known for the World War II coastal defence ships and submarines it produced. Shipbuildi ...

, an abandoned shipyard in Turku, Finland *

Stettiner Vulcan AG Aktien-Gesellschaft Vulcan Stettin (short AG Vulcan Stettin) was a German shipbuilding and locomotive building company. Founded in 1851, it was located near the former eastern German city of Stettin, today Polish Szczecin. Because of the limited ...

, a former shipyard in Hamburg, Germany *

Vulcan (motor vehicles) The Vulcan Motor and Engineering Company Limited, of Southport, England, made cars from 1902 until 1928 and commercial vehicles from 1914 until 1953. History 1902-1918 Brothers Thomas and Joseph Hampson had built an experimental car in Bolton ...

, a car and commercial vehicle manufacturer based in Southport, England *

Vulcan Foundry The Vulcan Foundry Limited was an English locomotive builder sited at Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire (now Merseyside). History The Vulcan Foundry opened in 1832, as Charles Tayleur and Company to produce girders for bridges, switches, crossi ...

, a former British locomotive builder, and "Vulcan village" workers cottages *

Vulcan Iron Works Vulcan Iron Works was the name of several Ironworks, iron foundries in both England and the United States during the Industrial Revolution and, in one case, lasting until the mid-20th century. Vulcan (mythology), Vulcan, the Roman god of fir ...

, several mechanical engineering companies in the nineteenth century in England and the US *

Vulcan Materials Company Vulcan Materials Company () is an American company based in Birmingham, Alabama. It is principally engaged in the production, distribution and sale of construction materials. Vulcan is the largest producer of construction materials, primarily gra ...

, a construction materials company headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, US * Vulcan Inc., an investment company formed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen *

Vulcan Software Vulcan Software was an independent computer games company founded in 1994 in the UK. Vulcan started creating software for the Amiga Amiga is a family of personal computers produced by Commodore International, Commodore from 1985 until the ...

, a British computer game company *

Vulcan Capital Management Vulcan Capital Management, Inc was founded in May 1997 by Ford Graham and Kevin Davis (and is a different and unrelated entity to Vulcan Capital or Vulcan Inc., two companies founded by Paul Allen.). It is a private equity firm focusing on invest ...

, a US private equity firm *

Vulcan (Polish software company) Vulcan sp. z o.o. is a Polish software company founded in 1988. Its main activities include digital transformation of education. It is one of the most popular electronic grade book operators. History It was founded in 1988 by Feliks Sapiński ...

, a Polish educational software company

Sports

Vulcan changeup In baseball, the vulcan changeup pitch (otherwise known as a vulcan or trekkie) is a type of changeup; it closely resembles a forkball and split-finger fastball. It is a variation of the circle changeup, and when mastered can be extremely effectiv ...

, a type of baseball pitch *

Auckland Vulcans The Auckland Vulcans were an Auckland based rugby league club that participated in the New South Wales Cup. They were administered by the Rugby League Development Foundation. The team was selected from the Auckland Rugby League's Fox Memorial C ...

, a rugby league team that plays in the NSW Cup *

Birmingham Vulcans The Birmingham Vulcans were a professional American football team located in Birmingham, Alabama. They were members of the five-team Eastern Division of the World Football League (WFL). The Vulcans, founded in March 1975, played in the upstart le ...

, a 1975 World Football League team *

California Vulcans The California Vulcans are the intercollegiate sports teams and players that represent Pennsylvania Western University California (PennWest California; known before July 2022 as California University of Pennsylvania), located in California, Pen ...

, the sports teams of California University of Pennsylvania * The Vulcans, the athletic teams of the

University of Hawaii at Hilo A university () is an institution of tertiary education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase , which roughly means "community of teachers and scholars". Univ ...

Vehicles

Cars and motorcycles

Aston Martin Vulcan The Aston Martin Vulcan is a two-door, two-seat, high-performance lightweight track-only car launched in 2015 by British luxury automobile manufacturer Aston Martin at the 2015 Geneva Motor Show. The Vulcan was designed by Aston Martin's cre ...

, a 2015 sports car only for the racetrack *

Ford Vulcan engine The Ford Vulcan is a 3.0 L V6 engine designed and built by the Ford Motor Company. It debuted in 1986 in the newly launched Ford Taurus. Ford went on to install the Vulcan V6 in a variety of car, van, and pickup truck models until the 2008 mo ...

, an automobile engine *

Kawasaki Vulcan The Vulcan name has been used by Kawasaki motorcycles, Kawasaki for their Custom motorcycle, custom or touring bike since 1984, model designation VN, using mostly V-twin engines ranging from . Model history 1984–2006: Vulcan 750 series In 1 ...

, a series of cruiser-type motorcycles

Trains

NZR RM class (Vulcan) The NZR RM class Vulcan railcars were operated by the New Zealand Railways Department, New Zealand Government Railways (NZR) in the South Island of New Zealand. All New Zealand railcars are classified as RM (Rail Motor), and this class derived th ...

, a former type of railroad car found in preservation in New Zealand * ''Vulcan'' (1874-1892), a

South Devon Railway Buffalo class The ten Buffalo class locomotives were broad gauge locomotives operated on the South Devon Railway, Cornwall Railway and West Cornwall Railway. They were designed for goods trains but were also used on passenger trains when required. These loc ...

steam locomotives * ''Vulcan'' (1951-1967), a BR 'Britannia' Class locomotive * ''Vulcan'', a

British Rail Class 47 The British Rail Class 47 or Brush Type 4 is a class of diesel-electric locomotive that was developed in the 1960s by Brush Traction. A total of 512 Class 47s were built at Brush's Falcon Works in Loughborough and at British Railways' Crewe Wo ...

diesel locomotive no: D1676 (later 47090, 47623, 47843), used since April 1965

Other vehicles

Vickers Vulcan The Vickers Vulcan was a British single-engine biplane airliner of the 1920s built by Vickers Limited at Brooklands, Brooklands Aerodrome, Surrey. It carried eight passengers and a pilot. Development The Vickers Vulcan was designed by Regin ...

, a biplane airliner of the 1920s *

Vulcan Centaur Vulcan Centaur is a heavy-lift launch vehicle developed and operated by United Launch Alliance (ULA). It is a two-stage-to-orbit launch vehicle consisting of the Vulcan first stage and the Centaur second stage. Replacing ULA's Atlas V and Del ...

, a rocket launch system developed by United Launch Alliance * ''Vulcan'' (barge) (1819), the world's first all iron-hulled boat

Other uses

* Vulcan (surname), a surname *

Operation Vulcan Operation Vulcan (22 April – 6 May 1943) and Operation Strike (6–12 May 1943) were the final ground attacks by the Allied forces against the Italian and German forces in Tunis, Cape Bon, and Bizerte, the last Axis bridgeheads in North Af ...

, an Allied action in Tunisia during World War II * The Vulcan, Cardiff, a former historic public house in Wales *

Vulcan Hotel (Saint Bathans) St Bathans, formerly named Dunstan Creek, is a former gold and coal mining town in Central Otago, New Zealand. The settlement was a centre of the Otago gold rush, but mining has since long ceased. It is now largely a holiday retreat due to the p ...

, Saint Bathans, New Zealand * The Vulcans, George W. Bush's foreign policy advisory team for the 2000 U.S. election * Vulcan Nuclear Reactor Testing Establishment, in

Dounreay Dounreay (; ) is a small settlement and the site of two large nuclear establishments on the north coast of Caithness Caithness (; ; ) is a Shires of Scotland, historic county, registration county and Lieutenancy areas of Scotland, lieutena ...

, Scotland