Vega (disambiguation)
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Vega is a Spanish language word meaning fertile plain.
It is also the surname of several people:
- Amelia Vega is Miss Universe 2003 from Dominican Republic (born approx. 1983)
- don Diego de la Vega is a fictional "real name" of masked hero and swordsman known as Zorro
- Félix Lope de Vega Carpio was a Spanish playwright (1562–1635)
- Garcilaso de la Vega was a Spanish soldier and writer (1501-1536)
- Isidra Vega is a hispanic actress in the USA (born 1979)
- Janine Pommy Vega is an American poet (born 1942)
- baron Jurij Bartolomej Vega was a Slovene mathematician, physicist and artillery officer (1754-1802)
- Rómulo Díaz de la Vega was a Mexican president
- Suzanne Vega is an American songwriter and singer (born 1959)
In addition to this, Vega can mean several things:
- Vega is the brightest star in the constellation Lyra
- The Chevrolet Vega was an American automobile model from the 1970s.
- Vega Machines are Electrodiagnostic devices commonly used in alternative medicine.
- Facel Vega was French builder of luxury cars (around late 1950s)
- Vega Alta and Vega Baja are municipalities in Puerto Rico
- VEGA computer algebra system is meant for manipulating discrete mathematics in Mathematica
- Vega, Norway is a municipality in Norway
- Vega, Haninge, Sweden is a town in the municipality of Haninge in Sweden
- Vega, Texas is a small town, home of CMT's Popularity Contest
- Las Vegas, a city in Nevada, USA
- Vega program was a Venus space mission
- Vega (launcher) is a planned European Space Agency launch system
- Vega is a video game character from Street Fighter
- In Japan, M. Bison is called "Vega".
- One of the Greeks in mathematical finance.
For similar words, see also
- the Vegan diet