Vulcan may refer to:

Mythology

Vulcan (mythology) Vulcan ( la, Vulcanus, 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 myth. He is often depicted w ...

, 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 Black Vulcan is an African-American superhero on the animated series '' Super Friends'' created by Hanna-Barbera, voiced by Buster Jones. Fictional character biography Black Vulcan debuted on the Super Friends show (''The All-New Super Friends H ...

, 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'' season ''

The Power of the Daleks ''The Power of the Daleks'' is the completely missing third serial of the fourth season of British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', and which was first broadcast in six weekly parts from 5 November to 10 December 1966. It is ...

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 Johnny Mann, who was created by Charlton Comics in 1965 and later purchased ...

, a fictional character * Vulcan (Marvel Comics), a fictional supervillain * ''

Vulcan! ''Vulcan!'' (1978) is a ''Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek'' tie-in novel by Kathleen Sky. The book is an adaptation of an unproduced spec script by Sky. Production Kathleen Sky submitted a spec script to the producers Star Trek: The ...

'', 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 necrophile who murdered at least twelve young men and boys between 1978 and 1983 in London. Convicted at the Old Bailey of six counts of murder and two of ...

* 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 b ...

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

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'' video game

Volcanoes

Vulcano Vulcano ( scn, Vurcanu) 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 ...

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 Rabaul () is a township ...

, a volcano in Papua New Guinea *

Vulcan (inactive volcano) Vulcan, named after the Roman god of fire, is an Volcano#Volcanic activity, 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. ...

, a dormant volcano in Albuquerque, New Mexico, US

Places

Canada

* Vulcan, Alberta, a town **

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 S ...

Vulcan County Vulcan County is a List of municipal districts in Alberta, municipal district in Alberta, Canada. Located in Division No. 5, Alberta, Census Division No. 5, its List of municipal districts in Alberta#Office locations, municipal office is locate ...

, 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 Briti ...

, a former Commonwealth and RCAF training station

Romania

Vulcan, Brașov Vulcan (german: Wolkendorf; hu, Szászvolkány) is a commune in Brașov County, Transylvania, Romania, 16 km west of the county capital Brașov. It is composed of two villages, Colonia 1 Mai (''Konkordiabányatelep'') and Vulcan. It also i ...

, a commune in Brașov County *

Vulcan, Hunedoara Vulcan (; formerly ''Jiu-Vaidei-Vulcan''; hu, Vulkán, ''Zsilyvajdejvulkán'' (''Zsily-Vajdej-Vulkán''); german: Wolkendorf, Wulkan) is a city in Hunedoara County, Transylvania, Romania. With a population of 24,160, it is the second-largest ci ...

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

Apold Apold (german: Trapold) is a Commune in Romania, commune in Mureș County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of four villages: Apold, Daia (''Denndorf''; ''Dálya'' or ''Szászdálya''), Șaeș (''Schaas''; ''Segesd''), and Vulcan (''Wolkendor ...

Commune, Mureș County * Vulcan, a village in

Ciuruleasa Ciuruleasa (german: Arileis; hu, Csurulyásza) is a commune located in Alba County, Transylvania, Romania. It has a population of 1,368, and is composed of nine villages: Bidigești, Bodrești, Boglești, Buninginea (''Buninzsina''), Ciuruleasa, ...

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

Blăjeni Blăjeni ( hu, Blezseny) 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, 100% of inhabitants were et ...

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

Buceș Buceș ( hu, Bucsesd) is a commune in Hunedoara County, Transylvania, Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to th ...

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 w ...

, a ghost town, where Vulcanite was discovered *

Vulcan, Michigan Norway Township is a civil township of Dickinson County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,489 at the 2010 census, down from 1,639 at the 2000 census. Communities *Vulcan is an unincorporated community in Norway Township on ...

* 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 rece ...

Elsewhere

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

Science and technology

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

, 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 irregularit ...

, 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 includes the core database engine, a query system, a forms engine, and a programming language ...

, a programming language, now known as dBase *

Vulcan laser The Vulcan laser is an infrared, 8-beam, petawatt neodymium glass laser at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory's Central Laser Facility in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom. It was the facility's first operational laser. It is designed to deliver irrad ...

, a laser at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, England * Vulcan palm (''Brighamia insignis''), a plant

Military

Avro Vulcan The Avro Vulcan (later Hawker Siddeley Vulcan from July 1963) is 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 an ...

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

M163 VADS The M163 Vulcan Air Defense System (VADS) is a self-propelled anti-aircraft gun (SPAAG) that was used by the United States Army. The M168 gun is a variant of the General Dynamics M61 Vulcan rotary cannon, the standard cannon in most U.S. comba ...

(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 a ...

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

M61 Vulcan The M61 Vulcan is a hydraulically, electrically, or pneumatically driven, six- barrel, air-cooled, electrically fired Gatling-style rotary cannon which fires rounds at an extremely high rate (typically 6,000 rounds per minute). The M61 and i ...

, 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 B. Ingram in 1964. It is ...

, 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. Shipbuildin ...

, 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 limite ...

, 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 Bolto ...

, 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, crossin ...

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

Vulcan Iron Works Vulcan Iron Works was the name of several iron foundries in both England and the United States during the Industrial Revolution and, in one case, lasting until the mid-20th century. Vulcan, the Roman god of fire and smithery, was a popular n ...

, 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. Vulcan LLC is a privately held company founded by the Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and his sister Jody Allen in 1986 to establish and oversee the family's diverse business activities and philanthropic endeavors. It includes Vulcan Real Estate ...

, 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 computer systems. Its first commercial game was ''Valhalla and the Lord of Infinity'', which was notable for bein ...

, a British computer game company *

Vulcan Capital Management Vulcan Capital Management, Inc (which is a different and unrelated entity to Vulcan Capital or Vulcan Inc., two companies founded by Paul Allen.) is a private equity firm focusing on investments in distressed restructurings, acquisitions, growth ...

, a US private equity firm

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 effective ...

, 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 lea ...

, 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, Pe ...

, 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 higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, th ...

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 crea ...

, 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 for their custom or touring bike since 1984, model designation VN, using mostly V-twin engines ranging from . Model history 1984–2006: Vulcan 750 series In 1985 Kawasaki launched, worldwide, the Vu ...

, a series of cruiser-type motorcycles

Trains

* NZR RM class (Vulcan), 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 Aerodrome, Surrey. It carried eight passengers and a pilot. Development The Vickers Vulcan was designed by Rex Pierson of Vi ...

, a biplane airliner of the 1920s * Vulcan (rocket), a rocket launch system under development by the United Launch Alliance * ''Vulcan'' (barge) (1819), the world's first all iron-hulled boat

Other uses

* Vulcan (surname), a surname * Operation Vulcan, 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 pre ...

, 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, Scotland