# Vanguard (disambiguation)

The vanguard is the leading part of an advancing military formation.
Vanguard may also refer to:

## Military
### China

* Chengdu J-10 "Vanguard", a 4.5-generation Chinese fighter plane
* QW-1 Vanguard, an advanced Chinese surface-to-air missile

### United Kingdom

* Vanguard-class ship of the line, a class of warship deployed during the 19th century by the Royal Navy
* Vanguard-class submarine, the Royal Navy's current nuclear ballistic missile submarines
* HMS Vanguard, several British Royal Navy ships

### United States

* Vultee P-66 Vanguard, an American fighter plane built from 1939 to 1943
* Vanguard, nickname of the army 297th Military Intelligence Battalion
* Vanguard, nickname of navy helicopter squadron HM-14
* Vanguards, nickname of the air force 76th Fighter Squadron
* Vanguards, an early nickname of the defunct Navy squadron VX-4

### Other countries

* Operation Vanguard, Ghana
* Vanguards, nickname of No. 110 Helicopter Unit, IAF, India
* Vanguard-class multirole warship, a proposed Norwegian class
* Vanguard, nickname of the 1st Brigade of the 2nd Marine Division (South Korea)
* 52nd Marine Vanguard Regiment of the Tunisian Navy
* Quân Tiên Phong, (Vanguard) nickname of the 308th Infantry Division, Vietnam

## Businesses and brands

* Vanguard Airlines, a defunct American airline that operated from 1994 to 2002
* Vanguard Automotive Group, an American car rental company
* Vanguard Cellular, an American cellular phone company that was acquired by AT&T in 1999
* Vanguard Dutch Marine, a Netherlands-based yacht manufacturing company
* Vanguard Healthcare, a British medical company
* Vanguard Health Systems, an American operator of hospitals and other medical facilities
* Vanguard Industries, an American manufacturer of military badges
* Vanguard International Semiconductor Corporation, an IC foundry in Taiwan founded in 1994
* Vanguard Managed Solutions, an American company (2001–2007) of which part is now Vanguard Networks
* Vanguard Sailboats, an American builder of racing and recreational sailboats
* The Vanguard Group, an American investment management company founded in 1975
* China Resources Vanguard, one of the largest supermarket chain companies in Hong Kong
* Vanguard, a 1970s American running shoe made by Brooks Sports
* Vanguard, a former American cigarette made by Brown & Williamson
* Vanguard, a 1960s Eversharp fountain pen made in England
* Vanguard, a line of Swiss watches made by Franck Muller
* Vanguard, a former cigarette made by John Player & Sons
* Vanguard, a line of Swiss watches made by Roamer
* Vanguard, a mid-twentieth century American lighter made by Ronson
* Vanguard, a line of American pocket watches made by the Waltham Watch Company
* Vanguard, a 1960s Italian-made Waterman fountain pen
* Vanguard, an American line of sporting rifles made by Weatherby
* Vanguard Knife, a hunting knife made by the American company Buck Knives
* Vanguard 888, a mid-twentieth century American radio made by Emerson

## Education
### Canada

* Vanguard College, a private Christian college in Edmonton, Alberta
* Vanguard School (Quebec), a private high school in Montreal, Quebec

### New Zealand

* Vanguard Military School, a charter school in Auckland

### United States

* Vanguard College Preparatory School, a private high school in Waco, Texas
* Vanguard High School, a public high school in Ocala, Florida
* Vanguard School (Illinois), a public high school in Arlington Heights, Illinois
* Vanguard University of Southern California, a private Christian university in Costa Mesa, California
* The Vanguard School (Colorado), a public K-12 charter school in Colorado Springs, Colorado
* Vanguard School (Florida), a private boarding high school in Lake Wales, Florida
* The Vanguard School (Pennsylvania), a private school in Malvern, Pennsylvania
* Vanguard School of Coconut Grove, a private day school in Coconut Grove, Florida
* Carnegie Vanguard High School, a public magnet high school in Houston, Texas

## Arts, entertainment and media
### Film and television

* Vanguard Animation, an American production studio
* Vanguard Films, a defunct American film production company
* Vanguard Films, a defunct Philippine film production company
* Vanguard (film), a 2020 Chinese action film
* News Vanguard, an Indian TV channel
* Vanguard (TV series), a journalistic reporting series on Current TV

### Music

* Vanguard (synthesizer), a software synthesizer developed by reFX
* Vanguard Records, an independent record label founded in 1950
* The Vanguards, a 1960s Norwegian rock band
* Santa Clara Vanguard Drum and Bugle Corps, A World Class corps and six time DCI world champion based in Santa Clara, California
* Vanguard -of the muses-, an album by Japanese band Exist Trace
* "Vanguard", a single by Violet Chachki from her 2015 EP Gagged

### Publications

* Vanguard (journal), published by the anarchist Vanguard Group
* Vanguard (Nigeria) (Daily Vanguard), a daily newspaper based in Lagos, Nigeria
* Vanguard, a defunct Canadian magazine
* Vanguard Press, a publishing label now owned by Random House
* Portland State Vanguard (formerly Daily Vanguard), the student newspaper at Portland State University
* Vanguard, student newspaper of the University of South Alabama in Mobile, Alabama
* The Vanguard, the student weekly of Bentley University, Waltham, Massachusetts
* The Vanguard (Bentley University), a student newspaper at Bentley University
* The Vanguard (Buckingham Browne & Nichols), a student newspaper at Buckingham Browne & Nichols
* Vanguard, official press organ of hardline, a radical deep ecology movement
* The Vanguard (1922–28), a publication of the émigré Communist Party of India, founded and edited by Manabendra Nath Roy
* The Vanguard (January–March 1853), a short-lived socialist paper published by George Julian Harney
* The Vanguard (1996–2001), a Vancouver, Washington alternative newspaper, some former staff of which would found The Vancouver Voice

### Comics and anime

* Vanguard (Image Comics), a superhero from Megaton Comics and Image Comics
* Vanguard (Marvel Comics), a name shared by a mutant Russian character as well as a fictional team of characters
* Vanguard, a high-tech humanoid robot in the anime Vandread
* Cardfight!! Vanguard an anime series, based on the trading card game

### Games and toys

* Vanguard (video game), a 1981 shooter game, with the 1984 sequel Vanguard II
* Vanguard: Saga of Heroes, a 2007 MMORPG created by Sigil Games Online and Sony Online Entertainment
* Medal of Honor: Vanguard, a first-person shooter game created by Electronic Arts for PlayStation 2 and Wii
* Cardfight!! Vanguard a trading card game
* Vanguard, an organization in the computer game The Longest Journey
* Vanguard, a faction in the video game, Destiny
* Vanguard, the droid partner of the Transformers toy Sideswipe
* Vanguard, a variant of the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering
* Vanguard, the main battle tank used by the New Conglomerate in PlanetSide and PlanetSide 2
* Vanguard, a character class in the video game, Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2, and Mass Effect 3
* Vanguard, a UN-funded military organisation in the City of Heroes universe
* Vanguard, a group of characters in the video game Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World
* Vanguard, a demon (opponent) in the game, Demon's Souls
* Vanguard, a character class in the video game, Chivalry: Medieval Warfare
* Vanguard, the highest rank in Spiral Knights
* Vanguards, a line of die-cast model cars made by Lledo, now owned by British company Corgi
* Call of Duty: Vanguard, a 2021 installment of the Call of Duty franchise
* Vanguard, an in-development first-person shooter game developed by CCP Games
* UC Vanguard, a faction in the video game Starfield.

### Other arts, entertainment and media

* Vanguard Radio Network, a Philippine radio network
* Star Trek: Vanguard, a series of novels about a space station called Vanguard
* The Vanguard, a painting which was the basis of the design of Western Cattle in Storm, an American stamp
* The Vanguard (comic), a boys' story paper published in the 1920s by D. C. Thomson & Co.

## Organizations

* Vanguard (organization), a defunct American LGBT rights organization
* Vanguard Public Foundation, a defunct American social justice foundation
* U.P. Vanguard, alumni association of the University of the Philippines ROTC

## Politics

* Vanguard, a former name of the Russian Unity party of Ukraine
* Vanguard Group (anarchist), an American anarchist group in the 1930s
* Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party, a unionist political party in Northern Ireland during the 1970s
* Vanguard Organization, a secret unit of the Arab Socialist Union (Egypt) during the presidency of Gamal Abdel Nasser and Anwar Sadat

## Sports

* LGU Vanguards, a defunct Philippine basketball team in the UNTV Cup league
* Nueva Ecija Rice Vanguards, a Philippine professional basketball team
* Vanguard (American racehorse)
* Vanguard (steeplechaser), winner of the 1835 Grand National
* Vanguard Volley Hitters, a Philippine volleyball team of the Spikers' Turf volleyball league

## Science and technology

* Project Vanguard, an American satellite launch project begun in 1957
** Vanguard (rocket), a launch vehicle used in Project Vanguard
** Vanguard TV3, the first satellite launch attempt in 1957
** Vanguard 1, an artificial satellite launched in 1958
** Vanguard 2, an artificial satellite launched in 1959
** Vanguard 3, an artificial satellite launched in 1959
* Vanguard (microkernel), a discontinued experimental microkernel developed at Apple Computer

## Transportation
### Aviation

* Vickers Vanguard, a British short/medium-range turboprop airliner (first flown 1959)
* Vickers Type 170 Vanguard, a 1920s British airliner
* Briggs & Stratton Vanguard Big Block V-Twin, a series of piston engines, adapted to propel ultralights

### Automobiles

* Standard Vanguard, a car produced by the British Standard Motor Company from 1947 to 1963
* Toyota Vanguard, a Japanese compact crossover sport utility vehicle

### Ships and boats

* BOKA Vanguard, the largest heavy lift ship ever built
* ST Vanguard, a 250 GRT tugboat formerly the Empire ship named Empire Pine
* USNS Mission San Fernando (T-AO-122), renamed USNS Vanguard in 1965 for role as tracking vessel
* Vanguard 15, one-design racing dinghy made by Vanguard Sailboats

## Other uses

* Vanguard, Saskatchewan, Canada, a village
* Ulmus 'Morton Plainsman', an elm cultivar sold under the trade name Vanguard