# Vulcan

Vulcan may refer to:

## Mythology

* Vulcan (mythology), 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 season The Power of the Daleks

### Print

* Vulcan (Fleetway), a 1975–1976 IPC Comic
* Vulcan (DC Comics), a fictional character
* Vulcan (Marvel Comics), a fictional supervillain
* Vulcan!, a 1978 Star Trek novel by Kathleen Sky
* The Vulcan, a magazine from various organizations within the Young Fine Gael
* Vulcan, a gay pornography magazine, made famous in a High Court test case by serial killer Dennis Nilsen
* Vulcan, a fictional series of artificial intelligences (Vulcan 2 and 3) in Vulcan's Hammer
* 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 Star Citizen video game
* "Vulcan Bomber", a song by Nebula from the 1998 EP Let It Burn

## Volcanoes

* Vulcano or Vulcan, an active volcano island in Italy
* Vulcan (volcano), a volcano in Papua New Guinea
* Vulcan (inactive volcano), a dormant volcano in Albuquerque, New Mexico, US

## Places
### Canada

* Vulcan, Alberta, a town in the province of Alberta
** Vulcan Airport
** Vulcan County, a municipal district
** RCAF Station Vulcan, a former Commonwealth and RCAF training station

### Romania

* Vulcan, Brașov, a commune in Brașov County
* Vulcan, Hunedoara, a city in Hunedoara County
* Vulcan, a village in Apold Commune, Mureș County
* Vulcan, a village in Ciuruleasa Commune, Alba County
* Blăjeni-Vulcan, a village in Blăjeni Commune, Hunedoara County
* Buceș-Vulcan, a village in Buceș Commune, Hunedoara County

### United States

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

### Extraterrestrial

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

## Science and technology

* Vulcan (hypothetical planet), a hypothetical planet once thought to be between Mercury and the Sun
* Vulcanoid, a hypothetical population of asteroids between Mercury and the Sun
* Vulcan (programming language), a database/programming language, now known as dBase
* Vulcan laser, a laser at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, England
* Vulcan palm (Brighamia insignis), a plant

## Military

* Avro Vulcan, a British delta-winged strategic bomber
* HMS Vulcan, various ships
* USS Vulcan, three ships
* M163 VADS (Vulcan Air Defense System), a US self-propelled, antiaircraft Gatling gun
* M167 VADS (Vulcan Air Defense System), a US Army towed, short-range, antiaircraft Gatling gun
* M61 Vulcan, a 20mm six-barreled Gatling gun
* Vulcan M-11-9, a semiautomatic, closed-bolt pistol manufactured by Vulcan Armament

## Organisations

* Vulcan (Turku shipyard), a former shipyard in Turku, Finland
** Crichton-Vulcan, an abandoned shipyard in Turku, Finland
* Stettiner Vulcan AG, a former shipyard in Hamburg, Germany
* Vulcan (motor vehicles), a car and commercial vehicle manufacturer based in Southport, England
* Vulcan Foundry, a former British locomotive builder, and "Vulcan village" workers cottages
* Vulcan Iron Works, several mechanical engineering companies in the nineteenth century in England and the US
* Vulcan Materials Company, a construction materials company headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, US
* Vulcan Inc., an investment company formed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen
* Vulcan Software, a British computer game company
* Vulcan Capital Management, a US private equity firm
* Vulcan (Polish software company), a Polish educational software company

## Sports

* Vulcan changeup, a type of baseball pitch
* Auckland Vulcans, a rugby league team that plays in the NSW Cup
* Birmingham Vulcans, a 1975 World Football League team
* California Vulcans, the sports teams of California University of Pennsylvania
* The Vulcans, the athletic teams of the University of Hawaii at Hilo

## Vehicles
### Cars and motorcycles

* Aston Martin Vulcan, a 2015 sports car only for the racetrack
* Ford Vulcan engine, an automobile engine
* Kawasaki Vulcan, 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 steam locomotives
* Vulcan (1951-1967), a BR 'Britannia' Class locomotive
* Vulcan, a British Rail Class 47 diesel locomotive no: D1676 (later 47090, 47623, 47843), used since April 1965

### Other vehicles

* Vickers Vulcan, a biplane airliner of the 1920s
* Vulcan Centaur, 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, an Allied action in Tunisia during World War II
* The Vulcan, Cardiff, a former historic public house in Wales
* Vulcan Hotel (Saint Bathans), 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