Vulcan

**Vulcan** could mean:

## Mythology
*Vulcan (mythology), the blacksmith god of fire and volcanoes in Roman mythology
**Hephaestus, the Greek god of smiths identified with Vulcan.

## Fiction 
* Vulcan (Star Trek), a race in the fictional *Star Trek* universe
** Vulcan (Star Trek planet), home of the Vulcans
** *Vulcan!*, a 1978 Star Trek novel by Kathleen Sky
* Vulcan (DC Comics), a character from DC Comics
* Vulcan (comic), Ipc Comic produced in England from 1975-1976
* Vulcan (Marvel Comics), a character in the Marvel Comics universe
* Black Vulcan, a fictional African American superhero on the animated series *Super Friends*
* Vulcan, a fictional planet featured in the *Doctor Who* serial *The Power of the Daleks*
* Vulcan Raven, a character in Metal Gear Solid

## Places 
* Vulcan, Alberta, Canada
** Vulcan Airport
* Vulcan, Romania, in Hunedoara County in the Jiu Valley
* Vulcan, Braşov, also in Romania in Braşov County
* Vulcan, Michigan, United States
* Vulcan, Missouri, United States
* Vulcan (volcano), a volcano in Papua New Guinea
* Vulcano, a small volcanic island  in the Tyrrhenian Sea

## Companies 
* Vulcanair, an Italian based manufacturer of light twin-engined aircraft that took over Partenavia
* Vulcan (cars), a Southport, England based car manufacturer
* Vulcan Corporation, a materials manufacturing company in Clarksville, Tennessee
* Vulcan Foundry, a former British locomotive builder
* Vulcan Iron Works, a former United States locomotive builder
* Vulcan Materials Company, a construction materials company headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama
* Vulcan Inc., an investment company formed by Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen
* Stettiner Vulcan AG, a former shipyard in Hamburg, Germany
* Vulcan (shipyard) (1857–1944), the shipyard in Szczecin, Poland
* Vulcan Media, an educational software company from Poland
* Vulcan Software, a British computer game company
* Vulcan Stoves, a maker of commercial ranges, ovens, steam equipment, fryers griddles and broilers

## Vehicles 
* Avro Vulcan, British delta-wing subsonic bomber aircraft
* Vickers Vulcan, a single engined biplane of the 1920s
* Ford Vulcan engine, a 3.0L V6 automobile engine
* Kawasaki Vulcan, a cruiser-type motorcycle
** Kawasaki Vulcan 400 Classic
** Kawasaki Vulcan 800 Drifter
* M167 Vulcan, a towed short-range air defense gun
* M163 VADS (Vulcan Air Defense System), a self-propelled anti-aircraft gun
* Vulcan (1874-1892), one of the ten South Devon Railway Buffalo class steam locomotives
* Vulcan (1951-1967), one of the BR 'Britannia' Class locomotives
*Vulcan Railcars are a type of railcar found in preservation in New Zealand.
* HMS *Vulcan*, either one of two Royal Navy ships, or a Royal Navy shore establishment at Dounreay, Scotland, dedicated to the development of nuclear power

## Science 
* Vulcan (hypothetical planet), a hypothetical planet between Mercury and the Sun, and Vulcanoid asteroids, hypothetical minor planets in the same place
* Vulcanization, a chemical process to improve the strength and durability of rubber
* Vulcan laser, the most intensely focused in the world, based at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Chilton, Oxfordshire.

## Computing 
* Vulcan processor, a type of central processing unit
* VULCAN (operating system), an operating system for some 24-bit Datacraft/Harris Corporation minicomputers
* Vulcan (programming language), a programming language, now known as dBase

## Other uses 
* The "Vulcans" are the nickname of California University of Pennsylvania's sports teams.
* Vulcan statue, the largest cast iron statue in the world and the symbol of Birmingham, Alabama
* Vulcan of the alchemists, the patron *deity* associated with Paracelsian alchemy
* Birmingham Vulcans, a 1975 World Football League team
* M61 Vulcan, a 20mm six-barreled gatling gun
* Vulcan M-11-9, a semi-automatic, closed bolt pistol manufactured by Vulcan Armament
* The Vulcans, an informal name of George W. Bush's foreign policy advisory team for the 2000 U.S. presidential election
* *The Vulcan*, an occasional magazine from various organizations within the Young Fine Gael, the youth wing of the Irish Fine Gael political party
* *Vulcan*, the title of an EP and a song by the rock band Snake River Conspiracy
* Operation *Vulcan*, Allied action in Tunisia during World War II

## Related pages 
* Vulcana - Welsh female bodybuilder
* Volcano