A wasp is a type of flying insect.

Wasp may also refer to:

Art, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

In Marvel Comics and Marvel Entertainment

Several Marvel Comics characters have donned the Wasp mantle including:

Wasp (character), introduced in 1963

Nadia van Dyne, introduced in 2016 as the Unstoppable Wasp

Two Marvel Cinematic Universe characters have donned the mantle:

Hope van Dyne

Janet van Dyne (Marvel Cinematic Universe), Hope's mother

Wasp suit (Marvel Cinematic Universe)

Others

Lisbeth Salander, a character in the Millennium series nicknamed Wasp

Waspinator or Wasp, several Transformers characters

World Aquanaut Security Patrol, an organization in the television series Stingray

Films

Wasp (2003 film), a film by Andrea Arnold

Wasp (2015 film), a British-French film

The Wasp (1915 film), a short by B. Reeves Eason

The Wasp (1918 film), a lost silent film comedy drama

The Wasp (2024 film), a British thriller film

Literature

Wasp (novel), a novel by Eric Frank Russell

The Wasps, a comic play by Aristophanes

Music

W.A.S.P. (band), an American rock/metal band

W.A.S.P. (album), their 1984 self-titled album

"Wasp", a song by Black Sabbath from the album Black Sabbath

Wasp (album), a 1980 album by Shaun Cassidy

"W.A.S.P.", a song from the Dayglo Abortions album, Two Dogs Fucking

The Wasps (Vaughan Williams), a 1909 suite for orchestra composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams

"The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)", a song by The Doors from the album L.A. Woman

EDP Wasp, a monophonic synthesizer by Electronic Dream Plant

WASP, a library music ensemble founded by Steve Gray

Periodicals

The Wasp (magazine), a 19th-century San Francisco magazine

The Wasp (newspaper), a 19th-century newspaper published in Nauvoo, Illinois

Radio

WASP-LP, a low-power radio station (104.5 FM) licensed to serve Huntington, West Virginia, United States

WASP (AM), a defunct radio station (1130 AM) formerly licensed to serve Brownsville, Pennsylvania, United States

Science and technology

Information technology

Web Standards Project

WAsP, Wind Atlas Analysis and Application Program

Wireless application service provider

Weapons

AGM-124 Wasp, an American experimental air-to-ground anti-tank missile

Wasp 58, a recoilless rocket launcher

Other uses in science and technology

Wiskott–Aldrich syndrome protein

Wide Angle Search for Planets (WASP), a British group searching for extra-solar planets

Sport

Wasps FC, an amateur English rugby union club

Wasps Ladies, an English women's rugby union club

Wasps RFC, a professional English rugby union club based in the Coventry area (known from 1999 to 2014 as London Wasps)

York Wasps, former English rugby league club

Chalfont Wasps F.C., English football club

Durham Wasps, former British ice–hockey team

Newport Wasps, British speedway team