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