Vela

Not to be confused with Bela.

Vela or Velas may refer to:

Astronomy

• Vela (constellation), a constellation in the southern sky (the Sails)
  • Vela (Chinese astronomy)
  • Vela Pulsar
  • Vela X-1, a pulsing, eclipsing high-mass X-ray binary system

Places

• Vela Bluff, Antarctica
• Vela, Dolj, Romania
• Vela (Ilidža – Sarajevo), Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Velas, Maharashtra, India

Ships

• CMA CGM Vela, a container ship in service since 2008
• USNS Vela (T-AK-89), US Army port repair ship
• Vela-class submarine, of the Indian Navy
  • INS Vela (S40), in service 1973–2010

Technology

• Project Vela, a system developed by the United States to monitor compliance with the Partial Test Ban Treaty
  • Vela (satellite), a series of satellites launched by the United States to monitor nuclear testing
    • Vela incident, an international incident, in which a Vela satellite is thought to possibly have observed a nuclear test
• Versatile Laboratory Aid (VELA), a data logging tool used in education

People

Given name

• Vela Jiménez (fl. 882–883), Count of Álava
• Vela Ladrón (fl. 1136–1174), Spanish nobleman
• Vela Manusaute, Niuean writer and director
• Vela Ovéquiz (fl. 1065–1085), count in the Kingdom of Galicia
• Vela Peeva (1922–1944), Bulgarian partisan
• Vela Velupillai (born 1947), Sri Lankan-American economist

Surname

• Alejandro Vela (born 1984), Mexican footballer
• Alexandra Vela, Ecuadorian lawyer and politician
• Arqueles Vela (1899–1977), Guatemalan-Mexican writer, journalist, and teacher
• Blanca Vela (1936–2014), American politician
• Blasco Núñez Vela (1490–1546), viceroy of Peru
• Carlos Vela (born 1989), Mexican footballer
• Carmen Vela (born 1955), Spanish entrepreneur, researcher, and cabinet minister
• Cindy Vela (born 1979), American actress, model, and saxophonist
• Cristóbal Vela (1588–1654), Spanish Baroque painter and gilder
• Ernesto Vela (born 1968), Mexican Olympic swimmer
• Filemon Vela, Jr. (born 1963), American lawyer and politician
• Filemon Vela, Sr. (1935–2004), United States federal judge
• Giuseppe Vela Júnior (born 1977), Brazilian footballer
• Gonzalo Vázquez Vela (1893–1963), Mexican politician
• José Manuel Vela Bargues (1962–2022), Spanish economist and politician
• Josh Vela (born 1993), English footballer
• Lucé Vela, First Lady of Puerto Rico from 2009 to 2013
• Marco Alonso Vela (born 1961), Mexican politician
• Moises Vela, American lawyer and government advisor
• Nallely Vela (born 1986), Mexican sprinter
• Norma Safford Vela, American television writer, director, and producer
• Orlando Vela (born 1994), Mexican footballer
• Rafael Cárdenas Vela, Mexican drug cartel leader
• Ricky Vela, American songwriter and keyboardist
• Rodolfo Neri Vela (born 1952), Mexican scientist and astronaut
• Rosie Vela (born 1954), American model and singer-songwriter
• Sergio Vela (born 1964), Mexican-American opera director
• Spartaco Vela (1853–1895), Italian painter, son of Vincenzo Vela
• Vincenzo Vela (1820–1891), Swiss-Italian sculptor

Other uses

• Nemmara Vallangi Vela, an annual festival of a village called Nemmara in South India
• Vela International Marine, a subsidiary of Saudi Aramco
• Vela, a playable character in the video game Jet Force Gemini
• Vela, a religious, cultural celebration from the city of Tehuantepec, Mexico
• Vela, an alternative appellation for Mokosh, the consort of the Slavic god of thunder
• Vela (crab), a genus of land crabs in the family Gecarcinucidae
• Vela (film), a 2023 Indian crime drama

See also

• Velan (disambiguation)
• Velas, Azores
• Velada, Spain