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Vanguard may refer to:

• Vanguard, the forward division in an army
• Vanguard, the leading squadron or division of a fleet
• HMS Vanguard, a name of several ships in the Royal Navy
• The Vanguard class of nuclear ballistic missile submarines in the Royal Navy
• USNS Vanguard (T-AGM-19), the lead ship in a class of Missile Range Instrumentation Ships

• Vickers Vanguard, a British short/medium-range turboprop airliner (first flown 1959)

• Project Vanguard, an early U.S. civilian satellite launch project, which attempted to launch a satellite in 1957, and succeeded in 1958
  • Vanguard rocket, used in Project Vanguard
  • Vanguard 1 The second satellite launched by the United States, currently the oldest artificial object still in orbit.

• Vanguard party, a usually Marxist political party that views itself as the vanguard, or organizational leader, of proletarian revolution
• Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party, a hardline unionist political party in Northern Ireland during the 1970s
• National Vanguard, a white supremacist American political group.

• Vanguard Airlines was an airline based in Kansas City from 1994 to 2002
• The Vanguard Group, a large American investment management company
• Vanguard Records is an independent record label, featuring mostly folk and blues, founded by brothers Maynard and Seymour Solomon in 1950
• Vanguard Animation, a computer graphics/movie studio
• Vanguard Press, Established with money out of the Garland Fund in 1926, established and maintained a reputation for publishing promising new fiction writers, as well as informed and challenging nonfiction. In the fall of 1988, Vanguard Press was sold to Random House. [1][2]

• Vanguard High School (Florida)
• Vanguard College (Canada)
• Vanguard University of Southern California
• Vanguard College Preparatory School (Texas)
• Mascot/Nickname of Vance-Granville Community College

• The Vanguard (January 1853 - March 1853), a short-lived socialist paper published by George Julian Harney
• The Vanguard, student newspaper at Buckingham Browne & Nichols School in Massachusetts
• The Viking Vanguard, student newspaper at Puyallup High School in Puyallup, WA that was started 95 years ago.
• Vanguard (newspaper), a daily newspaper in Nigeria
• Daily Vanguard, a student-run newspaper at Portland State University

• Vanguard, an alien superhero once featured in the comic book of the same name and now occasionally seen in the Savage Dragon.
• Vanguard, a science fiction themed sprite comic
• Vanguard, a humanoid mecha (used by the male faction) in the anime Vandread
• "About Vanguard", A comic based on the world of Telon in the MMO Vanguard: Saga of heros

• Vanguard (arcade game) (1981), a shooter game, and sequel Vanguard II (1984)
• Vanguard Bandits (2000), a tactical role-playing game
• Vanguard: Saga of Heroes (2007), a multiplayer role-playing game co-published by Sigil Games Online and Sony Online Entertainment.
• Medal of Honor: Vanguard is a first person shooter created by Electronic Arts for the PlayStation 2 and Wii
• Vanguard from the computer game The Longest Journey
• Vanguard, the droid partner of the Action Master version of the Autobot Sideswipe in the Transformers toy line
• Vanguard, a defensive item present in dota a custom game of Warcraft III the Frozen Throne
• Vanguard, a system that is similar to our Sol System which hosts Vanguard III by Star Ocean: Till the End of Time
• Vanguard is the name of the Action master partner to the Autobot Sideswipe
• Vanguard is the name for a variant of Magic: The Gathering which uses character cards to alter the rules of play
• Vanguard, the main battle tank of the New Conglomerate empire in the MMOFPS Planetside
• Vanguard, On the MMOG Puzzle Pirates it is the second most powerfull Flag on Viridian Ocean.

• Santa Clara Vanguard, a Division I modern drum and bugle corps based in Santa Clara, California
• Vanguard (synthesizer), a VSTi plug-in developed by reFX software
• The Vanguards, a Norwegian rock band

• Star Trek: Vanguard, a series of novels about a space station called Vanguard

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