The vanguard is the leading part of an advancing military formation.

Vanguard may also refer to:

• Chengdu J-10 "Vanguard", a 4.5-generation Chinese fighter plane
• QW-1 Vanguard, an advanced Chinese surface-to-air missile

• Vanguard-class ship of the line, a class of warship deployed during the 19th century by the Royal Navy
• Vanguard-class submarine, the Royal Navy's current nuclear ballistic missile submarines
• HMS Vanguard, several British Royal Navy ships

• Vultee P-66 Vanguard, an American fighter plane built from 1939 to 1943
• Vanguard, nickname of the army 297th Military Intelligence Battalion
• Vanguard, nickname of navy helicopter squadron HM-14
• Vanguards, nickname of the air force 76th Fighter Squadron
• Vanguards, an early nickname of the defunct Navy squadron VX-4

• Operation Vanguard, Ghana
• Vanguards, nickname of No. 110 Helicopter Unit, IAF, India
• Vanguard-class multirole warship, a proposed Norwegian class
• Vanguard, nickname of the 1st Brigade of the 2nd Marine Division (South Korea)
• 52nd Marine Vanguard Regiment of the Tunisian Navy
• Quân Tiên Phong, (Vanguard) nickname of the 308th Infantry Division, Vietnam

• Vanguard Airlines, a defunct American airline that operated from 1994 to 2002
• Vanguard Automotive Group, an American car rental company
• Vanguard Cellular, an American cellular phone company that was acquired by AT&T in 1999
• Vanguard Dutch Marine, a Netherlands-based yacht manufacturing company
• Vanguard Healthcare, a British medical company
• Vanguard Health Systems, an American operator of hospitals and other medical facilities
• Vanguard Industries, an American manufacturer of military badges
• Vanguard International Semiconductor Corporation, an IC foundry in Taiwan founded in 1994
• Vanguard Managed Solutions, an American company (2001–2007) of which part is now Vanguard Networks
• Vanguard Sailboats, an American builder of racing and recreational sailboats
• The Vanguard Group, an American investment management company founded in 1975
• China Resources Vanguard, one of the largest supermarket chain companies in Hong Kong
• Vanguard, a 1970s American running shoe made by Brooks Sports
• Vanguard, a former American cigarette made by Brown & Williamson
• Vanguard, a 1960s Eversharp fountain pen made in England
• Vanguard, a line of Swiss watches made by Franck Muller
• Vanguard, a former cigarette made by John Player & Sons
• Vanguard, a line of Swiss watches made by Roamer
• Vanguard, a mid-twentieth century American lighter made by Ronson
• Vanguard, a line of American pocket watches made by the Waltham Watch Company
• Vanguard, a 1960s Italian-made Waterman fountain pen
• Vanguard, an American line of sporting rifles made by Weatherby
• Vanguard Knife, a hunting knife made by the American company Buck Knives
• Vanguard 888, a mid-twentieth century American radio made by Emerson

• Vanguard College, a private Christian college in Edmonton, Alberta
• Vanguard School (Quebec), a private high school in Montreal, Quebec

• Vanguard Military School, a charter school in Auckland

• Vanguard College Preparatory School, a private high school in Waco, Texas
• Vanguard High School, a public high school in Ocala, Florida
• Vanguard School (Illinois), a public high school in Arlington Heights, Illinois
• Vanguard University of Southern California, a private Christian university in Costa Mesa, California
• The Vanguard School (Colorado), a public K-12 charter school in Colorado Springs, Colorado
• Vanguard School (Florida), a private boarding high school in Lake Wales, Florida
• The Vanguard School (Pennsylvania), a private school in Malvern, Pennsylvania
• Vanguard School of Coconut Grove, a private day school in Coconut Grove, Florida
• Carnegie Vanguard High School, a public magnet high school in Houston, Texas

• Vanguard Animation, an American production studio
• Vanguard Films, a defunct American film production company
• Vanguard Films, a defunct Philippine film production company
• Vanguard (film), a 2020 Chinese action film
• News Vanguard, an Indian TV channel
• Vanguard (TV series), a journalistic reporting series on Current TV

• Vanguard (synthesizer), a software synthesizer developed by reFX
• Vanguard Records, an independent record label founded in 1950
• The Vanguards, a 1960s Norwegian rock band
• Santa Clara Vanguard Drum and Bugle Corps, A World Class corps and six time DCI world champion based in Santa Clara, California
• Vanguard -of the muses-, an album by Japanese band Exist Trace
• "Vanguard", a single by Violet Chachki from her 2015 EP Gagged

• Vanguard (journal), published by the anarchist Vanguard Group
• Vanguard (Nigeria) (Daily Vanguard), a daily newspaper based in Lagos, Nigeria
• Vanguard, a defunct Canadian magazine
• Vanguard Press, a publishing label now owned by Random House
• Portland State Vanguard (formerly Daily Vanguard), the student newspaper at Portland State University
• Vanguard, student newspaper of the University of South Alabama in Mobile, Alabama
• The Vanguard, the student weekly of Bentley University, Waltham, Massachusetts
• The Vanguard (Bentley University), a student newspaper at Bentley University
• The Vanguard (Buckingham Browne & Nichols), a student newspaper at Buckingham Browne & Nichols
• Vanguard, official press organ of hardline, a radical deep ecology movement
• The Vanguard (1922–28), a publication of the émigré Communist Party of India, founded and edited by Manabendra Nath Roy
• The Vanguard (January–March 1853), a short-lived socialist paper published by George Julian Harney
• The Vanguard (1996–2001), a Vancouver, Washington alternative newspaper, some former staff of which would found The Vancouver Voice

• Vanguard (Image Comics), a superhero from Megaton Comics and Image Comics
• Vanguard (Marvel Comics), a name shared by a mutant Russian character as well as a fictional team of characters
• Vanguard, a high-tech humanoid robot in the anime Vandread
• Cardfight!! Vanguard an anime series, based on the trading card game

• Vanguard (video game), a 1981 shooter game, with the 1984 sequel Vanguard II
• Vanguard: Saga of Heroes, a 2007 MMORPG created by Sigil Games Online and Sony Online Entertainment
• Medal of Honor: Vanguard, a first-person shooter game created by Electronic Arts for PlayStation 2 and Wii
• Cardfight!! Vanguard a trading card game
• Vanguard, an organization in the computer game The Longest Journey
• Vanguard, a faction in the video game, Destiny
• Vanguard, the droid partner of the Transformers toy Sideswipe
• Vanguard, a variant of the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering
• Vanguard, the main battle tank used by the New Conglomerate in PlanetSide and PlanetSide 2
• Vanguard, a character class in the video game, Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2, and Mass Effect 3
• Vanguard, a UN-funded military organisation in the City of Heroes universe
• Vanguard, a group of characters in the video game Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World
• Vanguard, a demon (opponent) in the game, Demon's Souls
• Vanguard, a character class in the video game, Chivalry: Medieval Warfare
• Vanguard, the highest rank in Spiral Knights
• Vanguards, a line of die-cast model cars made by Lledo, now owned by British company Corgi
• Call of Duty: Vanguard, a 2021 installment of the Call of Duty franchise
• Vanguard, an in-development first-person shooter game developed by CCP Games
• UC Vanguard, a faction in the video game Starfield.

• Vanguard Radio Network, a Philippine radio network
• Star Trek: Vanguard, a series of novels about a space station called Vanguard
• The Vanguard, a painting which was the basis of the design of Western Cattle in Storm, an American stamp
• The Vanguard (comic), a boys' story paper published in the 1920s by D. C. Thomson & Co.

• Vanguard (organization), a defunct American LGBT rights organization
• Vanguard Public Foundation, a defunct American social justice foundation
• U.P. Vanguard, alumni association of the University of the Philippines ROTC

• Vanguard, a former name of the Russian Unity party of Ukraine
• Vanguard Group (anarchist), an American anarchist group in the 1930s
• Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party, a unionist political party in Northern Ireland during the 1970s
• Vanguard Organization, a secret unit of the Arab Socialist Union (Egypt) during the presidency of Gamal Abdel Nasser and Anwar Sadat

• LGU Vanguards, a defunct Philippine basketball team in the UNTV Cup league
• Nueva Ecija Rice Vanguards, a Philippine professional basketball team
• Vanguard (American racehorse)
• Vanguard (steeplechaser), winner of the 1835 Grand National
• Vanguard Volley Hitters, a Philippine volleyball team of the Spikers' Turf volleyball league

• Project Vanguard, an American satellite launch project begun in 1957
  • Vanguard (rocket), a launch vehicle used in Project Vanguard
  • Vanguard TV3, the first satellite launch attempt in 1957
  • Vanguard 1, an artificial satellite launched in 1958
  • Vanguard 2, an artificial satellite launched in 1959
  • Vanguard 3, an artificial satellite launched in 1959
• Vanguard (microkernel), a discontinued experimental microkernel developed at Apple Computer

• Vickers Vanguard, a British short/medium-range turboprop airliner (first flown 1959)
• Vickers Type 170 Vanguard, a 1920s British airliner
• Briggs & Stratton Vanguard Big Block V-Twin, a series of piston engines, adapted to propel ultralights

• Standard Vanguard, a car produced by the British Standard Motor Company from 1947 to 1963
• Toyota Vanguard, a Japanese compact crossover sport utility vehicle

• BOKA Vanguard, the largest heavy lift ship ever built
• ST Vanguard, a 250 GRT tugboat formerly the Empire ship named Empire Pine
• USNS Mission San Fernando (T-AO-122), renamed USNS Vanguard in 1965 for role as tracking vessel
• Vanguard 15, one-design racing dinghy made by Vanguard Sailboats

• Vanguard, Saskatchewan, Canada, a village
• Ulmus 'Morton Plainsman', an elm cultivar sold under the trade name Vanguard

• Daniel Vangarde, French songwriter and producer
• The Vanguard (disambiguation)
• Vanguard Award (disambiguation)
• La Vanguardia ("The Vanguard"), a Spanish newspaper founded in 1881
• La Vanguardia (Argentina) ("The Vanguard"), an Argentinian newspaper founded in 1894