"Venus" is the name of a song written by Ed Marshall and Peter DeAngelis. The most successful and well-known recording of it was done by Frankie Avalon and released in 1959 (see 1959 in music). It became Avalon's first number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, where it spent five weeks atop the survey; the song also reached #10 on the R&B chart. The song's lyrics detail a man's plea to Venus, the Roman goddess of love and beauty, to send him a girl to love and one who will love him as well.

The song was covered in the United Kingdom by Dickie Valentine who spent seven days at No 20 in the Singles Chart in May 1959 the week before Frankie Avalon reached the Top 20 with his original version.

In 1976, Avalon released a new disco version of "Venus". This helped revive the singer's career, as his success had been waning prior to its release. The re-recording of "Venus" was Avalon's last Hot 100 hit, peaking at #46. It did, however, reach #1 on the adult contemporary chart. Avalon was quoted describing the remake: "It was all right, but I still prefer the original."

Barry Manilow covered the song in 2006 on his album The Greatest Songs of the Fifties. Johnny Mathis also released a cover version of the song and, although it failed to reach the Hot 100, it "bubbled under" the chart at #111 in 1968. On April 8, 2009, Avalon sang "Venus" live on American Idol's top 8 show in a tribute to Simon Cowell's 1959 birth year.