Empress (disambiguation)
An empress is a female imperial monarch, or the wife of an imperial monarch; written with a capital, Empress is used as the title of an empress, placed before her name – often just the given name.
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Empress or The Empress can further refer to:
Monarchy
- Empress regnant, a female monarch of an empire
- Empress consort, the wife of a reigning emperor
- Empress dowager, the widow of a emperor
- Empress mother, a empress dowager who is the mother of a reigning monarch
People
- Empress of Japan, empress consort to the current reigning emperor
Biology
- A number of brush-footed butterflies in the subfamily Apaturinae:
- Empress, Sasakia funebris
- Empress Antonia, Asterocampa celtis antonia, a subspecies of Asterocampa celtis
- Empress Leilia, Asterocampa leilia, a species in the genus Asterocampa
- Empress Flora, Asterocampa clyton flora, a subspecies of Asterocampa clyton
- Empress Louisa, A. c. louisa, another subspecies of Asterocampa clyton
- Painted empress, Apaturopsis cleochares
- EMPReSS, a database of standardized phenotyping protocols used by the International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium
- Empress brilliant (Heliodoxa imperatrix), species of hummingbird in the family Trochilidae
- Empress cicada (Megapomponia imperatoria), species of cicada from Southeast Asia
- Empress tree (Paulownia tomentosa), a deciduous tree native to central and western China
Buildings
- The Empress (hotel), one of the oldest hotels in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
- Empress Market in the Saddar Town locality of Karachi, Pakistan
- Empress Sewage Works, Wanstead, England
- The Empress Theatre (California) in Vallejo, California, in the United States
- The Empress Theatre (Montreal) in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Empress Theatre (Magna, Utah) has stood for 100 years
- Empress Walk, large condominium and retail complex in the North York Centre area of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Film and literature
- Xenomorph empress, a caste of the fictional xenomorph from the Alien film series; see Alien (creature in Alien franchise)
- Empress (novel), a 2003 novel by Shan Sa
- Empress, also known as Empress of Mijak, a 2007 novel by Karen Miller
Places
- Empress, Alberta, a village, Canada
- Empress, Georgia, an unincorporated community, United States
Ships
- HMS Empress, more than one ship of the British Royal Navy
- MS Empress, a cruise ship operated by Pullmantur Cruises, formerly named Nordic Empress and Empress of the Seas
- MS Empress of Australia, a Bass Strait ferry
- RMS Empress of Australia (1919), ocean liner built in 1913–1919 in Germany for the Hamburg America Line
- USS Empress (SP-569), a United States Navy passenger barge in service briefly during 1917
- RMS Empress of Asia, ocean liner built in 1912–1913 in Scotland for Canadian Pacific Steamships
- RMS Empress of Britain (1905), transatlantic ocean liner built in Scotland in 1905–1906 for Canadian Pacific Steamship
- RMS Empress of Britain (1930), ocean liner built between 1928 and 1931 in Scotland and owned by Canadian Pacific Steamship Company
- RMS Empress of Britain (1955), transatlantic ocean liner built in Scotland in 1955–1956 for Canadian Pacific Steamships
- RMS Empress of Canada (1920), ocean liner built in 1920 for the Canadian Pacific Steamships (CP)
- RMS Empress of Canada (1928), ocean liner built in 1928 for Canadian Pacific Steamships
- RMS Empress of Canada (1960), ocean liner built in 1961 for Canadian Pacific Steamships Ltd
- RMS Empress of China (1890), ocean liner built in 1890–1891 in Barrow, England for Canadian Pacific Steamships
- RMS Empress of Ireland, an English ocean liner, sank in 1914 in the Saint Lawrence River, Canada
- American Empress (formerly Empress of the North), a stern-wheel cruise ship in the Pacific Northwest of the United States
Other uses
- Empress (comics), a comic book character, a superheroine in the DC Comics universe
- The Empress (Tarot card), a trump card from the tarot deck
- Empress (chess), a fairy chess piece that moves as a rook or a knight
- Empress (album), an album by Yemi Alade
- Empress of Blandings, a fictional pig in many of the Blandings Castle novels and stories by P. G. Wodehouse
- Beatmania IIDX 16: Empress, the 16th game in the beatmania IIDX series of music video games
- Canadian North airline call sign
- Canadian Pacific Air Lines airline call sign
- Empress Embedded Database, commercial relational database software
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