Ramesses

Ramesses may refer to:

Ancient Egypt

Pharaohs of the nineteenth dynasty

  • Ramesses I, founder of the 19th Dynasty
  • Ramesses II, also called "Ramesses the Great"
    • Prince Ramesses (prince), second son of Ramesses II
    • Prince Ramesses-Meryamun-Nebweben, a son of Ramesses II

Pharaohs of the twentieth dynasty

  • Ramesses III, adversary of the Sea Peoples
  • Ramesses IV
  • Ramesses V
  • Ramesses VI
  • Ramesses VII
  • Ramesses VIII
  • Ramesses IX
  • Ramesses X
  • Ramesses XI

Locations

  • Pi-Ramesses, founded by pharaoh Ramesses II on the former site of Avaris

Books

  • Ramses the Damned, an alternate title of the novel The Mummy by Anne Rice
  • The Ramses (Ramsès) series of five best-selling historical novels, by French author and Egyptologist Christian Jacq

Entertainers and artists

  • Albert Marchinsky, an illusionist whose stage name was "The Great Rameses"
  • Ramases, an early-1970s-era British musician
  • Ramsés VII, pseudonym used by Argentine singer-songwriter Tanguito (1945-1972)
  • Ramesses (band), an English sludge/doom metal band, formed by ex-Electric Wizard members Tim Bagshaw and Mark Greening
  • Ramses Shaffy (1933–2009), Dutch singer
  • Ramses Younan (1913–1966), Egyptian painter and writer

Fictional characters

  • King Ramses, a minor villain in the animated cartoon Courage the Cowardly Dog
  • Ramses Emerson, a fictional character in the "Amelia Peabody" book series by U.S. author Elizabeth Peters
  • Ramses, a summon creature in the Game Boy Advance game Golden Sun
  • Ramses XIII, protagonist of the 1895 historical novel Pharaoh by Bolesław Prus

Military

Products

  • Ramses, a brand of condom manufactured by Durex

Sports

  • Rameses (mascot), the mascot for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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