Ramesses

Ramesses or Ramses 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

• The Mummy, or Ramses the Damned, a novel 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
• Walter 'Ramses' Emerson, a fictional character in the Amelia Peabody series by Elizabeth Peters
• Ramses XIII, protagonist of the 1895 historical novel Pharaoh by Bolesław Prus

Military

• MV Ramses, a German blockade runner sunk by HMAS Adelaide in 1942
• The Ramses II tank, an Egyptian main battle tank

Other uses

• Ramses, a brand of condom manufactured by Durex
• Ramses (spacecraft) (Rapid Apophis Mission for SEcurity and Safety), the proposed space mission by the European Space Agency to rendezvous with the asteroid 99942 Apophis
• Rameses (mascot), the mascot for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill