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.

Empress or The Empress may also refer to:

Monarchy

Empress regnant, a female monarch of an empire
Empress consort, the wife of a reigning emperor
Empress dowager, the widow of an emperor
Empress mother, an empress dowager who is the mother of a reigning monarch
Empress of Japan, empress consort to the current reigning emperor

Arts and entertainment

Beatmania IIDX 16: Empress, the 16th game in the beatmania IIDX series of music video games
The Empress, a fictional pirate ship from the 2007 film Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
The Empress, a character in the Adventure Time miniseries Stakes
Empress (album), an album by Yemi Alade
Empress (chess), a fairy chess piece that moves as a rook or a knight
Empress (comic book), an Icon Comics/Dark Horse Comics limited series
Empress (character), a superheroine in the DC Comics universe
Empress (novel), a 2003 novel by Shan Sa
The Empress (play), a 2013 play by Tanika Gupta
The Empress (Tarot card), a trump card from the tarot deck
The Empress (TV series), a 2022 historical drama series on the life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria
Empress of Blandings, a fictional pig in the Blandings Castle novels and stories by P. G. Wodehouse
Empress of Mijak (or simply Empress), a 2007 novel by Karen Miller

Biology

A number of brush-footed butterflies in the subfamily Apaturinae:
Empress, Sasakia funebris, in the Sasakia genus
- 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, a 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), a species of hummingbird in the family Trochilidae
Empress cicada (Megapomponia imperatoria), a species of cicada from Southeast Asia
Empress tree (Paulownia tomentosa), a deciduous tree native to central and western China

Places

Empress, Alberta, a village, Canada
Empress, Georgia, an unincorporated community, United States
The Empress (hotel), Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Ships

American Empress (formerly Empress of the North), a stern-wheel cruise ship in the Pacific Northwest of the United States
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 Asia, an ocean liner built in 1912–1913 in Scotland for Canadian Pacific Steamships
RMS Empress of Australia (1919), an ocean liner built in 1913–1919 in Germany for the Hamburg America Line
RMS Empress of Britain, a list of Canadian Pacific Steamship Company ocean liners
RMS Empress of Canada, a list of ships of the Canadian Pacific Steamship Company
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
USS Empress (SP-569), a United States Navy passenger barge in service briefly during 1917

Other uses

Empress (cracker), video game cracker
Empress (provincial electoral district), Alberta, Canada
Empress Embedded Database, a commercial relational database software
A former call sign for Canadian North airline
A call sign for Canadian Pacific Air Lines