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 can further refer to:

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

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

Computers

• Empress Embedded Database, commercial relational database software

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
• Empress Orchid (2004), novel by Anchee Min published in Great Britain in 2004

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 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 of Mars", an episode of Doctor Who