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:

Political

• 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.

Buildings

• The Empress (hotel), one of the oldest hotels in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
• The Empress Theatre (California) in Vallejo, California, in the United States
• The Empress Theatre (Montreal) in Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Computers

• Empress Embedded Database, commercial relational database software

Film

• Xenomorph empress, a caste of the fictional xenomorph from the Alien film series; see Alien (creature in Alien franchise)

Literature

• Empress (novel), a 2003 novel by Shan Sa
• Empress, also known as Empress of Mijak, a 2007 novel by Karen Miller

People

• Empress Schuck (born 1993), Filipina actress and commercial model

Places

• Empress, Alberta, Canada

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
• USS Empress (SP-569), a United States Navy passenger barge in service briefly during 1917
• 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
• The empress, a fairy chess piece which moves like a rook or a knight
• beatmania IIDX 16: Empress, the 16th game in the beatmania IIDX series of music video games