Ramesses
Ramesses (/ˈræməsiːz/; also commonly spelled Rameses or Ramses /ˈræmsiːz/) is the name conventionally given in English transliteration to 11 Egyptian pharaohs of the later New Kingdom period. The name essentially translates as "Born of the sun-god Ra".
A variant of the name is Ramose; Egyptologists usually use the Ramesses variant for pharaohs and Ramose for non-royals.
- 19th Dynasty
- 20th Dynasty
Other:
- Ramses, a former automobile and motor bike marque from the Egyptian Light Transport Manufacturing Company
- Ramesses or Pi-Ramesses, the name palace of Ramesses II, at the former site of Avaris
- Prince Ramesses, second son of Ramesses II
- The fictional "Ramses XIII," protagonist of the 1895 historical novel Pharaoh by Bolesław Prus
- Ramesses, the eponymous protagonist's father in "Thamos, König in Ägypten" ("Thamos, King of Egypt", or "King Thamos", in English), a play by Tobias Philipp, for which Mozart wrote incidental music
- Ramesses (band), an English sludge/doom metal band, formed by ex-Electric Wizard members Tim Bagshaw and Mark Greening
- Ramases, an early-1970's-era British musician
- Ramses Emerson, a fictional character in the "Amelia Peabody" book series by U.S. author Elizabeth Peters
- Ramses the Damned, an alternate title of the novel The Mummy by Anne Rice
- Rameses, the mascot for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Ramses, a summon creature in the Gameboy Advance game Golden Sun
- Ramses, a brand of condoms manufactured by Durex
- Ramses Shaffy (1933-2009), Dutch singer