Amazon

The Amazons are a nation of female warriors in Greek myth.

Amazon or Amazone may also refer to:

Geography

• Amazon River, in South America
  • Amazon Basin, that river's drainage basin
  • Amazon rainforest, rainforest covering most of the Amazon Basin
• Amazon Creek, Oregon, United States

People

• Amazon, nom de guerre of a Roman gladiatrix at Halicarnassus
• Lesa Lewis (born 1967), American IFBB professional bodybuilder

Commerce

Amazon.com

• Amazon.com, an online retailer
  • Amazon Locker, Amazon.com's self-service parcel-delivery service
  • Amazon Marketplace, Amazon.com's fixed-price online marketplace
  • Amazon Publishing, Amazon.com's publishing unit
  • Amazon Studios, Amazon.com's division that develops comics, movies and television shows
  • Amazon Instant Video, Amazon.com's streaming video service

Other businesses

• Amazon Bookstore Cooperative, a feminist bookstore
• Amazonen-Werke, a German agricultural machinery manufacturer

Art, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

• Amazon (comics), a Marvel supervillain
• Amazons (DC Comics), a group of superhuman characters
• The Amazon, a Pro Wrestling character
• The Amazon, a Diablo II character

Film

• The Amazons (1917 film), an American silent comedy
• Amazons (1984 film), an American thriller
• Amazons (1986 film), an Argentine adventure fantasy
• Amazon (1997 film), a short documentary

Games

• Amazon (chess), a fairy chess piece
• Amazons (solitaire), a card game
• Amazon: Guardians of Eden, a 1992 video game
• Game of the Amazons, a board game

Literature

• Amazon (Amalgam Comics)
• Amazons (novel), co-written by Don DeLillo
• The Amazon (novella), by Nikolai Leskov
• The Amazons (play), by Arthur Wing Pinero
• Amazons!, a fantasy anthology edited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
• Swallows and Amazons series, a series of twelve children's books by Arthur Ransome

Television

• Amazon (1999 TV series), a Canadian drama
• Amazon (2008 TV series), a British documentary series
• Amazon, a planned prequel television series to Wonder Woman

Land transport

• Amazon (automobile), a 1920s British cyclecar
• Volvo Amazon, a 1956-1970 mid-size car
• Amazon, a GWR Iron Duke Class locomotive operating 1851-1877
• Amazon, a GWR 3031 Class locomotive operating 1892-1908

Sea transport

• Amazon (brigantine), a Canadian brigantine launched 1861
• Amazon (yacht), a British screw schooner built 1885
• Amazon-class frigate, four classes of frigate of the British Royal Navy
• Amazon-class sloop of the British Royal Navy
• HMS Amazon, nine ships of the British Royal Navy
• RMS Amazon, two ships of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company
• Amazone (1843): 3-masted sail corvette of the Prussian Navy
• Amazone (1900): 2,700 ton Gazelle-class light cruiser
• USS Amazon (1861), a United States Navy bark

Sports

• Los Angeles Amazons, an American football team ==

Women's groups and movements

• Amazon feminism
• Amazonian Guard, a bodyguard unit of Muammar Gaddafi
• Dahomey Amazons, a Fon regiment
• Takembeng, a women's social movement in Cameroon

Other uses

• Amazon, an opera house in Manaus, Brazil
• Amazon parrot
• 1042 Amazone, an asteroid

See also

• Amazonas (disambiguation)
• Amazonia (disambiguation)
• Amazonka, an album by Ruslana