Seven Sisters
Seven Sisters is the common name for the Pleiades, a star cluster named for mythological characters.
Seven Sisters may also refer to:
Mythology
- Pleiades (Greek mythology), seven sisters who are companions of Artemis in Greek mythology
- Pleiades in folklore and literature, traditional and mythological interpretations of the star cluster
- The Hesperides of Greek
Education
- Seven Sisters (colleges), a group of American women's colleges
- The Seven Sisters of American Protestantism, an informal grouping of seven traditional mainline and liberal Protestant denominations
Geographical locations
- Seven Sisters, Baja California, Seven epic point breaks in Baja California, Mexico
- Seven Sisters, British Columbia, a mountain range in British Columbia, Canada
- Seven Sisters, Donegal, a mountain chain in County Donegal, Ireland
- Seven Sisters Rocks, in the Wye Valley, Herefordshire
- Seven Sisters, London, an area and road in England with a railway and underground station of that name
- Seven Sisters station, a rail station and underground (tube) station at Tottenham, London
- Seven Sisters Road, a road in North London
- Seven Sisters, Manitoba, a community in Manitoba, Canada
- Seven Sisters, Mars, a group of seven high altitude caves on the planet Mars near Arsia Mons
- Seven Sisters (Massachusetts), a group of ridgeline knobs located in the Holyoke Range of Western Massachusetts
- Seven Sisters (Moscow), a group of seven Stalinist skyscrapers in Moscow, Russia
- De syv søstre (Seven Sisters), a mountain formation in Helgeland, Norway
- Seven Sisters (Queensland), a group of small mountains on the Atherton Tableland in Australia
- Seven Sisters, Sussex, a group of chalk cliffs in England
- Seven Sisters, Neath Port Talbot, a village in South Wales
- Seven Sister States, a region in northeastern India comprising the contiguous states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, and Tripura
- Tsat Tsz Mui (Seven Sisters), an area and road in Hong Kong
Film
- The Seven Sisters (1915 film), a 1915 silent film starring Marguerite Clark and released by Paramount Pictures
- The Secret of the Seven Sisters (2013), a 4 part documentary series of Al Jazeera English about the Seven Sisters (oil companies)
Book
- The Seven Sisters: The Great Oil Companies and the World They Shaped, by Anthony Sampson, Bantam Books, 1974
Music
- Seven Sisters (Beta Radio album), an album by the American band Beta Radio
- Seven Sisters (Meja album), an album by the Swedish composer and singer Meja
- "Seven Sisters", a song by Tori Amos from Her 2011 album, Night of Hunters
- "Seven Sisters", a song by American band MewithoutYou from their album, Catch for Us the Foxes
- "Seven Sisters", a song by American metal band The Sword from their album, Apocryphon
- "The Seven Sisters", a song by American band Rainer Maria from their album, A Better Version of Me
- "The Seven Sisters", a song by electronic-rock artist Celldweller from his album, Wish Upon a Blackstar
Art
- The Seven Sisters, An image of the seven progressions of the miners safety lamp by Adrian Moule 2010
- The Seven Sisters (play), an 1860 play
Organizations
- Seven sisters (studios), the seven original major movie studios
- Seven Sisters (oil companies), a group of oil companies
- Seven Sisters (law firms), seven Canadian law firms
- Seven Sisters (magazines), a group of American women's magazines
Games
- Seven Sisters (Forgotten Realms), fictional characters from the Forgotten Realms role-playing game
Sport
- The Seven Sisters (Sette Sorelle), the most prominent Italian football clubs in Serie A during the 1990s and early 2000s: Juventus F.C., A.C. Milan, F.C. Internazionale Milano, S.S. Lazio, ACF Fiorentina, A.C. Parma and A.S. Roma
Waterfalls
- Seven Sisters Waterfall, Norway, a group of waterfalls in the Geirangerfjord
- Seven Sisters Waterfall, Grenada, a succession of seven waterfalls in Grenada also called St. Margaret Falls
Organisms
Birds
- Seven Sisters, another name for jungle babbler (Turdoides striata), an Old World babbler found on the Indian Subcontinent
Plants
- Seven sisters, a common name for the plant Crinum americanum
See also
- Qixi Festival, a Chinese holiday, sometimes called "Seventh Sister's Birthday"
- Seven Sisters' Fruit