Ramesses
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Ramesses (also commonly spelled "Ramses," pronounced [ˈræm.siz] or "Rameses," [ˈræ.mə.siz]) is the name conventionally given in English transliteration to eleven Egyptian pharaohs of the later New Kingdom period. The name essentially translates as "Born of the sun-god Ra".
- Ramesses I: founder of the 19th Dynasty
- Ramesses II ("the Great")
- Ramesses III: adversary of the Sea Peoples
- Ramesses IV
- Ramesses V
- Ramesses VI
- Ramesses VII
- Ramesses VIII
- Ramesses IX
- Ramesses X
- Ramesses XI: last ruler of the Egyptian New Kingdom
- Ramesses or Pi-Ramesses is the name of the reconstructed city of Avaris, renamed after the Ramesses pharaohs.
- Ramesses is the name of the eponimous 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. The actions attributed to this character in the play do not correspond to any historical Ramesses.
- Ramses condoms.
- Ramesses is the name of a Doom Metal band from England.
- Ramses Emerson is the name of a fictional character in the "Amelia Peabody" book series by U.S. author Elizabeth Peters.
- Ramses the Damned is an alternate title of the novel The Mummy by Anne Rice.
- Rameses is the name of the mascot for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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