Esmeralda may refer to:

Places

  • Esmeralda, Queensland, a locality in the Shire of Croydon, Australia
  • Esmeralda Municipality, Oruro Department, Bolivia
  • Esmeralda, Rio Grande do Sul, a municipality in Brazil
  • Esmeralda, a town in Chile
  • Esmeralda Island, Chile
  • Esmeralda, Cuba
  • Esmeralda County, Nevada, United States

Arts and entertainment

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

  • Esmeralda (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame), a character in Victor Hugo's novel and its adaptations
  • Esmeralda (Battista), an 1856 opera by Vincenzo Battista
  • Esmeralda (Thomas), an 1883 English opera by Arthur Goring Thomas
  • La Esmeralda (opera), a 1836 French opera by Louise Bertin
  • La Esmeralda (ballet), an 1844 ballet
  • Esmeralda (Dargomyzhsky), an 1847 opera by Alexander Dargomyzhsky
  • Esmeralda (1905 film), a French short silent film
  • Esmeralda (1922 film), a British silent film

Television

  • Esmeralda (Mexican TV series), a telenovela on El Canal de las Estrellas
  • Esmeralda (Venezuelan TV series), a program broadcast by Venevisión
  • Esmeralda (Brazilian TV series), a program on Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão
  • Maggie Esmerelda, a character from American Horror Story: Freak Show
  • Esmeralda, a character from Bewitched
  • Esmeralda (Cro character)
  • Esmeralda, a secondary villain in the anime Saint October
  • Esmeralda, a character from the anime series Saint Seiya

Other arts and entertainment

  • Esmeralda (1915 film), a film based on an 1880s play of the same name
  • Esmeralda (Fur Fighters), a character from the Fur Fighters video game
  • Esmeralda, a character from the 1947 novel Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann
  • Esmerelda Weatherwax, a Discworld character
  • Esmeralda, servant of Tarzan in Tarzan of the Apes
  • "Esmeralda", a poem by Nikos Kavvadias
  • Esmeralda, a seal in the 1954 film 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Ships

  • Esmeralda (carrack), a Portuguese carrack which sank in 1503, the earliest ship found to date from Europe’s Age of Discovery
  • Spanish frigate Esmeralda, a Spanish frigate captured by Chile in 1820
  • Chilean corvette Esmeralda, a steam corvette of the Chilean Navy, sunk during the War of the Pacific
  • Esmerelda (sternwheeler), a steamboat on the Colorado River
  • Chilean cruiser Esmeralda (1883), the world's first protected cruiser
  • Chilean cruiser Esmeralda (1896), an armored cruiser
  • Chilean frigate Esmeralda (1944), originally HMCS Glace Bay, a corvette transferred to the Chilean Navy in 1946
  • Chilean barquentine Esmeralda, a training ship of the Chilean Navy, launched in 1953

Other uses

  • Esmeralda (given name)
  • Esmeralda (plant), a genus of orchids
  • Esmeralda (beetle), a genus of beetles
  • Esmeralda (Mexibús), a BRT station in Ecatepec de Morelos, Mexico
  • Esmeralda Avenue (disambiguation)
  • Esmeralda Open, a golf tournament on the PGA Tour that was played in the 1940s
  • Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado "La Esmeralda", an educational institution for plastic arts
  • Esmeralda language, an extinct language from Ecuador
  • Esmeralda Peaks, a mountain in Washington state, United States

See also

  • Santa Esmeralda, a 1970s musical group
  • Miss Esmeralda, an 1887 Victorian burlesque on Victor Hugo's work, with music by Meyer Lutz and a libretto by Fred Leslie
  • La Esmeralda (disambiguation)
  • Esmeraldas (disambiguation)