Penelope is the faithful wife of Odysseus in Homer's epic poem Odyssey.

Penelope may also refer to:

People

  • Penelope (mother of Pan), mother of the god Pan in Greek mythology
  • Penelope (given name), any of several people and fictional characters
  • Julia Penelope (1941–2013), American linguist, author and philosopher

Places

  • Penelope, Texas, a town in the United States
  • Penelope Point, Victoria Land, Antarctica
  • 201 Penelope, an asteroid
  • Penelope (crater), on Saturn's moon Tethys

Plays

  • La Penelope, c. 1580, by Giambattista della Porta
  • Penelope (Maugham play) 1912 by Somerset Maugham
  • Penelope (Enda Walsh play), a 2010 tragicomedy
  • Penelope, or How the Odyssey was Really Written, 2022 musical by Peter Kellogg and Stephen Weiner

Film and television

  • Penelope (1966 film), starring Natalie Wood
  • Penelope (2006 film), starring Christina Ricci
  • "Penelope", an episode of the third season of Criminal Minds
  • Penelope, a 2024 American television show on Netflix

Music

  • The Penelopes, an indie pop/electronic band from Paris

Opera

  • Penelope, a German-language opera by Rolf Liebermann
  • Pénélope (Fauré), an opera by Gabriel Fauré, first performed in 1913
  • Pénélope (Piccinni), an opera performed in 1785

Songs

  • "Penelope" (Pinback song)
  • "Penelope", a song by Great Big Sea from the album Sea of No Cares
  • "Penélope", a song by Joan Manuel Serrat
  • "Pénélope", a song by Georges Brassens
  • "Penelope", a song cycle by Sarah Kirkland Snider

Ships

  • , any of several Royal Navy ships
  • Hired armed cutter Penelope, in Royal Navy service from 1794 to 1799
  • French frigate Pénélope (1806)
  • , any of several steamships with this name

Other uses

  • Penelope (bird), a bird genus in the family Cracidae
  • Penelope (e-mail client), e-mail software now named Eudora OSE
  • Penelope brand of embroidery materials
  • Penelope (horse) (1798–1824), thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare
  • Penelope (platypus), a platypus who escaped from the Bronx Zoo in 1957
  • Prix Penelope, a thoroughbred horse race in France
  • Penelope High School, Texas, United States
  • "Penelope", the name given to Molly Bloom's Soliloquy in the James Joyce novel Ulysses
  • Penelopeia , a genus of Cucurbitaceae