Ramesses or Ramses may refer to:

Ancient Egypt

Pharaohs of the nineteenth dynasty

  • Ramesses I, founder of the 19th Dynasty
  • Ramesses II, also called "Ramesses the Great"
  • Prince Ramesses (prince), second son of Ramesses II
  • Prince Ramesses-Meryamun-Nebweben, a son of Ramesses II

Pharaohs of the twentieth dynasty

  • Ramesses III, adversary of the Sea Peoples
  • Ramesses IV
  • Ramesses V
  • Ramesses VI
  • Ramesses VII
  • Ramesses VIII
  • Ramesses IX
  • Ramesses X
  • Ramesses XI

Locations

  • Pi-Ramesses, founded by pharaoh Ramesses II on the former site of Avaris

Books

  • The Mummy, or Ramses the Damned, a novel by Anne Rice
  • The Ramses (Ramsès) series of five best-selling historical novels, by French author and Egyptologist Christian Jacq

Entertainers and artists

  • Albert Marchinsky, an illusionist whose stage name was "The Great Rameses"
  • Ramases, an early-1970s-era British musician
  • Ramsés VII, pseudonym used by Argentine singer-songwriter Tanguito (1945-1972)
  • Ramesses (band), an English sludge/doom metal band, formed by ex-Electric Wizard members Tim Bagshaw and Mark Greening
  • Ramses Shaffy (1933–2009), Dutch singer
  • Ramses Younan (1913–1966), Egyptian painter and writer

Fictional characters

  • King Ramses, a minor villain in the animated cartoon Courage the Cowardly Dog
  • Walter 'Ramses' Emerson, a fictional character in the Amelia Peabody series by Elizabeth Peters
  • Ramses XIII, protagonist of the 1895 historical novel Pharaoh by Bolesław Prus

Military

  • MV Ramses, a German blockade runner sunk by HMAS Adelaide in 1942
  • The Ramses II tank, an Egyptian main battle tank

Other uses

  • Ramses, a brand of condom manufactured by Durex
  • Ramses (spacecraft) (Rapid Apophis Mission for Space Safety), the proposed space mission by the European Space Agency to rendezvous with the asteroid 99942 Apophis
  • Rameses (mascot), the mascot for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Ramses Exchange, telecoms building in downtown Cairo