Scheherazade is a major character and the storyteller in One Thousand and One Nights.

Scheherazade, Shéhérazade, or variants, may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Film and television

  • Shéhérazade (1963 film), a French adventure film
  • Shéhérazade (2018 film), a French film
  • 1001 Nights (1990 film), released in some markets as Sheherazade
  • Şehrazat (film), a 1964 Turkish thriller
  • Shahrzad (TV series), an Iranian romantic and historical drama series
  • "Scheherazade", an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit season 8

Music

  • Shéhérazade (Ravel), two works by Ravel
  • Shéhérazade (Frederica von Stade recording), 1981
  • Scheherazade (Rimsky-Korsakov), a symphonic suite later adapted for ballet
  • Scheherazade, 1848 classical composition work of Robert Schumann as part of Album for the Young
  • Sheherazade, a 1915 piano piece by Karol Szymanowski
  • Sheherazade (Ornella Vanoni album), 1995
  • Scheherazade, a 2016 album by Freakwater
  • Shahrazad, a 2023 album by Delara
  • Scheherazade and Other Stories, an album by English progressive rock band Renaissance

Other uses in arts and entertainment

  • Shéhérazade, a 1947 play by Jules Supervielle

People

  • Shahrzad (Reza Kamal) (1898–1937), Iranian dramatist and playwright
  • Shahrzad (actress) (1950–2025), Iranian actress and poet
  • Şehrazat (Şehrazat Kemali Söylemezoğlu, born 1952), Turkish singer-songwriter
  • Shaharzad Akbar (born 1987), Afghan human rights activist
  • Shahrazad Ali (born 1954), American author
  • Sheherazade Goldsmith (born 1974), British environmentalist, jeweller and columnist
  • Shahrzad Mirgholikhan (born 1977), Iranian whistleblower
  • Shahrzad Mojab (fl. from 1979), Iranian-Canadian academic
  • Shahrzad Rafati (born 1979), Iranian-Canadian media executive
  • Shérazad Reix (born 1989), French tennis player
  • Shahrzad Seifi (born 1986), Iranian producer and actress
  • Shéhérazade Semsar-de Boisséson (born 1968), Franco-Iranian executive
  • Shahrzad Sepanlou (born 1975), Iranian-American singer
  • Shahrzad Shokouhivand, Iranian pastry chef and entrepreneur
  • Rachel Sheherazade (born 1973), Brazilian journalist

Other uses

  • Shahrazad (crater), on Saturn's moon Enceladus
  • Scheherazade (yacht), launched 2019
  • 643 Scheherezade, a minor planet orbiting the Sun
  • Scheherazade New and Scheherazade, fonts for Arabic script

See also

  • Scheherazade and Other Stories, 1975 album by Renaissance
  • Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story, 2009 Egyptian film
  • Scheherazade's Diary, 2013 film
  • Princesse Shéhérazade, French animated TV series
  • The Magic of Scheherazade, 1987 video game
  • Song of Scheherazade, 1947 American film starring Yvonne De Carlo and Jean-Pierre Aumont
  • A sister to Scheherazade, 1987 novel by Assia Djebar