Memphis Explained

Memphis most commonly refers to:

• Memphis, Egypt, a former capital of ancient Egypt
• Memphis, Tennessee, a major American city

Memphis may also refer to:

Places

United States

• Memphis, Alabama
• Memphis, Florida
• Memphis, Indiana
• Memphis, Michigan
• Memphis, Mississippi
• Memphis, Missouri
• Memphis, Nebraska
• Memphis, New York
• Memphis, Ohio
• Memphis metropolitan area, centered on Memphis, Tennessee
• Memphis, Texas

Elsewhere

• Mampsis, Mamshit or Memphis, a Nabatean city

Music

• Memphis (band), a musical duo
• Memphis Industries, a record label
• Memphis (musical), a Broadway musical by David Bryan and Joe DiPietro

Albums

• Memphis (Boz Scaggs album), 2013
• Memphis (Roy Orbison album), 1972
• , 2019

Songs

• "Memphis, Tennessee" (song) or "Memphis", by Chuck Berry, 1959; covered by many performers
• "Memphis" (The Badloves song), 1994
• "Memphis" (Joe Jackson song), 1983
• "Memphis", by Donnie Brooks, 1961
• "Memphis", by David Nail, 2002
• "Memphis", by Justin Bieber from Journals, 2013
• "Memphis", by White Zombie from Psycho-Head Blowout, 1987

Other uses

• Memphis (1992 film), an American television film
• Memphis (2013 film), a film directed by Tim Sutton.
• Memphis (mythology), the wife of Epaphus, who was, according to legend, the founder of Memphis, Egypt
• Memphis (genus), a genus of brush-footed butterflies
• Memphis (cigarette), a cigarette brand of Austria Tabak
• Memphis (typeface), a slab-serif typeface designed in 1929 by Dr. Rudolf Wolf
• Memphis Group, an influential design movement of Italian designers and architects in the 1980s
• USS Memphis (CA-10), a US Navy armored cruiser wrecked by a tsunami in 1916
• USS Memphis (SSN-691), a nuclear attack submarine of the United States Navy
• Windows 98, codenamed Memphis during development
• City of Memphis (train), a passenger train route
• CSS Memphis Confederate Battery converted from floating dry dock 1861

People with the name

• Memphis Bleek, New York rapper
• Memphis Depay, Dutch footballer
• Randall 'Memphis' Raines, a character in Gone in 60 Seconds
• Ricky Memphis, Italian actor

See also

• • University of Memphis, a public university in Memphis, Tennessee
• Memphis Tigers, the athletic programs of the University of Memphis
• West Memphis, Arkansas, part of the Memphis, Tennessee, metropolitan area
• Memphis La Blusera, an Argentine blues band
• Memphis Grizzlies, American professional basketball team based in Memphis, Tennessee
• Corporate Memphis, an art style.