Ramesses Explained

Ramesses 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

Ramses the Damned, an alternate title of the novel The Mummy 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
Ramses Emerson, a fictional character in the "Amelia Peabody" book series by U.S. author Elizabeth Peters
Ramses, a summon creature in the Game Boy Advance game Golden Sun
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

Products

Ramses, a brand of condom manufactured by Durex

Science and technology

RAMSES (Rapid Apophis Mission for SEcurity and Safety), the proposed space mission by the European Space Agency to rendezvous with the asteroid 99942 Apophis

Sports

Rameses (mascot), the mascot for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill