Seven Sisters Explained

Seven Sisters may refer to:

• Pleiades, or Seven Sisters, a star cluster named for Pleiades (Greek mythology), the seven sisters who are companions of Artemis in Greek mythology

Arts and entertainment

Music

• Seven Sisters (Beta Radio album), 2010
• Seven Sisters (Meja album), 1998
• "Seven Sisters", an instrumental by Tori Amos from Night of Hunters, 2011
• "Seven Sisters", a song by MewithoutYou from Catch for Us the Foxes, 2004
• "Seven Sisters", a song by the Sword from Apocryphon, 2012
• "The Seven Sisters", a song by Celldweller from Wish Upon a Blackstar, 2012
• "The Seven Sisters", a song by Rainer Maria from A Better Version of Me, 2001

Films

• The Seven Sisters (film), a 1915 American silent romantic comedy
• Seven Sisters (film), or What Happened to Monday, a 2017 dystopian science-fiction film

Books and plays

• The Seven Sisters (musical), an 1860 musical
• The Seven Sisters, a 1975 book by Anthony Sampson about the Seven Sisters (oil companies)
• The Seven Sisters (novel), 1992 novel by Margaret Drabble
• The Seven Sisters, 2014–2023 book series by Lucinda Riley

Theatre

• Seven Sisters Group, a 1990 British performance company

Other media

• Seven sisters (studios), the seven original major movie studios
• Seven Sisters (magazines), a group of American women's magazines
• Seven Sisters (Forgotten Realms), fictional characters from the Forgotten Realms role-playing game
• The Seven Sisters (role-playing game supplement)

Biology

• Seven Sisters Oak, largest southern live oak registered in the U.S.
• Jungle babbler, a type of bird known as seven sisters in northern India
• Crinum americanum, a plant commonly known as seven sisters
• Sterculia monosperma, a type of nut from Southern China known as seven sisters' fruit

Organizations

• Big Oil, various lists of seven companies said to dominate the oil industry at various times
• Seven Sisters (colleges), the name given to seven US liberal arts colleges that are historically women's colleges
• Seven Sisters (law firms), seven Canadian law firms

Places

Australia

• Seven Sisters (Queensland), a group of small mountains on the Atherton Tableland in Australia

Continental Europe

• Seven Sisters (Moscow), a group of skyscrapers in Russia
• Seven Sisters Waterfall (Norway), Geirangerfjord
• De syv søstre (Seven Sisters), a mountain formation in Helgeland, Norway

Ireland

• Seven Sisters, Donegal, a mountain chain in County Donegal, Ireland

North America

• Seven Sisters (Massachusetts), a group of ridgeline knobs in the Holyoke Range of Western Massachusetts, US
• Seven Sisters, Baja California, seven surfing point breaks in Baja California, Mexico
• Seven Sisters Falls, Manitoba, a community in Manitoba, Canada
• Seven Sisters Mountain, Alberta, Canada
• Seven Sisters Peaks, British Columbia, Canada

United Kingdom

England

• Seven Sisters, London
  • Seven Sisters station, a rail and Tube station
  • Seven Sisters Road, North London
• Seven Sisters (Quantock Hills), a prominent Somerset landmark
• Seven Sisters Road, St Lawrence, Isle of Wight
• Seven Sisters, Sussex, a group of chalk cliffs
• Seven Sisters Rocks, Symonds Yat, Herefordshire

Wales

• Seven Sisters, Neath Port Talbot, a village
  • Seven Sisters (electoral ward), an electoral ward, Neath Port Talbot

Hong Kong

• Tsat Tsz Mui (Seven Sisters), an area and road in Hong Kong

India

• Seven Sister States, a region in northeastern India

Other uses

• The Seven Sisters songline, a creation (Dreamtime) story in Aboriginal Australian mythology,
  • linked to Australian Aboriginal astronomy
• Seven Sisters of American Protestantism, mainline Protestant denominations
• Seven Sisters (Sette Sorelle), most successful Italian Serie A football clubs: Juventus, Milan, Inter, Roma, Lazio, Napoli (replacing Parma), and Fiorentina

See also

• Pleiades in folklore and literature, often termed the Seven Sisters