Ramesses

This article is about the Egyptian pharaohs. For other uses, see Rameses (disambiguation).

Ramesses in hieroglyphs

Ramesses (/ˈræməsiːz/; also commonly spelled Rameses or Ramses  /ˈræmsiːz/) is the name conventionally given in English transliteration to 11 Egyptian pharaohs of the later New Kingdom period. The name essentially translates as "Born of the sun-god Ra".

A variant of the name is Ramose; Egyptologists usually use the Ramesses variant for pharaohs and Ramose for non-royals.

19th Dynasty

• Ramesses I: founder of the 19th Dynasty
• Ramesses II ("the Great")

20th Dynasty

• Ramesses III: adversary of the Sea Peoples
• Ramesses IV
• Ramesses V
• Ramesses VI
• Ramesses VII
• Ramesses VIII
• Ramesses IX
• Ramesses X
• Ramesses XI: last ruler of the Egyptian New Kingdom

Other:

• Ramses, a former automobile and motor bike marque from the Egyptian Light Transport Manufacturing Company
• Ramesses or Pi-Ramesses, the name palace of Ramesses II, at the former site of Avaris
• Prince Ramesses, second son of Ramesses II
• The fictional "Ramses XIII," protagonist of the 1895 historical novel Pharaoh by Bolesław Prus
• Ramesses, the eponymous protagonist's father in "Thamos, König in Ägypten" ("Thamos, King of Egypt", or "King Thamos", in English), a play by Tobias Philipp, for which Mozart wrote incidental music
• Ramesses (band), an English sludge/doom metal band, formed by ex-Electric Wizard members Tim Bagshaw and Mark Greening
• Ramases, an early-1970's-era British musician
• Ramses Emerson, a fictional character in the "Amelia Peabody" book series by U.S. author Elizabeth Peters
• Ramses the Damned, an alternate title of the novel The Mummy by Anne Rice
• Rameses, the mascot for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Ramses, a summon creature in the Gameboy Advance game Golden Sun
• Ramses, a brand of condoms manufactured by Durex
• Ramses Shaffy (1933-2009), Dutch singer