Scheherazade (disambiguation)

Scheherazade (Persian: شهرزاد‎) is a female name meaning "of noble lineage" in old Persian, or "born in the city" in modern Persian.

Most famously it refers to Scheherazade, the story teller in One Thousand and One Nights.

It may also refer to one of the following:

In music

• Scheherazade (Rimsky-Korsakov), a symphonic suite composed in 1888 by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, later used for a ballet by Michel Fokine
• either of two compositions by Maurice Ravel:
  • Shéhérazade, Ouverture de fée of 1897
  • Shéhérazade, song cycle of 1905
• Sheherazade, one of three Masques for piano, Op 34 by Karol Szymanowski
• Scheherazade and Other Stories, a 1975 album by the English band Renaissance
• Scheherazade, a 2008 album by the award winning New Age/World artist Al Conti

In film and television

• Song of Scheherazade‎, a 1947 American film starring Yvonne De Carlo and Jean-Pierre Aumont
• Shéhérazade (film), a 1963 French film starring Anna Karina
• "Scheherezad", Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Presents 1956 episode
• "Scheherezade", an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Video games and science fiction

• Scheherazade (Soul Calibur), a fictional character in the Soul series of fighting games
• The Magic of Scheherazade, a video game created by Culture Brain
• Scheherazade (anthology), UK Science Fiction anthology or fanzine series of 23 books

Astronomy

• Shahrazad (crater), a crater on the moon Enceladus
• 643 Scheherezade, an asteroid

People

• Sheherazade Goldsmith, actress, writer and ecological campaigner.