Seven Sisters

Seven Sisters is the common name for the Pleiades, a star cluster named for mythological characters

Seven Sisters may also refer to:

Mythology

• Pleiades (Greek mythology), seven sisters who are companions of Artemis in Greek mythology
• Pleiades in folklore and literature, traditional and mythological interpretations of the star cluster
• The Hesperides of Greek mythology

Education

• Seven Sisters (colleges), a group of American women's colleges
• The Seven Sisters of American Protestantism, an informal grouping of seven traditional mainline and liberal Protestant denominations

Geographical locations

• Seven Sisters, Baja California, Seven epic point breaks in Baja California, Mexico
• Seven Sisters, British Columbia, a mountain range in British Columbia, Canada
• Seven Sisters, Donegal, a mountain chain in County Donegal, Ireland
• Seven Sisters, London, an area and road in England with a railway and underground station of that name
  • Seven Sisters station, a rail station and underground (tube) station at Tottenham, London
  • Seven Sisters Road, a road in North London
• Seven Sisters, Manitoba, a community in Manitoba, Canada
• Seven Sisters, Mars, a group of seven high altitude caves on the planet Mars near Arsia Mons
• Seven Sisters (Massachusetts), a group of ridgeline knobs located in the Holyoke Range of Western Massachusetts
• Seven Sisters (Moscow), a group of seven Stalinist skyscrapers in Moscow, Russia
• De syv søstre (Seven Sisters), a mountain formation in Helgeland, Norway
• Seven Sisters (Queensland), a group of small mountains on the Atherton Tableland in Australia
• Seven Sisters, Sussex, a group of chalk cliffs in England
• Seven Sisters, Neath Port Talbot, a village in South Wales
• Seven Sister States, a region in northeastern India comprising the contiguous states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, and Tripura

Film

• The Seven Sisters (1915 film), a 1915 silent film starring Marguerite Clark and released by Paramount Pictures

Music

• Seven Sisters (Beta Radio album), an album by the American band Beta Radio
• Seven Sisters (Meja album), an album by the Swedish composer and singer Meja
• "Seven Sisters", a song by Tori Amos from Her 2011 album, Night of Hunters
• "Seven Sisters", a song by American band MewithoutYou from their album, Catch for Us the Foxes
• "The Seven Sisters", a song by American band Rainer Maria from their album, A Better Version of Me

Art

• The Seven Sisters, An image of the seven progressions of the miners safety lamp by Adrian Moule 2010

Organizations

• Seven sisters (studios), the seven original major movie studios
• Seven Sisters (oil companies), a group of oil companies
• Seven Sisters (law firms), seven Canadian law firms
• Seven Sisters (magazines), a group of American women's magazines

Games

• Seven Sisters (Forgotten Realms), fictional characters from the Forgotten Realms role-playing game

Sport

• The Seven Sisters (Sette Sorelle), the most prominent Italian football clubs in Serie A during the 1990s and early 2000s: Juventus F.C., A.C. Milan, F.C. Internazionale Milano, S.S. Lazio, ACF Fiorentina, A.C. Parma and A.S. Roma

Waterfalls

• Seven Sisters Waterfall, Norway, a group of waterfalls in the Geirangerfjord
• Seven Sisters Waterfall, Grenada, a succession of seven waterfalls in Grenada also called St. Margaret Falls

See also

• Qixi Festival, a Chinese holiday, sometimes called "Seventh Sister's Birthday"