Surprise

Surprise may refer to:

• Surprise (emotion), a brief emotional state experienced as the result of an unexpected significant event

Science and mathematics

• Surprise (networks), a measure for evaluating the quality of community structure in complex networks

Places

• Surprise, Arizona
• Surprise, Indiana
• Surprise, Nebraska
• Surprise Station, California or Surprise, California
• Surprise Valley (disambiguation)

Entertainment

• "Surprise" (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), episode 13 of season 2 of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Surprise (animated film), a 1991 short by Pixar
• Surprise! (film), a 1995 short by Veit Helmer
• ¡Sorpresa!, a TV network whose name means "Surprise!" in Spanish

Music

• Surprise Records, a record label
• Surprise Symphony, Symphony No. 94 by Joseph Haydn

Albums

• Surprise (Better Than Ezra album), 1990 by Better Than Ezra
• Surprise (Crystal Waters album), 1991 by Crystal Waters
• Surprise (S.E.S. album), 2001 by S.E.S.
• Surprise (Paul Simon album), 2006 by Paul Simon, released
• Surprise (Sylvia album), by country music singer Sylvia
• Surprises (Herbie Mann album), 1976 by Cissy Houston
• Surprise! (album), an album by Fifteen

Songs

• "Surprise", a song by Sugababes from the 2007 album Change
• "Surprise" (Nevermind song)
• "Surprise!" (song),a 1996 song by Bonnie Pink
• Surprises, a song by Billy Joel from the 1982 album Nylon Curtain

People

• Surprise Moriri (born 1980), South African footballer

Ships

• HMS Surprise, the name of several British Royal Navy ships
  • HMS Surprise (novel), a 1973 historical naval novel by Patrick O'Brian
• USS Surprise, the name of several United States Navy ships
• HMS Surprise (replica ship), a modern tall ship, built at Lunenberg, Nova Scotia, Canada
• HMS Surprize (1746), a 24-gun sixth rate ship of the Royal Navy
• Surprize (ship), convict ship sailed to Australia 1790
• Surprise (clipper), 1850 clipper ship in the San Francisco and tea trades
• Surprise (1777), the first American naval ship of the name
• Surprise (paddle steamer), the first paddle steamer, and the first steam powered vessel, built and run in Australia

See also

• Surprise factor, a storytelling technique
• Self-information, a concept in information theory
• Surprise, Surprise (disambiguation)