Memphis

Memphis is the name of:

• Memphis, Egypt, a former capital of Egypt
• Memphis, Tennessee, a major American city

It also may refer to:

Places

• Mampsis, Mamshit or Memphis, a Nabatean city
• Memphis, Egypt, the ancient capital of the first nome of Lower Egypt, and of the Old Kingdom of Egypt

In the United States

• Memphis, Alabama
• Memphis, Florida
• Memphis, Indiana
• Memphis, Michigan
• Memphis, Mississippi
• Memphis, Missouri
• Memphis, Nebraska
• Memphis, New York
• Memphis, Ohio
• Memphis, Tennessee, the second-largest city in Tennessee, United States
  • Memphis metropolitan area
• Memphis, Texas

Film

• Memphis (film), a 2013 film directed by Tim Sutton
• The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress, a 1944 documentary film about the real aircraft and crew on its final mission
• Memphis Belle (film), a 1990 fictional film inspired by the 1944 documentary

Music

• Memphis (band), a musical duo
• Memphis Industries, a record label
• Memphis (musical), a Broadway musical by David Bryan and Joe DiPietro

Albums

• Memphis (Boz Scaggs album), 2013
• Memphis (Roy Orbison album), 1972

Songs

• "Memphis (The Badloves song)"
• "Memphis, Tennessee" (song) or "Memphis", a song by Chuck Berry, also covered by many artists
• "Memphis", a guitar instrumental by Lonnie Mack
• "Walking in Memphis", by Marc Cohn
• "I Should See Memphis", by Fleet Foxes from Crack-Up (album)
• "Memphis", by David Nail
• "Memphis", by Justin Bieber featuring Big Sean from Journals
• "Memphis", by Peter Tosh & The Upsetters
• "Memphis", by The Surfaris from Wipe Out
• "Memphis", by White Zombie from Psycho-Head Blowout

Other uses

• Memphis (mythology), the wife of Epaphus, who was, according to legend, the founder of Memphis, Egypt
• Memphis (genus), a genus of brush-footed butterflies
• Memphis (cigarette), a cigarette brand of Austria Tabak
• Memphis (typeface), a slab-serif typeface designed in 1929 by Dr. Rudolf Wolf
• Memphis Group, an influential design movement of Italian designers and architects in the 1980s
• USS Memphis (CA-10), a US Navy armored cruiser wrecked by a tsunami in 1916
• USS Memphis (SSN-691), a nuclear attack submarine of the United States Navy
• Windows 98, codenamed Memphis during development
• City of Memphis (train), a passenger train route

People with the name

• Memphis Bleek, a New York rapper
• Memphis Depay, a Dutch footballer
• Randall 'Memphis' Raines, a character in Gone in 60 Seconds
• Ricky Memphis, an Italian actor

See also

• University of Memphis, a public university in Memphis, Tennessee
• Memphis Tigers, the athletic programs of the University of Memphis
• West Memphis, Arkansas, part of the Memphis, Tennessee metropolitan area
• Memphis La Blusera, an Argentine blues band
• Memphis Grizzlies, American professional basketball team based in Memphis, Tennessee