Amazon

Amazon usually refers to:

• Amazons, a tribe of woman warriors in Greek mythology
• Amazon rainforest, a rainforest covering most of the Amazon basin
• Amazon River, in South America
• Amazon (company), a multinational technology company

Amazon or Amazone may also refer to:

Places

South America

• Amazon Basin (sedimentary basin), a sedimentary basin at the middle and lower course of the river
• Amazon basin, the part of South America drained by the river and its tributaries
• Amazon Reef, at the mouth of the Amazon basin

Elsewhere

• 1042 Amazone, an asteroid
• Amazon Creek, a stream in Oregon, United States

People

• Amazon, the nom de guerre of a Roman gladiatrix at Halicarnassus
• Amazon Eve (born 1979), American model, fitness trainer, and actress
• Lesa Lewis (born 1967), American professional bodybuilder nicknamed "Amazon"

Art and entertainment

Fictional characters

• Amazon (Amalgam Comics)
• Amazon, an alias of the Marvel supervillain Man-Killer
• Amazons (DC Comics), a group of superhuman characters
• The Amazon, a Diablo II character
• The Amazon, a Pro Wrestling character

Film and television

• The Amazons (1917 film), an American silent tragedy
• The Amazon (film), a 1921 German silent film
• War Goddess, also known as The Amazons, a 1973 Italian adventure fantasy drama
• Amazons (1984 film), an American thriller
• Amazons (1986 film), an Argentine adventure fantasy
• Amazon (1990 film), a 1990 drama
• Amazon (1997 film), a short documentary
• Amazon (1999 TV series), a Canadian drama
• Amazon (2000 film), a 2000 French film
• Amazon (2008 TV series), a British documentary series

Games

• Amazon (chess), a fairy chess piece
• Amazons (solitaire), a card game
• Amazon (video game), a 1984 interactive fiction graphic adventure game
• Amazon: Guardians of Eden, a 1991 video game
• Game of the Amazons, a board game

Literature

• Amazons (novel), a 1980 novel co-written by Don DeLillo, published under the pseudonym Cleo Birdwell
• Amazons!, a fantasy anthology edited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
• Swallows and Amazons series, a series of twelve children's books by Arthur Ransome
• The Amazon (novella), by Nikolai Leskov
• The Amazons (play), by Arthur Wing Pinero

Music

• The Amazons (band), a British indie band from Reading, Berkshire

Military units

• Amazonian Guard, or "the Amazons", a bodyguard unit of Muammar Gaddafi
• Amazons Company, a Greek ceremonial female battalion
• Dahomey Amazons, a Fon regiment

Organizations

• Amazon Bookstore Cooperative, a former feminist bookstore
• Amazonen-Werke, a German agricultural machinery manufacturer
• Los Angeles Amazons, an American football team
• Takembeng, or les Amazones des SDF, a women's social movement in Cameroon

Transportation

Land vehicles

• Amazon (automobile), a 1920s British cyclecar
• Amazon, a GWR 3031 Class locomotive operating 1892–1908
• Amazon, a GWR Iron Duke Class locomotive operating 1851–1877
• Volvo Amazon, a 1956–1970 mid-size car

Ships

• Amazon (1780 ship), launched in France in 1775 under another name
• Amazon (brigantine), a Canadian brigantine launched 1861
• Amazon (yacht), a British screw schooner built 1885
• Amazon-class frigate, four classes of frigate of the British Royal Navy
• Amazon-class sloop, of the British Royal Navy
• French submarine Amazone (1916), an Armide-class diesel-electric attack submarine
• HMS Amazon, nine ships of the Royal Navy
• RMS Amazon, two ships of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company
• SMS Amazone (1843), a 3-masted sail corvette of the Prussian Navy
• SMS Amazone, a 1900 2,700 ton Gazelle-class light cruiser
• USS Amazon (1861), a United States Navy bark

Other uses

• Amazon (color), a variant of jungle green
• Amazon parrot

See also

• Amason (disambiguation)
• Amazonas (disambiguation)
• Amazonia (disambiguation)
• Amazonian (disambiguation)
• Amazonka, a 2008 album by Ruslana
• All pages with titles beginning with Amazon
• All pages with titles containing Amazon