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An empress is a female imperial monarch, or the wife of an imperial monarch; written with a capital, Empress is used as the title of an empress, placed before her name – often just the given name.

Empress or The Empress may also refer to:

Monarchy

• Empress regnant, a female monarch of an empire
• Empress consort, the wife of a reigning emperor
• Empress dowager, the widow of an emperor
• Empress mother, an empress dowager who is the mother of a reigning monarch
• Empress of Japan, empress consort to the current reigning emperor

Arts and entertainment

• Beatmania IIDX 16: Empress, the 16th game in the beatmania IIDX series of music video games
• The Empress, a fictional pirate ship from the 2007 film Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
• The Empress, a character in the Adventure Time miniseries Stakes
• Empress (album), an album by Yemi Alade
• Empress (chess), a fairy chess piece that moves as a rook or a knight
• Empress (comic book), an Icon Comics/Dark Horse Comics limited series
• Empress (character), a superheroine in the DC Comics universe
• Empress (novel), a 2003 novel by Shan Sa
• The Empress (play), a 2013 play by Tanika Gupta
• The Empress (Tarot card), a trump card from the tarot deck
• The Empress (TV series), a 2022 historical drama series on the life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria
• Empress of Blandings, a fictional pig in the Blandings Castle novels and stories by P. G. Wodehouse
• Empress of Mijak (or simply Empress), a 2007 novel by Karen Miller

Biology

• A number of brush-footed butterflies in the subfamily Apaturinae:
• Empress, Sasakia funebris, in the Sasakia genus
  • Empress Antonia, Asterocampa celtis antonia, a subspecies of Asterocampa celtis
  • Empress Leilia, Asterocampa leilia, a species in the genus Asterocampa
  • Empress Flora, Asterocampa clyton flora, a subspecies of Asterocampa clyton
  • Empress Louisa, A. c. louisa, a subspecies of Asterocampa clyton
  • Painted empress, Apaturopsis cleochares
• EMPReSS, a database of standardized phenotyping protocols used by the International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium
• Empress brilliant (Heliodoxa imperatrix), a species of hummingbird in the family Trochilidae
• Empress cicada (Megapomponia imperatoria), a species of cicada from Southeast Asia
• Empress tree (Paulownia tomentosa), a deciduous tree native to central and western China

Places

• Empress, Alberta, a village, Canada
• Empress, Georgia, an unincorporated community, United States
• The Empress (hotel), Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Ships

• American Empress (formerly Empress of the North), a stern-wheel cruise ship in the Pacific Northwest of the United States
• HMS Empress, more than one ship of the British Royal Navy
• MS Empress, a cruise ship operated by Pullmantur Cruises, formerly named Nordic Empress and Empress of the Seas
• MS Empress of Australia, a Bass Strait ferry
• RMS Empress of Asia, an ocean liner built in 1912–1913 in Scotland for Canadian Pacific Steamships
• RMS Empress of Australia (1919), an ocean liner built in 1913–1919 in Germany for the Hamburg America Line
• RMS Empress of Britain, a list of Canadian Pacific Steamship Company ocean liners
• RMS Empress of Canada, a list of ships of the Canadian Pacific Steamship Company
• RMS Empress of China (1890), ocean liner built in 1890–1891 in Barrow, England for Canadian Pacific Steamships
• RMS Empress of Ireland, an English ocean liner, sank in 1914 in the Saint Lawrence River, Canada
• USS Empress (SP-569), a United States Navy passenger barge in service briefly during 1917

Other uses

• Empress (cracker), video game cracker
• Empress (provincial electoral district), Alberta, Canada
• Empress Embedded Database, a commercial relational database software
• A former call sign for Canadian North airline
• A call sign for Canadian Pacific Air Lines

See also

• La Emperatriz, an album by Rigoberta Bandini
• Empress Springs, a place in Western Australia
• Empress Theatre (disambiguation)