# Amazon

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'''Amazon''' most often refers to:
* [Amazon rainforest](/source/Amazon_rainforest), a rainforest covering most of the Amazon basin
* [Amazon (company)](/source/Amazon_(company)), an American multinational technology company
* [Amazon River](/source/Amazon_River), in South America
* [Amazons](/source/Amazons), a tribe of female warriors in Greek mythology
'''Amazon''' or '''Amazone''' may also refer to:
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== Arts and entertainment ==
=== Fictional characters ===
* [Amazon (Amalgam Comics)](/source/Amazon_(Amalgam_Comics))
* Amazon, an alias of the Marvel supervillain [Man-Killer](/source/Man-Killer)
* [Amazons (DC Comics)](/source/Amazons_(DC_Comics)), a group of superhuman characters
* The Amazon, a ''[Diablo II](/source/Diablo_II)'' character
* The Amazon, a ''[Pro Wrestling](/source/Pro_Wrestling_(NES_video_game))'' character
* [Amazon (''Dragon's Crown'')](/source/Amazon_(Dragon's_Crown)), a character from the ''Dragon's Crown'' game
* ''[Kamen Rider Amazon](/source/Kamen_Rider_Amazon)'', title character in the fourth installment of the ''Kamen Rider'' series

=== Film and television ===
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* [''The Amazons'' (1917 film)](/source/The_Amazons_(1917_film)), an American silent tragedy film
* [''The Amazon'' (film)](/source/The_Amazon_(film)), a 1921 German silent film
* ''[War Goddess](/source/War_Goddess)'', also known as ''The Amazons'', a 1973 Italian adventure fantasy drama
* [''Amazons'' (1984 film)](/source/Amazons_(1984_film)), an American thriller
* [''Amazons'' (1986 film)](/source/Amazons_(1986_film)), an Argentine adventure fantasy
* [''Amazon'' (1990 film)](/source/Amazon_(1990_film)), a 1990 drama
* [''Amazon'' (1997 film)](/source/Amazon_(1997_film)), a short documentary
* [''Amazon'' (1999 TV series)](/source/Amazon_(1999_TV_series)), a Canadian drama
* [''Amazon'' (2000 film)](/source/Amazon_(2000_film)), a 2000 French film
* [''Amazon'' (2008 TV series)](/source/Amazon_(2008_TV_series)), a British documentary series

=== Gaming ===
* [Amazon (chess)](/source/Amazon_(chess)), a fairy chess piece
* [Amazons (solitaire)](/source/Amazons_(solitaire)), a card game
* [''Amazon'' (video game)](/source/Amazon_(video_game)), a 1984 interactive fiction graphic adventure game
* ''[Amazon: Guardians of Eden](/source/Amazon%3A_Guardians_of_Eden)'', a 1992 video game
* ''[Game of the Amazons](/source/Game_of_the_Amazons)'', a board game

=== Literature ===
* ''[Amazons!](/source/Amazons!)'', a 1979 fantasy anthology edited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
* [''Amazons'' (novel)](/source/Amazons_(novel)), a 1980 novel co-written by Don DeLillo, published under the pseudonym Cleo Birdwell
* [''Swallows and Amazons'' series](/source/Swallows_and_Amazons_series), twelve children's novels by Arthur Ransome
* [''The Amazon'' (novella)](/source/The_Amazon_(novella)), by Nikolai Leskov
* [''The Amazons'' (play)](/source/The_Amazons_(play)), by Arthur Wing Pinero

=== Music ===
* [The Amazons (band)](/source/The_Amazons_(band)), a British indie band from Reading, Berkshire
**[''The Amazons'' (album)](/source/The_Amazons_(album))
* [Amazons (Japanese group)](/source/Amazons_(Japanese_group)), a female group formed in 1985

== Businesses and organizations ==
* [Amazon Bookstore Cooperative](/source/Amazon_Bookstore_Cooperative), a feminist bookstore (1970–2012)
* [Amazonen-Werke](/source/Amazonen-Werke), a German agricultural machinery manufacturer (founded 1883)
* [Café Amazon](/source/Caf%C3%A9_Amazon), Thai coffee chain
* [Takembeng](/source/Takembeng), or les Amazones des SDF, a 1990s women's social movement in Cameroon

== Military units ==
* [Amazonian Guard](/source/Amazonian_Guard), or "the Amazons", a bodyguard unit of Muammar Gaddafi
* [Amazons Company](/source/Amazons_Company), a Greek ceremonial female battalion
* [Dahomey Amazons](/source/Dahomey_Amazons), a Fon regiment

== People ==
* [Amazon Eve](/source/Amazon_Eve) (born 1979), American model, fitness trainer, and actress
* [Lesa Lewis](/source/Lesa_Lewis) (born 1967), American professional bodybuilder nicknamed "Amazon"

== Places ==
* [Amazon Basin (sedimentary basin)](/source/Amazon_Basin_(sedimentary_basin)), a sedimentary basin at the middle and lower course of the river
* [Amazon basin](/source/Amazon_basin), the part of South America drained by the river and its tributaries
* [Amazon Creek](/source/Amazon_Creek), a stream in Oregon, U.S.
* [Amazon Delta](/source/Amazon_Delta), a vast river delta formed by the Amazon and Tocantins Rivers in northern South America
* [Amazon Reef](/source/Amazon_Reef), at the mouth of the Amazon basin
* [1042 Amazone](/source/1042_Amazone), an asteroid

== Sports ==
* [COD United Amazons F.C.](/source/COD_United_Amazons_F.C.), a women's association football club in Lagos State, Nigeria
* [Los Angeles Amazons](/source/Los_Angeles_Amazons), a women's semi-professional American football team (2002–2012)
* [Nasarawa Amazons F.C.](/source/Nasarawa_Amazons_F.C.), a women's association football club in Nasarawa State, Nigeria
* [Vancouver Amazons](/source/Vancouver_Amazons), a Canadian women's ice hockey team of the 1920s

== Transportation ==
=== Land vehicles ===
* [Amazon (automobile)](/source/Amazon_(automobile)), a 1920s British cyclecar
* ''Amazon'', a [GWR 3031 Class](/source/GWR_3031_Class) locomotive operating 1892–1908
* ''Amazon'', a [GWR Iron Duke Class](/source/GWR_Iron_Duke_Class) locomotive operating 1851–1877
* [Volvo Amazon](/source/Volvo_Amazon), a 1956–1970 mid-size car

=== Ships ===
* [''Amazon'' (1780 ship)](/source/Amazon_(1780_ship)), launched in France in 1775 under another name
* [''Amazon'' (brigitane)](/source/Mary_Celeste), a Canadian brigantine launched 1861, later more famously named ''Mary Celeste''
* [''Amazon'' (yacht)](/source/Amazon_(yacht)), a British screw schooner built 1885
* [''Amazon''-class frigate](/source/Amazon-class_frigate), four classes of frigate of the British Royal Navy
* [''Amazon''-class sloop](/source/Amazon-class_sloop), of the British Royal Navy
* [French submarine ''Amazone'' (1916)](/source/French_submarine_Amazone_(1916)), an Armide-class diesel-electric attack submarine
* [HMS ''Amazon''](/source/HMS_Amazon), nine ships of the Royal Navy
* [RMS ''Amazon''](/source/RMS_Amazon), two ships of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company
* [SMS ''Amazone'' (1843)](/source/SMS_Amazone_(1843)), a 3-masted sail corvette of the Prussian Navy
* [SMS ''Amazone''](/source/SMS_Amazone), a 1900 2,700 ton ''Gazelle''-class light cruiser
* [USS ''Amazon'' (1861)](/source/USS_Amazon_(1861)), a US Navy bark

== Other uses ==
* [Amazon (color)](/source/Amazon_(color)), a variant of jungle green
*[.amazon](/source/.amazon), an Amazon.com-operated internet top-level domain

== See also ==
* {{lookfrom|Amazon}}
* {{intitle|Amazon}}
* [Amason (disambiguation)](/source/Amason_(disambiguation))
* [Amazonas (disambiguation)](/source/Amazonas_(disambiguation))
* [Amazonia (disambiguation)](/source/Amazonia_(disambiguation))
* [Amazonian (disambiguation)](/source/Amazonian_(disambiguation))
* [Amyzon (disambiguation)](/source/Amyzon_(disambiguation))
* ''[Amazonka](/source/Amazonka)'', a 2008 album by Ruslana
* [Amazon parrot](/source/Amazon_parrot), a bird genus
* [Amazonis Planitia](/source/Amazonis_Planitia), on Mars
* ''[Amazonsaurus](/source/Amazonsaurus)'', a dinosaur genus

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