# Ramesses

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For the description of the name, see [Ramesses (Egyptian name)](/source/Ramesses_(Egyptian_name)).

**Ramesses** or **Ramses** may refer to:

## Ancient Egypt

### Pharaohs of the nineteenth dynasty

- [Ramesses I](/source/Ramesses_I), founder of the 19th Dynasty
- [Ramesses II](/source/Ramesses_II), also called "Ramesses the Great" - Prince [Ramesses (prince)](/source/Ramesses_(prince)), second son of Ramesses II - Prince [Ramesses-Meryamun-Nebweben](/source/Ramesses-Meryamun-Nebweben), a son of Ramesses II

### Pharaohs of the twentieth dynasty

- [Ramesses III](/source/Ramesses_III), adversary of the Sea Peoples
- [Ramesses IV](/source/Ramesses_IV)
- [Ramesses V](/source/Ramesses_V)
- [Ramesses VI](/source/Ramesses_VI)
- [Ramesses VII](/source/Ramesses_VII)
- [Ramesses VIII](/source/Ramesses_VIII)
- [Ramesses IX](/source/Ramesses_IX)
- [Ramesses X](/source/Ramesses_X)
- [Ramesses XI](/source/Ramesses_XI)

### Locations

- [Pi-Ramesses](/source/Pi-Ramesses), founded by pharaoh Ramesses II on the former site of Avaris

## Books

- [The Mummy, or Ramses the Damned](/source/The_Mummy,_or_Ramses_the_Damned), a novel by Anne Rice
- The *Ramses* (*Ramsès*) series of five best-selling historical novels, by French author and Egyptologist [Christian Jacq](/source/Christian_Jacq)

## Entertainers and artists

- [Albert Marchinsky](/source/Albert_Marchinsky), an illusionist whose stage name was "The Great Rameses"
- [Ramases](/source/Ramases), an early-1970s-era British musician
- Ramsés VII, pseudonym used by Argentine singer-songwriter [Tanguito](/source/Tanguito) (1945-1972)
- [Ramesses (band)](/source/Ramesses_(band)), an English sludge/doom metal band, formed by ex-Electric Wizard members Tim Bagshaw and Mark Greening
- [Ramses Shaffy](/source/Ramses_Shaffy) (1933–2009), Dutch singer
- [Ramses Younan](/source/Ramses_Younan) (1913–1966), Egyptian painter and writer

## Fictional characters

- King Ramses, a minor villain in the animated cartoon *[Courage the Cowardly Dog](/source/Courage_the_Cowardly_Dog)*
- Walter 'Ramses' Emerson, a fictional character in the [Amelia Peabody series](/source/Amelia_Peabody_series) by Elizabeth Peters
- Ramses XIII, protagonist of the 1895 historical novel *[Pharaoh](/source/Pharaoh_(Prus_novel))* by Bolesław Prus

## Military

- MV *Ramses*, a German blockade runner sunk by [HMAS *Adelaide*](/source/HMAS_Adelaide_(1918)) in 1942
- The [Ramses II tank](/source/Ramses_II_tank), an Egyptian main battle tank

## Other uses

- Ramses, a brand of condom manufactured by [Durex](/source/Durex)
- [Ramses (spacecraft)](/source/Ramses_(spacecraft)) (Rapid Apophis Mission for Space Safety), the proposed space mission by the European Space Agency to rendezvous with the asteroid 99942 Apophis
- [Rameses (mascot)](/source/Rameses_(mascot)), the mascot for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- [Ramses Exchange](/source/Ramses_Exchange), telecoms building in downtown Cairo

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