# Amazon

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* Amazon River, in South America
* Amazon rainforest, a rainforest covering most of the Amazon basin
* Amazon (company), an American multinational technology company
** Amazon Prime Video, an American video streaming service
* Amazons, a tribe of female warriors in Greek mythology
Amazon or Amazone may also refer to:

## Arts 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
* Amazon (Dragon's Crown), a character from the Dragon's Crown game
* Kamen Rider Amazon, title character in the fourth installment of the Kamen Rider series

### Film and television

* The Amazons (1917 film), an American silent tragedy film
* 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

### Gaming

* 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 1992 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, twelve children's novels 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
** The Amazons (album)

## Businesses and organizations

* Amazon Bookstore Cooperative, a feminist bookstore (1970–2012)
* Amazonen-Werke, a German agricultural machinery manufacturer (founded 1883)
* Café Amazon, Thai coffee chain
* Takembeng, or les Amazones des SDF, a 1990s women's social movement in Cameroon

## 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

## People

* Amazon Eve (born 1979), American model, fitness trainer, and actress
* Lesa Lewis (born 1967), American professional bodybuilder nicknamed "Amazon"

## Places

* 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 Creek, a stream in Oregon, U.S.
* Amazon Reef, at the mouth of the Amazon basin
* 1042 Amazone, an asteroid

## Sports

* COD United Amazons F.C., a women's association football club in Lagos State, Nigeria
* Los Angeles Amazons, a women's semi-professional American football team (2002–2012)
* Nasarawa Amazons F.C., a women's association football club in Nasarawa State, Nigeria
* Vancouver Amazons, a Canadian women's ice hockey team of the 1920s

## 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 (brigitane), a Canadian brigantine launched 1861, later more famously named Mary Celeste
* 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 US Navy bark

## Other uses

* Amazon (color), a variant of jungle green