# Empress (disambiguation)

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

* Canadian Pacific 2816, also nicknamed "Empress"
* 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