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Ramesses

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Ramesses may refer to:

Ancient Egypt

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Pharaohs of the nineteenth dynasty

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Pharaohs of the twentieth dynasty

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Locations

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  • Pi-Ramesses, founded by pharaoh Ramesses II on the former site of Avaris

Books

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  • Ramses the Damned, an alternate title of the novel The Mummy by Anne Rice
  • The Ramses (Ramsès) series of five best-selling historical novels, by French author and Egyptologist Christian Jacq

Entertainers and artists

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

Fictional characters

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  • King Ramses, a minor villain in the animated cartoon Courage the Cowardly Dog
  • Ramses Emerson, a fictional character in the "Amelia Peabody" book series by U.S. author Elizabeth Peters
  • Ramses, a summon creature in the Game Boy Advance game Golden Sun
  • Ramses XIII, protagonist of the 1895 historical novel Pharaoh by Bolesław Prus

Military

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Products

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  • Ramses, a brand of condom manufactured by Durex

Science and technology

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Sports

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  • Rameses (mascot), the mascot for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill