Ramesses may refer to:
Ancient Egypt
Pharaohs of the nineteenth dynasty
- Ramesses I, founder of the 19th Dynasty
- Ramesses II, also called "Ramesses the Great"
- Prince Ramesses (prince), second son of Ramesses II
- Prince Ramesses-Meryamun-Nebweben, a son of Ramesses II
Pharaohs of the twentieth dynasty
- Ramesses III, adversary of the Sea Peoples
- Ramesses IV
- Ramesses V
- Ramesses VI
- Ramesses VII
- Ramesses VIII
- Ramesses IX
- Ramesses X
- Ramesses XI
Locations
- Pi-Ramesses, founded by pharaoh Ramesses II on the former site of Avaris
Books
- 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
- 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
- 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
- MV Ramses, a German blockade runner sunk by HMAS Adelaide in 1942
- The Ramses II tank, an Egyptian main battle tank
Products
- Ramses, a brand of condom manufactured by Durex
Sports
- Rameses (mascot), the mascot for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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