Amazon

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Amazon most often refers to:

• Amazon River, in South America
• Amazon rainforest, a rainforest covering most of the Amazon basin
• Amazon (company), an American multinational technology company
• 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 1991 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
• Los Angeles Amazons, an American football team (2002–2012)
• 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 Reef, at the mouth of the Amazon basin
• 1042 Amazone, an asteroid
• Amazon Creek, a stream in Oregon, US

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

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Amazon
• All pages with titles containing Amazon
• Amason (disambiguation)
• Amazonas (disambiguation)
• Amazonia (disambiguation)
• Amazonian (disambiguation)
• Amyzon (disambiguation)
• Amazonka, a 2008 album by Ruslana
• Amazon parrot, a bird genus
• Amazonis Planitia, on Mars
• Amazonsaurus, a dinosaur genus

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