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Galatea is an ancient Greek name meaning "she who is milk-white".
Galatea, Galathea or Gallathea may refer to:
In mythology
- Galatea, three different mythological figures from Greek mythology
In the arts
- Aci, Galatea e Polifemo, cantata by Handel
- Galatea (Raphael), or The Triumph of Galatea, a 1512 fresco of Ovid's sea-nymph
- Gallathea, a late sixteenth-century play by John Lyly
- Galatea, or Pygmalion Reversed, an 1883 musical comedy by Henry Pottinger Stephens, W. Webster and Meyer Lutz
- Galatea, a 2009 play by Lawrence Aronovitch
- La Galatea, a sixteenth-century pastoral novel by Miguel de Cervantes
- Galatea (novel), a 1953 novel by James M. Cain
- Galatea, a 1976 novel by Philip Pullman
- Galatea [ru], a 1977 ballet film with Ekaterina Maximova and Māris Liepa
- Galatea 2.2, a 1995 novel by Richard Powers
- Galatea (video game), released in 2000
- Galatea, a main figure in the Pygmalion and the Image series of four paintings by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1878)
- Galatea, a major character in Pamphilus de amore, a widely-read poem from 1200
- Galatea of the Spheres, a 1952 painting by Salvador Dalí
Fictional characters
- Galatea, in the manga Claymore by Norihiro Yagi
- Galatea, an android in the 2007 novel Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman
- Galatea, a villain in the 1990s Japanese anime series Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040
- Galatea, a supervillain appearing in Justice League Unlimited
- Galatea, a female robot in the film Bicentennial Man
- Galathea, a cow in the J. R. R. Tolkien novel Farmer Giles of Ham
- Galatea, a character in the mobile game Fate/Grand Order
- Galatea Dunkel, in the 1957 novel On the Road by Jack Kerouac
In science
- 74 Galatea, a large main belt asteroid
- Galatea, a moon of Neptune
- Galathea, a genus of squat lobsters
- Galatea, common name for plants of the genus Dieffenbachia
- Galatea, a taxonomic synonym for the plant genus Galatella
Places
- Galatea, New Zealand, a village in the North Island
- Galatea, Ohio, a community in the United States
- Mount Galatea, in the Canadian Rockies
- Galathea National Park, a national park in the Nicobar Islands, India
Ships
Other uses
- Galatea (locomotive), a preserved example of the LMS Jubilee class of steam locomotive
- Galatea II a Thoroughbred racehorse
- Galatea, a type of cotton twill fabric
- Galatea AB, a Swedish beverage distributor