Cleopatra (disambiguation)
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Cleopatra is the name given to several historical and mythological figures, most especially:
- people
- Cleopatra VII of Egypt, last of the Ptolemaic rulers of Egypt, lover of Roman leaders Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, and the subject of several plays (including Antony and Cleopatra by Shakespeare) and various films. Typically, an unqualified reference to "Cleopatra", will be be about her.
- Six other Egyptian queens: Cleopatra I, Cleopatra II, Cleopatra III, Cleopatra IV, Cleopatra V and Cleopatra VI.
- Cleopatra of Macedonia (c. 356 BC–308 BC), sister of Macedonian King Alexander the Great and daughter of King Philip II of Macedon and Olympias.
- Cleopatra Eurydice of Macedon, a wife of Philip II of Macedon
- Cleopatra of Pontus (born 110 BC), Pontian wife of Tigranes the Great and daughter of Mithridates VI of Pontus
- Cleopatra Selene, daughter of Antony and Cleopatra.
- Cleopatra Thea, queen of the Seleucid Empire from 125-121 BC
- Daughter of Idas and wife of Meleager in Greek mythology
- See Cleopatra (film) for movies based on the life of Cleopatra of Egypt
- Cleopatra (band), a musical group from the UK who had several hits in the 1990s.
- Kleopatra is a musical group from Greece who entered the Eurovision Song Contest 1992 with the song "Olou Tou Kosmou I Elpida"
- Cleopatra (book) is a work by the author H. Rider Haggard
- Cleopatra Jones, a Blaxploitation movie series and its eponymous heroine.
- Cleopatra 2525, a television science fiction series.
- Cleopatra (computer game), an expansion pack for the Pharaoh computer game.
- 216 Kleopatra, a bizarrely shaped asteroid.
See also
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