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'Ramesses' (also commonly spelled "Ramses," pronounced or "Rameses," ) is the name conventionally given in English transliteration to eleven Egyptian pharaohs of the later New Kingdom period. The name essentially translates as "Born of the sun-god Ra".
:'18th Dynasty'

★ Ramesses
:'19th Dynasty'

★ Ramesses I: founder of the 19th Dynasty

★ Ramesses II ("the Great")
:'20th Dynasty'

★ Ramesses III: adversary of the Sea Peoples

★ Ramesses IV

★ Ramesses V

★ Ramesses VI

★ Ramesses VII

★ Ramesses VIII

★ Ramesses IX

★ Ramesses X

★ Ramesses XI: last ruler of the Egyptian New Kingdom
:'Other'

★ Ramesses or Pi-Ramesses is the name of the reconstructed city of Avaris, renamed after the Ramesses pharaohs.

★ Ramesses is the name of the eponimous protagonist's father in "Thamos, König in Ägypten" ("Thamos, King of Egypt", or "King Thamos", in English), a play by Tobias Philipp, for which Mozart wrote incidental music. The actions attributed to this character in the play do not correspond to any historical Ramesses.

★ Ramses condoms.

★ Ramesses is the name of a Doom Metal band from England.

★ Ramses Emerson is the name of a fictional character in the "Amelia Peabody" book series by U.S. author Elizabeth Peters.

★ ''Ramses the Damned'' is an alternate title of the novel ''The Mummy'' by Anne Rice.

★ Rameses is the name of the mascot for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill