Amazon

Amazon usually refers to:


 * Amazons, a tribe of woman warriors in Greek mythology
 * Amazon rainforest, a rainforest covering most of the Amazon basin
 * Amazon River, in South America
 * Amazon (company), an American multinational technology company

Amazon or Amazone may also refer to:

South America

 * 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

Elsewhere

 * 1042 Amazone, an asteroid
 * Amazon Creek, a stream in Oregon, United States

People

 * Amazon, the nom de guerre of a Roman gladiatrix at Halicarnassus
 * Amazon Eve (born 1979), American model, fitness trainer, and actress
 * Lesa Lewis (born 1967), American professional bodybuilder nicknamed "Amazon"

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

Film and television

 * The Amazons (1917 film), an American silent tragedy
 * 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

Games

 * 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, a series of twelve children's books 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

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

Organizations

 * Amazon Bookstore Cooperative, a former feminist bookstore
 * Amazonen-Werke, a German agricultural machinery manufacturer
 * Los Angeles Amazons, an American football team
 * Takembeng, or les Amazones des SDF, a women's social movement in Cameroon

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 (brigantine), a Canadian brigantine launched 1861
 * 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 United States Navy bark

Other uses

 * Amazon (color), a variant of jungle green
 * Amazon parrot