Penelope (disambiguation)

Penelope is the faithful wife of Odysseus in Homer's epic poem Odyssey.

Penelope may also refer to:

As a name

• Penelope (given name), a list of people and fictional characters
• Julia Penelope (1941–2013), American linguist, author and philosopher

Places

• Penelope, Texas, a town in the United States
• Penelope Point, Victoria Land, Antarctica
• 201 Penelope, an asteroid
• Penelope (crater), a crater on Saturn's moon Tethys

Films and plays

Plays

• La Penelope, a play by Giambattista della Porta circa 1580
• Penelope (Somerset Maugham play), a play by W. Somerset Maugham 1912
• Penelope (Enda Walsh play), a 2010 tragicomedy written by Enda Walsh

Films

• Penelope (1966 film), a film starring Natalie Wood
• Penelope (2006 film), a film starring Christina Ricci

Music

Classical

• Penelope, German-language opera by Rolf Liebermann
• Pénélope, an opera by Gabriel Fauré, first performed in 1913
• Pénélope (Piccinni), an opera by Niccolò Piccinni, first performed in 1785

Bands

• The Penelopes, an indie pop/electronic band from Paris

Songs

• "Penelope" (Pinback song)
• "Penelope", a song by Great Big Sea from the album Sea of No Cares
• "Penélope", a song by Joan Manuel Serrat
• "Pénélope", a song by George Brassens
• "Penelope", a song cycle by Sarah Kirkland Snider

Ships

• HMS Penelope, various Royal Navy ships
• Hired armed cutter Penelope, a cutter in Royal Navy service from 1794 to 1799
• French frigate Pénélope (1806)
• SS Penelope, a number of steamships with this name

Other uses

• Penelope (genus), a bird genus in the Cracidae family
• Penelope (e-mail client), e-mail software now named Eudora OSE
• Penelope (horse) (1798–1824), thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare
• Prix Penelope, a thoroughbred horse race in France
• Penelope High School, Penelope, Texas, United States
• "Penelope", the given name for Molly Bloom's Soliloquy in the James Joyce novel Ulysses