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Mercedes is a girl's name of Spanish origin, referring to a title for the Virgin Mary,

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Mercedes is a girl's name of Spanish origin, referring to a title for the Virgin Mary,

Automobile-related use
  • Mercedes (car)
    Mercedes (car)

    Mercedes was a brand of the Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft which began to develop in 1900, after the death of its co-founder, Gottlieb Daimler....
    , the pre-1927 brand name of German automobile models and engines built by Daimler company
  • Mercedes-Benz
    Mercedes-Benz

    Mercedes-Benz is a German manufacturer of automobiles, buses, coach es, and trucks. It is currently a division of the parent company, Daimler AG , after previously being owned by Daimler-Benz....
    , the post-1926 German brand of automobiles, engines, and trucks owned by Daimler AG
  • Mercedes-Benz in motorsport
    Mercedes-Benz in motorsport

    Throughout its long history, Mercedes-Benz has been involved in a range of motorsport activities, including sportscar racing and rally racing, and is currently active in Formula Three, Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft and Formula One....
    , the racing activities of the company
  • Mercedes-AMG
    Mercedes-AMG

    Mercedes-AMG GmbH, commonly known as AMG , is the high performance division of the Mercedes-Benz car company. Mercedes-Benz acquired majority interest in AMG in 1999....
    , a subdivision of Daimler AG providing high-powered models
  • McLaren-Mercedes, Formula One race cars
  • Mercedes Benz (song), a song by Janis Joplin, Michael McClure and Bob Neuwirth
  • American Mercedes (1904 automobile)
    American Mercedes (1904 automobile)

    The American Mercedes was made by Daimler Manufacturing Co of Long Island City, New York, USA from 1904 to 1907. They were licensed copies of German Mercedes models....
    , a company licensed to build Mercedes automobiles in America


Women with the first name Mercedes:
  • Mercedes de Acosta
    Mercedes de Acosta

    Mercedes de Acosta was an United States poet, playwright, costume designer, and socialite best known for her lesbian affairs with Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, Alla Nazimova, Tamara Karsavina, Eva Le Gallienne, Isadora Duncan, Katharine Cornell, Ona Munson , Adele Astaire, and allegedly Tallulah Bankhead amongst others....
     (1893–1968), poet and socialite
  • Mercedes Bresso
    Mercedes Bresso

    Mercedes Bresso is an Italy politician and President of the Piedmont Region. She is a member of the Democratic Party . After her election as governor of Piedmont, she resigned from the office as European Parliament....
     (born 1944), Italian politician
  • Mercedes Calderón
    Mercedes Calderón

    Mercedes Calder?n Mart?nez is a former female volleyball player from Cuba, who was a member of the Women's Nationa Team that won the gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain....
     (born 1965), Cuban volleyball player
  • Mércédès Jellinek
    Mércédès Jellinek

    Adriana Manuela Ramona Jellinek called Merc?d?s was the daughter of Austrian automobile entrepreneur Emil Jellinek and his wife Rachel Goggmann Cenrobert....
     (1889–1929), the namesake for Mercedes-Benz automobiles
  • Mercedes Lackey
    Mercedes Lackey

    Mercedes "Misty" Lackey is a prolific United States author of Fantasy literature. Many of her novels and trilogies are interlinked and set in the world of Velgarth, mostly in and around the country of Velgarth#Valdemar....
     (born 1950), fantasy author
  • Mercedes Lander
    Mercedes Lander

    Mercedes Sherida Lander is the drummer and backing vocalist for the Canada alternative metal group Kittie. Her sister, Morgan Lander, also sings and plays guitar for Kittie....
    , drummer for Canadian alt-metal band Kittie
  • Mercedes McCambridge
    Mercedes McCambridge

    Carlotta Mercedes McCambridge , nicknamed Mercy, was an Academy Awards-winning American film actress, also known for her acting in radio dramas....
     (1916–2004), actress
  • Mercedes McNab
    Mercedes McNab

    Mercedes Alicia McNab is a Canadian-born actress perhaps best known for playing the role of Harmony Kendall on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spinoff Angel ....
     (born 1980), Canadian-born actress
  • Mercedes of Orléans
    Mercedes of Orléans

    Mar?a de las Mercedes d'Orl?ans y Borb?n, a.k.a Merc?d?s Marie des Graces d'Orleans-Montpensier was Queen Consort of Spain, the first wife of Alfonso XII....
     (1860 - 1878), queen consort of Spain.
  • Mercedes Peris
    Mercedes Peris

    Mercedes Peris Minguet is a female backstroke swimmer from Spain, who competed for her native country at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, PR China....
     (born 1985), Spanish backstroke swimmer
  • Mercedes, Princess of Asturias
    Mercedes, Princess of Asturias

    Infanta Mar?a de las Mercedes of Spain , Princess of the Asturias, for all 24 years of her life the Heiress Presumptive of the Spanish royal crown, and for a period in 1885 – 1886, the extant Head of State of Spain, was born as Do?a Mar?a de las Mercedes de Borb?n y Habsburgo-Lorena, eldest daughter of King Alfonso XII of Spain a...
     (1880–1904), Spanish royal
  • Mercedes Ruehl
    Mercedes Ruehl

    Mercedes J. Ruehl is an American theater, television and film actor....
     (born 1948), U.S. actress
  • Mercedes Sosa
    Mercedes Sosa

    Mercedes Sosa is an Argentina singer immensely popular throughout Latin America. With her roots in Argentine folk music, she became one of the preeminent exponents of nueva canci?n....
     (born 1935), Argentine singer
  • Mercédesz Stieber
    Mercédesz Stieber

    Merc?desz Stieber is a female water polo player from Hungary, who competed for her native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece and Beijing 2008....
     (born 1974), Hungarian water polo player
  • Mercedes Yvette (born 1981), fashion model & actress
  • Mercedes (rapper)
    Mercedes (rapper)

    Raquel Miller , better know by her stage name Mercedes, was an United States rapper/singer from Louisiana. She released one album entitled "Rear End " in 1999 on Master P's No Limit Records....
    , a R&B and hip-hop singer.


Other people and characters named Mercedes:
  • Mercédès, character in Alexandre Dumas's novel The Count of Monte Cristo
    The Count of Monte Cristo

    The Count of Monte Cristo is an adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas, p?re. It is often considered to be, along with The Three Musketeers, Dumas' most popular work....
  • Mercedes McQueen
    Mercedes McQueen

    Mercedes Maria Theresa Immaculata "Mercy" Fisher is a fictional character on the long-running British Channel 4 television soap opera Hollyoaks....
    , Hollyoaks fictional character
  • Eleoncio Mercedes
    Eleoncio Mercedes

    Eleoncio Mercedes was a Dominican Republic boxing, who was world champion in the Flyweight division....
     (1957–1985), boxer
  • Nina Mercedez
    Nina Mercedez

    Nina Mercedez is an United States pornographic actress....
     a pornographic actress who formerly worked for vivid entertainment
  • Mercedes, one of the five main characters of Odin Sphere
    Odin Sphere

    is a 2D computer graphics fantasy Action role-playing game video game. Developed by Vanillaware and localization and video game publisher by Atlus for the PlayStation 2 in 2007, it tells the interlocking stories of five different protagonists....
    .
  • Mercedes, a character in the opera Carmen
    Carmen

    Carmen is a French op?ra comique by Georges Bizet. The libretto is by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Hal?vy, based on the Carmen by Prosper M?rim?e, first published in 1845, itself influenced by the narrative poem "The Gypsies" by Pushkin....
     by Georges Bizet.


Places:
  • Mercedes, Buenos Aires
    Mercedes, Buenos Aires

    Mercedes is a city in the provinces of Argentina of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It is located 100 km west from Buenos Aires and 30 km south west of Luj?n, Buenos Aires....
    , Argentina
  • Mercedes, Corrientes
    Mercedes, Corrientes

    Mercedes is a city in the center of the . It is a first-class municipality with a population of about 35,000 inhabitants , and the head town of the department of the same name, which also includes the towns of Felipe Yofre and Mariano I....
    , Argentina
  • Mercedes, Camarines Norte
    Mercedes, Camarines Norte

    Mercedes is a 4th class Philippine municipality in the Philippine province of Camarines Norte province, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 41,713 people in 7,932 households....
    , Philippines
  • Mercedes, Eastern Samar
    Mercedes, Eastern Samar

    Mercedes is a 6th class Municipalities of the Philippines in the Provinces of the Philippines of Eastern Samar, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 4,857 people in 945 households....
    , Philippines
  • Mercedes, Texas
    Mercedes, Texas

    Mercedes is a city in Hidalgo County, Texas, Texas, United States. The population was 17,649 at the 2000 United States Census. It is part of the McAllen, Texas–Edinburg, Texas–Mission, Texas McAllen-Edinburg-Mission metropolitan area....
    , United States
  • Mercedes, Uruguay
    Mercedes, Uruguay

    Mercedes is the capital and largest city of the Departments of Uruguay of Soriano in Uruguay. The city is situated on the south bank of the R?o Negro ....
    , Soriano department


Other uses
  • Mercedes, the name of a polar bear
    Polar Bear

    The polar bear is a bear native to the Arctic Ocean and its surrounding seas. The world's largest carnivore found on land, and shares the title of largest land predator with the Kodiak Bear, an adult male weighs around , while an adult female is about half that size....
     kept at Edinburgh Zoo
  • Mercedes, a proposed gossamer-winged butterfly genus nowadays again included in Calycopis
    Calycopis

    Calycopis is a genus of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. Massively lumpers and splitters by K. Johnson in 1991, most modern authors consider the changes proposed at that time to be unjustified....
  • Mercedes (song), a song by Joseph Arthur
  • Mercedes (calculator)
    Mercedes (calculator)

    The Mercedes-Euklid is a Germany-invented calculator from the early twentieth century. It was built in Thuringia, Germany in 1905. The first manual mechanical models utilized a proportional-lever design invented by Christel Hamann in 1903....
    , an early 20th-century computing device
  • Mercedes College (Adelaide)
    Mercedes College (Adelaide)

    Mercedes College is a Catholic, co-educational day school located in Springfield, South Australia a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia, South Australia....
    , South Australia
  • Mercedes College, Perth, Western Australia


See also

  • Mercedita
    Mercedita

    Mercedita is a common forename derived from Mercedes. It may refer to:* Mercedita Airport, a small public airport in Ponce, Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico....