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Penelope
Penelope
In Homer's Odyssey, Penelope is the faithful wife of Odysseus, who keeps her suitors at bay in his long absence and is eventually reunited with him....

is a character in Homer's epic poem, the Odyssey.

Penelope may also refer to:
  • Penelope (given name)
    Penelope (given name)
    Penelope may refer to:* Penelope Rich, Lady Rich , an English noblewoman* Penélope Cruz , a Spanish actress* Penelope Delta , a Greek author* Penelope Houston , an American singer-songwriter from San Francisco...

    , a disambiguation page

In literature and mythology

  • Penelope (dryad)
    Penelope (dryad)
    In Greek mythology Penelope or Penelopeia is a dryad, the daughter of Dryops. She resides on mount Kyllene in Arcadia and is the mother of the god Pan or of Nomios ....

    , mother of the god Pan in Greek mythology
  • Penelope Clearwater, a character in the Harry Potter novels
  • RX-104FF Penelope, a fictional weapon from the Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway's Flash novels
  • "Penelope", the given name for Molly Bloom's Soliloquy
    Molly Bloom's Soliloquy
    Molly Bloom's soliloquy is presented in the eighteenth, and final, chapter of James Joyce's novel Ulysses. It is a compilation of the thoughts of Molly Bloom, the concert-singing wife of advertising agent Leopold Bloom, whose wanderings around Dublin are followed in much of the book...

     in the James Joyce novel Ulysses

In film and theatre

  • Penelope (2006 film)
    Penelope (2006 film)
    Penelope is a 2006 fantasy/romantic comedy film directed by Mark Palansky which was first released in 2006 as a premiere. It stars Christina Ricci, James McAvoy and Reese Witherspoon.-Plot:...

    , starring Christina Ricci
  • Penelope (1966 film)
    Penelope (1966 film)
    Penelope is a 1966 comedy film directed by Arthur Hiller and starring Natalie Wood, Ian Bannen, Peter Falk, Jonathan Winters, and Dick Shawn.-Plot:Penelope Elcott is the wife of wealthy banker of James Elcott...

    , starring Natalie Wood
  • Penelope (1912 play), by William Somerset Maugham

In music

  • "Penelope", a song by Great Big Sea from the album Sea of No Cares
    Sea of No Cares
    Sea of No Cares is an album of recorded music by Great Big Sea, released on February 19, 2002 in Canada and on February 26 in the United States...

  • "Penelope" (Pinback song), a song by Pinback from the album Blue Screen Life
  • Pénélope (opera), an opera by Gabriel Fauré
  • Penélope (song) a hit Spanish language song by Joan Manuel Serrat
    Joan Manuel Serrat
    Joan Manuel Serrat i Teresa is a Catalan Spanish singer-songwriter.Serrat is considered one of the most important figures of modern, popular music in both the Spanish and Catalan languages...

  • Pénélope (song), a song by George Brassens

In television, animation and video games

  • Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward
    Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward
    Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward is the London Agent for the secret organisation International Rescue in the hit television series Thunderbirds...

    , a puppet character from the 60's television program Thunderbirds
  • Penelope Taynt, a character on The Amanda Show
  • Penelope Widmore, a flashback character (and Desmond Hume's girlfriend) from Lost
  • Penelope (SNL), a character portrayed by Saturday Night Live cast member Kristen Wiig
  • Penelope Lang, an antagonist character from the cartoon show Atomic Betty
  • Penelope Pitstop
    Penelope Pitstop
    Penelope Pitstop is a fictional character who appeared in the Hanna-Barbera animated series Wacky Races, and starred in the spin-off The Perils of Penelope Pitstop, voiced by Janet Waldo, 1969.-Background:...

    , a cartoon character
  • Penelope Pussycat
    Penelope Pussycat
    Penelope Pussycat is a fictional character, an anthropomorphic cat featured in the Warner Bros. classic Looney Tunes animated shorts. Though typically a non-speaker, her "meows" and "purrs" were most often provided by Mel Blanc using a feminine voice. In the 1959 short "Really Scent", she was...

    , a character from Warner Brothers' Looney Tunes
  • Penelope Shafai, one of Blair's / Jenny's friends in Gossip Girl TV Series
  • Penelope, a character from the anime Hamtaro
    Hamtaro
    is a Japanese anime series. The main character is a hamster named Hamtaro who has a variety of adventures with other hamsters, called "Ham-Hams" . The show is based on a manga series by Ritsuko Kawai, Hamtaro Gets Lost and Other Stories, and Jealous Hamtaro and Other Stories...

  • Penelope, a dragon in the animated movie Barbie as Rapunzel
    Barbie as Rapunzel
    Barbie as Rapunzel is a 2002 direct-to-video Barbie film directed by Owen Hurley. It is the second in the Barbie film series of computer animated Barbie films, and features the voice of Kelly Sheridan as Barbie...

  • Penelope (Sly Cooper), a character from the video game Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves
  • Penelope Garcia, a character on Criminal Minds
    Criminal Minds
    Criminal Minds is an American police procedural drama that premiered September 22, 2005, on CBS. The series follows a team of profilers from the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit based in Quantico, Virginia. The BAU is part of the FBI National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime...


Other uses

  • Penelope (genus)
    Penelope (genus)
    Penelope is a bird genus in the Cracidae family consisting of a number of large turkey-like arboreal species, the typical guans. The range of these species is in forests from southern Mexico to tropical South America. These largish birds have predominately brown plumage and have relatively small...

    , a bird genus in the Cracidae family
  • Penelope (e-mail client)
    Penelope (e-mail client)
    Penelope is an extension for the Mozilla Thunderbird email client software implementing some features of Eudora.-History:On October 11, 2006, Qualcomm announced that development of the existing Eudora email client software had ended, and that future versions of Eudora would be based on the same...

    , an e-mail client
  • Penelope (crater)
    Penelope (crater)
    Penelope is the fourth largest impact crater on Tethys, which is one of Saturn's moons. It is 208 kilometers wide, and is located near the equator in the center of trailing hemisphere of the moon at 10.8°S, 249.2°W. It is approximately opposite to the largest crater on Tethys—Odysseus.Penelope...

    , a crater on Saturn's moon Tethys
    Tethys (moon)
    Tethys or Saturn III is a mid-sized moon of Saturn about across. It was discovered by G. D. Cassini in 1684 and is named after titan Tethys of Greek mythology. Tethys is pronounced |Odysseus]] is about 400 km in diameter, while the largest graben—Ithaca Chasma is about 100 km wide and...

  • HMS Penelope
    HMS Penelope
    Nine ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Penelope, after the faithful wife Penelope of Greek mythology.* The first Penelope was a 24-gun sixth-rate launched in 1778 and captured by her Spanish prisoners in 1780....

    (disambiguation), a Norwegian and Finnish cargo ship in service 1946-72
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