Penelope (disambiguation)

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

Penelope may also refer to:

People

 * Penelope (mother of Pan), mother of the god Pan in Greek mythology
 * Penelope (given name), any of several 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), on Saturn's moon Tethys

Plays

 * La Penelope, c. 1580, by Giambattista della Porta
 * Penelope (Maugham play) 1912 by Somerset Maugham
 * Penelope (Enda Walsh play), a 2010 tragicomedy

Film and television

 * Penelope (1966 film), starring Natalie Wood
 * Penelope (2006 film), starring Christina Ricci
 * "Penelope", an episode of the third season of Criminal Minds

Music

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

Opera

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

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 Georges Brassens
 * "Penelope", a song cycle by Sarah Kirkland Snider

Ships

 * HMS Penelope, any of several Royal Navy ships
 * Hired armed cutter Penelope, in Royal Navy service from 1794 to 1799
 * French frigate Pénélope (1806)
 * SS Penelope, any of several steamships with this name

Other uses

 * Penelope (bird), a bird genus in the family Cracidae
 * Penelope (e-mail client), e-mail software now named Eudora OSE
 * Penelope brand of embroidery materials
 * Penelope (horse) (1798–1824), thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare
 * Penelope (platypus), a platypus who escaped from the Bronx Zoo in 1957
 * Prix Penelope, a thoroughbred horse race in France
 * Penelope High School, Texas, United States
 * "Penelope", the name given to Molly Bloom's Soliloquy in the James Joyce novel Ulysses
 * Penelopeia Urb., a genus of Cucurbitaceae