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
• Penelope, or How the Odyssey was Really Written, 2022 musical by Peter Kellogg and Stephen Weiner

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
• Penelope, a 2024 American television show on Netflix

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