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Memphis

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Memphis is the name of:

It also may refer to:

Places

  • Mampsis, Mamshit or Memphis, a Nabatean city
  • Memphis, Egypt, the ancient capital of the first nome of Lower Egypt, and of the Old Kingdom of Egypt
In the United States

Film

  • Memphis (film), a 2013 film directed by Tim Sutton

Music

Albums

  • Memphis (Boz Scaggs album), 2013
  • Memphis (Roy Orbison album), 1972
  • Coin Coin Chapter Four: Memphis, Matana Roberts album, 2019

Songs

  • "Memphis, Tennessee" (song) or "Memphis", by Chuck Berry, 1959; covered by many performers
  • "Memphis" (The Badloves song), 1994
  • "Memphis", by David Nail, 2002
  • "Memphis", by Justin Bieber from Journals, 2013
  • "Memphis", by White Zombie from Psycho-Head Blowout, 1987

Other uses

  • Memphis (mythology), the wife of Epaphus, who was, according to legend, the founder of Memphis, Egypt
  • Memphis (genus), a genus of brush-footed butterflies
  • Memphis (cigarette), a cigarette brand of Austria Tabak
  • Memphis (typeface), a slab-serif typeface designed in 1929 by Dr. Rudolf Wolf
  • Memphis Group, an influential design movement of Italian designers and architects in the 1980s
  • USS Memphis (CA-10), a US Navy armored cruiser wrecked by a tsunami in 1916
  • USS Memphis (SSN-691), a nuclear attack submarine of the United States Navy
  • Windows 98, codenamed Memphis during development
  • City of Memphis (train), a passenger train route

People with the name

  • Memphis Bleek, a New York rapper
  • Memphis Depay, a Dutch footballer
  • Randall 'Memphis' Raines, a character in Gone in 60 Seconds
  • Ricky Memphis, an Italian actor

See also

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