Top Celebrity Names Starting With Empress

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   Empress Dowager Cixi

   1835 - 1908 Female
   

   Emperor

   
   

   Empress Dowager Cixi, of the Manchu Yehenara clan, was a powerful and charismatic woman who unofficially but effectively controlled the Manchu Qing Dynasty in China for 47 years, from 1861 to her death in 1908. Selected by the Xianfeng Emperor as an imperial concubine in her adolescence, she gave birth to his son, who became the Tongzhi Emperor upon Xianfeng's death.… read more

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   Empress Myeongseong

   1851 - 1895 Female
   

   Queen, King, Emperor

   
   

   Empress Myeongseong, also known as Queen Min, was the first official wife of King Gojong, the twenty-sixth king of the Joseon dynasty of Korea. In 1902 she received the posthumous name Hyoja Wonseong Jeonghwa Hapcheon Honggong Seongdeok Myeongseong Taehwanghu, often abbreviated as Myeongseong Hwanghu, meaning Empress Myeongseong. The Japanese considered her an obstacle against its overseas expansion.… read more

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   Empress Elisabeth of Austria

   1837 - 1898 Female
   

   Empress, Queen, Ally

   
   

   Elisabeth of Austria was the spouse of Franz Joseph I, and therefore both Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary. She also held the titles of Queen of Bohemia and Croatia, among others. From an early age, she was called Sisi by family and friends. Although Elisabeth had a limited (though significant) influence on Austro-Hungarian politics, she became a historical icon.… read more

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   Empress Dowager Ci'an

   1837 - 1881 Female
   

   Empress, Second, Emperor

   
   

   Empress Dowager Ci'an, popularly known in China as the East Empress Dowager, and officially known posthumously as the Empress Xiao Zhen Xian, was the second Empress Consort of the Xianfeng Emperor of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in China, and then Empress Dowager after 1861. She is known for being co-de facto ruler of China with Empress Dowager Cixi for 20 years.… read more

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   Empress Lü Zhi

   180 AD Female
   

   Emperor, Founder, Ruler

   
   

   Lü Zhi, style name E'xu, commonly known as Empress Lü and Empress Dowager Lü, or formally Empress Gao of Han, was the Empress Consort of Emperor Gaozu (or Emperor Gao), the founder and first ruler of the Han Dynasty. They had two known children, Liu Ying and Princess Yuan of Lu (魯元公主).… read more

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   Empress Matilda

   1102 - 1167 Female
   

   Disputed Ruler of England, Last of the House of Normandy

   
   

   Empress Matilda, also known as Matilda of England or Maude, was the daughter and heir of King Henry I of England. Matilda and her younger brother, William Adelin, were the only legitimate children of King Henry to survive to adulthood. However, her brother's death in the White Ship disaster in 1120 resulted in Matilda being her father's sole heir.… read more

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   Empress Wang Zhengjun

   71 BC - 13 AD Female
   

   Emperor

   
   

   Empress Wang Zhengjun, official imperial title Empress Xiaoyuan (孝元皇后), later and more commonly known as Grand Empress Dowager Wang, born in Yuancheng, was an empress during the Western Han Dynasty of China, who played important roles during the reigns of five successive Han emperors—her husband, her son, her two stepgrandsons, and her stepgreat-grandnephew—and later (according to traditional historians, unwittingly) led to the usurpation of the throne by her nephew Wang Mang. … read more

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   Empress Wei

   710 AD Female
   

   Tang Dynasty Empress

   
   

   Empress Wei (died July 21, 710) was an empress of the Chinese dynasty Tang Dynasty. She was the second wife of Emperor Zhongzong, who reigned twice, and during his second reign, she tried to emulate the example of her mother-in-law Wu Zetian and seize power.… read more

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   Empress Dowager Hu

   528 AD Female
   

   Emperor, Regent

   
   

   Empress Dowager Hu (died 17 May 528), formally Empress Ling (靈皇后, literally "the unattentive empress"), was an empress dowager of the Chinese dynasty Northern Wei. She was a concubine of Emperor Xuanwu, and she became regent and empress dowager after her son Emperor Xiaoming became emperor after Emperor Xuanwu's death in 515.… read more