Lorelei (disambiguation)

Lorelei is a feminine water spirit, similar to a siren or mermaid, said to send sailors to their death, by luring them near cliffs with her beautiful singing voice.

Lorelei, Loralei, Loreley or Lorelai may also refer to:

Geography

Lorelei, a rock in the Rhine River, the subject of numerous legends, poems, and songs
Loreley (Verbandsgemeinde), a Verbandsgemeinde ("collective municipality") in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Loralai District, Balochistan, Pakistan
- Loralai, the principal city of Loralai District
Lorelei (Edmonton), a neighbourhood in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Science

165 Loreley, an asteroid discovered by C. H. F. Peters in 1876
Loreleia, a mushroom genus named after Lorelei Norvell, an American mycologist

People

Lorelei (name), female given name
Loreley, pen name of the Mexican writer María Luisa Garza

Books

Die Lorelei or Die Lore-Ley (The Lorelei, de:Die Lore-Ley), an 1824 poem by Heinrich Heine set to music by Friedrich Silcher in 1837
Lorelei Lee, main character of the 1925 novel Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos
Lorelei Rox, a character in the Spirit comic
Lorelei, the dog from The Dogs of Babel, about a man who tries to get his dog to speak about the death of his wife
Lorelei (1935), a romance novel written by the Romanian author Ionel Teodoreanu

Comics

Lorelei (Asgardian), a supporting character appearing mostly in The Mighty Thor and on Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Lorelei (Mutate), a mutant supervillain whose first appearance was in X-Men #63
Lorelei Travis, a minor mutant character appearing in the various titles surrounding the X-Men
Mantis (Marvel Comics), who briefly took the name Lorelei
Lorelei Rox, a character in The Spirit comic book by Will Eisner

Film

Die Loreley, The Lorelei (1927 film), a 1927 German silent drama film
Lorelei Lee, one of the main characters of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1928 film) and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953 film), played by Marilyn Monroe in the latter
Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean, a 2005 Japanese World War II science fiction film
Lorelei Rox, in The Spirit
Lorelei, friend of Igor in Victor Frankenstein (film)

Television

Lorelai Gilmore, a character on the American television series Gilmore Girls
Lorelai "Rory" Gilmore, a character on the American television series Gilmore Girls
Lorelai "Trix" Gilmore, a character on the American television series Gilmore Girls
Lorelei Martins, a character on the American television series The Mentalist
Lorelei Wright, a character on the science fiction miniseries Ascension

Music

Classical

Die Lorelei, Die Lore-Ley, or "Lied von der Lorelei" (song of the Lorelei; de:Die Lore-Ley), German folk song written by Friedrich Silcher (1837) based on a poem by Heinrich Heine; also set by
"Lorelei" Clara Schumann (1843)
"Die Lorelei", Franz Liszt (1856), and second version S532
Die Loreley (Bruch), 1862 opera
Loreley (opera), an 1890 opera by Alfredo Catalani that is an extensive reworking of Catalani's drama fantastico Elda
Lorelei (musical), a 1974 revision of the 1949 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Artists

Lorelei (band), a dark rock band from Pittsburgh

Popular song

"Lorelei" (Gershwin song), a 1933 song composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin for their musical Pardon My English
Lorelei Lee, a main character of the 1949 Broadway musical Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
"Lorelei" (1960) by Lonnie Donegan
"Lorelei" (Styx song), a 1976 song by Styx on the album Equinox
"Loreley", a song on Blackmore's Night's 2003 album Ghost of a Rose
"Lorelei", a song on Cocteau Twins's 1984 album Treasure
"Lorelei", a song on Comeback Kid's 2003 album Turn It Around
"Lorelei", a song on Corpus Delicti's 1993 album Twilight
"Lorelai", a song on Fleet Foxes's 2011 album Helplessness Blues
"Lorelei", a song on Nina Hagen's 1983 album Angstlos
"Loreley", a 1981 single by Dschinghis Khan
"Loreley", a song on L'Arc-en-Ciel's 1998 album Heart
"Black Forest (Lorelei)", a song on Mercury Rev's 2005 album The Secret Migration
"Lorelei", a song on Scorpions's 2010 album Sting in the Tail
"Lorelei", a song on Theatre of Tragedy's 1998 album Aégis
"Lorelei", a song on The Pogues's 1989 album Peace and Love
"Lorelei", a song on Tom Tom Club's eponymous 1981 debut album
"Lorelei", a song on Wishbone Ash's 1976 album New England
"Lorelei", a single from Steve Kilbey and Martin Kennedy's 2013 You Are Everything album
"Lorelei," the title track for the character named Ilyasviel from the visual novel Fate/stay night
"Lorelei," a track from the 2016 3rd mini album "STRANG3R" by Korean girl group Ladies' Code
"Lorelei," a song on Clutch's 2018 album Book of Bad Decisions.
''Lorelei'' a song written by Doriko, using a Hatsune Miku as a singer on the 2010 album ''Romeo and Cinderella''

Video games

Lorelai (Suikoden), a character in the Suikoden video game series
Lorelei (Pokémon), a character from the Pokémon video games
Mystia Lorelei, a character from the Touhou Project video games
Lorelei, also known as the Queen of Maggots, a character from The Cat Lady
Order of Lorelei, a military-religious organization in Tales of the Abyss
Lorelei, a character from Rise of the Triad
Lorelei, the weapon used by Ledah from Riviera: The Promised Land

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