Seven Sisters
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Seven Sisters may refer to:
- Pleiades, or Seven Sisters, a star cluster named for mythological characters
Folklore and mythology
- Pleiades in folklore and literature
- Pleiades (Greek mythology), seven sisters who are companions of Artemis' in Greek mythology
- Hesperides, nymphs in Greek mythology
Places
United Kingdom
England
- Seven Sisters, London, an area and road with a railway and underground station of that name
- Seven Sisters station, a rail station and underground (tube) station at Tottenham, London
- Seven Sisters, Sussex, a group of chalk cliffs
- Seven Sisters Road, a road in North London
- Seven Sisters Rocks, in the Wye Valley, Herefordshire
Wales
- Seven Sisters, Neath Port Talbot, a village in South Wales
- Seven Sisters (electoral ward), an electoral ward of the Welsh principal area of Neath Port Talbot County Borough
Ireland
- Seven Sisters, Donegal, a mountain chain in County Donegal, Ireland
- Seven Sisters, Tipperary/Waterford, a mountain chain in between County Tipperary and County Waterford, Ireland
Continental Europe
- Seven Sisters, a group of seven Stalinist skyscrapers in Moscow, Russia
- Seven Sisters Waterfall, Norway, a group of waterfalls in the Geirangerfjord
- De syv søstre (Seven Sisters), a mountain formation in Helgeland, Norway
North America
- Seven Sisters (Massachusetts), a group of ridgeline knobs located in the Holyoke Range of Western Massachusetts, US
- Seven Sisters, Baja California, Seven epic point breaks in Baja California, Mexico
- Seven Sisters Falls, Manitoba, a community in Manitoba, Canada
- Seven Sisters Peaks, British Columbia, Canada; See List of mountains of Canada
- The Hills of the Seven Sisters, Selden, New York
Other places
- Seven Sister States, a region in northeastern India comprising the contiguous states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, and Tripura
- Seven Sisters (Queensland), a group of small mountains on the Atherton Tableland in Australia
- Arsia Mons, a volcano on Mars
- Tsat Tsz Mui (Seven Sisters), an area and road in Hong Kong
Arts and entertainment
Music
- Seven Sisters (Beta Radio album), an album by the American band Beta Radio
- Seven Sisters (Deluxe Edition) (Beta Radio album), a special edition of the album
- Seven Sisters (Meja album), an album by the Swedish composer and singer Meja
- "Seven Sisters", a song by Tori Amos from Her 2011 album, Night of Hunters
- "Seven Sisters", a song by American band MewithoutYou from their album, Catch for Us the Foxes
- "Seven Sisters", a song by American metal band The Sword from their album, Apocryphon
- "The Seven Sisters", a song by American band Rainer Maria from their album, A Better Version of Me
- "The Seven Sisters", a song by electronic-rock artist Celldweller from his album, Wish Upon a Blackstar
Other media
- The Seven Sisters (play), an 1860 play
- The Seven Sisters (novel), 1992 novel by Margaret Drabble
- Seven Sisters (Forgotten Realms), fictional characters from the Forgotten Realms role-playing game
- The Seven Sisters (film), a 1915 silent film starring Marguerite Clark
- We Were Seven Sisters, a 1939 film
- The Seven Sisters, a 1975 book by Anthony Sampson about the Seven Sisters (oil companies)
- What Happened to Monday?, a 2017 film with Seven Sisters as an alternate title
- The Seven Sisters (book series), 2014-2017 book series by Lucinda Riley
Organizations
- Seven sisters (studios), the seven original major movie studios
- Seven Sisters (oil companies), a former group of multinational oil companies
- Seven Sisters (law firms), seven Canadian law firms
- Seven Sisters (magazines), a group of American women's magazines
- Seven Sisters of American Protestantism, an informal grouping of seven traditional mainline Protestant denominations
- Seven Sisters (colleges), a group of American women's colleges
Biology
- Jungle babbler (Turdoides striata), an Old World babbler found on the Indian subcontinent, known as Seven Sisters
- Crinum americanum, a plant commonly known as Seven sisters
Other uses
- Seven Sisters (Sette Sorelle), a journalistic term used in reference to the seven top clubs in the Serie A between the 90s and the 2000s: Juventus F.C., A.C. Milan, Inter Milan, A.S. Roma, S.S. Lazio, ACF Fiorentina, Parma Calcio 1913 (Parma)
See also
- Qixi Festival, a Chinese holiday sometimes called "Seventh Sister's Birthday"
- Seven sisters' fruit
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