An empress is a female imperial monarch, or the wife of an imperial monarch; written with a capital, Empress is used as the title of an empress, placed before her name – often just the given name.
Empress or The Empress can further refer to:
- Empress (comics), a comic book character, a superheroine in the DC Comics universe
- Empress (novel), a 2003 novel by Shan Sa
- Empress (Karen Miller novel), a 2007 novel by Karen Miller. Also known as Empress of Mijak
- Xenomorph Empress, a caste of the fictional xenomorph
- The Empress (Tarot card), a trump card from the tarot deck
- A fairy chess piece, moving like a rook or a knight
- The village of Empress, Alberta, Canada
- The Empress (Hotel), one of the oldest hotels in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
- beatmania IIDX 16: Empress, the 16th game in the beatmania IIDX series of music video games
- MS Empress, a cruise ship operated by Pullmantur Cruises, formerly named Nordic Empress and Empress of the Seas
- HMS Empress (1914), a seaplane carrier, originally launched as a merchant ship but requisitioned by the Royal Navy in 1914
- HMS Empress (D42), an escort aircraft carrier, originally the USS Carnegie, but transferred to the Royal Navy in 1943
- The Empress (Pirates of the Caribbean), a fictional ship in the movie Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
