Memphis most commonly refers to: *

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, a former capital of ancient Egypt *

Memphis, Tennessee Memphis is a city in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is the seat of Shelby County in the southwest part of the state; it is situated along the Mississippi River. With a population of 633,104 at the 2020 U.S. census, Memphis is the second-mos ...

, a major American city Memphis may also refer to:

Places

United States

Memphis, Alabama Memphis, also known as Old Memphis, is a town in Pickens County, Alabama, United States. The population was 29 at the 2010 census, down from 33 in 2000. As long ago as 1850, it was listed as an incorporated community on the U.S. Census, but did n ...

* Memphis, Florida *

Memphis, Indiana Memphis is a census-designated place (CDP) in Clark County, Indiana, United States. The population was 695 at the 2010 census. History A post office established at Memphis in 1854. The original settlers were from Memphis, Tennessee. 2012 to ...

* Memphis, Michigan *

Memphis, Mississippi Memphis was a village in DeSoto County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 87 at the 2000 census. In 2004, the village of Memphis officially became part of the town of Walls. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the ...

* Memphis, Missouri *

Memphis, Nebraska Memphis is a village in Saunders County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 114 at the 2010 census. History Memphis was established in the 1880s when the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad was extended to that point. A large share ...

* Memphis, New York * Memphis, Ohio * Memphis metropolitan area, centered on Memphis, Tennessee * Memphis, Texas

Elsewhere

Mampsis Mampsis (Medieval Greek: Μάμψις) or Memphis (Ancient Greek: Μέμφις), today Mamshit ( he, ממשית), Arabic Kurnub, is a former Nabataean caravan stop and Byzantine city. In the Nabataean period, Mampsis was an important station on th ...

, Mamshit or Memphis, a Nabatean city

Film

* ''Memphis'' (film), a 2013 film directed by Ricky Memphis

Music

Memphis (band) Memphis is a musical duo consisting of longtime friends Torquil Campbell and Chris Dumont. Dumont, originally from North Carolina, first met Campbell in New York City in the early 1990s. With Campbell's childhood friends Chris Seligman, James S ...

, a musical duo * Memphis Industries, a record label * ''Memphis'' (musical), a Broadway musical by David Bryan and Joe DiPietro

Albums

* ''Memphis'' (Boz Scaggs album), 2013 * ''Memphis'' (Roy Orbison album), 1972 * '' Coin Coin Chapter Four: Memphis'', 2019

Songs

* "Memphis, Tennessee" (song) or "Memphis", by Chuck Berry, 1959; covered by many performers * "Memphis" (The Badloves song), 1994 * "Memphis" (Joe Jackson song), 1983 * "Memphis", by

David Nail David Brent Nail (born May 18, 1979) is an American country music artist, and frontman of the band ''David Nail & The Well Ravens''. In 2002, he debuted the single "Memphis" from an unreleased album for Mercury Records Nashville. Five years lat ...

, 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) Memphis is a slab-serif typeface designed bDr. Rudolf Wolfand released in 1929 by the Stempel Type Foundry. Memphis is a "geometric" slab serif, reflecting the style of German geometric sans-serifs (in particular Futura) which had attracted c ...

, 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 Windows 98 is a consumer-oriented operating system developed by Microsoft as part of its Windows 9x family of Microsoft Windows operating systems. The second operating system in the 9x line, it is the successor to Windows 95, and was released to ...

, codenamed Memphis during development *

City of Memphis (train) The ''City of Memphis'' was a passenger train route operated by the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway connecting Nashville's Nashville Union Station and Memphis, Tennessee's Memphis Union Station.'Official Guide of the Railways,' A ...

, a passenger train route

People with the name

Memphis Bleek Malik Deshawn Cox (born June 23, 1978), known by his stage name Memphis Bleek, is an American rapper who was a protégé of fellow New York rapper Jay-Z. Cox started his own labels: Get Low Records in 1998, and #Warehouse Music Group, Warehouse M ...

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