Seven Sisters may refer to: *

Pleiades The Pleiades (), also known as The Seven Sisters, Messier 45 and other names by different cultures, is an asterism and an open star cluster containing middle-aged, hot B-type stars in the north-west of the constellation Taurus. At a distance ...

, or Seven Sisters, a star cluster named for

Pleiades (Greek mythology) The Pleiades (; grc-gre, Πλειάδες, Ancient Greek pronunciation: ), were the seven sister-nymphs, companions of Artemis, the goddess of the hunt. Together with their seven sisters, the Hyades, they were called the Atlantides, Dodonides, ...

, the seven sisters who are companions of Artemis in Greek mythology

Arts and entertainment

Music

* ''Seven Sisters'' (Beta Radio album), an album by the American band Beta Radio * ''Seven Sisters'' (Meja album), an album by the Swedish composer and singer Meja * "Seven Sisters", an instrumental piece 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 ''Catch for Us the Foxes'' is the second studio album by the Philadelphia indie rock band mewithoutYou, released on October 15, 2004 by Tooth & Nail Records. Background The album takes its name from the Biblical Song of Songs 2:15, "Catch for u ...

'' * "Seven Sisters", a song by American metal band The Sword from their album, ''

Apocryphon Apocryphon ("secret writing"), plural apocrypha, was a Greek term for a genre of Jewish and Early Christian writings that were meant to impart "secret teachings" or gnosis (knowledge) that could not be publicly taught. Such private instruction to ...

'' * ''Seven Sisters: A Kentucky Portrait'', 2003 album by the San Francisco bluegrass group ''The Crooked Jades'' * "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 ''Wish Upon a Blackstar'' is the second vocal studio album (third overall) from American electronic rock project, Celldweller. While the album had been a work in progress since 2004, finalized songs from the album were not released until mid-2009 ...

'' *The Seven Sisters are referenced by the band Ghost in their song ‘Respite on the Spitalfields’ on their 2022 album ‘Impera’.

Films

* ''The Seven Sisters'' (film), a 1915 silent film * '' We Were Seven Sisters'', a 1939 film * ''

What Happened to Monday ''What Happened to Monday'' (known in several territories as ''Seven Sisters'') is a 2017 dystopian science-fiction action thriller film directed by Tommy Wirkola and written by Max Botkin and Kerry Williamson. The film stars Noomi Rapace, Glen ...

'', a 2017 film known as ''Seven Sisters'' in several European countries, Canada, and Japan

Books and plays

* ''The Seven Sisters'' (play), an 1860 play * ''The Seven Sisters'', a 1975 book by Anthony Sampson about the Seven Sisters (oil companies) * ''The Seven Sisters'' (novel), 1992 novel by Margaret Drabble * ''The Seven Sisters'', 2014–present book series by

Lucinda Riley Lucinda Kate Riley (; 16 February 1965 – 11 June 2021)Stephanie Bell ''Belfast Telegraph'', 14 July 2016 was a Northern Irish author of popular historical fiction, originally an actress. Biography Lucinda Edmonds was born in Lisburn and spent ...

Theatre

* Seven Sisters Group, a 1990 British performance company

Other media

Seven sisters (studios) Major film studios are production and distribution companies that release a substantial number of films annually and consistently command a significant share of box office revenue in a given market. In the American and international markets, th ...

, the seven original major movie studios *

Seven Sisters (magazines) Seven Sisters may refer to: * Pleiades, or Seven Sisters, a star cluster named for Pleiades (Greek mythology), the seven sisters who are companions of Artemis in Greek mythology Arts and entertainment Music * ''Seven Sisters'' (Beta Radio album) ...

, a group of American women's magazines * Seven Sisters (''Forgotten Realms''), fictional characters from the ''Forgotten Realms'' role-playing game

Biology

* Seven Sisters Oak, largest southern live oak registered in the U.S. *

Jungle babbler The jungle babbler (''Argya striata'') is a member of the family Leiothrichidae found in the Indian subcontinent. Jungle babblers are gregarious birds that forage in small groups of six to ten birds, a habit that has given them the popular name ...

, a type of bird known as seven sisters in northern India * ''

Crinum americanum ''Crinum americanum'' is an aquatic angiosperm native to North America from Texas to South Carolina, as well as Mexico, Cuba, Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. Common names for this species include Florida swamp-lily, string lily, and southern swa ...

'', a plant commonly known as seven sisters * ''

Sterculia monosperma ''Sterculia monosperma'' (; th, เกาลัดไทย), also known as Chinese chestnut, Thai chestnut, seven sisters' fruit, and phoenix eye fruit, is a deciduous tropical nut-bearing tree of genus '' Sterculia''. Distribution Its ori ...

'', a type of nut from Southern China known as seven sisters' fruit

Organizations

Big Oil Big Oil is a name used to describe the world's six or seven largest publicly traded and investor-owned oil and gas companies, also known as supermajors. The term, particularly in the United States, emphasizes their economic power and influence ...

prior to the 1970s oil crisis, of which seven companies, referred to as the "Seven Sisters", dominated the oil industry *

Seven Sisters (colleges) The Seven Sisters refers to seven highly selective liberal arts colleges in the Northeastern United States that are historically women's colleges: Barnard College, Bryn Mawr College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and Wellesley College ar ...

, the name given to seven US liberal arts colleges that are historically women's colleges *

Seven Sisters (law firms) The Seven Sisters refers to a historical collection of seven law firms with offices across Canada, majority of which have head offices in Toronto, Ontario. History The term "Seven Sisters" was originally coined by John Alexander Black, founder of ...

, seven Canadian law firms

Places

Australia

Seven Sisters (Queensland) The Pinnacles (aka the Seven Sisters) are a series of seven volcanic cinder cones on the Atherton Tableland, near Yungaburra, Queensland, Australia. They were formed more than 350 000 years ago. The vents have an overall southwest-northeast ...

, a group of small mountains on the Atherton Tableland in Australia

Continental Europe

Seven Sisters (Moscow) The Seven Sisters (russian: links=no, Сталинские высотки, Stalinskie Vysotki, Stalin's high-rises) are a group of seven skyscrapers in Moscow designed in the Stalinist style. They were built from 1947 to 1953 in an elaborate ...

, a group of skyscrapers in Russia *

Seven Sisters Waterfall, Norway The Seven Sisters ( no, De Syv Søstrene or , also known as ) is the 39th tallest waterfall in Norway. The tall waterfall consists of seven separate streams, and the tallest of the seven has a free fall that measures . The waterfall is located ...

, Geirangerfjord *

De syv søstre or is a mountain range on the island of Alsten in Alstahaug Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The mountain range consists of seven peaks on the southeastern half of the island. The mountains are (listed from northeast to southwest): * ...

(Seven Sisters), a mountain formation in Helgeland, Norway

Ireland

Seven Sisters, Donegal The Seven Sisters () is a mountain chain in northwest County Donegal, Ireland. It is part of a larger mountain range called the Derryveagh Mountains. The Seven Sisters, from southwest to northeast, are as follows: *Errigal (751 m) *Mackoght ...

, a mountain chain in County Donegal, Ireland

North America

* Seven Sisters (Massachusetts), a group of ridgeline knobs in the Holyoke Range of Western Massachusetts, US * Seven Sisters, Baja California, seven surfing point breaks in Baja California, Mexico * Seven Sisters Falls, Manitoba, a community in Manitoba, Canada * Seven Sisters Mountain, Alberta, Canada *

Seven Sisters Peaks Seven Sisters Peaks is a multi-summit massif located in the Bulkley Ranges of the Interior Mountains in British Columbia, Canada. The massif is situated within Seven Sisters Provincial Park and Protected Area, southeast of Cedarvale, south o ...

, British Columbia, Canada

United Kingdom

England

* Seven Sisters, London **

Seven Sisters station Seven Sisters is a National Rail, London Overground and London Underground Victoria line station in the Seven Sisters area of the London Borough of Haringey, north London. The station has two entrances/exits, one on Tottenham High Road and t ...

, a rail and Tube station **

Seven Sisters Road Seven Sisters Road is a road in north London, England which runs within the boroughs of Islington, Hackney and Haringey. It is an extension of Camden Road, running from Holloway Road (the A1 road) at the Nags Head crossroads then on to another ...

, North London * Seven Sisters (Quantock Hills), a prominent Somerset landmark * Seven Sisters Road, St Lawrence, Isle of Wight *

Seven Sisters, Sussex The Seven Sisters are a series of chalk sea cliffs on the English Channel coast, and are a stretch of the sea-eroded section of the South Downs range of hills, in the county of East Sussex, in south-east England. The Seven Sisters cliffs run ...

, a group of chalk cliffs * Seven Sisters Rocks,

Symonds Yat Symonds Yat is a village in the Wye Valley and a popular tourist destination, straddling the River Wye in the English county of Herefordshire, close to the Gloucestershire border. It is within a few miles of Monmouthshire and the Welsh border. ...

, Herefordshire

Wales

* Seven Sisters, Neath Port Talbot, a village ** Seven Sisters (electoral ward), an electoral ward, Neath Port Talbot

China

Hong Kong

Tsat Tsz Mui Tsat Tsz Mui or Braemar Point is a neighbourhood, formerly a village, east of North Point, in Hong Kong. It is centred on Tsat Tsz Mui Road. Name Tsat Tsz Mui in Cantonese means "seven sisters". There was a tragic story about them. Once upon a ...

(Seven Sisters), an area and road in Hong Kong

India

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, a region in northeastern India

Other uses

* The Seven Sisters songline, a creation (Dreamtime) story in Aboriginal Australian mythology, **linked to

Australian Aboriginal astronomy Australian Aboriginal astronomy is a name given to Aboriginal Australian culture relating to astronomical subjects – such as the Sun and Moon, the stars, planets, and the Milky Way, and their motions on the sky. Traditional Aboriginal ...

* Seven Sisters of American Protestantism, mainline Protestant denominations * ''Seven Sisters'' (''Sette Sorelle''), top Italian

Serie A The Serie A (), also called Serie A TIM for national sponsorship with TIM, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and the winner is awarded the Scudetto and the Cop ...

football clubs