Thais can be the plural of ''Thai'' and refer to: * The

Thai people Thai people ( th, ชาวไทย; '' endonym''), Central Thai people ( th, คนภาคกลาง, sou, คนใต้, ตามโพร; ''exonym and also domestically'') or Siamese ( th, ชาวสยาม; ''historical exonym an ...

, the main ethnic group of Thailand * The Thai peoples or

Tai peoples Tai peoples are the populations who speak (or formerly spoke) the Tai languages. There are a total of about 93 million people of Tai ancestry worldwide, with the largest ethnic groups being Dai, Thais, Isan, Tai Yai (Shan), Lao, Tai Aho ...

, the ethnic groups of southern China and Southeast Asia In the singular, Thais may refer to:

People

Ancient world

* Thaïs, a celebrated hetaira during the era of Alexander (356-323BCE) *

Thaïs (saint) St. Thaïs of fourth-century Roman Alexandria and of the Egyptian desert was a repentant courtesan. Hagiography, biography Ancient writings St. Thaïs reportedly lived during the fourth century in Roman Egypt. Her story is included in hagiograp ...

, 4th century repentant courtesan and saint of Roman Egypt

Modern world

* Thaís (footballer, born 1987), Brazilian footballer *

Thaís (footballer, born 1996) Thaís Cristina da Silva Ferreira (born 1 May 1996), simply known as Thaís, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a centre back for Série A1 club SE Palmeiras and the Brazil women's national team. Club career Thaís has pl ...

, Brazilian footballer *

Thaisinha Thaís Duarte Guedes (born 20 January 1993), commonly known as Thaís Guedes or Thaisinha, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as either a forward or an attacking midfielder for Santos and the Brazil national team. With Brazil's youth teams sh ...

(born 1993), Brazilian footballer *

Thaís Picarte Thaís Ribeiro Picarte (born 22 July 1982), commonly known simply as Thaís, is a Brazilian former international football goalkeeper who last played for Santos. During her career she has played in the Brazilian, Spanish and Italian leagues. ...

(born 1982), Brazilian football goalkeeper * Thaís Fidélis (born 2001), Brazilian artistic gymnast *

Thais Weiller Thais Weiller is a Brazilian game designer and producer. Together with Danilo Dias she co-founded JoyMasher and released ''Oniken'', '' Odallus'', Blazing Chrome ''Blazing Chrome'' is a run and gun video game developed by JoyMasher and publish ...

, Brazilian game designer and producer * Thais Russomano (born 1963), Brazilian doctor and researcher * Thais Souza Wiggers (born 1985), Brazilian television presenter and model * Thaís de Campos (born 1956), Brazilian actress * Thaís Melchior (born 1990), Brazilian actress * Thaís Pacholek (born 1983), Brazilian actress *

Thaïs Blume Thaïs Blume (born 19 September 1984) is a Spanish actress. She debuted on television in 2008 with ''Sin tetas no hay paraíso'', and is also known for playing Mati on '' El Príncipe''. Biography The role that catapulted Thaïs Blume to fame was ...

(born 1984), Spanish actress * Thaïs Henríquez (born 1982), Spanish synchronized swimmer * Mayuka Thaïs (born 1979), American singer-songwriter, artist and actress * Thais Blatnik (1919–2015), American journalist and politician * Thais Lawton (1879–1956), American actress *

Thais St. Julien Thaïs St. Julien (June 11, 1945 – January 3, 2019) was a soprano from New Orleans. She studied under Charles Paddock, Virginia MacWatters and Norma Newton, and was Co-Director (with Milton G. Scheuermann, Jr) of the New Orleans Musica da Ca ...

(1945–2019), American soprano

Arts and entertainment

* ''Thaïs'' (opera), an 1894 opera by Jules Massenet * ''Thais'' (1917 American film), produced by Sam Goldwyn * ''Thaïs'' (1917 Italian film), directed by Anton Giulio Bragaglia * ''Thais'', a play by

Menander Menander (; grc-gre, Μένανδρος ''Menandros''; c. 342/41 – c. 290 BC) was a Greek dramatist and the best-known representative of Athenian New Comedy. He wrote 108 comedies and took the prize at the Lenaia festival eight times. His re ...

* ''Thaïs'' (novel), an 1890 novel by Anatole France * The title character of ''

Thais of Athens ''Thais of Athens'' () is a historical novel by Ivan Efremov written in 1972. It tells the story of the famous hetaera Thaïs, who was one of Alexander the Great's contemporaries and companions on his conquest of the '' oikoumene'' or the kno ...

'', a 1972 historical novel by Ivan Efremov * ''Thaïs'' (painting), a 1781 painting by Joshua Reynolds * "Thaïs", two songs by This Mortal Coil from the 1986 album '' Filigree & Shadow'' *''Thaïs'', an Art Deco sculpture by Demétre Chiparus * Thais, a fictional city in the video games ''

Tibia The tibia (; ), also known as the shinbone or shankbone, is the larger, stronger, and anterior (frontal) of the two bones in the leg below the knee in vertebrates (the other being the fibula, behind and to the outside of the tibia); it connects ...

'' (1997) and in ''

Aveyond ''Aveyond'' is a role-playing video game series by Aveyond Studios (formerly Amaranth Games or Aveyond Kingdom). It is set in a fantasy medieval world in which players attempt to save the world from evil beings, with a number of side quests avail ...

'' (2004) * Thaïs Eulalia Kanellis, a character in the video game ''

Black Closet ''Black Closet'' is a mystery visual novel, strategy RPG and life simulation game developed and published by Hanako Games and released on September 16, 2015 for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux on the digital distribution service Steam. The game was r ...

Other uses

* , two Royal Navy ships * ''Thais'' (gastropod), a genus of gastropod mollusc * 1236 Thaïs, a main belt asteroid *

Thais (horse) Thais (1893–1898) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare. She showed very promising form as a juvenile in 1895 when she was placed in the New Stakes and the July Stakes before winning the Crabbet Plate at Gatwick. In the follow ...

(1893–1898), a British Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare

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