Empress Wu

Empress Wu may mean or refer to:

  • Empress Wu (Zhaolie) (died 245), the wife of Liu Bei, the first emperor of Shu Han
  • Empress Wu of Zhou (624–705), Wu Zetian, the only woman in the history of China to assume the title of Empress Regnant
  • Consort Wu (Xuanzong) (died 737), Wu Zetian's grandniece, who was posthumously honored as an empress
  • Empress Wu (Gaozong of Song) (1115–1197), Chinese Empress consort of the Song Dynasty
  • Empress Wu (Chenghua) (died 1509), Chinese Empress consort of the Ming Dynasty
  • Empress Wu (1984 TV series), a Hong Kong TV series

Famous quotes containing the word empress:

    “The Empress is Legitimist, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.”
    —Napoleon Bonaparte III (1808–1873)