Seven Sisters

Seven Sisters is the common name for the Pleiades, a star cluster named for mythological characters.

Seven Sisters may also refer to:

Mythology

• Pleiades (Greek mythology), seven sisters who are companions of Artemis in Greek mythology
• Pleiades in folklore and literature, traditional and mythological interpretations of the star cluster
• The Hesperides of Greek

Education

• Seven Sisters (colleges), a group of American women's colleges
• The Seven Sisters of American Protestantism, an informal grouping of seven traditional mainline and liberal Protestant denominations

Geographical locations

• Seven Sisters, Baja California, Seven epic point breaks in Baja California, Mexico
• Seven Sisters, Donegal, a mountain chain in County Donegal, Ireland
• Seven Sisters Rocks, in the Wye Valley, Herefordshire
• Seven Sisters, London, an area and road in England with a railway and underground station of that name
  • Seven Sisters station, a rail station and underground (tube) station at Tottenham, London
  • Seven Sisters Road, a road in North London
• Seven Sisters Falls, Manitoba, a community in Manitoba, Canada
• Arsia Mons
• Seven Sisters (Massachusetts), a group of ridgeline knobs located in the Holyoke Range of Western Massachusetts
• Seven Sisters (Moscow), a group of seven Stalinist skyscrapers in Moscow, Russia
• De syv søstre (Seven Sisters), a mountain formation in Helgeland, Norway
• Seven Sisters (Queensland), a group of small mountains on the Atherton Tableland in Australia
• Seven Sisters, Sussex, a group of chalk cliffs in England
• Seven Sisters, Neath Port Talbot, a village in South Wales
• Seven Sister States, a region in northeastern India comprising the contiguous states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, and Tripura
• Tsat Tsz Mui (Seven Sisters), an area and road in Hong Kong
• Seven Sisters Waterfall, Norway, a group of waterfalls in the Geirangerfjord
• Seven Sisters (electoral ward), an electoral ward of the Welsh principal area of Neath Port Talbot County Borough

Music

• Seven Sisters (Beta Radio album), an album by the American band Beta Radio

• Seven Sisters (Deluxe Edition) (Beta Radio album), a special edition of the above

• Seven Sisters (Meja album), an album by the Swedish composer and singer Meja
• "Seven Sisters", a song 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
• "Seven Sisters", a song by American metal band The Sword from their album, Apocryphon
• "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

Organizations

• Seven sisters (studios), the seven original major movie studios
• Seven Sisters (oil companies), a group of oil companies
• Seven Sisters (law firms), seven Canadian law firms
• Seven Sisters (magazines), a group of American women's magazines

Sport

• The Seven Sisters (Sette Sorelle), a journalistic term to descrive the seven clubs to have qualified in the top seven positions in most Serie A seasons during the 1990s: Juventus, Milan, Inter, Lazio, Roma, Fiorentina, and Parma. The term has regained prominence in the mid-2010s, albeit with S.S.C. Napoli taking the place of Parma following the latter's decline and then outright liquidation.

Others

• The Seven Sisters (play), an 1860 play
• Seven Sisters (Forgotten Realms), fictional characters from the Forgotten Realms role-playing game
• The Seven Sisters (film), a 1915 silent film starring Marguerite Clark
• Seven Sisters, another name for jungle babbler (Turdoides striata), an Old World babbler found on the Indian subcontinent
• Seven sisters, a common name for the plant Crinum americanum
• The Seven Sisters, a book by Anthony Sampson

See also

• Qixi Festival, a Chinese holiday, sometimes called "Seventh Sister's Birthday"
• Seven Sisters' Fruit