Lorelei (disambiguation)

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Lorelei is a feminine water spirit, similar to a siren or mermaid, which is rumored to send sailors to their death, by luring them near cliffs with her beautiful singing voice.

Lorelei, Loralei, Loreley or Lorelai may also refer to:

In geography

• Lorelei, a rock in the Rhine River, the subject of many legends, poems, and songs
• Loreley (Verbandsgemeinde), a Verbandsgemeinde ("collective municipality") in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
• Loralai District, Balochistan, Pakistan
  • Loralai, the principal city of Loralai District
• Lorelei (Edmonton), a neighbourhood in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

In science

• 165 Loreley, an asteroid discovered by C. H. F. Peters in 1876
• Loreleia, a mushroom genus named after Lorelei Norvell, an American mycologist

In comics

• Lorelei (Asgardian), a supporting character appearing mostly in The Mighty Thor and on Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Lorelei (Mutate), a mutant supervillain whose first appearance was in X-Men #63
• Lorelei Travis, a minor mutant character appearing in the various titles surrounding the X-Men
• Mantis (Marvel Comics), who briefly took the name Lorelei
• Lorelei Rox, a character in The Spirit comic book by Will Eisner

In video games

• Lorelai (Suikoden), a character in the Suikoden video game series
• Lorelei (Pokémon), a character from the Pokémon video games
• Mystia Lorelei, a character from the Touhou Project video games
• Lorelei, also known as the Queen of Maggots, a character from The Cat Lady
• Order of Lorelei, a military-religious organization in Tales of the Abyss
• Lorelei, a character from Rise of the Triad

In literature

• Die Lorelei or Die Lore-Ley (The Lorelei, de:Die Lore-Ley), an 1824 poem by Heinrich Heine that has been set to music by several composers
• Lorelei Lee, main character of the 1925 novel Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos
• Lorelei Rox, a character in the Spirit comic
• Lorelei, the dog from The Dogs of Babel, about a man who tries to get his dog to speak about the death of his wife
• Lorelei (1935), a romance novel written by the Romanian author Ionel Teodoreanu

In film

• Lorelei Lee, one of the main characters of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1928 film) and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953 film), played by Marilyn Monroe in the latter
• Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean, a 2005 Japanese World War II science fiction film
• Lorelei Rox, in The Spirit

In television

• Lorelai Gilmore, a character on the American television series Gilmore Girls
• Lorelai "Rory" Gilmore, a character on the American television series Gilmore Girls
• Lorelai "Trix" Gilmore, a character on the American television series Gilmore Girls

In music

• Loreley (opera), an 1890 opera by Alfredo Catalani that is an extensive reworking of Catalani's drama fantastico Elda
• Lorelei Lee, a main character of the 1949 Broadway musical Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
• Lorelei (musical), a 1974 revision of the 1949 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
• Lorelei (band), a dark rock band from Pittsburgh
• "Lorelei" (song), a 1933 song composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin for their musical Pardon My English
• "Lorelei" (1960) by Lonnie Donegan
• "Lorelei" (Styx song), a 1976 song by Styx on the album Equinox
• "Loreley", a song on Blackmore's Night's 2003 album Ghost of a Rose
• "Lorelei", a song on Cocteau Twins's 1984 album Treasure
• "Lorelei", a song on Comeback Kid's 2003 album Turn It Around
• "Lorelei", a song on Corpus Delicti's 1993 album Twilight
• "Lorelai", a song on Fleet Foxes's 2011 album Helplessness Blues
• "Lorelei", a song on Nina Hagen's 1983 album Angstlos
• "Loreley", a 1981 single by Dschinghis Khan
• "Loreley", a song on L'Arc-en-Ciel's 1998 album Heart
• "Black Forest (Lorelei)", a song on Mercury Rev's 2005 album The Secret Migration
• "Lorelei" or "Lied von der Lorelei" (song of the Lorelei), musical settings of Heinrich Heine's poem, including those by Friedrich Silcher (1837), Clara Schumann (1843), Franz Liszt (1856), and others
• "Lorelei", a song on Scorpions's 2010 album Sting in the Tail
• "Lorelei", a song on Theatre of Tragedy's 1998 album Aégis
• "Lorelei", a song on The Pogues's 1989 album Peace and Love
• "Lorelei", a song on Tom Tom Club's eponymous 1981 debut album
• "Lorelei", a song on Wishbone Ash's 1976 album New England
• "Lorelei", a single from Steve Kilbey and Martin Kennedy's 2013 You Are Everything album
• "Lorelei," the title track for the character named Ilyasviel from the visual novel Fate/stay night
• "Lorelei," a track from the 2016 3rd mini album "STRANG3R" by Korean girl group Ladies' Code.
• "Lorelei" a track from the 2003 album "Time and Water" by Last Train Home

People

• Lorelei (name), female given name
• Loreley, pen name of the Mexican writer María Luisa Garza