People

• Salome Alexandra
  Salome Alexandra
  Salome Alexandra or Alexandra of Jerusalem , was the only Jewish regnant queen, with the exception of her own husband's mother whom he had prevented from ruling as his dying father had wished, and of the much earlier usurper Athaliah...
  
   (139–67 BCE), Queen of Judea (76–67 BCE)
• Salome I
  Salome I
  Salome I was the sister of Herod the Great and the mother of Berenice by her husband Costobarus, governor of Idumea.Upon the death of Herod the Great in 4 BCE, she was given a toparchy including the cities of Jabneh, Ashdod, Phasaelis, and 5000 drachmae. Caesar Augustus supplemented this with a...
  
  , Herod the Great's sister
• Salome (daughter of Herod the Great), (c. early 1st century CE), daughter of Herod the Great and his wife Elpis
• Salome (disciple)
  Salome (disciple)
  Salome , sometimes venerated as Mary Salome, was a follower of Jesus who appears briefly in the canonical gospels and in more detail in apocryphal writings...
  
   (c. early 1st century CE), disciple of Jesus, sometimes called Saint Mary Salome
• Salome (rapper)
  Salome (rapper)
  Salome , is a woman rap artist from Iran. She is known for being Iran's first female rapper, and today is one of very few...
  
   (born 1985), Iranian/Turkish MC
• Salomé (artist)
  Salomé (artist)
  Salomé is a famed German artist. His paintings are in renowned museums and collections all over the world. Salomé became known as one of the members of the art group Junge Wilde or Neue Wilde...
  
   (born 1954), German artist
• Salomé (singer)
  Salomé (singer)
  Salomé , born Maria Rosa Marco Poquet, is a Spanish Catalan singer.Salomé was born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. At the Eurovision Song Contest held in Madrid in 1969, she performed "Vivo Cantando", composed by Maria José Cerato with words by Aniano Alcalde...
  
   (born 1943), Spanish singer
• Lou Andreas-Salomé
  Lou Andreas-Salomé
  Lou Andreas-Salomé was a Russian-born psychoanalyst and author. Her diverse intellectual interests led to friendships with a broad array of distinguished western luminaries, including Nietzsche, Wagner, Freud, and Rilke.- Early years :Lou Salomé was born in St...
  
   (1861–1937), Russian-born psychoanalyst and writer
• Salomé Breziner
  Salomé Breziner
  Salomé Breziner or Salome Breziner is a film director, screenwriter, and script supervisor, best known for directing and writing Fast Sofa.-As Director:*The Secret Lives of Dorks *Fast Sofa *An Occasional Hell...
  
  , film director and screenwriter
• Salome Jens
  Salome Jens
  Salome Jens is an American stage, film and television actress. She is perhaps best-known for portraying the Female Changeling on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.-Life and career:...
  
   (born 1935), American actress who appeared in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
• Salomé Ureña
  Salomé Ureña
  Salomé Ureña de Henríquez better known as Salomé Ureña, was a revered poet and pedagogist of the Dominican Republic. Born in Santo Domingo in 1850, she was one of the central figures of lyrical poetry of the 19th century and an innovator of the feminine education in her country.-Biography:Ureña...
  
   (1847–1897), poet and teacher from the Dominican Republic
• Midwife Salome
  Midwife Salome
  Midwife Salome is a midwife at the Nativity of Jesus who appears in several apocryphal Gospels, and is still depicted with a companion in Eastern Orthodox icons of the scene, though she has long vanished from most Western depictions. A midwife Salome appears in the infancy gospel attached to the...
  
  , midwife of Early Christian texts who doubted Mary's virginity

Places

• Salomé, Nord
  Salomé, Nord
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  , a commune in northern France
• Salome, Arizona
  Salome, Arizona
  Salome is a census-designated place in La Paz County, Arizona, United States. The population was 1,690 at the 2000 census.The usual local pronunciation of the town's name is .-Geography:Salome is located at ....
  
  , a census-designated place in La Paz County, Arizona, United States

Visual arts

• Salome with the Head of John the Baptist, painting by Titian, c. 1515
• Salome with the Head of John the Baptist (Caravaggio, London), painting by Caravaggio, c. 1607
• Salome with the Head of John the Baptist (Madrid) (Caravaggio)
  Salome with the Head of John the Baptist (Madrid) (Caravaggio)
  Salome with the Head of John the Baptist , c. 1609, is a painting by the Italian master Caravaggio in the Palacio Real, Madrid.The early Caravaggio biographer Giovanni Bellori, writing in 1672, records the artist sending a Salome with the Head of John the Baptist from Naples to the Grand Master of...
  
  , painting by Caravaggio, c. 1609
• Dance of Salome (paintings)
  Dance of Salome (paintings)
  The Dance of Salomé is the title of a series of 160 works consisting of 85 paintings and 75 drawings created by Nabil Kanso in 1988 and 1995...
  
  , series by Nabil Kanso, 1988
• Salome with the Head of St. John the Baptist, painting by Sandro Botticelli
  Sandro Botticelli
  Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance...
  
  , 1488
• Salome with the Head of John the Baptist, painting by Cornelis Engelbrechtsz, c. 1490
• The Daughter of Herodias, painting by Sebastiano del Piombo
  Sebastiano del Piombo
  Sebastiano del Piombo , byname of Sebastiano Luciani, was an Italian Renaissance-Mannerist painter of the early 16th century famous for his combination of the colors of the Venetian school and the monumental forms of the Roman school.- Biography :Sebastiano del Piombo belongs to the painting school...
  
  , 1510
• Salome, sculpture by Tilman Riemenschneider
  Tilman Riemenschneider
  Tilman Riemenschneider was a German sculptor and woodcarver active in Würzburg from 1483. He was one of the most prolific and versatile sculptors of the transition period between late Gothic and Renaissance, a master in stone and limewood.- Biography :Tilman Riemenschneider was born between 1459...
  
  , 1500–1510
• Salome, painting by Casare da Sesta, 1510–1520
• Salome, painting by Giampietrino
  Giampietrino
  Giampietrino, possibly Giovanni Pietro Rizzoli , was a north Italian painter of the Lombard school and the Leonardo circle, succinctly characterized by Sidney J. Freedberg as an "exploiter of Leonardo's repertory."...
  
  , c. 1510–1530,
• Salome, painting by Alonso Berruguete
  Alonso Berruguete
  Alonso González de Berruguete was a Spanish painter, sculptor and architect. He is considered to be the most important sculptor of the Spanish Renaissance, and is known for his emotive sculptures depicting religious ecstasy or torment.Born in the town of Paredes de Nava, Berrugete studied art...
  
  , 1512–1516
• Salome with the Head of John the Baptist, painting by Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen
  Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen
  Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen was a Northern Netherlandish designer of woodcuts and painter. He was one of the first important artists working in Amsterdam, at a time when it was a flourishing provincial town.-Biography:Little is known about Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen's life...
  
  
• Salome with the head of St John the Baptist, painting by Titian
  Titian
  Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio (c. 1488/1490 – 27 August 1576 better known as Titian was an Italian painter, the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school. He was born in Pieve di Cadore, near...
  
  , c. 1530
• Salome, painting by Lucas Cranach the Elder
  Lucas Cranach the Elder
  Lucas Cranach the Elder , was a German Renaissance painter and printmaker in woodcut and engraving...
  
  , c. 1530
• Salome, painting by Giovanni Battista Caracciolo, 1615–1520
• Salome Dancing before Herod, painting by Jacob Hogers, c. 1630–1655
• Salome Presented with the Head of St. John the Baptist, painting by Leonaert Bramer
  Leonaert Bramer
  Leonaert/Leonard Bramer alias Nestelghat was a Dutch painter, best known for probably being one of the teachers of Johannes Vermeer, although there is no similarity between their work. Bramer's dark and exotic style is unlike Vermeer's style...
  
  , 1630s
• Salome with the Head of John the Baptist, painting by Guido Reni
  Guido Reni
  Guido Reni was an Italian painter of high-Baroque style.-Biography:Born in Bologna into a family of musicians, Guido Reni was the son of Daniele Reni and Ginevra de’ Pozzi. As a child of nine, he was apprenticed under the Bolognese studio of Denis Calvaert. Soon after, he was joined in that...
  
  , 1639–1640
• The Daughter of Herodias Receiving the Head of John the Baptist, by Gustave Doré
  Gustave Doré
  Paul Gustave Doré was a French artist, engraver, illustrator and sculptor. Doré worked primarily with wood engraving and steel engraving.-Biography:...
  
  , 1865
• Salome, painting by Henri Regnault
  Henri Regnault
  Alexandre-Georges-Henri Regnault was a French painter.-Biography:Regnault was born in Paris, the son of Henri Victor Regnault...
  
  , 1870
• Salome Dancing before Herod, painting by Gustave Moreau
  Gustave Moreau
  Gustave Moreau was a French Symbolist painter whose main emphasis was the illustration of biblical and mythological figures. As a painter of literary ideas, Moreau appealed to the imaginations of some Symbolist writers and artists.- Biography :Moreau was born in Paris. His father, Louis Jean Marie...
  
   1874–1876
• Salome, painting by Gustave Moreau, 1876
• The Daughter of Herodias Dancing, painting by James Tissot
  James Tissot
  James Jacques Joseph Tissot was a French painter, who spent much of his career in Britain.-Biography:Tissot was born in Nantes, France. In about 1856, he began study at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris under Hippolyte Flandrin and Lamothe, and became friendly with Edgar Degas and James Abbott...
  
  , 1886–1896
• Salome, painting by Nikolai Astrup
  Nikolai Astrup
  Nikolai Astrup was a Norwegian painter.-Biography:Astrup was born in Bremanger in Nordfjord, but grew up in Ålhus in Jølster where his father worked as a priest. He was the great-grandson of Nils Astrup, a one-term member of parliament...
  
  
• Salome, painting by Franz von Stuck, 1906
• Salome, painting by Robert Henri
  Robert Henri
  Robert Henri was an American painter and teacher. He was a leading figure of the Ashcan School in art.- Early life :...
  
  , 1909

Stage works

• Salome (play)
  Salome (play)
  Salome is a tragedy by Oscar Wilde.The original 1891 version of the play was in French. Three years later an English translation was published...
  
   (1893), by Oscar Wilde
• Salome (opera)
  Salome (opera)
  Salome is an opera in one act by Richard Strauss to a German libretto by the composer, based on Hedwig Lachmann’s German translation of the French play Salomé by Oscar Wilde. Strauss dedicated the opera to his friend Sir Edgar Speyer....
  
   (1905), by Richard Strauss
• Salomé (Mariotte)
  Salomé (Mariotte)
  Salomé is an opera in one act by Antoine Mariotte to a libretto based on the French play Salome by Oscar Wilde.Mariotte commenced composition of his opera before the far more famous treatment of the same source by German composer Richard Strauss , but his premiered after the Strauss...
  
  , 1908 opera by Antoine Mariotte based on the Oscar Wilde play
• La tragédie de Salomé, 1907 ballet by Florent Schmitt
  Florent Schmitt
  Florent Schmitt was a French composer.-Early life:A Lorrainer, born in Meurthe-et-Moselle, Schmitt originally took music lessons in Nancy with the local composer Gustave Sandré. Subsequently he entered the Paris Conservatoire. There he studied with Gabriel Fauré, Jules Massenet, Théodore Dubois,...
  
  

Music

• Salomé – The Seventh Veil, a 2007 album by Xandria which also features the song "Salomé"
• "Salome", a song by The House of Love on their debut album, The House of Love (1988 album)
  The House of Love (1988 album)
  The House of Love was the debut album by the British band The House of Love. Released in June 1988 by Creation Records, the album was a critical success.-Background:...
  
  
• "Salomé" (song), a song written by popular Puerto Rican singer Chayanne
• "Salome", a 1990 song by U2:
  • included in the 1992 single "Even Better Than the Real Thing
    Even Better Than the Real Thing
    "Even Better Than the Real Thing" is the second song on U2's 1991 album Achtung Baby. It was released as the album's fourth single on 7 June 1992.-Writing and recording:...
    
    "
  • remix of the single included in the 1995 fan club compilation album Melon: Remixes for Propaganda
• "Salome", a song by Alcazar on their debut album Casino
  Casino (Alcazar album)
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  (2000)
• "Salome", a song by Lili Haydn on her debut album Lili
  Lili (album)
  Lili is the debut album by violinist/vocalist Lili Haydn. It was released in 1997 by Atlantic Records.-Track listing:# Stranger 4:58# Someday 4:01# Real 4:04...
  
  (1997)
• "Salome", a song composed by Edward Shearmur on the original soundtrack of the film The Governess
  The Governess
  The Governess is a 1998 British period drama film written and directed by Sandra Goldbacher. The screenplay focuses on a young Jewish woman of Sephardic background, who reinvents herself as a gentile governess when she is forced to find work to support her family.-Plot synopsis:Set in the 1830s,...
  
  (1998)
• "Salome", a song by the Old 97s, on their album Too Far to Care
  Too Far to Care
  Too Far To Care is the third studio album by American country/rock band Old 97's, first released on June 17, 1997 . The album's title comes from the song "Streets of Where I'm From"....
  
  
• "Salomé", a song written by Pete Doherty
  Pete Doherty
  Peter Doherty is an English musician, writer, actor, poet and artist. He is best known musically for being co-frontman of The Libertines, which he reformed with Carl Barât in 2010. His other musical project is indie band Babyshambles...
  
  
• "Salome", a song by Karel Kryl
  Karel Kryl
  Karel Kryl was a popular Czech singer-songwriter and performer of many protest songs in which he strongly criticized and identified the shortcomings and inhumanity of the Communist and later post-communist regime in his home country.-Biography:Kryl was born on April 12, 1944, in Kroměříž, in...
  
   (1965)
• "When Salome plays the drum", a song by Jimmy Buffett
  Jimmy Buffett
  James William "Jimmy" Buffett is a singer-songwriter, author, entrepreneur, and film producer. He is best known for his music, which often portrays an "island escapism" lifestyle. Together with his Coral Reefer Band, Buffett's musical hits include "Margaritaville" , and "Come Monday"...
  
  

Films

• Salomé (1910 film) short film by Ugo Falena
  Ugo Falena
  Ugo Falena , was an Italian silent film director and occasional opera librettist. His films include Otello , Beatrice Cenci , William Tell , Romeo & Juliet , and a notable adaptation of Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana featuring the soprano who sang at the premiere of the opera, itself, Gemma...
  
  
• Salomé (1918 film)
  Salomé (1918 film)
  Salomé is a silent film produced by William Fox and starring actress Theda Bara. The film is now considered to be lost.Henri Langlois, a French film preservationist, said he had the opportunity to buy this film but dismissed it as Fox, Theda Bara, and American spectacle...
  
  , starring Theda Bara
• Salomé (1923 film)
  Salomé (1923 film)
  Salomé , a silent film directed by Charles Bryant and starring Alla Nazimova, is a film adaptation of the Oscar Wilde play of the same name...
  
  
• Salome (1953 film)
  Salome (1953 film)
  Salome is a Biblical epic film made in Technicolor by Columbia Pictures. It was directed by William Dieterle and produced by Buddy Adler from a screenplay by Harry Kleiner and Jesse Lasky Jr. The music score was by George Duning, the dance music by Daniele Amfitheatrof and the cinematography by...
  
  , starring Rita Hayworth
• Salome (1973 film), directed by Clive Barker
  Clive Barker
  Clive Barker is an English author, film director and visual artist best known for his work in both fantasy and horror fiction. Barker came to prominence in the mid-1980s with a series of short stories which established him as a leading young horror writer...
  
  
• Salome (1986 film)
  Salome (1986 film)
  Salome is a 1986 Italian-French drama film directed by Claude d'Anna. It was entered into the 1986 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Mohamed Badrsalem - 2nd Assassin* Fabrizio Bentivoglio - Yokanaan* Fabio Carfora - Narraboth* Feodor Chaliapin, Jr...
  
  
• Salomé (2002 film)
  Salomé (2002 film)
  Salomé is a 2002 Spanish film directed by Carlos Saura. The film is told from the perspective of a flamenco dance company that will mount a show devoted to the mythical and biblical figure of Salomé, as a story of love and vengeance...
  
  , directed by Carlos Saura
• Salome's Last Dance
  Salome's Last Dance
  Salome's Last Dance is a 1988 film by British film director, Ken Russell. Although most of the action is a verbatim performance of Oscar Wilde's 1893 play Salome, which is itself based on a story from the New Testament, there is also a framing narrative written by Russell himself...
  
  (1988), film by Ken Russell
• Salome, a fictional West Texas town in the 1996 Kevin Costner film Tin Cup
  Tin Cup
  Tin Cup is a 1996 romantic comedy film co-written and directed by Ron Shelton, and starring Kevin Costner and Rene Russo with Cheech Marin and Don Johnson in major supporting roles.-Synopsis:...
  
  
• Salomé (telenovela)
  Salomé (telenovela)
  Salomé is a Mexican Telenovela that aired in 2001-2002, and it's starred Edith González and Guy Ecker.-Plot:The first part of the story takes part in the 1980s. Salomé, who was abandoned as a child by her mother, is a cabaret dancer who works at the cabaret Salón D'Rubí. Her best friend, Karicia,...
  
   (2001–2002), Mexican telenovela starring Edith González
• Salomé in Low Land (2006), pixel animation film by Christian Zagler (born Graz, 1980) based on Richard Strauss' opera
• Wilde Salome
  Wilde Salome
  Wilde Salome is 2011 American documentary-drama film written, directed by and starring Al Pacino. An exploration of Oscar Wilde's play Salome, the film premiered at the 68th Venice International Film Festival...
  
  (2010), directed by and starring Al Pacino

Literature

• Salome: My First 2000 Years of Love (1953), novel by George Sylvester Viereck
  George Sylvester Viereck
  George Sylvester Viereck was a German-American poet, writer, and propagandist.-Biography:...
  
   and Paul Eldridge
  Paul Eldridge
  Paul Eldridge was an American poet, novelist, short story writer and teacher. The son of Leon and Jeanette Eldridge , he was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on May 5, 1888. He later married a fellow writer, Sylvette de Lamar . He received his B.S. from Temple University in 1909, his M.A...
  
  
• Salomé – Five Plays (The Seven Veils, Dialogue with the Baptist, Salomé's Reward, The Chop and The Platter) by Nick Cave
  Nick Cave
  Nicholas Edward "Nick" Cave is an Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter, and occasional film actor.He is best known for his work as a frontman of the critically acclaimed rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, established in 1984, a group known for its eclectic influences and...
  
  
• Salome, main character of the 1990 novel Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins
• Salome, a poem by Carol Ann Duffy, featured in The World's Wife
  The World's Wife
  The World's Wife is a collection of poems by Carol Ann Duffy published in 1999.The World's Wife is Carol Ann Duffy's first themed collection of poems, which was first published in 1999...
  
  (1999).
• Salomé, novel by François Weyergans
  François Weyergans
  François Weyergans is a Belgian writer and director. His father, Franz Weyergans, was a Belgian and also a writer, while his mother was from Avignon in France...
  
  , written in 1968 but not published until 2005

Other uses

• SALOME
  SALOME
  SALOME is free software that provides a generic platform for Pre- and Post-Processing for numerical simulation. It is based on an open and flexible architecture made of reusable components...
  
  , open-source software for numerical simulation
• Salome, a type of marble
  Marble
  Marble is a metamorphic rock composed of recrystallized carbonate minerals, most commonly calcite or dolomite.Geologists use the term "marble" to refer to metamorphosed limestone; however stonemasons use the term more broadly to encompass unmetamorphosed limestone.Marble is commonly used for...
  
  
• Salome, a cultivar of the flower Narcissus (plant)