Amaryllis (disambiguation)
# Amaryllis (disambiguation)

Amaryllis is a small genus of flowering bulbs, with two species.

Amaryllis may also refer to:

## People

* Amaryllis Fleming (1925–1999), British cello performer and teacher
* Amaryllis Garnett (1943–1973), English actress
* Amaryllis (Ryllis) Llewellyn Hacon, pseudonym of Edith Hacon, later Mrs Robichaud (1875–1952), British suffragist, WWI nursing hospital volunteer and socialite
* Amaryllis Knight, co-owner and operator of Falcon Motorcycles
* Amaryllis Tremblay, Canadian actress
* Amaryllis, a character in Vergil's Eclogues
* Amaryllis, a character in Meredith Willson's The Music Man

## In biology

* The amaryllis family, a monocot plant family formally known as Amaryllidaceae
* Amaryllis berteroi, also known as Zephyranthes robusta
* Schinia amaryllis, a moth of the family Noctuidae
* Hippeastrum, a genus of South American bulbs whose cultivars are commonly sold as "amaryllis"
* Amaryllis (crustacean), a genus of amphipods

## Music

* Amaryllis Chamber Ensemble, in Boston
* Amaryllis (Marilyn Crispell, Gary Peacock and Paul Motian album), 2000
* Amaryllis (Shinedown album), a 2012 album by Shinedown and its title track
* "Amaryllis" (song), a 1988 by the Japanese band Wink
* "Amaryllis", a 1581 gavotte from the Ballet Comique de la Reine by Balthasar de Beaujoyeulx
* "Amaryllis", a 17th-century air de cour composed by Louis XIII of France; see Ballet Comique de la Reine

## Other uses

* Amaryllis (catamaran), a catamaran sailboat by Nathanael Greene Herreshoff launched in 1876
* Amaryllis (given name)
* Amaryllis (restaurant), in Glasgow, Scotland
* Amaryllis (ship), which wrecked on the coast of Palm Beach County, Florida in 1965
* Amaryllis (yacht), built in 2011 by Abeking & Rasmussen
* 1085 Amaryllis, a minor planet orbiting the Sun
* "Amaryllis", an award-nominated short story by Carrie Vaughn
* "Opp Amaryllis!", a 1791 song by Carl Michael Bellman
