Desdemona (disambiguation)

Desdemona is a character in William Shakespeare's play Othello.

Desdemona may also refer to:

People

• Desdemona (Otello (Rossini)), a soprano role in the 1816 opera Otello by Gioachino Rossini
• Desdemona (Otello), a soprano role in Giuseppe Verdi's opera Otello (1887)
• Desdemona, a rôle from Shakespeare's Othello in the film O, renamed Desi Brable, played by Julia Stiles (1999/2001)
• Desdemona, (Disdemona) a fictional character in a tale found in the Hecatommithi (1565) by Giovanni Battista Giraldi (aka Cinthio)
• Desdemona Stephanides, a character in the book Middlesex by author Jeffrey Eugenides
• Desdemona, a character in the book Eleven Hours by author Paullina Simons
• Desdemona, a character in the book Trust Me by author Jayne Ann Krentz
• Desdemona, a character recreated as Kynaston, played by Billy Crudup the film Stage Beauty
• Desdemona, a character in the book Vurt by author Jeff Noon
• Desdemona, a character in the Midnighters Trilogy by the author Scott Westerfeld
• Desdemona, a character in a Jimmy Buffett novel Where Is Joe Merchant?
• Desdemona, a character in the animated TV series Gargoyles
• Desdemona, a cat character in the comic strip Mutt and Jeff
• Desdemona Fuscus, a character in the comic strip and webcomic Kevin and Kell
• ST Desdemona, a Cypriot tugboat

Music

• Desdemona (Marc Bolan song), a song first recorded by John's Children
• "Desdemona", a song by The Allman Brothers
• "Desdemona", a song by Jimmy Buffett, which refers to the character Desdemona and events which take place in the Jimmy Buffett novel Joe Merchant
• "Desdemona", a 1993 hit single sung by Eddie Murphy
• "Desdemona", a 1982 hit song from the Fame TV series sung by Gene Anthony Ray (Leroy Johnson)
• "Desdemona", early film, music hall funny song sung by Billy Merson in 1927
• "Desdemona", a 1971 single by The Searchers

Locations

• Desdemona (moon), a moon of Uranus
• 666 Desdemona, an asteroid
• Desdemona, Texas

Other

• Desdemona, a typeface included with early versions of Microsoft software, such as Office 4.3
• Desdemona Sands Light, a former lighthouse in Oregon, U.S.
• Desdemona (barque), a ship which ran aground in 1857 at the future site of the lighthouse
• Desdemona (play), written by Toni Morrison

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