List of Famous people named Empress

Wang Xianyuan (王憲嫄), formally Empress Wenmu, was an empress of the Chinese dynasty Liu Song. Her husband was Emperor Xiaowu.

Empress Wang of Jing, also known by her birth name Wang Zhi (王娡) and by her title Lady Wang, was an empress during the Han Dynasty. She was the second wife of Emperor Jing and the mother of Emperor Wu.

Empress Zheng was the empress of Emperor Huizong of Song.

Empress Ma, formally Empress Xiaocigao, was a Chinese Empress Consort of the Ming Dynasty, married to the Hongwu Emperor and acting as his political adviser and secretary, exerting a large amount of influence during his reign.

Yu Wenjun, formally Empress Mingmu was an empress of the Chinese Jin dynasty (265-420) by marriage to Emperor Ming of Jin, and Regent during the minority of her son Emperor Cheng from 326 to 327.

Lady Bian, also known as Empress Dowager Bian or Grand Empress Dowager Bian, formally known as Empress Wuxuan, was an empress dowager and later grand empress dowager of the state of Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms period of China. She was the wife of Cao Cao, a warlord who rose to power in the late Eastern Han dynasty and laid the foundation of Wei. She bore Cao Cao's successor, Cao Pi, who ended the Han Dynasty and founded Wei in 220 after his father's death.

Empress Erzhu Ying'e (爾朱英娥) (514–556) was an empress of the Xianbei-led Northern Wei dynasty of China. She was the wife of Emperor Xiaozhuang and a daughter of the paramount general Erzhu Rong. She later became a concubine of Northern Wei and Eastern Wei's paramount general Gao Huan.

Empress Dou, formally Empress Xiaowen (孝文皇后), was an empress of the Chinese Han dynasty who greatly influenced the reigns of her husband Emperor Wen and her son Emperor Jing with her adherence to Taoist philosophy; she was the main support for the Huang-Lao school. She therefore contributed greatly to the Rule of Wen and Jing, commonly considered one of the golden ages of Chinese history.

Yang Xianrong (羊獻容), formally Empress Xianwen was an empress—uniquely in the history of China, for two different empires and two different emperors. Her first husband was Emperor Hui of Jin, and her second husband was Liu Yao of Han Zhao. Also unique was the fact that she was deposed four and restored four times as the empress of Jin.

Yang Yan (楊艷), courtesy name Qiongzhi (瓊芝), formally Empress Wuyuan was an empress of the Jin Dynasty (266–420). She was the first wife of Emperor Wu.