Famous Names Ending with "-es"

All of these answers (most of them people or characters) end with an "-es" that sounds like "ees". Can you think of any others I can add?

All answers are singular proper nouns

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Hint	Answer
The father of Western philosophical tradition	Socrates
Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer	Archimedes
Greek mathematician who first calculated the Earth's circumference	Eratosthenes
Greek "Father of Comedy"	Aristofanes
Greek "Father of Medicine"	Hippocrates
One of the three great Greek tragedians	Sophocles or Euripedes
Greek general who also led Athens (Shakespeare play)	Pericles
Greek god of war	Ares
Greek messenger of the gods	Hermes
Greek god of the dead	Hades
Greek hero of the Trojan War	Achilles
The greatest of the Greek heroes, a paragon of masculinity	Heracles
The Roman equivalent of the above	Hercules
Courtier of Dionysus, his "sword" a symbol of ever-present danger	Damocles
Latin name for the Greek hero of The Odyssey	Ulysses
Roman goddess of agriculture, or dwarf planet	Ceres
Fifth king of the Achaemenid dynasty of Persia	Xerxes
Egyptian pharaoh who was called "the Great"	Ramesses
German folklore demon in the Faust legend	Mephistopheles
Female name meaning "mercies", or a make of car	Mercedes

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5 Comments

Level 63

Jun 13, 2021

Nice quiz, even though it does put my (lack of!) knowledge of Classics to shame!

You might like to add Damocles - it was one of the few answers I could think of but then it didn't show up... 😮

Level 87

Jun 14, 2021

Thanks for the idea!

Level 60

Dec 22, 2024

So essentially most ancient Greeks lol

Level 77

Dec 23, 2024

Nice quiz. It's spelled Euripides.

Level 89

Dec 27, 2024

Good quiz!

I agree with PeregrineFalcon about Euripides, I think that's the more common spelling.

Possible additions that came to mind for me include Greek orator Demosthenes, or Paul Atreides from Dune.

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