Ptolemais may refer to:
People Ptolemais of Cyrene, a c. 3rd-century BC mathematician and musical theorist Ptolemais, daughter of Ptolemy I Soter and mother of Demetrius the Fair Ptolemais (tribe), a phyle of Ancient Athens
Places Africa Ptolemais, Cyrenaica, a city in modern-day Libya Ptolemais Euergetis, in what is now the Faiyum in Egypt Ptolemais Hermiou or Ptolemais in the Thebaid, modern-day El Mansha in the Sohag Governorate of Egypt Ptolemais Theron, a city on the African coast of the Red Sea
Elsewhere Ptolemais or Lebedus, on and around the Kısık Peninsula Ptolemaida in West Macedonia, Greece Ptolemais (Pamphylia), a coastal town of ancient Pamphylia or of Cilicia Ptolemais, a name that may have been given to Larisa (Troad), Anatolia Ptolemais (bishopric), a titular see centred on Acre, in modern-day Israel
See also
Ptolemy (disambiguation) Ptolemaic Kingdom Ptolemaiida, a taxon of extinct wolf-like mammals