Surprise

Surprise may refer to:

• Surprise (emotion), a brief emotional state experienced as the result of an expected significant event

Science and mathematics

• Surprise (networks), a measure for evaluating the quality of community structure in complex networks
• Surprise (apple), a pink-fleshed apple

Places

• Surprise, Arizona
• Surprise, Indiana
• Surprise, Nebraska
• Surprise, New York
• Surprise Station, California or Surprise, California
• Surprise Valley (disambiguation)

Entertainment

• "Surprise" (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), episode 13 of season 2 of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Surprise (1991 film), a 1991 short by Pixar
• Surprise (2015 film), a 2015 Chinese film
• Surprise! (film), a 1995 short by Veit Helmer
• ¡Sorpresa!, a TV network whose name means "Surprise!" in Spanish

Music

• 5urprise, a South Korean band
• Surprise Records, a record label
• Surprise Symphony, Symphony No. 94 by Joseph Haydn

Albums

• Surprise (Better Than Ezra album), 1990 by Better Than Ezra
• Surprise (Crystal Waters album), 1991 by Crystal Waters
• Surprise (S.E.S. album), 2001 by S.E.S.
• Surprise (Paul Simon album), 2006 by Paul Simon, released
• Surprise (Sylvia album), by country music singer Sylvia
• Surprises (Herbie Mann album), 1976 featuring Cissy Houston
• Surprise! (album), an album by Fifteen

Songs

• "Surprise", a song by Sugababes from the 2007 album Change
• "Surprise!" (Bonnie Pink song),a 1996 song by Bonnie Pink
• "Surprises", a song by Billy Joel from the 1982 album Nylon Curtain

People

• Surprise Moriri (born 1980), South African footballer

Ships

• HMS Surprise, the name of several British Royal Navy ships
  • HMS Surprise (novel), a 1973 historical naval novel by Patrick O'Brian
• USS Surprise, the name of several United States Navy ships
  • Surprise (1777 ship), the first American naval ship of the name
• HMS Surprise (replica ship), a modern tall ship, built at Lunenberg, Nova Scotia, Canada
• Surprize, a merchant ship launched in 1780 that made five voyages for the British East India Company and two transporting convict to New South Wales in 1790 and 1794 before being captured in 1799
• Surprise (clipper), 1850 clipper ship in the San Francisco and tea trades
• Surprise (paddle steamer), the first paddle steamer, and the first steam powered vessel, built and run in Australia
• Royal Escape (1660 ship), the ex-collier Surprise.

See also

• Surprise factor, a storytelling technique
• Self-information, a concept in information theory
• Surprise, Surprise (disambiguation)
• Shock (disambiguation)