Surprise

Surprise may refer to:

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

Science and mathematics

• 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, nickname of Symphony No. 94 (Haydn)

Albums

• Surprise (Better Than Ezra album), 1990 by Better Than Ezra
• Surprise (Crystal Waters album), 1991 by Crystal Waters
• Surprise (Lynsey De Paul album), 1973 by Lynsey De Paul
• Surprise (Paul Simon album), 2006 by Paul Simon, released
• Surprise (S.E.S. album), 2001 by S.E.S.
• Surprise (Sylvia album), by country music singer Sylvia
• Surprises (Herbie Mann album), 1976 featuring Cissy Houston
• Surprise!, by Fifteen

Songs

• "Surprise!" (Bonnie Pink song), 1996 by Bonnie Pink
• "Surprises", by Billy Joel from the album Nylon Curtain, 1982
• "Surprise", by James from the album Millionaires, 1999
• "Surprise", by Jolin Tsai from the album Lucky Number, 2001
• "Surprise", by Sugababes from the album Change, 2007

People

• Surprise Moriri (born 1980), a South African footballer

Ships

• HMS Surprise, the name of several British Royal Navy ships; also,
  • HMS Surprise (replica ship), a modern tall ship, built at Lunenberg, Nova Scotia, Canada
  • 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
• Surprize, a merchant ship launched in 1780 that made five voyages for the British East India Company, two transporting convicts to New South Wales, and two as a slave ship before a French frigate captured her in 1799
• Surprize was an American-built brig of 10 guns and 133 tons (bm) that was lost off the coast of Ireland in 1794 as she set out from Liverpool to gather slaves in West Africa.
• Surprise, a privateer schooner launched in 1813 in the U.S. that captured more than 30 British vessels before wrecking in 1815
• Surprise (clipper), an 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
• Surprise (schooner), built in 1917-18 and still providing daily cruises for tourists on Penobscot Bay
• 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)