Roxane
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Roxane may be:
  • An alternative (French) spelling for the female given name Roxanne
    Roxanne
    Roxanne may refer to:* Hurricane Roxanne, a major hurricane in October 1995* "Roxanne" , a 1978 song by The Police* A main character and love interest in Edmond Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac'...

    ; from the Persian Roshanak
    Roshanak
    Roshanak is a traditional Iranian name for a female. Its meaning is "luminous beauty".This was the name of a Bactrian noblewoman who was the daughter of Oxyartes of Sogdiana and the official wife of Alexander the Great, known as Roxana in Greek....

  • Roxane, a brand name of the drug roxatidine
    Roxatidine
    Roxatidine acetate is a specific and competitive H2 receptor antagonist. The antisecretory effect of roxatidine acetate is mediated by its main metabolite, roxatidine....

  • 317 Roxane
    317 Roxane
    317 Roxane is a typical Main belt asteroid.It was discovered by Auguste Charlois on September 11, 1891 in Nice, and was at first named Roxana....

    , an asteroid
  • Roxana
    Roxana
    Roxana sometimes Roxane, was a Bactrian noble and a wife of Alexander the Great. She was born earlier than the year 343 BC, though the precise date remains uncertain....

    , wife of Alexander the Great
  • Roxane, the lover of Cyrano de Bergerac
    Cyrano de Bergerac (play)
    Cyrano de Bergerac is a play written in 1897 by Edmond Rostand. Although there was a real Cyrano de Bergerac, the play bears very scant resemblance to his life....

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