Bliss

Bliss or happiness is an emotion.

Bliss may also refer to:

Places

• Bliss (crater), small lunar impact crater that is located just to the west of the dark-floored crater Plato

United States

• Bliss, California
• Bliss, Kentucky
• Bliss, Idaho
• Bliss, New York
• Bliss, Oklahoma
• Bliss Corner, Massachusetts
• Bliss Township, Michigan
• Fort Bliss, Texas

Lebanon

• Bliss Street, Beirut

Brands and companies

• Blissymbols, an ideographic writing system
• Bliss bibliographic classification, library classification
• Bliss (charity), special care baby charity
• Bliss (spa), spa and retail product company
• Bliss, bite-sized chocolates manufactured by The Hershey Company
• Bliss (automobile), from the early 1900s
• Chicago Bliss, a team in the Lingerie Football League
• Bliss, a name for a type of synthetic cannabis

People

• Aaron T. Bliss (1837–1906), U.S. Representative and Governor of Michigan
• A. J. Bliss (1862–1931), British iris breeder
• Arthur Bliss (1891–1975), British composer
• Atlanta Bliss, American jazz musician who specializes in the trumpet
• Baron Bliss (Henry Edward Ernest Victor Bliss, 1869–1926), traveller
• Bliss Carman (1861–1929), Canadian poet
• Brian Bliss (born 1965), retired American soccer defender and former coach of the Kansas City Wizards of Major League Soccer
• C. D. Bliss (1870–1948), American football player and coach in the United States
• Caroline Bliss (born 1961), British actress
• Charles K. Bliss (1897–1985), inventor of Blissymbols
• Chester Ittner Bliss (1899–1979), biologist known for his contributions to statistics.
• Cornelius Newton Bliss (1833–1911), US merchant and politician
• Daniel Bliss (1823–1916), founder of AUB, the American University of Beirut
• Dave Bliss (born 1943), former American college basketball coach
• Diana Bliss (1954–2012), Australian theatre producer, second wife of Alan Bond
• Douglas Bliss (1900–1984), Scottish painter
• Duane Leroy Bliss (1835–1910), American industrialist
• Ed Bliss (1912-2002), American journalist
• Edward Bliss (1865-1960), American missionary to China
• Eleanor Albert Bliss (1899–1987), American bacteriologist
• Frank Bliss (1852-1929), American baseball player
• Franklyn Bliss Snyder (1884-1958), American educator and academic
• Frederick J. Bliss (1857–1939), American archaeologist
• George Bliss (Congressman) (1813–1868), US Congressman
• Gilbert Ames Bliss (1876–1951), American mathematician
• Harry Bliss, American cartoonist
• Henry E. Bliss (1870–1955), American librarian and inventor of the Bliss classification
• Henry H. Bliss (1830–1899), first person killed in a motor vehicle accident in the United States
• Johnny Bliss (1922–1974), Australian rugby league footballer
• Ian Bliss, Australian actor
• Laurie Bliss (1872–1942), American football player and coach in the United States
• Lillie P. Bliss (1864–1931), American art collector and patron, founder of Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Lucille Bliss (born 1916), American actress and voice artist
• Michael Bliss (born 1941), Canadian historian and award-winning author
• Mike Bliss (born 1965), American NASCAR driver
• Nathaniel Bliss (1700–1764), English astronomer
• Philemon Bliss (1813–1889),US Congressman and jurist
• Philip Bliss (1838–1876), American hymn lyricist and composer
• Philip Bliss (academic) (1787–1857), Registrar of the University of Oxford, etc.
• Ray C. Bliss (1907–1981), one of the important national U.S
• Raymond W. Bliss (1888–1965), Surgeon General of the U.S. Army 1947–1951
• Richard Bliss, American telecommunications technician arrested in Russia on charges of espionage.
• Ryan Bliss (born 1971), US digital artist
• Sister Bliss (born 1970), British keyboardist, record producer, DJ, composer and songwriter
• Stephen Bliss (1787–1847), American minister and politician
• Sylvester Bliss (1814–1863), Millerite minister and editor
• Timothy Vivian Pelham Bliss (born 1940), British neuroscientist
• Thomas Bliss (born 1952), motion picture producer and executive producer
• Tasker H. Bliss (1853–1930), U.S. Army officer
• Willard Bliss (1825-1889), American doctor
• William Dwight Porter Bliss (1856–1926), American religious leader and activist
• William Henry Bliss (1835–1911), English scholar
• William Wallace Smith Bliss (1815–1853), U.S. Army Officer
• Zenas Bliss (1835–1900), U.S. Army General and Medal of Honor recipient

Books

• Bliss (comics)
  • Bliss (comic), single-panel comic by Harry Bliss
  • Bliss (Marvel Comics), member of the Marvel Comics mutant group The Morlocks
  • Bliss (Starman), incubus who appeared in the DC Comics series Starman
  • Bliss (Wildstorm), Wildstorm comic book character
• Bliss (magazine), UK teen magazine
• Bliss (novel) (1981), by Peter Carey
• Bliss, 2005 novel by Fiona Zedde
• Bliss (short story) (1920), by Katherine Mansfield
• Blissenobiarella, also known as Bliss, a main character in Asimov's Foundation series

Film and TV

Film

• Bliss (1917 film), starring Harold Lloyd
• Bliss (1985 film), directed by Ray Lawrence, adapted from the Peter Carey novel
• Bliss (1995 film), a television film
• Bliss (1997 film), starring Terence Stamp, Sheryl Lee and Craig Sheffer
• Bliss (2006 film), aka Fu Sheng, Chinese film produced by Fruit Chan
• Bliss (2007 film), aka Mutluluk, directed by Abdullah Oguz, adapted from the Zülfü Livaneli novel
• Bliss (2011 film), a biographical film about the early years of New Zealand author, Katherine Mansfield

Television

• Bliss (TV channel), British music television channel playing classic hits
• Bliss (TV series), Canadian produced dramatic television series that ran from 2002 to 2004
• "Bliss" (Star Trek: Voyager), episode from the fifth season of Star Trek: Voyager
• Dee Bliss, fictional character on the Australian soap Neighbours
• The Bliss, sort of "mind control" used by Anna, leader of the Visitors in the television show "V (2009 TV series)"
• Bliss Colby, fictional character of the American prime time soap opera The Colbys

Computer science

• BLISS, system programming language developed at Carnegie Mellon University
• Bliss (video game), 2005 adult computer game
• Bliss (image), computer wallpaper included with Microsoft Windows XP
• Bliss (virus), computer virus that infects GNU/Linux systems

Music

• Bliss (opera), 2010 opera based on Peter Carey's novel of the same name

Bands

• Bliss (British band), English pop group
• Bliss (Danish band), Danish music band
• Bliss n Eso, Australian hip hop band, named after MC Bliss (Jonathan Notley)

Albums

• Bliss!, (1973) Chick Corea album, originally Pete La Roca Turkish Women at the Bath
• Bliss (12 Rods album) (1993), by indie rock band 12 Rods
• Bliss (Birdbrain album), 1995 debut album by post-grunge band Birdbrain
• Bliss (Vanessa Paradis album) (2000), by French pop singer Vanessa Paradis
• Bliss (Nikki Webster album) (2002), the second studio album by Nikki Webster
• Bliss (Tone Damli album) (2005), Norwegian singer Tone Damli's first studio album
• The Bliss Album…? (Vibrations of Love and Anger and the Ponderance of Life and Existence), 1993 album by P.M. Dawn

Songs

• "Bliss (Th' Dudes song)", a 1980 song by New Zealand rock band Th' Dudes
• "Bliss" (Tori Amos song), a 1999 song by Tori Amos
• "Bliss" (Muse song), a 2001 song by the English rock band Muse
• "Bliss" (Mariah Carey song), song on Mariah Carey's 1999 Rainbow album
• "Bliss", song on trio Blaque's Blaque Out album
• "Bliss (I Don't Wanna Know), ", song on Hinder's Extreme Behavior album
• "Bliss", Paul Gilbert song from his Burning Organ album
• "Bliss", a song by Delirious? from their album Mezzamorphis
• "Bliss", a song by Still Remains, from the album Of Love and Lunacy
• "Bliss", a song by Phish, from the album Billy Breathes
• "Bliss", a song by Alice Peacock
• "Bliss", an early name for the Grunge group Nirvana (band)

See also

• Ignorance is bliss (disambiguation)
• BLIS (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles containing Bliss
• All pages beginning with "Bliss"