• A Venefica sorceress was a Roman woman who used drugs, potions, and poison
• In fiction and myth, a sorceress is a kind of female magician.

Fictional characters

• Silver Sorceress, a DC Comics character
• Sorceress, a character from the Spyro the Dragon series.
• Sorceress of Castle Grayskull, a fictional character from the toy line and Filmation cartoon series He-Man and the Masters of the Universe.
• Polgara the Sorceress, a fictional character in the David Eddings book series The Belgariad and The Malloreon.
• Sorceress, a fictional class of people in The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind.
• Edea, Adel, Ultimecia and Rinoa Heartilly from the PlayStation game Final Fantasy VIII.
• Lina Inverse, from the anime series Slayers.
• Sorceress, a playable character class from Diablo II
• Many version of the Sorceress class can been seen in many Role Playing Game (RPG) style games.

Other

• The Beck-Mahoney Sorceress, the winningest racing biplane in history