The queen is a playing card with a picture of a queen on it. In many European languages, the king and queen begin with the same letter so the latter is often called dame (lady) or variations thereof. In French playing cards, the usual rank of a queen is between the king and the jack. In tarot decks, it outranks the knight which in turn outranks the jack. In the Spanish deck and some Italian decks, the Queen does not exist and the Knight appears in them instead, with the same role and value.

In several card games, including the middle eastern Trex and French Barbu, the queen is a major card to avoid taking, with each queen taken inflicting a penalty on the player. Similarly, in Hearts, the queen of spades is to be avoided, and is called a variety of unsavoury names.

In the Paris pattern, each court card is identified as a particular historical or mythological personage as follows: Pallas, Judith, Rachel, and Argine.

Other names include:

* Queen (Q): Stenographer
** Queen of Clubs ('''Q♣'''): Argine
** Queen of Spades ('''Q♠'''): Black Lady, Black Maria, Calamity Jane, Pallas Athena, Molly Hogan
** Queen of Hearts ('''Q♥'''): Helen of Troy, Judith
** Queen of Diamonds ('''Q♦'''): Rachel

Queens may have been an invention of early German cardmakers. One of the earliest surviving packs of playing cards, the Stuttgart pack (circa 1440), consists of all female courts in two of the four suits where Queens have replaced Kings. The Ambraser Hofjagdspiel (circa 1440 to 1445) and many other surviving 15th-century packs include the Queen as a fourth independent rank from the King, Ober, and Unter. Modern German-suited playing cards have dropped the Queen rank, but French-suited playing cards have since adopted it as a replacement for the Knights.

All published appearances of the Queen playing card from before January 1, )-(95)}} are public domain in the US.

Some notable appearances are listed below:

* Nursery Rhymes
** The Queen of Hearts
** The King of Clubs
** The King of Spades
** The Diamond King
* The King and Queen of Hearts: With the Rogueries of the Knave Who Stole the Queen’s Pies by Charles Lamb (1805)
* Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
* The Queen of Hearts: A Dramatic Fantasia, for Private Theatricals (1875)
*Alice's Adventures Under Ground (1886)
*The Nursery “Alice” (1890)
* The Knave of Hearts: A Fourth‐of‐July Play in One Act (1895)
* Wonderland (1905)
* Mrs. Goose: Her Book (1906)
* Jingles for Singles (1910)
* The Modern Mother Goose: A Play in Three Acts (1916)
* The Human Touch with Fantasy and Poems (1921)

* Alice in Wonderland (1903)
* Les Cartes vivantes (1904)
* Alice in Wonderland (1910)
* Alice in Wonderland (1915)

* Pep Comics #1-12:The Queen of Diamonds was the ruler of the Diamond Empire and descendant of its first white ruler. She fell in love with the adventurer Rocket who crash landed into her kingdom and saved her life from usurpers.
* Captain Marvel Jr. #7: The Black Ace Gang were a band of violent armed robbers with a flair for the dramatic, who liked to dress up like characters from playing cards. They included the Black Ace, King Clubbo, the Queen of Hearts (Queenie Hart) and Diamond Jack. They were ultimately defeated by Captain Marvel Jr.

* The Royal Flush Gang is a group of supervillains appearing in DC Comics. The group, which debuted in ''Justice League of America'' #43 (March 1966), use a playing card theme. Their code names are based on the cards needed to form a royal flush in poker: Ace, King, Queen, Jack, and Ten.

*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_(playing_card) Wikipedia]
*[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PlayingCardMotifs TV Tropes]
*[https://comicvine.gamespot.com/queen/4005-22284/ ComicVine]
*[https://www.giantbomb.com/playing-cards/3055-988/games/ GiantBomb]

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