Egmont or Egmond may refer to the following:
- Egmond family (often spelled "Egmont"), an influential Dutch family, lords of the town of Egmond
- Egmond, a town in North Holland, the Netherlands. The Egmond or Egmont Family is named after Dutch town of Egmond and played an important role in the Netherlands during the Middle Egmond is a former Municipality in the north-western Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. First mentioned in the 10th century, the family may be named after the town or vice versa. The name could mean "mouth of the river Eg".
- Lamoral, Count of Egmont, the best known member of the Egmont family
- Egmont (play), a play by Goethe, about Lamoral, Count of Egmond. Lamoral Count of Egmont Prince of Gavre ( November 18, 1522, La Hamaide near Ellezelles &ndash June 5 1568, Brussels) Egmont is a play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, which he completed in 1788.
- Egmont (Beethoven), the overture and incidental music by Beethoven composed for the play. Egmont, opus 84 by Ludwig van Beethoven, is a set of incidental music pieces for the 1787 play of the same name by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Ludwig van Beethoven ( English ˈlʊdvɪg væn ˈbeɪtoʊvən, 16 December 1770 &ndash 26 March 1827 was a German Composer and Pianist.
- Egmont pact, a Belgian political agreement (1977)
- Egmont Palace, in Brussels, Belgium
- Egmont Islands, a group of Indian Ocean islands, part of the Chagos Archipelago
- Egmont (media group) a Scandinavian media group, founded in 1878. The Egmont pact ( Dutch: Egmontpact, French: Pacte d'Egmont, German: Egmont-Pakt) of 1977 is an agreement The Egmont Palace ( Dutch: Egmontpaleis, French: Palais d'Egmont) is a large mansion at the Wolstraat / Rue aux Laines and the Kleine Zavel / The Egmont Islands or Six Iles are one of the few emerged Coral atolls that make up the Chagos Archipelago. The Chagos Archipelago (formerly Oil Islands) is a group of seven Atolls comprising more than 60 individual tropical Islands roughly in the centre of Egmont is one of the leading Media industry groups of Scandinavia.
- Mount Egmont is the alternative name for Mount Taranaki in New Zealand, and gives its name to the Egmont National Park. Mount Taranaki or Mount Egmont is an active but quiescent Stratovolcano in the Taranaki region on the west coast of New Zealand 's North Egmont
- Egmont (electoral district), a Federal Canadian electoral district
- Egmont Group
- Egmont Publishing
- Egmont Key State Park, located in Florida, US
- HMS Egmont, the name of two ships of the royal Navy. Egmont is a federal electoral district in Prince Edward Island, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since The Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units is an informal international gathering of Financial intelligence units (FIUs The Egmont Group is founded and rooted in Denmark and was until 1992 known as Gutenberghus. Egmont Key State Park is a Florida State Park located on Egmont Key, at the mouth of Tampa Bay, in the state of Florida, United States Several ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Egmont:, a 74-gun Third rate Ship of the line launched in 1768 and broken
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