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The name Ozymandias (or Osymandias) is generally believed to refer to Ramesses the Great (i.e., Ramesses II), Pharaoh of the Nineteenth dynasty of ancient Egypt. Ozymandias represents a transliteration into Greek of a part of Ramesses's throne name, User-maat-re Setep-en-re.
The name is famous because of Shelley's sonnet concerning a traveller who had seen the ruin of a pillar in the desert where it was still possible to read: "My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings, Look on my works ye mighty and despair.".