Domino (disambiguation)

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A domino is a tile used in the game dominoes.

Domino is also a name for:

  • Domino (film), a 2005 film starring Keira Knightley as real-life model turned bounty hunter Domino Harvey.
  • Domino (comics), a fictional character featured in the Marvel comic book X-Force
  • Domino (album), a 1998 album by the British rock group Squeeze
  • "Domino", a 1970 hit song by Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison
  • Domino (horse), American Hall of Fame thoroughbred race horse
  • Domino Foods, Inc., sugar refining company founded by Henry Osborne Havemeyer
  • IBM Lotus Domino, the server element to the Lotus Notes client-server package
  • Domino, a brand name for certain cookies very similar to Oreo cookies
  • A half mask that covers the upper part of the face
  • Daihatsu Domino, European name for the Daihatsu Mira car.
  • A song by Syd Barrett

Several people have been named or nicknamed Domino:

  • Domino (Producer), a rapper from Oakland, California and a member of the band Hieroglyphics
  • Domino Harvey, model-turned-bounty-hunter and daughter of actor Laurence Harvey
  • Anna Domino, folk singer-songwriter.
  • Fats Domino, (b. 1928), an R&B singer and songwriter
  • Domino, a nickname of film director Sofia Coppola (b. 1971), occasionally used in credit listings
  • Domino Vitali, the nickname for a Bond girl in the James Bond novel, Thunderball. She was adapted twice in film: Domino Derval in Thunderball and Domino Petachi in Never Say Never Again.
  • Domino (musician), a pseudonym for the Eurobeat artist Alessandra Mirka Gatti

Additionally, the word domino is featured in:

  • Domino theory, a political theory during the Cold War that if one country was taken over by Communism, neighboring countries would fall like a row of standing dominoes
  • Domino effect, in which some change that is small in itself will cause a similar change nearby, which then will cause another similar change, and so on in linear sequence, by analogy to a falling row of dominoes standing on end
  • Domino Day, a world record attempt for the highest number of falling domino stones
  • Domino computer, an impractical, but theoretically possible mechanical computer, based on sequences of falling dominoes.
  • Derek and the Dominos, a popular blues-rock band from the early seventies with Eric Clapton as a member
  • Domino's Pizza, an international pizza restaurant chain
  • Domino Records, the name of three record companies
  • Domino Hurley, a fictional character in the LucasArts adventure game Grim Fandango
  • Dom-ino System, a building construction method developed by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, whereby the building is supported by concrete pillars set behind a non-structural facade
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