Gadfly

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Gadfly can refer to:

• Gadfly, a type of fly typically belonging to either the family Tabanidae or Oestridae
• Gadfly (database), a relational database in the Python programming language
• The Gadfly, a novel by Ethel Lilian Voynich
• Gadfly (mythology), sent by Hera to torment Io.
• The Education Gadfly, the weekly e-bulletin of the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation
• gadfly petrels, a group of petrels in the genera Bulweria and Pterodroma.
• Gadfly Records, an independent record label
• Gadfly (social), a term for people who upset the status quo
• The Gadfly Suite, a musical suite by Dmitri Shostakovich for one of the films based on the novel The Gadfly
• Gadfly Online, an online and print magazine
• SA-11 "Gadfly" (see SA-11_Gadfly) is the NATO reporting name for a particular Russian surface-to-air missile