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 Comics book X-Force
• Domino (album), a 1998 album by the British rock group Squeeze
• Domino (Rahsaan Roland Kirk album), a 1962 album by jazz musician Rahsaan Roland Kirk
• "Domino," a pop standard with music by Louis Ferrari, originally with French lyrics by Jacques Plante, given English lyrics by Don Raye, popularized by Bing Crosby among others
• "Domino," a song by Genesis, from the album Invisible Touch
• "Domino," a song by Kiss, from the album Revenge (Kiss album)
• "Dominoes," a song by Syd Barrett, from the album Barrett
• "Domino", a 1970 hit song by Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison
• Dominoes, a hit song by Robbie Nevil from his self-titled debut album
• Domino, an alternative common name for the marine fish Threespot dascyllus (Dascyllus trimaculatus).
• Domino (horse), American Hall of Fame thoroughbred race horse
• Domino (magazine), a Condé Nast Publications magazine focused on shopping for the home
• Domino Foods, Inc., sugar refining company founded by Henry Osborne Havemeyer
• Domino's Pizza, an international pizza restaurant chain
• IBM Lotus Domino, the server element to the Lotus Notes client-server package
• Domino mask, a partial mask that covers the eyes
• Daihatsu Domino, European name for the Daihatsu Mira car
• The Domino range of Mini-based kit cars
• Domino Records, a family of three record labels based in London and Brooklyn
• Domino, a Finnish cookie brand by Fazer Keksit (now LU Suomi, a subsidiary of Groupe Danone)
• Dominos (arcade game), a 1977 arcade game by Atari Inc.
• Domino 55, Domino 67, or Domino 69, railway signal boxes developed by the Swiss company Integra Signum

Several people have been named or nicknamed Domino:

• Domino (Producer), a rapper from Oakland, California and a member of the band Hieroglyphics
• Domino (rapper), an American rapper popular in the 1990s
• 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.
• A professional wrestler, Cliff Compton, who goes under the ring name Domino

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
• Billy Ward and the Dominoes, the 1950s vocal group which included Clyde McPhatter and Jackie Wilson