Dam (disambiguation)

Dam can refer to:

• Dam, a barrier obstructing flowing water
• Reservoir created by such a barrier (in some English dialects including Australian English)
• An animal's mother
  • Dam of a horse: see Mare

Personal names

• Atli Pætursson Dam, Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
• Henrik Dam, Danish biochemist and physiologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1943
• José van Dam, Belgian bass-baritone
• Kenneth W. Dam, American lawyer and politician
• Laurens ten Dam, Dutch road racing cyclist
• Peter Mohr Dam, Faroe Islands politician
• Rob Van Dam, American film actor and wrestler
• Thomas Dam, inventor of the troll doll
• Thanh Xuan Dam, Vietnamese swimmer and martial artist

Place names

• Dam, Afghanistan
• Dam, Bhutan
• Dam Square, a square in Amsterdam
• Den Dam, an area in northern Antwerp, Belgium

Abbreviations and acronyms

• Damascus International Airport, IATA code
• Database activity monitoring
• Decametre, abbreviated dam, is 10 metres
• Delaware Art Museum
• Denver Art Museum
• Destroy All Monsters, a 1968 Japanese movie
• Deutsche Angelgeräte Manufaktur
• Diego Armando Maradona
• Digital Asset Management
• Direct Action Movement
• Download Acquisition Mode

Other

• Dam (methylase), DNA adenine methylase
• Dam (band), a British metal band
• DAM (band), a Palestinian rap group
• Dam (coin), a small Indian coin
• Dam, one of the dancers in the Dominican folk dance bélé
• Dental dam
• DAMS, Driot Arnoux Motorsport, a French-based motor-racing team.
• WCMG, a radio station licensed to Latta, South Carolina, United States which calls itself "94.3 The Dam"

See also

• Damn (disambiguation)