Doris
Look up doris in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |
Doris may refer to:
Geography
- Doris (Asia Minor), region of Asia Minor inhabited by Dorians
- Doris (Greece), region in central Greece in which the Dorians had their traditional homeland
- Doris, Iowa, USA
People
- Doris, mother of Antipater (son of Herod I)
- Doris (mythology) of Greek mythology, daughter of Oceanus and Tethys
- Doris (singer), a Swedish rock and pop singer
- Doris and Mabel (Shrek), fictional characters in the Shrek film series
- Doris Day
- Doris Dragović, a Yugoslav and Croatian pop singer
- Doris Kohardt (born 1950), German Olympic swimmer
- Doris Leuthard, member of the Swiss Federal Council and head of the Federal Department of Economic Affairs of Switzerland (since 2006)
- Doris Miller, the first African American to be awarded the Navy Cross
- Doris Roberts, an American actress famous for playing Marie Barone, mother of Raymond Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond
- Doris Salcedo (born 1958), Colombian sculptor
- Ennio Doris, an Italian billionaire
- Doris Calloway, an American nutritionist
Ships
- Doris (Sailing yacht), an America's Cup type racing yacht built in 1905
- Doris (submarine), a French submarine commissioned in 1928 and sunk in 1940
- Doris (torpedo boat), a Greek torpedo boat commissioned in 1913
- HMS Doris, various ships of the British Royal Navy
- USS Doris B. III (SP-733), a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1918
- USS Doris B. IV (SP-625), a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1919
Music
- Doris (opera), an 1889 opera by Alfred Cellier
- Doris (album), a 2013 studio album by Earl Sweatshirt
Other uses
- 48 Doris, an asteroid discovered in 1857, traditionally classified as a minor planet
- Doris (gastropod), genus of marine gastropod molluscs in the family Dorididae
- DORIS (geodesy), a French system used for satellite orbit positioning
See also
- All pages beginning with "Doris"
- Nudibranch, e.g. orange-peel doris
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Friday, December 18, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.