Dolphin (disambiguation)
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Dolphin usually refers to any member of the mammal families Delphinidae (oceanic dolphins) and Platanistoidea (river dolphins).
It can also refer to either species in the fish family Coryphaenidae:
- the mahi-mahi or common dolphinfish (Coryphaena hippurus)
- the pompano dolphinfish (Coryphaena equiselis)
Dolphin may also refer to:
Sports
- Miami Dolphins, an American National Football League team
- Dolphin F.C. (Dublin), a former Irish football team based in Dublin
- Dolphins F.C. (Port Harcourt), a Nigerian football team
- Ulsan Hyundai Mipo Dockyard Dolphins FC, a South Korean football team
- Dolphin RFC, an Irish rugby union team based in Cork
- Redcliffe Dolphins, Australian rugby league team
- Karachi Dolphins, a Pakistani cricket team
- Dolphins cricket team, the name used by the KwaZulu Natal cricket team when it plays in the South African SuperSport Series
- Frankston Football Club, an Australian rules football club
- Paderborn Dolphins, an American football club from Paderborn, Germany
- PCU Dolphins, the varsity basketball team of Philippine Christian University
- Daikyo Dolphins, a member of the defunct Australian Baseball League
Aircraft
- Aero L-29 Delfín (Czech: "Dolphin"), a military jet trainer aircraft of the 1960s
- De Havilland Dolphin, a 1930s British prototype light biplane
- Douglas Dolphin, 1930s amphibious flying boat
- Eurocopter AS365 Dauphin (Dolphin), medium-weight multipurpose twin-engine helicopter
- HH-65 Dolphin a derivative of the Eurocopter Dauphin for the US Coast Guard
- Sopwith Dolphin, a British First World War fighter plane
Ships
- HMS Dolphin, the name for several ships of the Royal Navy
- USS Dolphin, the name for several ships of the United States Navy
- Dolphin class submarine, alternative name of Soviet Union's SSBN class Delta-class submarine
- Russian submarine Delfin, the first submarine built in the Russian Empire in 1902
- "De Dolfijn" (Dutch version of the name), a ship involved in the Kettle War of 1784
- Dolphin-class submarine, a class of diesel-electric Israeli Navy submarine
- NMS Dolphin, a Second World War Romanian submarine
- Romanian submarine Delfinul, a Kilo class submarine
- Dolphin, one of the Queensland Maritime Defence Force Auxiliary Gunboats
Computing
- Dolphin (emulator), an open-source GameCube and Wii emulator
- Dolphin (file manager), file manager from the KDE Community
- Dolphin Browser, a web browser for Android mobile devices
- Code name for the Java Platform, Standard Edition 7 computer programming language and platform
- Nintendo Dolphin, the codename for the GameCube
Entertainment
- Dolphins (2000 film), an IMAX movie directed by Greg MacGillivray
- Dolphins (2007 film), a film starring Karl Davies
- Dolphin (comics), a DC Comics superheroine
- Dolphin (musician) (born 1971), Russian hip hop artist
- Dolphin (video game), a 1983 Atari 2600 video game
- Dolphin Music, a record label
- The Dolphin (album) (1981), by Stan Getz
- "The Dolphin", a jazz standard composed by Luiz Eça
- "Dolphin", a song by Prince from The Gold Experience
- "Dolphin", a song by Shed Seven from Change Giver
- "The Dolphins", a 1966 single by Fred Neil from the album Fred Neil
- The Dolphin, a Pulitzer Prize-winning book of poems by Robert Lowell
- Dolphin (emulator), a video game console emulator for the GameCube, Wii and Triforce
Business
- Dolphin Interconnect Solutions, a manufacturer of high speed data communication systems
- Dolphin Telecom, also known as Inquam Telecom; a defunct mobile phone and walkie-talkie ("Terrestrial Trunked Radio") network in Western Europe
- Dolphin Energy, Abu Dhabi gas company
- Dolphin Gas Project, a natural gas project of the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Oman
- Dolphin Air, a charter airline based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- The Walt Disney World Dolphin, a 1990 hotel resort located within the Walt Disney World Resort
- Byford Dolphin, an oil platform involved in a decompression accident in 1983
- Dolphin Mall, a shopping mall in Miami, Florida
Places
- In the United States
- Dolphin Township, Knox County, Nebraska, a township
- Dolphin, Virginia, an unincorporated community
- Dolphin, Washington, an unincorporated community
- Elsewhere
- Dolphin Island (Nunavut), Canada
- Dolphin Island (Western Australia)
- Cape Dolphin, Falkland Islands
Other
- Dolphin (surname)
- Typhoon Dolphin (2008), a typhoon in the 2008 Pacific typhoon season
- Dolphin (structure), a fixed man-made structure which is not connected to shore
- Dolphin (weapon), an antique naval ramming weapon
- Dolphin gull, a gull native to southern Chile and Argentina, and the Falkland Islands
- Dolphin Square, a large London apartment block
- "Dolphins", the common name for Submarine Warfare insignia
- Dolphin School (disambiguation), the name of three schools in the United Kingdom
- Dolphin Senior Public School, a school in the province of Ontario, Canada
- Dolphin Stradivarius, a violin built by Antonio Stradivari in 1714
- Dolphin (locomotive), belonging to the Groudle Glen Railway on the Isle of Man
- The Dolphin, Hackney, London pub
See also
- Dolfin (disambiguation)
- Delphinus (disambiguation)
- Dauphin (disambiguation)
- Dolphin F.C. (disambiguation)
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