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Doris

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Doris may refer to:

People

Given name

  • Doris (mythology) of Greek mythology, daughter of Oceanus and Tethys
  • Doris, fictional character in the Canadian television series Caillou
  • Doris (singer) (born 1947), Swedish rock and pop singer
  • Doris, mother of Antipater (son of Herod I)
  • Doris Achelwilm, German journalist and politician
  • Doris Akers (1923–1995), American gospel music singer and composer
  • Doris Akol (born 1970), Ugandan lawyer and administrator
  • Doris Allen (disambiguation), multiple people
  • Doris Anderson (1921–2007), Canadian author, journalist, and women's rights activist
  • Doris Anderson (screenwriter) (1897–1971), American screenwriter
  • Doris Margaret Anderson (born 1922), Canadian nutritionist and politician
  • Doris Angleton (1951–1997), American socialite and murder victim
  • Doris Bartholomew (born 1930), American linguist
  • Doris Beck (1929–2020), American politician
  • Doris Belack (1926–2011), American actress
  • Doris Benegas (1951–2016), Spanish lawyer and politician
  • Doris Bensimon (1924–2009), Austrian-born French sociologist and academic
  • Doris Betts (1932–2012), American author
  • Doris Bigornia (born 1966), Filipina journalist
  • Doris Blackburn (1889–1970), Australian social reformer and politician
  • Doris Buffett (1928–2020), American heiress and philanthropist
  • Doris Burke (born 1965), American basketball player and broadcaster
  • Doris Burn (1923–2011), American children's author and illustrator
  • Doris Calloway (1923–2001), American nutritionist
  • Doris Day (1922–2019), stage name of Doris Kappelhoff, American singer, actress, and animal welfare advocate
  • Doris Dana (1920–2006), American writer and translator
  • Doris Dartey (died 2020), Ghanaian educator and journalist
  • Doris Deane (1901–1974), American actress
  • Doris Dragović (born 1961), Yugoslav-Croatian pop singer
  • Doris Duke (1912–1993), American heiress, socialite, horticulturalist, and philanthropist
  • Doris Duke (soul singer) (1941–2019), American gospel and soul singer
  • Doris Gentile (1894–1972), Australian novelist and short story writer
  • Doris Gregory, Canadian author
  • C. Doris Hellman (1910–1973), American historian of science
  • Doris Jensen (disambiguation)
  • Doris Kearns Goodwin (born 1943), American journalist, biographer and historian
  • Doris Kohardt (born 1950), German Olympic swimmer
  • Doris Laine (1931-2018), Finnish ballet dancer
  • Doris Lessing (1919–2013), British-Zimbabwean novelist
  • Doris Leuthard (born 1963), Swiss politician and lawyer
  • Doris Matsui (born 1944), American politician
  • Doris Miller (1919–1943), U.S. Navy sailor
  • Doris Pinčić Rogoznica (born 1988), Croatian actress
  • Doris de Pont (born 1954), New Zealand fashion designer
  • Doris Roberts (1925–2016), American actress
  • Doris Salcedo (born 1958), Colombian sculptor
  • Doris Buchanan Smith (1934–2002), American children's author
  • Doris Stockton (1924–2018), American mathematician
  • Doris the Ugly Stepsister, fictional character from the Shrek film series

Surname

  • Ennio Doris (born 1940), Italian billionaire
  • Mirna Doris, (born 1940), Italian singer

Animals

  • Doris (gastropod), a genus of marine gastropod molluscs in the family Dorididae
  • Grammia doris, the Doris tiger moth, a moth of the family Erebidae
  • Heliconius doris, the Doris butterfly of Central and South America
  • Orange-peel doris, a nudibranch (slug)

Places

  • Doris (Asia Minor), a region of Asia Minor inhabited by Dorians
  • Doris (Greece), a region in central Greece in which the Dorians had their traditional homeland
  • Doris, Iowa, United States
  • 48 Doris, an asteroid discovered in 1857, traditionally classified as a minor planet

Ships and seafaring

  • Doris (sailing yacht), an America's Cup type racing yacht built in 1905
  • French submarine Doris, three submarines of the French navy
  • 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
  • USS Doris Miller (CVN-81) a future Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy.
  • In French, a dory is un doris (plural in English: dories).

Music

  • Doris (album), a 2013 studio album by Earl Sweatshirt*
  • Doris (opera), an 1889 opera by Alfred Cellier

Other uses

  • DORIS (geodesy), a French system used for satellite orbit positioning
  • Storm Doris, a windstorm in northwestern Europe in February 2017
  • Hello, My Name Is Doris, a 2015 American film
  • Doris, or DOR-15, a robotic bowler hat and main antagonist of Meet the Robinsons

See also

  • Dorit (disambiguation), the Modern Hebrew form of "Doris"
  • All pages with titles beginning with Doris
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