Doris Explained

Doris may refer to:

People

Given name or nickname

• Doris (given name)
• Doris (singer) (1947–2023), Swedish rock and pop singer
• Frank Dorrey (born), American visual artist and rapper
• Doris, mother of Antipater (son of Herod I)

Surname

• Bob Doris (born 1973), Scottish politician
• Caelan Doris (born 1998), Irish rugby player
• Ennio Doris (1940–2021), Italian billionaire
• John M. Doris (born 1963), American philosopher
• Mirna Doris (1940–2020), Italian singer
• William Doris (1860–1926), Irish politician

Animals

• Doris (gastropod), a genus of marine gastropod molluscs in the family Dorididae
• Apantesis 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
• Doris Cove, South Shetland Islands

Film and television

• Doris (TV series), a British animated children's television series
• Doris, or DOR-15, a robotic bowler hat and main antagonist of Meet the Robinsons
• Doris the waitress, in the 1993 American fantasy comedy Groundhog Day
• Doris, mother of the titular character in the Canadian television series Caillou

Music

• Doris (album), a 2013 studio album by Earl Sweatshirt
• Doris (opera), an 1889 opera by Alfred Cellier
• "Doris" (song), a 2017 single by Suicide Silence from their self-titled album

Ships

• Doris (sailing yacht), an America's Cup type racing yacht built in 1905
• French submarine Doris, three submarines of the French navy
• , various ships of the British Royal Navy
• , a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1918
• , a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1919

Other uses

• Doris (Greek myth), several mythological characters
• DORIS (particle accelerator), an electron–positron storage ring
• DORIS (satellite system), a French system used for satellite orbit positioning
• 48 Doris, an asteroid
• F.V.D. Doris, a German glider
• List of storms named Doris

See also

• • Dorries
• Dorit (disambiguation), the Modern Hebrew form of "Doris"