Doris
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Geography

  • Doris (Asia Minor)
    Doris (Asia Minor)
    Doris was a small region of ancient Asia Minor inhabited by Dorians; the territory is now in modern-day Turkey. Pliny says, Caria mediae Doridi circumfunditur ad mare utroque latere ambiens, by which he means that Doris is surrounded by Caria on all sides, except where it is bordered by the sea....

    , region of Asia Minor inhabited by Dorians
  • Doris (Greece)
    Doris (Greece)
    Doris , is a small mountainous district in ancient Greece, bounded by Aetolia, southern Thessaly, the Ozolian Locrians, and Phocis; the original homeland of the Dorian Greeks...

    , region in central Greece in which the Dorians had their traditional homeland
  • Doris, Iowa
    Doris, Iowa
    Doris and Bethel are twin town sites in Buchanan County, Iowa, United States, both located just north of Highway 939 in central Buchanan County near Independence. Founded as whistle-stops along the Chicago and North Western Railway, the sites are abandoned today.Galbraith's Rail Map of Iowa from...

    , USA

People

  • Doris, mother of Antipater (son of Herod I)
    Antipater (son of Herod I)
    Antipater II was Herod the Great's first-born son, his only child by his first wife Doris. He was named after his paternal grandfather Antipater the Idumaean. He and his mother were exiled after Herod divorced her between 43 BC and 40 BC to marry Mariamne I. However, he was recalled following...

  • Doris (mythology)
    Doris (mythology)
    Doris , an Oceanid, was a sea nymph in Greek mythology, whose name represented the bounty of the sea. She was the daughter of Oceanus and Tethys and the wife of Nereus. She was also aunt to Atlas, the titan who was made to carry the sky upon his shoulders, whose mother Clymene was a sister of Doris...

     of Greek mythology, daughter of Oceanus and Tethys
  • Doris (singer)
    Doris (singer)
    Doris Svensson , billed as Doris is a former Swedish pop singer. Doris is best known for her lone solo album, eclectic pop, rock and funk Did You Give the World Some Love Today Baby recorded in 1970...

    , a Swedish rock and pop singer
  • Doris and Mabel (Shrek), fictional characters in the Shrek film series
  • Doris Day
    Doris Day
    Doris Day is an American actress, singer and, since her retirement from show business, an animal rights activist. With an entertainment career that spanned through almost 50 years, Day started her career as a big band singer in 1939, but only began to be noticed after her first hit recording,...

  • Doris Leuthard
    Doris Leuthard
    Doris Leuthard is a Swiss politician and lawyer. Since 1 August 2006, she has been a member of the Swiss Federal Council. From 1 August 2006 till 31 October 2010 she was head of the Federal Department of Economic Affairs...

    , member of the Swiss Federal Council and head of the Federal Department of Economic Affairs of Switzerland (since 2006)
  • Doris Miller
    Doris Miller
    Doris "Dorie" Miller was a cook in the United States Navy noted for his bravery during the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. He was the first African American to be awarded the Navy Cross, the third highest honor awarded by the U.S...

    , the first African American to be awarded the Navy Cross
  • Doris Roberts
    Doris Roberts
    Doris Roberts is an American character actress of film, stage and television. She has received five Emmy Awards. She began her career in 1952, and may be best-known as Marie Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond from 1996–2005....

    , an American actress famous for playing Marie Barone, mother of Raymond Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond
  • Doris Dragović
    Doris Dragovic
    Dorotea "Doris" Dragović is a Croatian singer-songwriter. She represented Yugoslavia in the Eurovision Song Contest 1986 with the song "Željo moja", finishing the 11th with 49 points, and Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest 1999 with the song "Marija Magdalena", finishing fourth with 118...

    , a Yugoslav and Croatian pop singer
  • Ennio Doris
    Ennio Doris
    Ennio Doris , businessman, founder and chief executive of Mediolanum SpA a large Italian funds management and insurance company.Born in Tombolo, a small village near Padova, Italy on 3 July 1940, Mr. Doris entered the retail asset management field in 1969 when he became a salesman for Fideuram. In...

    , an Italian billionaire

Ships

  • Doris (Sailing yacht)
    Doris (sailing yacht)
    Doris is a sailing yacht yacht, which has also been known as Astarte, Huntress and Vayu, in Deep River, Connecticut that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. She was designed by N.G...

    , an America's Cup type racing yacht built in 1905
  • Doris (submarine), a French submarine commissioned in 1928 and sunk in 1940, 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

  • 48 Doris
    48 Doris
    48 Doris is one of the largest main belt asteroids. It was discovered by Hermann Goldschmidt on September 19, 1857 from his balcony in Paris.-Name:...

    , an asteroid discovered in 1857, traditionally classified as a minor planet
  • Doris (gastropod), genus of marine gastropod molluscs in the family Dorididae
  • DORIS (geodesy)
    DORIS (geodesy)
    Doppler Orbitography and Radiopositioning Integrated by Satellite is a French satellite system used for the determination of satellite orbits and for positioning.-Principle:...

    , a French system used for satellite orbit positioning
  • Doris (opera)
    Doris (opera)
    Doris is a "comedy opera" in three acts by Alfred Cellier, with a libretto by B. C. Stephenson. After the phenomenal success of Cellier and Stephenson's Dorothy , the pair were hoping for another big hit. Doris turned out to be only modestly successful.It opened at the Lyric Theatre in London on...

    , an 1889 opera by Alfred Cellier
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