Dale

A dale is a valley. The word dale comes from Old English dael and is related to Old Norse dalr. Dale or dales may also refer to:

Places

• Dale (place name element)

Australia

• The Dales (Christmas Island)

Brazil

• Soap Dale, a district in Rio Grande do Sul state

Norway

• Dale, Sogn og Fjordane, the administrative centre of Fjaler
• Dale, Hordaland, the administrative centre of Vaksdal

Sweden

• The Dales: Dalarna province

United Kingdom

• Dale, Pembrokeshire, Wales
• Yorkshire Dales, England
• Derbyshire Dales, England

United States

• Dales, California
• Dale, Indiana
• Dale, Minnesota
• Dale, Oklahoma
• Dale, Oregon
• Dale, Pennsylvania
• Dale, Wisconsin
• Dale City, Virginia

Given name

• Dale Bozzio (1955), lead singer of Missing Persons
• Dale Brown (b. 1956), American author
• Dale Brown (basketball) (born 1935), American football, track, basketball player and coach
• Dale Brown (boxer) (1971), Canadian boxer
• Dale Campbell-Savours, Baron Campbell-Savours, British politician
• Dale Carnegie (1888–1955), motivational speaker and author
• Dale Chihuly (born 1941), American glass sculptor and entrepreneur
• Dale Earnhardt (1951–2001), American race car driver
• Dale Earnhardt, Jr. (b. 1974), American race car driver, son of Dale Earnhardt, Sr.
• Dale Evans (1912–2001), American actress and singer, also known as wife of Roy Rogers
• Dale Hey (born 1945), American professional wrestler better known as Buddy Roberts
• H. Dale Jackson (7 December 1930 - 15 February 2003) Reverend Doctor, Baptist minister
• Dale Mitchell (baseball) (1921–1987), American baseball player
• Dale Mitchell (soccer) (born 1958), Canadian soccer player
• Dale Murphy (born 1956), American baseball player
• Dale Steyn (born 1983), South African cricketer
• Dale Winton, British television presenter.

Fictional characters

• Chip 'n Dale, fictional cartoon characters
• Alan-a-Dale, minstrel from the Robin Hood legend
• Dale Cooper, the main character of the TV series Twin Peaks
• Dale Hirlehey, fictional main character of the TV series "Simply Theatre"
• Dale, a selectable "actor" on the movie-making application Xtranormal.

Other

• Dale (surname)
• Dale (origin), origin of the word Dale
• Dale (automobile)
• Dale (film), a film about the life of Dale Earnhardt
• Dale (crater) on the Moon
• Dale (Middle-earth), a town in J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional universe of Middle-earth
• The Dalelands, a geographical area in the fictional world of the Forgotten Realms
• The Dales, a BBC radio soap opera originally called Mrs Dale's Diary
• Boy Scouts of America v. Dale, a First Amendment opinion from the US Supreme Court
• USS Dale, various ships
• Dale's, steak seasoning

See also

• Dell (landform), a small wooded valley
• Vale (disambiguation), a wide river valley
• Dale, Lesser Poland Voivodeship (south Poland)
• Dales Pony
• Dale Driskill, great man known for his marriage to Elita Driskill.