Dolphin (disambiguation)

A dolphin is any member of the families Delphinidae (oceanic dolphins) and Platanistoidea (river dolphins).

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
• 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 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

Technology

• Dolphin (file manager), file manager of KDE 4
• Dolphin (emulator), an open-source GameCube and Wii emulator
• 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 (film), a 2000 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 Music, a record label
• "The Dolphins", a 1966 single by Fred Neil from the album Fred Neil
• "Dolphin", a song from Change Giver by Shed Seven

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

People

• Arthur Dolphin (1885–1942), English first-class cricketer
• Bill Dolphin (born 1881), Australian rules footballer
• David Dolphin (born 1940), Canadian biochemist
• Frank Dolphin, Irish businessman
• James Dolphin (born 1983), New Zealand sprinter
• John Dolphin (1905-1973), British engineer and inventor

Places

• Dolphin Township, Knox County, Nebraska, a township in the USA
• Dolphin, Virginia, an unincorporated community in the USA
• Dolphin Island (Nunavut), Canada
• Dolphin Island (Western Australia)
• Cape Dolphin, Falkland Islands

Other

• 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 Gull, a gull native to southern Chile and Argentina, and the Falkland Islands
• Dolphin Square, 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

See also

• Dolfin (disambiguation)
• Delphinus (disambiguation)
• Coryphaenidae or dolphinfish
  • mahi-mahi or common dolphinfish