Mandrake

Mandrake may refer to:

• Mandrake (plant), a plant of the genus Mandragora
• Mandragora (demon), in occultism
• Mandrake Linux, former name of Mandriva Linux, a computer operating system
• Mandrake, the NATO designation for the Soviet aircraft Yakovlev Yak-25

Mandrake may also refer to:

In media and entertainment

• Mandrake is the name of the long-established social diary in The Sunday Telegraph newspaper, edited by Tim Walker.

Fictional characters

• Mandrake, a short-lived mascot at the University of Oregon
• Mandrake the Magician, a comic strip character
• Group Captain Lionel Mandrake, a character in Stanley Kubrick's film Dr. Strangelove
• John Mandrake (Nathaniel), a character from the Bartimaeus Trilogy
• Paolo Mandrake, the lawyer and amateur detective who is the protagonist of stories by Rubem Fonseca and HBO's Mandrake (TV series) based on them
• Mandrake is the name of the main antagonist in the animated feature Epic.

Literature

• The Mandrake, a play by Niccolò Machiavelli

Music

• Mandrake (album), a music album by Edguy
• Mandrake (band), a German gothic metal band
• Mandrake in the Corner, trombone concerto by Christian Lindberg
• The Mandrake's Cry, a song on Danzig's The Lost Tracks of Danzig

Film and television

• Mandrake (TV series), a Latin American TV series
• Mandrake (film), a 2010 television film

People

• Leon Mandrake (1911–1993), a magician
• Tom Mandrake, a comic book artist

In publishing

• Mandrake of Oxford, a small press
• Mandrake Press, a publishing company