Minerva (disambiguation)

Minerva is the Roman goddess of crafts and wisdom, but the name may also refer to:

People

• Josephine Blatt aka Minerva (c.1869 – 1923), strongwoman
• Minerva Urecal (1894 – 1966), American film and television actress
• Minerva Pérez Garrido, aka K.U. Minerva (born 1977), Spanish eurodance singer
• Minerva (cantante española), K.U. Minerva at the Spanish Wikipedia
• Minerva (Daum Agora user), a South Korean netizen famous for his economic predictions.

Geography

• Minerva, New York, United States
• Minerva, Ohio, United States
• Minerva, Oregon, United States
• Minerva Reefs, two submerged atolls between Tonga and New Zealand
  • The Republic of Minerva, a self-declared South Pacific principality on these reefs
• Recif de la Minerve, another submerged atoll in French Polynesia near Mangareva

Land development

• Minerva plc, a major British development company
  • Minerva Building, a skyscraper planned for London's financial district by Minerva plc
• Minerva, Mumbai, 82 floor super tall skyscraper under construction in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Entertainment

Film production

• Minerva Productions, a Bollywood film production house of Bombay, India, c. 1940-50s

Games

• MINERVA (mod), a modification for Half-Life 2
• Minerva, A character in the final cutscene of Assassin's Creed II
• Minerva, the goddess of the Planet in Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII

Manga and anime

• Minerva (Transformers), a character from the various Transformers universes
• Fencer of Minerva, an adult animation
• Minerva class battleship, a fictional class of space vessels from the anime series Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny
• Minerva Mink, a character from the Animaniacs series
• Minerva X, a female mecha character from the Mazinger Z series
• Minerva, tenth planet of the solar system from the Space Battleship Yamato series

Music

• "Minerva" (song), a 2003 single by Deftones
• "Minerva", a 2005 song by Ani DiFranco, from her album Knuckle Down
• The "goddess wise" to whom Princess Ida appeals in her recitative and aria from act II of Princess Ida by Gilbert and Sullivan.

Novels

• Minerva, a real-life character in the John Berendt novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
• Minerva, a conscious computer character in the Robert A. Heinlein science fiction novel Time Enough for Love
• Professor Minerva McGonagall, a wizard character in the J. K. Rowling Harry Potter series
• Minerva Paradizo, a girl genius character from the Eoin Colfer Artemis Fowl series
• Minerva, a ship/supporting character in Neal Stephenson's The Baroque Cycle
• Minerva, a fictional planet in the Harry Turtledove novel A World of Difference
• Minerva, a fictional planet in James P. Hogan's Giants series

Theatres and musicals

• Minerva Theatre, Kolkata, India, built in 1893
• Minerva Theatre, Chichester, England, opened in 1989
• Minerva Theatre, Glasgow, Scotland, opened in 1927
• Minerva, a character in the 1929 West End musical Mr. Cinders

Journals

• "Minerva", a section heading in the British Medical Journal
• Minerva, a triannual magazine for members of the Royal Dublin Society
• Minerva: A review of science, learning and policy, a journal published by Springer Verlag. ISSN 0026-4695
• Minerva: The International Review of Ancient Art & Archaeology ISSN 0957-7718
• Minerva Medica, an Italian publisher of medical journals and books
• Minerva, a Norwegian periodical
• Mars and Minerva, journal of the Special Air Service Regiment of the British Army, named from the Artists Rifles regimental badge
• Minerva, journal of the Royal Institution of South Wales, Swansea

Science and technology

Astronomy and space

• Uranus, before its name was settled upon in 1850, was proposed to be called Minerva
• 93 Minerva, an asteroid discovered in 1867
• Pluto, before its name was decided shortly after its discovery in 1930, was proposed to be called Minerva
• MINERVA mini-lander, MIcro/Nano Experimental Robot Vehicle for Asteroid, which failed to deploy upon asteroid Itokawa in 2005

Automotive

• Minerva (automobile), a Belgian luxury automobile manufactured from 1902 until 1938

Computing and telecommunication

• Minerva (QDOS reimplementation), a reimplementation of Sinclair QDOS
• Minerva Networks, a company that develops video compression technology and broadcast systems
• Project MINERVA, Mapping the INternet Electronic Resources Virtual Archive, the Library of Congress Web Archive and Preservation Project
• Minerva, the e-learning platform of Ghent University that uses Dokeos as its course management system
• Minerva, the electronic registration system of McGill University, Montreal
• MINERVA, MInisterial NEtwoRk for Valorising Activities in digitisation, a European Union organization concerned with the digitisation of cultural and scientific content
• MINERVA (cable system), a submarine telecommunications cable system linking Italy and Cyprus
• Minerva, a scalable OWL ontology storage and inference engine

Medicine

• Minerva cast, a type of orthopedic cast enclosing the patient's trunk and head

Physics

• MINERνA, Main INjector ExpeRiment Neutrino-A, a short-baseline neutrino experiment at Fermilab

Other science and technology

• Minerva, a genus of prehistoric owls
• Minerva Medal, an award in the field of design by the Chartered Society of Designers
• Minerva, a luxury Swiss watch company purchased by Richemont in 2006
• La Minerve, a giant ascension balloon envisioned by Étienne-Gaspard Robert in 1820

Ships

• HMS Minerva, various ships of the British Royal Navy
• French ship Minerve, fifteen ships of the French navy
• Minerva (1864), a ship possibly wrecked on the Auckland Islands
• Australian whaler Minerva, wrecked in 1829 on the Minerva Reefs (then known as Nicholson's Shoal).
• MV Minerva, a cruise ship built in 1989
• Minerva II, a cruise ship launched in 2000
• USS Minerva, various ships of the United States Navy

Sports

• Minerva F.C., a 19th century West London soccer team
• Minerva (Norwegian athletics club), a Norwegian athletics club

Other

• Editura Minerva, a Romanian publishing house
• Minerva Central, the name of the first book store in Mozambique
• The Minerva, oldest pub in Plymouth, England
• Minerva roundabout, famous landmark in Guadalajara, Jalisco.

See also

• Minerve (disambiguation)
• French ship Minerve (disambiguation)