Dolores

Dolores is a common given name, cognate with the English word "dolour" (meaning suffering) and equivalent in meaning. In Spanish, where it is most prevalent, it is short for la Virgen María de los Dolores, "Virgin Mary of dolours", and is often shortened to the more colloquial forms Lola, Lolita or Loli.

Places

• Argentina
  • Dolores, Buenos Aires
• Guatemala
  • Dolores, El Petén
• Mexico
  • Dolores Hidalgo, a town in Guanajuato
  • Dolores, Baja California Sur
  • Dolores, Chihuahua
• Spain
  • Dolores, Alicante
• Philippines
  • Dolores, Abra,
  • Dolores, Eastern Samar
  • Dolores, Quezon
• United States
  • Dolores, Colorado
  • Mission San Francisco de Asís, in San Francisco, also known as "Mission Dolores"

People

• María Dolores Pradera, singer
• Dolores Ibárruri, "La Pasionaria", Spanish labour activist
• Dolores Huerta, Mexican-American labor activist
• Dolores del Río, Mexican film actress
• Dolores O'Riordan, main singer of the band The Cranberries
• Dolores McNamara, winner of €115 million EuroMillions jackpot
• María de los Dolores Flores Ruiz, also known as Lola Flores, Spanish singer
• Dolores Keane, Irish folk singer

Written Works

• Dolores (Notre-Dame des Sept Douleurs), a poem by A. C. Swinburne
• Dolores (novel), a 1911 novel by Ivy Compton-Burnett
• Dolores (1976 novel), a 1976 novel by Jacqueline Susann

Fictional characters

• Dolores Haze, also known as Lolita, from Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• Dolores Umbridge, from the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
• The titular character in Stephen King's Dolores Claiborne
• A character appearing in an episode of the television program Seinfeld, whose name Jerry cannot figure out. His only clue was that it rhymed with a female body part.

Other

• Dolores River
• 1277 Dolores, an asteroid
• Dolores Recordings, a record label