Dove (disambiguation)

A dove is a type of bird in the family of doves and pigeons

Dove may also refer to:

Birds

• In popular usage, often refers to small columbids that are used as symbols of peace, white or gray in color
  • Barbary dove (Streptopelia risoria), a domestic species that is typically gray in colour, but often bred to be white
  • Small white-feathered domestic pigeons (Columba livia domestica), which are used as release doves

People

• Dove (given name), given name in the English language
• Dove (surname), surname in the English language

Places

Extraterrestrial

• Dove (crater), on the Moon
• Dove or Columba (constellation)

Terrestrial

• Dove, Missouri, United States
• Dove Lake (Tasmania), Australia
• River Dove, Barnsley, England
• River Dove, Derbyshire, England
• River Dove, North Yorkshire, England
• River Dove, Suffolk, England
• The Dove (glacier), Colorado, United States
• The Dove, Hammersmith, a public house in London, England
• Dove Cottage, writer's home museum of William Wordsworth in Grasmere, England

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

• Hawk and Dove, a DC Comics superhero team
• "Little Dove", an alias for the character Sansa Stark in Game of Thrones

Music

Groups

• Dove (band), an Australian soft rock band (1973–1978)
• Doves (band), an English band

Albums

• Dove (Belly album), an album by American alternative rock band Belly
• Dove (Floor album), an album by American sludge metal band Floor

Songs

• "Dove" (song), a song by Italian musician Mooney
• "Dove", a song by Tyrannosaurus Rex from their 1970 album A Beard of Stars

Other uses in music

• Dove, an alias of American rapper David Jude Jolicoeur
• Dove (the Band of Love), Devo's fake opening act
• GMA Dove Awards, an American musical award
• Gibson Dove, a type of guitar

Other uses in media

• "Doves", a Series D episode of the television series QI (2006)

Brands and enterprises

• Dove (chocolate brand), a brand of chocolate made by Mars
• Dove (toiletries), an unrelated Unilever brand of soap and other personal care products

Military

• HMS Dove (1898), a British destroyer
• Operation Dove (Ireland), an aborted 1940 German World War II mission
• Operation Dove, a 1944 Allied World War II assault in southern France

Science and technology

• Dove (satellite), a constellation of small Earth-imaging satellites operated by Planet Labs
• Distributed Overlay Virtual Ethernet (DOVE), a tunneling and virtualization technology for computer networks
• Dove Marine Laboratory
• Dove tree
• Dove Medical Press

Vehicles

• Dove (ship), 17th-century English trading ship re-created as the Maryland Dove
• Dove (steamboat)
• de Havilland Dove, a post–World War II short-haul airliner

Other uses

• DoVE (Digitisation of Vital Events), a project of the General Register Office for England and Wales to digitise birth, marriage, and death records
• Dove Foundation, an American non-profit organization based in Portland, Oregon
• Dove Publications, an American publishing house headquartered in Mineola, New York
• Dove, slang for methylenedioxymethamphetamine
• Basel Dove, an 1845 Swiss postage stamp
• Monetary hawk and dove, someone who favors low unemployment in monetary policy
• War dove, a person favoring peace in a debate over whether to go to war
• Doves (Gibraltar) or palomos, a group of Gibraltarians that advocated, in the 1960s, for a settlement with Spain

See also

• Doves as symbols
• Doves Press
• Hawk and dove (disambiguation)
• The Dove (disambiguation)