Minerva (disambiguation)

Minerva is the Roman goddess of crafts and wisdom. The name may also refer to:

People

• Minerva (Daum Agora user), a South Korean netizen famous for his economic predictions.
• Minerva Urecal (1894 – 1966), American film and television actress
• Minerva, the stage name of Josephine Blatt (c.1869 – 1923)

Geography

• Minerva, Kentucky, United States
• Minerva, New York, United States
• Minerva, Ohio, United States
• Minerva, Oregon, United States
• Minerva, West Virginia
• Minerva Reefs, two submerged atolls between Tonga and New Zealand
  • Republic of Minerva, a self-declared South Pacific republic on the Minerva Reefs

Land development

• Minerva plc, a London-based British developer and property firm
• Minerva Building, a skyscraper once planned for the eastern edge of London's main financial district
• Lokhandwala Minerva, a skyscraper under construction in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Entertainment

Games

• MINERVA (mod), a modification for the video game Half-Life 2
• Minerva, a character in the final cutscene of Assassin's Creed II

Manga and anime

• Minerva (Transformers), a character from the various Transformers universes
• 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
• Fencer of Minerva, a five episode soft-core hentai anime series
• Minerva Orlando is a character in Fairy Tail
• Minene Uryuu from Future Diary is named after Minerva

Music

• "Minerva" (song), a 2003 single by Deftones
• "Minerva", a 2005 song by Ani DiFranco, from her album Knuckle Down
• Minerva, a character in the comic opera Princess Ida

Novels

• Minerva Hadley, a character in the Noughts & Crosses book series by Malorie Blackman
• Minerva McGonagall, a character in the Harry Potter book series by J. K. Rowling
• Minerva Paradizo, a character in the book Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
• Minerva, a ship and supporting character in The Baroque Cycle book series by Neal Stephenson
• Minerva, a setting in the book A World of Difference by Harry Turtledove
• Minerva, a setting in the Giants series by James P. Hogan
• Minerva, a computer which becomes a human female in Robert A. Heinlein's 1973 Time Enough for Love

Theatre

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

Publications

• Minerva (German magazine), a nineteenth century journal published by Johann Wilhelm von Archenholz
• Minerva (archaeology journal), an international review of ancient art and archaeology
• Minerva (Norwegian periodical), a Norwegian liberal conservative periodical first published in 1924
• Minerva (Welsh periodical), earliest title of Swansea History Journal
• Minerva Medica, a medical journal in Italian

Science and technology

Astronomy and space

• 93 Minerva, an asteroid discovered in 1867
• MINERVA mini-lander, a mini-lander on the unmanned spacecraft Hayabusa
• MINiature Exoplanet Radial Velocity Array (MINERVA), ground-based search for exoplanets
• Minerva, a name originally proposed for the planets Uranus and Pluto

Automotive

• Minerva (automobile), a Belgian luxury automobile manufactured from 1902 until 1938
• Minerva Armored Car, a World War I armored car

Computing and telecommunication

• MINERVA, 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 (QDOS reimplementation), a reimplementation of Sinclair QDOS
• Minerva Initiative, a plan that looks to tap into the community of area specialists and other university researchers
• Minerva Networks, a company that develops video compression technology and broadcast systems

Education

• Minerva Schools at KGI, a university that uses online resources for teaching

Medicine

• Minerva cast, a type of orthopedic cast enclosing the patient's trunk and head
• A brand name of co-cyprindiol (cyproterone acetate/ethinyl estradiol), an oral contraceptive

Physics

• MINERνA, a neutrino scattering experiment

Other science and technology

• Minerva Medal, an award in the field of design by the Chartered Society of Designers
• Minerva, a genus of prehistoric owls

Ships

• HMS Minerva, various ships of the British Royal Navy
• Minerva (1773 ship), a 1773 British East India Company merchantman
• Minerva (1864), a ship possibly wrecked on the Auckland Islands
• Minerva-class corvette, a class of ships of the Italian Marina Militare
• MV Minerva, a cruise ship launched in 1989
• MV Minerva II, a cruise ship launched in 2000
• PS Minerva (1834), the first paddle steamer on Lake Zurich in Switzerland
• PS Minerva (1893), a Glasgow and South Western Railway paddle steamer launched in 1893
• USS Minerva, various ships of the United States Navy

Other

• Editura Minerva, a Romanian publishing house
• Minerva roundabout, famous landmark in Guadalajara, Jalisco
• The Minerva Initiative is a U.S. Department of Defense program

See also

• Minerve (disambiguation)