Dora
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Dora can refer to:
- A female name
- Asteroid 668 Dora, namesake of the Dora family of asteroids.
- Dora - Croatian national preselection for the Eurovision Song Contest.
- The WW II concentration camp of Mittelbau-Dora.
- Dora Russell (1894 – 1986), hard-edged feminist and wife of the legendary philosopher Bertrand Russell.
- Dora Bakoyannis (born 1954), mayor of Athens, capital of Greece.
- Dora Penny, recipient of the Dorabella Cipher
- Dora Venter (born 1976), porn star
- The pseudonym of Sigmund Freud's patient Ida Bauer, about whom he wrote a "Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria," one of his notable early papers, written in 1901.
- Several geographic locations
- The city of Dora, Alabama
- The city of Dora, New Mexico
- Lake Dora in Western Australia
- Two Italian rivers, tributaries of the Po River, from the Celtic "duria", meaning water
- The Italian river Dora Baltea
- The Italian river Dora Riparia
- Dora, one of the two 80cm railway artillery pieces constructed by the Krupp company for Nazi Germany during World War II. It was named after the wife of the senior engineer.
- Dora the Explorer, an animated series for preschool-age children.
- Hurricane Dora, a 1964 hurricane, the first and last to hit Jacksonville, Florida.
- The Dora Awards for Canadian professional theatre.
See also: DORA, the Defence of the Realm Act, passed in Britain in August 1914.