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Doris may refer to:
People
Given name
- Doris (mythology) of Greek mythology, daughter of Oceanus and Tethys
- Doris, fictional character in the Canadian television series Caillou
- Doris (singer) (born 1947), Swedish rock and pop singer
- Doris, mother of Antipater (son of Herod I)
- Doris Achelwilm, German journalist and politician
- Doris Akers (1923–1995), American gospel music singer and composer
- Doris Akol (born 1970), Ugandan lawyer and administrator
- Doris Allen (disambiguation), multiple people
- Doris Anderson (1921–2007), Canadian author, journalist, and women's rights activist
- Doris Anderson (screenwriter) (1897–1971), American screenwriter
- Doris Margaret Anderson (born 1922), Canadian nutritionist and politician
- Doris Angleton (1951–1997), American socialite and murder victim
- Doris Bartholomew (born 1930), American linguist
- Doris Belack (1926–2011), American actress
- Doris Benegas (1951–2016), Spanish lawyer and politician
- Doris Bensimon (1924–2009), Austrian-born French sociologist and academic
- Doris Betts (1932–2012), American author
- Doris Bigornia (born 1966), Filipina journalist
- Doris Blackburn (1889–1970), Australian social reformer and politician
- Doris Buffett (born 1928), American heiress and philanthropist
- Doris Burke (born 1965), American basketball player and broadcaster
- Doris Burn (1923–2011), American children's author and illustrator
- Doris Calloway (1923–2001), American nutritionist
- Doris Day (1922–2019), stage name of Doris Kappelhoff, American singer, actress, and animal welfare advocate
- Doris Dana (1920–2006), American writer and translator
- Doris Dragović (born 1961), Yugoslav-Croatian pop singer
- Doris Duke (1912–1993), American heiress, socialite, horticulturalist, and philanthropist
- Doris Gentile (1894–1972), Australian novelist and short story writer
- Doris Gregory, Canadian author
- C. Doris Hellman (1910–1973), American historian of science
- Doris Jensen (disambiguation)
- Doris Kearns Goodwin (born 1943), American journalist, biographer and historian
- Doris Kohardt (born 1950), German Olympic swimmer
- Doris Lessing (1919–2013), British-Zimbabwean novelist
- Doris Leuthard (born 1963), Swiss politician and lawyer
- Doris Matsui (born 1944), American politician
- Doris Miller (1919–1943), U.S. Navy sailor
- Doris Pinčić Rogoznica (born 1988), Croatian actress
- Doris de Pont (born 1954), New Zealand fashion designer
- Doris Roberts (1925–2016), American actress
- Doris Salcedo (born 1958), Colombian sculptor
- Doris Buchanan Smith (1934–2002), American children's author
- Doris Stockton (1924–2018), American mathematician
- Doris the Ugly Stepsister, fictional character from the Shrek film series
Surname
- Ennio Doris (born 1940), Italian billionaire
- Mirna Doris, (born 1940), Italian singer
Animals
- Doris (gastropod), a genus of marine gastropod molluscs in the family Dorididae
- Heliconius doris, the Doris butterfly of Central and South America
- Orange-peel doris, a nudibranch (slug)
Places
- Doris (Asia Minor), a region of Asia Minor inhabited by Dorians
- Doris (Greece), a region in central Greece in which the Dorians had their traditional homeland
- Doris, Iowa, United States
- 48 Doris, an asteroid discovered in 1857, traditionally classified as a minor planet
Ships and seafaring
- Doris (sailing yacht), an America's Cup type racing yacht built in 1905
- French submarine Doris, three submarines of the French navy
- HMS Doris, various ships of the British Royal Navy
- USS Doris B. III (SP-733), a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1918
- USS Doris B. IV (SP-625), a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1919
- In French, a dory is un doris (plural in English: dories).
Music
- Doris (album), a 2013 studio album by Earl Sweatshirt*
- Doris (opera), an 1889 opera by Alfred Cellier
Other uses
- DORIS (geodesy), a French system used for satellite orbit positioning
- Storm Doris, a windstorm in northwestern Europe in February 2017
- Hello, My Name Is Doris, a 2015 American film
- Doris, or DOR-15, a robotic bowler hat and main antagonist of Meet the Robinsons
See also
- Dorit (disambiguation), the Modern Hebrew form of "Doris"
- All pages with titles beginning with Doris
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