Dora may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Television

  • Dora (Dora the Explorer), a fictional character in the Dora the Explorer franchise
  • Dora the Explorer (TV series), 2000–2019
  • Dora (TV series), a 2024 reboot of the original series
  • Dora, series 2 of the 1973 British sitcom Both Ends Meet

Film

  • Dora (1933 film), a British comedy
  • Dora or the Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents, a 2015 Swiss drama
  • Dora (2017 film), a Tamil horror thriller
  • Dora (2026 film), a drama film by July Jung
  • Dora the Explorer (film), films from the franchise from 2019 and 2025
  • Dora, fictional tribal chieftains in the 2023 Indian film Salaar

Other uses in arts and entertainment

  • Dora Mavor Moore Awards, or the Doras, by the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts
  • Dora: A Headcase, a 2012 novel about Freud's patient (see below)
  • "Dora", a song by Ambitious Lovers from the 1984 album Envy
  • Dora, bonus tiles in Japanese mahjong
  • Dora festival, selection event for Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest

Military

  • Dora, the name of a Schwerer Gustav World War II railway gun
  • Dora I, and Dora II, German U-boat bases in Trondheim, Norway <!--IAR one blue link rule-->
  • Dora, nickname of the Focke-Wulf Fw 190D German fighter aircraft

People and fictional characters

  • Dora (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters
  • Dora (case study), pseudonym given by Sigmund Freud to Ida Bauer (1882–1945), a patient he treated
  • Sister Dora, Anglican nun and nurse Dorothy Wyndlow Pattison (1832–1878)
  • Dora d'Istria, pen name of Duchess Helena Koltsova-Massalskaya (1828–1888), Romanian Romantic writer and feminist
  • Dora, code name of Alexander Radó (1899–1981), Hungarian World War II Soviet spy

Places

United States

  • Dora, Alabama, a city
  • Dora, Arkansas, an unincorporated community and census-designated place
  • Dora, Missouri, an unincorporated community
  • Dora, New Mexico, a village
  • Dora, Oregon, an unincorporated community
  • Dora, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated community
  • Dora Township, Otter Tail County, Minnesota
  • Lake Dora (Florida)

Australia

  • Lake Dora (Tasmania)
  • Lake Dora (Western Australia)
  • Dora Creek, New South Wales

Other places

  • Dora, Cyprus, a village
  • Dora, Baghdad, Iraq, a neighborhood
  • Titular diocese of Dora, Israel, a Roman Catholic diocese
  • Dora, Lebanon, a suburb northeast of Beirut
  • Dura, Hebron, Palestinian West Bank, a city
  • Dorasan or Mount Dora, a hill in South Korea
  • 668 Dora, main belt asteroid

Science and technology

  • Dual orexin receptor antagonist, an orexin antagonist
  • DORA (downregulated by activation), a common name for the gene IGSF6
  • Dora (case study), pseudonym of a Sigmund Freud patient
  • Discover, offer, request, acknowledge process in Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
  • DevOps Research and Assessment, a research team focused on software delivery practices

Transportation

  • , the name of several ships
  • Dora (sternwheeler), a 1910 steamboat in Oregon

Acronyms

  • Defence of the Realm Act 1914 (DORA), British war legislation
  • Digital Operational Resilience Act, a European Union regulation
  • Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies (DORA)
  • Designated outdoor refreshment areas, in open-container law in Ohio, United States
  • San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment

Other uses

  • List of storms named Dora
  • Dora Observatory, South Korea, near the Demilitarized Zone
  • Dora, medieval title of the feudal landlord in the Telangana region of India
  • Dora, another name for the Italian wine grape Fortana

See also

  • Dorah (disambiguation)
  • Dorie (disambiguation)
  • Dumb Dora, comic strip and slang term
  • Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp, World War II concentration camp