Mandrake is a poisonous herbaceous plant in the genus Mandragora, often connected with magical rituals.

Mandrake may also refer to:

Biology

  • Mandragora (genus), a genus in the family Solanaceae, including
  • Mandragora autumnalis, mandrake or autumn mandrake (considered by some sources to be a synonym of Mandragora officinarum)
  • Mandragora caulescens, Himalayan mandrake
  • Mandragora officinarum, mandrake or Mediterranean mandrake
  • Mandragora turcomanica, Turkmenian mandrake
  • Bryonia alba, English mandrake or white bryony
  • Podophyllum peltatum, American mandrake, a North American plant in the family Berberidaceae

Arts and entertainment

Film, television, and drama

  • The Mandrake, a play by Niccolò Machiavelli first published in 1524
  • The Mandrake (1965 film), a 1965 Franco-Italian film
  • Mandrake (TV series), a Latin American TV series
  • Mandrake (1979 film), an American television thriller film
  • Mandrake, a 2010 television film with Andrew Stevens
  • Mandrake, an Indian Malayalam-language film series, consisting of
  • Junior Mandrake (1997)
  • Senior Mandrake (2010)

Fictional characters

  • Mandragora (demon), a supernatural being in folklore
  • Mandrake, a short-lived mascot at the University of Oregon
  • Mandrake the Magician, a comic strip character
  • Caleb Mandrake, a character in The Skulls, a feature-length film by Rob Cohen
  • Group Captain Lionel Mandrake, a character in Stanley Kubrick's film Dr. Strangelove
  • John Mandrake (Nathaniel), a character from the Bartimaeus Trilogy
  • Paolo Mandrake, the lawyer and amateur detective who is the protagonist of stories by Rubem Fonseca, and basis for the TV series
  • Mandrake, a character in the animated feature Epic

Music

  • "Mandrake", a 1976 song on Gong's Shamal
  • Mandrake (album), a 2001 album by Edguy
  • Mandrake (German band), a gothic metal band
  • Mandrake (Japanese band), a progressive rock band
  • The Mandrake (band), an American death metal band
  • The Mandrake Project, a 2024 album by Bruce Dickinson

Literature and publishing

  • Mandrake of Oxford, a small press
  • Mandrake Press, a publishing company
  • The Mandrake (Surrealist group), a 20th-century Chilean Surrealist group

People

  • Leon Mandrake (1911–1993), magician
  • Tom Mandrake (born 1956), comic book artist

Other uses

  • Mandrake Linux, former name of Mandriva Linux, a computer operating system
  • Yakovlev Yak-25 (NATO designation: Mandrake), a Soviet aircraft
  • Slang name for the recreational drug methaqualone

See also

  • Mandarake, a Japanese retail corporation