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

People

  • Minerva (given name), including a list of people with the name

Mononym or pseudonym

  • Minerva (Internet celebrity), South Korean netizen known for his economic predictions
  • Josephine Blatt (c. 1869–1923), American strongwoman who used the stage name Minerva
  • Maria Minerva, Maria Juur (born 1988), Estonian musician

Surname

  • Francesco Minerva (1904–2004), Italian Roman Catholic prelate
  • Michèle Minerva (1959–2021), French pétanque player
  • Ponce de Minerva (1114/1115–1175), Occitanian nobleman, courtier, governor, and general

Geography

Australia

  • Minerva, Queensland, a locality in the Central Highlands

Pacific Ocean

  • Minerva Reefs, two submerged atolls between Tonga and New Zealand
  • Republic of Minerva, a self-declared South Pacific republic on the Minerva Reefs

United States

  • Minerva, Kentucky
  • Minerva, New York
  • Minerva, Ohio
  • Minerva, Oregon
  • Minerva, Texas
  • Minerva, West Virginia

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
  • Minerva, a character in Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light
  • Minerva, a class in the MMORPG Elsword
  • Ex Machina: Minerva, a character used by Celica A. Mercury in the fighting game series BlazBlue

Comics

  • Doctor Minerva, a Marvel Comics character who is a Kree scientist
  • Cheetah, a DC Comics character whose name is Barbara Ann Minerva
  • Minxy Minerva, a Wildstorm character who has appeared in Welcome to Tranquility

Manga and anime

  • Minerva, a character from the Transformers franchise
  • Minerva class battleship, a fictional class of space vessels from the anime series Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny
  • Fencer of Minerva, a hentai anime series
  • Minerva Orland, a character in Fairy Tail
  • Minene Uryuu, a character in Future Diary

Animation

  • Minerva Campbell, the mother of Finn from Adventure Time
  • Minerva Mink, a character from Animaniacs
  • Minerva Mouse, the full name of Minnie Mouse

Music

  • "Minerva" (song), a 2003 single by Deftones
  • "Minerva", a 2005 song by Ani DiFranco, from her album Knuckle Down

Novels

  • Minerva (Re:Zero), a character in the light novel series Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World
  • 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
  • In Harry Turtledove's novel A World of Difference, the orbit of Mars is occupied by an Earth-sized planet called Minerva
  • Minerva, a character in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt, based on Valerie Bowles

Theatre

  • Minerva Theatre, Chichester, England, opened in 1989
  • Minerva Theatre, Kolkata, India, built in 1893
  • Minerva Theatre, Sydney, Australia 1939–1950
  • Minerva, a character in the 1929 West End musical Mr. Cinders

Other arts and media

  • Minerva Film, an Italian film distribution company operating between 1912 and 1956
  • Minerva Tonfilm, a German film production company active in the 1930s
  • Minerva (painting), a 1635 painting by Rembrandt

Publications

  • Minerva (German magazine), a nineteenth century journal published by Johann Wilhelm von Archenholz
  • Minerva (archaeology magazine), an international review of ancient art and archaeology
  • Minerva (Norwegian periodical), a Norwegian liberal conservative periodical first published in 1924
  • Minerva (Springer journal), a peer-reviewed sociology journal established in 1962
  • Minerva (Welsh periodical), earliest title of Swansea History Journal
  • Minerva Medica, a medical journal in Italian
  • Minerva, an intellectual magazine originally funded by the CIA via the Congress for Cultural Freedom

Science and technology

Astronomy and space

  • 93 Minerva, an asteroid discovered in 1867
  • MINERVA (spacecraft), a mini-lander on the uncrewed spacecraft Hayabusa
  • MINiature Exoplanet Radial Velocity Array (MINERVA), ground-based search for exoplanets
  • Minerva, a name originally proposed for the planet Pluto
  • Minerva, the name of the European Space Agency's segment of the SpaceX Crew-4 mission

Automotive

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

Biology

  • Minerva (alga), a genus of red algae in the family Bangiaceae
  • Minerva (bird), a genus of prehistoric owls

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 (model), a large language model developed at the Sapienza University of Rome
  • 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

Medicine

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

Physics

  • MINERνA, a neutrino scattering experiment

Ships

  • , several ships
  • , several ships of the British Royal Navy
  • , several ships of the United States Navy
  • , a class of ships of the Italian Marina Militare

Other uses

  • Editura Minerva, a Romanian publishing house
  • Minerva Bunkering, a marine fuel logistics company
  • Minerva roundabout, famous landmark in Guadalajara, Jalisco
  • The Minerva Initiative is a U.S. Department of Defense program
  • Minerva F.C., a 19th-century amateur football club in England
  • Fuji Xerox Minerva AFC, an American football team in Ebina, Kanagawa, Japan, playing in the X-League X2 division
  • Minerva University, a private university based in San Francisco, California

See also

  • Minerve (disambiguation)