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'' and the mother of the titular character *

Doris (singer) Doris Svensson (born July 1, 1947), billed as Doris, is a former Swedish pop singer. Doris is best known for her lone solo album, eclectic pop, rock and funk ''Did You Give the World Some Love Today Baby'' recorded in 1970. The record was re-is ...

(born 1947), Swedish rock and pop singer * Doris, mother of Antipater (son of Herod I) *

Doris Achelwilm Doris Achelwilm (born 30 November 1976) is a German journalist and politician of Die Linke party. Biography She was born in Thuine, Lower Saxony. She was a member of the German parliament. She was elected at the 2017 federal election and r ...

, German journalist and politician *

Doris Akers Doris Mae Akers (May 21, 1923 – July 26, 1995) was a biracial African-American gospel music composer, arranger and singer who is considered to be "one of the most underrated gospel composers of the 20th century howrote more than 500 songs". Kn ...

(1923–1995), American gospel music singer and composer *

Doris Akol Doris Akol is a Ugandan lawyer and administrator. In December 2021, she was appointed as Technical Assistance Advisor at the International Monetary Fund, in Washington, DC, United States. Before that, she was a Partner at the Dentons' Kampala o ...

(born 1970), Ugandan lawyer and administrator *

Doris Allen (disambiguation) Doris Allen may refer to: *Doris Twitchell Allen (1901–2002), American psychologist and founder of Children's International Summer Villages *Doris Allen (politician) Doris Jean Allen (May 26, 1936 – September 22, 1999) was an American politic ...

, multiple people *

Doris Anderson Doris Hilda Anderson, (November 10, 1921 – March 2, 2007) was a Canadian author, journalist and women's rights activist. She is best known as the editor of the women's magazine ''Chatelaine'', mixing traditional content (recipes, décor) w ...

(1921–2007), Canadian author, journalist, and women's rights activist * Doris Anderson (screenwriter) (1897–1971), American screenwriter *

Doris Margaret Anderson Doris Margaret Anderson (July 5, 1922 – October 16, 2022) was a Canadian nutritionist and politician who served as a senator. Anderson was born at St. Peters Bay, Prince Edward Island, the daughter of William W. and Florence () Anderson. She ...

(1922–2022), Canadian nutritionist and politician *

Doris Angleton Doris Elizabeth Angleton (''née'' McGown; (also Beck) April 11, 1951 – April 16, 1997) was an American socialite and murder victim. Her husband, Robert Angleton, had been accused of planning the crime. His brother, Roger Nicholas Angleton, wa ...

(1951–1997), American socialite and murder victim *

Doris Bartholomew Doris Aileen Bartholomew (born 1930) is an American linguist whose published research specialises in the lexicography, historical and descriptive linguistics for indigenous languages in Mexico, in particular for Oto-Manguean languages. Bartholome ...

(born 1930), American linguist *

Doris Beck Doris Lew Beck (1929 – July 12, 2020) was an American Democratic Party politician who was the first woman to serve as Mayor of Livingston, New Jersey, and the first woman to serve as a Mayor in Essex County, New Jersey. She was born in Chehanovie ...

(1929–2020), American politician * Doris Belack (1926–2011), American actress *

Doris Benegas Doris Benegas Haddad (1951 – 29 July 2016) was a Spanish political lawyer specialising in criminal law, particularly causes related to women and left-wing politics. She was also a political leader, leading a regional branch of the communist mov ...

(1951–2016), Spanish lawyer and politician *

Doris Bensimon Doris Bensimon (also known as, Doris Bensimon-Donath, 1924 – 8 December 2009) was an Austrian-born French sociologist and academic whose research focused on the study of contemporary Judaism. She taught at the University of Caen and Institut na ...

(1924–2009), Austrian-born French sociologist and academic * Doris Betts (1932–2012), American author *

Doris Bigornia Doris Agbayani Bigornia (; born February 17, 1966) is a Filipina journalist, field reporter, and news presenter. Career Bigornia is a journalist and field reporter for ABS-CBN News. After her departure in 2007, she worked as a freelance report ...

(born 1966), Filipina journalist *

Doris Blackburn Doris Amelia Blackburn (; 18 September 1889 – 12 December 1970) was an Australian social reformer and politician. She served in the House of Representatives from 1946 to 1949, the second woman after Enid Lyons to do so. Blackburn was a promin ...

(1889–1970), Australian social reformer and politician * Doris Buffett (1928–2020), 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 Doris Day (born Doris Mary Kappelhoff; April 3, 1922 – May 13, 2019) was an American actress, singer, and activist. She began her career as a big band singer in 1939, achieving commercial success in 1945 with two No. 1 recordings, " Sent ...

(1922–2019), stage name of Doris Kappelhoff, American singer, actress, and animal welfare advocate * Doris Dana (1920–2006), American writer and translator * Doris Dartey (died 2020), Ghanaian educator and journalist * Doris Deane (1901–1974), American actress * Doris Dragović (born 1961), Yugoslav-Croatian pop singer *

Doris Duke Doris Duke (November 22, 1912 – October 28, 1993) was an American billionaire tobacco heiress, philanthropist, art collector, Horticulture, horticulturalist, and socialite. She was often called "the richest girl in the world". Her great wealt ...

(1912–1993), American heiress, socialite, horticulturalist, and philanthropist * Doris Duke (soul singer) (1941–2019), American gospel and soul singer *

Doris Gentile Doris May Gentile (; 30 October 1894 – 16 May 1972) was an Australian novelist and short story writer, who travelled and wrote in Africa, Europe and Canada from 1925 until the Second World War. Early life She was born Doris May Dinham in the ...

(1894–1972), Australian novelist and short story writer *

Doris Gregory Doris Gregory is a Canadian author. She is noted for her role ending gender-based segregation in Canadian universities. Gregory studied English at the University of British Columbia in the early 1940s. At the time, many courses were segregated by ...

, Canadian author *

C. Doris Hellman Clarisse Doris Hellman Pepper (August 28, 1910 – March 28, 1973) was an American historian of science, "one of the first professional historians of science in the United States". She specialized in 16th and 17th century astronomy, wrote a bo ...

(1910–1973), American historian of science * Doris Jensen (disambiguation) *

Doris Kearns Goodwin Doris Helen Kearns Goodwin (born January 4, 1943) is an American biographer, historian, former sports journalist, and political commentator. She has written biographies of several U.S. presidents, including ''Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream ...

(born 1943), American journalist, biographer and historian *

Doris Kohardt Doris Kohardt (born 12 November 1950) is a retired East German swimmer. She competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics The 1968 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1968), officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad ( es, Juego ...

(born 1950), German Olympic swimmer *

Doris Laine Doris Laine (from 1952, Laine-Almi; 31 October 1931 — 15 December 2018) was an internationally recognised Finnish ballet dancer, dance choreographer and pedagog, who later held several prominent leadership positions in dance and the wider per ...

(1931–2018), Finnish ballet dancer *

Doris Lessing Doris May Lessing (; 22 October 1919 – 17 November 2013) was a British-Zimbabwean novelist. She was born to British parents in Iran, where she lived until 1925. Her family then moved to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), where she remain ...

(1919–2013), British-Zimbabwean novelist *

Doris Leuthard Doris Leuthard (born 10 April 1963) is a Swiss politician and lawyer who served as a Member of the Swiss Federal Council from 2006 to 2018. A member of the Christian Democratic People's Party (CVP/PDC), she was elected as President of the Swiss ...

(born 1963), Swiss politician and lawyer * Doris Matsui (born 1944), American politician * Doris Miller (1919–1943), U.S. Navy sailor *

Doris Pinčić Doris Pinčić (born 4 September 1988) is a Croatian actress and TV and radio presenter. She is known for her role as Lara Božić-Zlatar in the Nova TV series, ''Larin izbor''. Biography She graduated from Academy of acting and puppetry in O ...

(born 1988), Croatian actress * Doris de Pont (born 1954), New Zealand fashion designer * Doris Roberts (1925–2016), American actress *

Doris Salcedo Doris Salcedo (b. 1958) is a Colombian-born visual artist and sculpture, sculptor."Doris Salcedo"
Art 21, ...

(born 1958), Colombian sculptor *

Doris Buchanan Smith Doris Buchanan Smith (June 1, 1934 – August 8, 2002) was an American author of award-winning Children's books, including ''A Taste of Blackberries'' (HarperCollins, 1973). Works Doris Buchanan Smith's, ''A Taste of Blackberries'' (HarperC ...

(1934–2002), American children's author *

Doris Stockton Doris G. Skillman Stockton (1924–2018) was an American mathematician specializing in partial differential equations and Banach spaces, and known for her many mathematics textbooks. For many years she was a professor of mathematics at the Univer ...

(1924–2018), American mathematician *

Doris the Ugly Stepsister This is a list of characters that appear in the ''Shrek (franchise), Shrek'' franchise. Main characters *Shrek (character), Shrek (voiced by Mike Myers and Michael Gough (voice actor), Michael Gough as his official voice in the video games) is ...

, fictional character from the ''Shrek'' film series

Surname

Caelan Doris Caelan Doris (born 2 April 1998) is an Irish rugby union player for URC and European Rugby Champions Cup side Leinster. He plays as a number 8 or flanker. Early life and education Doris was born in Lacken, Mayo to Dublin parents, his father ...

(born 1998), Irish rugby player *

Ennio Doris Ennio Doris (3 July 1940 – 24 November 2021) was an Italian billionaire businessman who founded Mediolanum SpA. Until 21 September 2021 he was chairman of Banca Mediolanum, part of Gruppo Mediolanum, a large Italian banking, funds management ...

(1940–2021), Italian billionaire *

Mirna Doris Mirna Doris (28 September 1940 – 27 March 2020) was an Italian Canzone Napoletana singer, mainly successful in the second half of the 1960s. Life and career Born Annunziata Chiarelli, in Naples, after studying singing Doris started performing i ...

(1940–2020), Italian singer

Animals

* ''Doris'' (gastropod), a genus of marine gastropod molluscs in the family Dorididae * ''

Grammia doris ''Apantesis doris'', the Doris tiger moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Jean Baptiste Boisduval in 1869. It is found in North America from British Columbia, northern Idaho, Alberta and western Montana. In the east, it i ...

'', the Doris tiger moth, a moth of the family Erebidae * '' Heliconius doris'', the Doris butterfly of Central and South America *

Orange-peel doris ''Acanthodoris lutea'', the orange-peel doris, is a species of nudibranch or sea slug, a shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Onchidorididae. This species is the largest of the northeastern Pacific onchidorids.Behrens ...

, a nudibranch (slug)

Places

Doris (Asia Minor) The Doric or Dorian Hexapolis ( grc-gre, Δωρικὴ Ἑξάπολις or Δωριέων Ἑξάπολις) was a federation of six cities of Dorian foundation in southwest Asia Minor and adjacent islands, largely coextensive with the region ...

, a region of Asia Minor inhabited by Dorians *

Doris (Greece) Doris (Greek: : ''Eth.'' , ''pl.'' , ; la, Dores, Dorienses) is a small mountainous district in ancient Greece, bounded by Aetolia, southern Thessaly, the Ozolian Locris, and Phocis; the original homeland of the Dorian Greeks. It lies between Mou ...

, a region in central Greece in which the Dorians had their traditional homeland *

Doris, Iowa Doris and Bethel are twin town sites in Buchanan County, Iowa, United States, both located just north of Highway 939 in central Buchanan County near Independence. Founded as whistle-stops along the Chicago and North Western Railway, the sites are ...

, United States *

48 Doris Doris ( minor planet designation: 48 Doris) is one of the largest main belt asteroids. It was discovered on 19 September 1857 by Hermann Goldschmidt from his balcony in Paris. Name To find a name for the object, Jacques Babinet of the Academy o ...

, 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 The French Navy (french: Marine nationale, lit=National Navy), informally , is the maritime arm of the French Armed Forces and one of the five military service branches of France. It is among the largest ...

, three submarines of the French navy * , various ships of the British Royal Navy * , a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1918 * , a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1919 *

USS Doris Miller USS ''Doris Miller'' (CVN-81) is a future of the United States Navy. ''Doris Miller'' is scheduled to be laid down January 2026, launched October 2029 and commissioned in 2032. She will be built at Newport News Shipbuilding, a division of ...

(CVN-81) a future Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy. * 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 * Doris, or DOR-15, a robotic bowler hat and main antagonist of '' Meet the Robinsons'' * Doris the waitress, a character in the 1993 American fantasy comedy ''

Groundhog Day Groundhog Day ( pdc, Grund'sau dåk, , , ; Nova Scotia: Daks Day) is a popular North American tradition observed in the United States and Canada on February 2. It derives from the Pennsylvania Dutch superstition that if a groundhog emerges from ...

'' * '' Hello, My Name Is Doris'', a 2015 American film * Storm Doris, a windstorm in northwestern Europe in February 2017