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) (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 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 (1921–2007), Canadian author, journalist, and women's rights activist *

Doris Anderson (screenwriter) Doris Anderson (November 14, 1897 – June 1971) was a prolific American screenwriter active during 1920s through the 1950s. Biography Doris was born in Chico, California, to William Smith and Mabel Dorn; she was an only child. Her parents div ...

(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 (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 (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 (1912–1993), American heiress, socialite, horticulturalist, and philanthropist * Doris Duke (soul singer) (1941–2019), American gospel and soul singer * Doris Gentile (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 (born 1943), American journalist, biographer and historian * Doris Kohardt (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 (born 1963), Swiss politician and lawyer * Doris Matsui (born 1944), American politician * Doris Miller (1919–1943), U.S. Navy sailor * Doris Pinčić (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 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'', 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), 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 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, 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