Gadfly most commonly refers to: *

Horse fly Horse-flies or horseflies are true flies in the family Tabanidae in the insect order Diptera. They are often large and agile in flight, and only the female horseflies bite animals, including humans, to obtain blood. They prefer to fly in su ...

botfly Botflies, also known as warble flies, heel flies, and gadflies, are a family of flies known as the Oestridae. Their larvae are internal parasites of mammals, some species growing in the host's flesh and others within the gut. ''Dermatobia homin ...

Gadfly (philosophy and social science) A gadfly is a person who interferes with the '' status quo'' of a society or community by posing novel, potentially upsetting questions, usually directed at authorities. The term is originally associated with the ancient Greek philosopher Socrat ...

, a person who upsets the status quo Gadfly may also refer to:

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The Gadfly ''The Gadfly'' is a novel by Irish-born British writer Ethel Voynich, published in 1897 (United States, June; Great Britain, September of the same year), set in 1840s Italy under the dominance of Austria, a time of tumultuous revolt and upris ...

'', an 1897 novel by Ethel Lilian Voynich ** ''The Gadfly'' (play), an 1898 play by George Bernard Shaw ** ''The Gadfly'' (1928 film), a Soviet film by Kote Marjanishvili ** ''The Gadfly'' (1955 film), a Soviet film by Aleksandr Fajntsimmer *** ''

The Gadfly Suite ''The Gadfly Suite'', Op. 97a, is a suite for orchestra arranged by Levon Atovmyan from Dmitri Shostakovich's score for the 1955 Soviet film ''The Gadfly'', based on the novel of the same name by Ethel Lilian Voynich. Atovmyan's suite differs ...

'', a musical suite by Dmitri Shostakovich for the 1955 film ** ''The Gadfly'' (1980 film), a Soviet film by Nikolai Mashchenko ** ''The Gadfly'' (opera), a 1958 Russian opera by Antonio Spadavecchia * ''

Gadfly Online ''Gadfly Magazine'' was a periodical that was created in February 1997 and launched as a full-size print publication in January 1998. The publisher is the Rutherford Institute. The magazine is based in Charlottesville, Virginia. At the Utne Reade ...

'', an online and print magazine * ''The Gadfly'' (Adelaide), a 1906–1909 Australian literary magazine produced by C. J. Dennis * ''The Gadfly'' (album), a 2003 album by LPG * ''The Gadfly'', a fictional play in the novels of Geoffrey Trease, see ''

The Hills of Varna ''The Hills of Varna'' (published in the USA as ''Shadow of the Hawk'') is a children's historical novel by Geoffrey Trease, published in 1948. It is an adventure story based on the revival of classical scholarship in the Renaissance. Plot Intro ...

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Gadfly (database) Gadfly is a relational database management system written in Python. Gadfly is a collection of Python modules that provides relational database functionality entirely implemented in Python. It supports a subset of the standard RDBMS Structured ...

, a relational database management system *

Gadfly (mythology) The gadfly, a type of fly plaguing cattle, appears in Greek mythology as a tormenter of Pegasus and Io, a human lover of Zeus. In the story, Zeus lusted Io, who is eventually turned into a white heifer to hide her from his jealous wife, Hera. Thi ...

, the insect as sent by Hera to torment Io in Greek mythology * Gadfly, the NATO reporting name for a Russian

9K37 Buk The Buk (russian: link=no, "Бук"; "beech" (tree), ) is a family of self-propelled, medium-range surface-to-air missile systems developed by the Soviet Union and its successor state, the Russian Federation, and designed to counter cruise mis ...

surface-to-air missile system * ''Education Gadfly'', the weekly e-bulletin of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute * ''Autism's Gadfly'', a blog maintained by

Jonathan Mitchell (writer) Jonathan Mitchell (born September 7, 1955) is an American author and autistic blogger who writes about autism including the neuroscience of the disorder and neurodiversity movement. His novel ''The Mu Rhythm Bluff'' is about a 49-year-old autist ...

* A package for plotting and data visualisation written in

Julia Julia is usually a feminine given name. It is a Latinate feminine form of the name Julio and Julius. (For further details on etymology, see the Wiktionary entry "Julius".) The given name ''Julia'' had been in use throughout Late Antiquity (e.g. ...

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