Mole (or Molé) may refer to:

Animals

* Mole (animal) or "true mole", mammals in the family Talpidae, found in Eurasia and North America * Golden moles, southern African mammals in the family Chrysochloridae, similar to but unrelated to Talpidae moles * Marsupial moles, Australian mammals in the family Notoryctidae, similar to but unrelated to Talpidae moles

Other common meanings

* Mole, colloquial name for a nevus, a growth on human skin ** Melanocytic nevus, another term for mole * Mole (architecture), a pier, jetty, breakwater, or junction between places separated by water * Mole (espionage), a spy who inserts himself into an organisation in order to spy on it. * Mole (sauce), Mexican sauce made from chili peppers, often including fruits, other spices, or chocolate

Arts and entertainment

Adrian Mole Adrian Albert Mole is the fictional protagonist in a series of books by English author Sue Townsend. The character first appeared (as "Nigel") as part of a comic diary featured in a short-lived arts magazine (called simply ''magazine'') pub ...

, the central character in a series of novels by Sue Townsend * Mole, a main character in the children's novel '' The Wind in the Willows'' by Kenneth Grahame * Mole (Zdeněk Miler character), a Czech animated character * Monty Mole, a video game character * Morocco Mole, Secret Squirrel's sidekick * The Mole, a character in '' Happy Tree Friends'' * The Mole, a criminal in

Dick Tracy ''Dick Tracy'' is an American comic strip featuring Dick Tracy (originally Plainclothes Tracy), a tough and intelligent police detective created by Chester Gould. It made its debut on Sunday, October 4, 1931, in the ''Detroit Mirror'', and it ...

comic strips * ''

El Topo ''El Topo'' (, "The Mole") is a 1970 Mexican acid Western art film written, scored, directed by and starring Alejandro Jodorowsky. Characterized by its bizarre characters and occurrences, use of maimed and dwarf performers, and heavy doses of Ju ...

'' (''The Mole''), a 1970 film * ''De Mol'' (TV series), a reality television show * "The Mole," a single by Harry James

Science and technology

Mole (unit) The mole, symbol mol, is the unit of amount of substance in the International System of Units (SI). The quantity amount of substance is a measure of how many elementary entities of a given substance are in an object or sample. The mole is define ...

, the SI unit for the amount of substance * Tunnel boring machine, sometimes called a mole * "the mole", nickname of a burrowing probe in the

Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package The Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package (HP3) is a science payload on board the ''InSight'' lander that features instruments to study the heat flow and other thermal properties of Mars. One of the instruments, a burrowing probe nicknamed ...

which was sent to Mars

People

* Mole (surname) * Molé, a French surname

Places

Australia

* Mole River (New South Wales) * Mole Creek (Tasmania)

England

* River Mole, Surrey * River Mole, Devon

France

* La Môle, a commune of the ''Var Département'' * Le Môle, a mountain peak in the French Alps

Ghana

* Mole River, a tributary of the White Volta * Mole National Park, named after the Mole River

India

* Mole, a village in Andhra Pradesh state *

Mole, Karnataka Mole is a village in Belgaum district of Karnataka Karnataka (; ISO: , , also known as Karunāḍu) is a state in the southwestern region of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, with the passage of the States Reorganisation Act. Or ...

, a village in Karnataka state

Other uses

* "Mole", NATO reporting name for the Beriev Be-8, a Soviet amphibious aircraft * "mole", informal name of Cultivator No. 6, a trench-digging machine of World War II *

Mole-Richardson Mole-Richardson, also known as Mole, is an American stage lighting instrument and motion picture lighting manufacturing company originally based in Hollywood, California. The company was started in 1927 by Italian immigrant Pietro "Peter" Mule (cha ...

or Mole, a stage and motion picture lighting manufacturing company *

Moll (slang) Moll/Mole/Molly is a slang term with two different meanings in two places: *In the United States, an archaic term for a gangster's girlfriend. See gun moll. *In Australia and New Zealand, usually pejorative or self-deprecating, for a woman of loose ...

, sometimes spelled mole in Australian English