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 mole Marsupial moles, the Notoryctidae , are highly specialized marsupial mammals, known from two species found at the Australian interior. * ''Notoryctes typhlops'' (southern marsupial mole, known as the ''itjaritjari'' by the Pitjantjatjara and Yan ...

s, 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) Mole, from Nahuatl mōlli (), meaning "sauce", is a traditional sauce and marinade originally used in Mexican cuisine. In contemporary Mexico the term is used for a number of sauces, some quite dissimilar, including mole amarillo or amarillito ( ...

, 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 ''The Wind in the Willows'' is a children's novel by the British novelist Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. It details the story of Mole, Ratty, and Badger as they try to help Mr. Toad, after he becomes obsessed with motorcars and gets ...

'' by Kenneth Grahame *

Mole (Zdeněk Miler character) Mole (Czech: ''Krtek'', ''Krteček'') is an animated character in a series of cartoons created by Czech animator Zdeněk Miler. The premiere of the first short film with Mole took place at the Venice Film Festival in 1957. Since its inception, ...

, a Czech animated character *

Monty Mole ''Wanted: Monty Mole'' is a platform video game published in July 1984 for the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 home computers. It is the first game released by Gremlin Graphics and the first game in the ''Monty Mole'' series. Monty Mole is a fic ...

, 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 Harry Haag James (March 15, 1916 – July 5, 1983) was an American musician who is best known as a trumpet-playing band leader who led a big band from 1939 to 1946. He broke up his band for a short period in 1947 but shortly after he reorganized ...

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 Andhra Pradesh (, abbr. AP) is a state in the south-eastern coastal region of India. It is the seventh-largest state by area covering an area of and tenth-most populous state with 49,386,799 inhabitants. It is bordered by Telangana to the ...

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 Cultivator No. 6 was the code name of a military trench-digging machine developed by the British Royal Navy at the beginning of World War II. The machine was originally known as White Rabbit Number Six; this code name was never officially recog ...

, 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 (ch ...

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