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 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) 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 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 (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 (born 1943), American journalist, biographer and historian *Doris Kohardt (born 1950), German Olympic swimmer *Doris Laine (1931–2018), Finnish ballet dancer *Doris Lessing (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, fictional character from the ''Shrek'' film series

Surname

*Caelan Doris (born 1998), Irish rugby player *Ennio Doris (1940–2021), Italian billionaire *Mirna Doris (1940–2020), Italian singer

Animals

* Doris (gastropod), ''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, 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, United States * 48 Doris, an asteroid discovered in 1857, traditionally classified as a minor planet

Ships and seafaring

* Doris (sailing yacht), ''Doris'' (sailing yacht), an America's Cup type racing yacht built in 1905 * French submarine Doris, 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 (CVN-81) a future Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy. * In French, Dory, a dory is ''un doris'' (plural in English: dories).

Music

* Doris (album), ''Doris'' (album), a 2013 studio album by Earl Sweatshirt* * Doris (opera), ''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 (film)#Cast, Groundhog Day'' * ''Hello, My Name Is Doris'', a 2015 American film * Storm Doris, a windstorm in northwestern Europe in February 2017