Dervish (disambiguation)

A dervish is a Sufi Muslim ascetic.

Dervish or darvish may also refer to:

Movements

 * Dervish movement (Somali), the polity of Diiriye Guure
 * Sudanese Dervish or mahdists

Music

 * Dervish (band), an Irish folk band
 * Sufi whirling, a type of dance
 * Whirling Dervishes

People

 * Dervish Ali Astrakhani (died 1558), Khan of the Astrakhan Khanate
 * Dervish Bejah (1862–1957), Australian camel driver
 * Dervish Cara, Albanian revolutionary leader
 * Dervish Grady, a character in the Demonata series by Darren Shan
 * Dervish Hima (1872–1928), Albanian politician
 * Kamal Derwish (1973–2002), American citizen killed by the CIA
 * Yu Darvish (born 1986), Japanese baseball player

Video games

 * An early name in development for The Arbiter in the Halo video game series
 * A profession in Guild Wars Nightfall
 * A type of cat in the Postal 2, expansion Apocalypse Weekend
 * A car in the racing game Death Rally
 * A heavy fighter aircraft in PlanetSide 2

Other uses

 * Dervish (rocket), an American air-launched rocket of the 1950s
 * Dervish Convoy, the first of the Allied Arctic convoys of World War II