Dove (disambiguation)

A dove is a type of bird in the family of doves and pigeons

Dove may also refer to:

Birds

 * In popular usage, often refers to small columbids that are used as symbols of peace, white or gray in color
 * Barbary dove (Streptopelia risoria), a domestic species that is typically gray in colour, but often bred to be white
 * Small white-feathered domestic pigeons (Columba livia domestica), which are used as release doves

People

 * Dove (given name), given name in the English language
 * Dove (surname), surname in the English language

Extraterrestrial

 * Dove (crater), on the Moon
 * Dove or Columba (constellation)

Terrestrial

 * Dove, Missouri, United States
 * Dove Lake (Tasmania), Australia
 * River Dove, Barnsley, England
 * River Dove, Derbyshire, England
 * River Dove, North Yorkshire, England
 * River Dove, Suffolk, England
 * The Dove (glacier), Colorado, United States
 * The Dove, Hammersmith, a public house in London, England
 * Dove Cottage, writer's home museum of William Wordsworth in Grasmere, England

Fictional characters

 * Hawk and Dove, a DC Comics superhero team
 * "Little Dove", an alias for the character Sansa Stark in Game of Thrones

Groups

 * Dove (band), an Australian soft rock band (1973–1978)
 * Doves (band), an English band

Albums

 * Dove (Belly album), an album by American alternative rock band Belly
 * Dove (Floor album), an album by American sludge metal band Floor

Songs

 * "Dove" (song), a song by Italian musician Mooney
 * "Dove", a song by Tyrannosaurus Rex from their 1970 album A Beard of Stars

Other uses in music

 * Dove, an alias of American rapper David Jude Jolicoeur
 * Dove (the Band of Love), Devo's fake opening act
 * GMA Dove Awards, an American musical award
 * Gibson Dove, a type of guitar

Other uses in media

 * "Doves", a Series D episode of the television series QI (2006)

Brands and enterprises

 * Dove (chocolate brand), a Mars brand of chocolate named after the ice cream
 * Dove (toiletries), an unrelated Unilever brand of soap and other personal care products

Military

 * HMS Dove (1898), a British destroyer
 * Operation Dove (Ireland), an aborted 1940 German World War II mission
 * Operation Dove, a 1944 Allied World War II assault in southern France

Science and technology

 * Dove (satellite), a constellation of small Earth-imaging satellites operated by Planet Labs
 * Distributed Overlay Virtual Ethernet (DOVE), a tunneling and virtualization technology for computer networks
 * Dove Marine Laboratory
 * Dove tree
 * Dove Medical Press

Vehicles

 * Dove (ship), 17th-century English trading ship re-created as the Maryland Dove
 * Dove (steamboat)
 * de Havilland Dove, a post–World War II short-haul airliner

Other uses

 * DoVE (Digitisation of Vital Events), a project of the General Register Office for England and Wales to digitise birth, marriage, and death records
 * Dove Foundation, an American non-profit organization based in Portland, Oregon
 * Dove Publications, an American publishing house headquartered in Mineola, New York
 * Dove, slang for methylenedioxymethamphetamine
 * Basel Dove, an 1845 Swiss postage stamp
 * Monetary hawk and dove, someone who favors low unemployment in monetary policy
 * War dove, a person favoring peace in a debate over whether to go to war
 * Doves (Gibraltar) or palomos, a group of Gibraltarians that advocated, in the 1960s, for a settlement with Spain