Minerva (disambiguation)

Minerva is the Roman goddess of crafts and wisdom. The name may also refer to:

People

 * Minerva (Daum Agora user), a South Korean netizen famous for his economic predictions
 * Minerva G. Carcaño (born 1954), Hispanic episcopacy of The United Methodist Church
 * Minerva J. Chapman (1858–1947), American painter
 * Minerva Parker Nichols (1863-1949), American architect
 * Minerva Teichert (1888-1976), American artist
 * Minerva Urecal (1894–1966), American film and television actress
 * Minerva, the stage name of Josephine Blatt (c. 1869 – 1923)
 * Minerva Goodman (1876–1967), American physician, suffragist
 * Minerva Hamilton Hoyt (1866–1945), an American activist famous for saving the deserts in California
 * Minerva Brace Norton (1837–1894), American educator and author
 * Minerva Dayton Bateham (1856–1885), American poet, hymn writer, temperance worker
 * Minerva Cuevas (born 1975), Mexican conceptual artist
 * Minerva Pious (1903-1979), American singer
 * Minerva Mena (1930-2004), Mexican actress
 * Minerva “Eva” Castillo (1969-2022), Filipino singer
 * Minerva Herrera (1929-2016), Cuban folk singer
 * Minerva Reid (1871-1957) Canadian teacher, medical doctor, and politician
 * Minerva Hernández Ramos (born 1969), Mexican politician
 * Minerva Koenig (born 1960), American author
 * Minerva Bloom, (born 1959), Mexican poet
 * Minerva Castillo Rodríguez (born 1955), Mexican politician
 * Minerva Bernardino (1907-1998), Dominican diplomat

Australia

 * Minerva, Queensland, a locality in the Central Highlands

Pacific Ocean

 * Minerva Reefs, two submerged atolls between Tonga and New Zealand
 * Republic of Minerva, a self-declared South Pacific republic on the Minerva Reefs

United States

 * Minerva, Kentucky, United States
 * Minerva, New York, United States
 * Minerva, Ohio, United States
 * Minerva, Oregon, United States
 * Minerva, West Virginia

Land development

 * Minerva plc, a London-based British developer and property firm
 * Minerva Building, a skyscraper once planned for the eastern edge of London's main financial district
 * Lokhandwala Minerva, a skyscraper under construction in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Games

 * MINERVA (mod), a modification for the video game Half-Life 2
 * Minerva, a character in the final cutscene of Assassin's Creed II
 * Minerva, a character in Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light
 * Minerva, a class in the MMORPG Elsword
 * Ex Machina: Minerva, a character used by Celica A. Mercury in the fighting game series BlazBlue

Comics

 * Doctor Minerva, a Marvel Comics character who is a Kree scientist
 * Cheetah, a DC Comics character whose name is Barbara Ann Minerva
 * Minxy Minerva, a Wildstorm character who has appeared in Welcome to Tranquility
 * Minerva (Image Comics), a reincarnated goddess in The Wicked + The Divine

Film

 * Minerva Film, an Italian film distribution company operating between 1912 and 1956

Manga and anime

 * Minerva, a character from the Transformers franchise
 * Minerva class battleship, a fictional class of space vessels from the anime series Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny
 * Fencer of Minerva, a hentai anime series
 * Minerva Orland, a character in Fairy Tail
 * Minene Uryuu, a character in Future Diary

Animation

 * Minerva Campbell, the mother of Finn from Adventure Time
 * Minerva Mink, a character from Animaniacs
 * Minerva Mouse, the full name of Minnie Mouse

Music

 * "Minerva" (song), a 2003 single by Deftones
 * "Minerva", a 2005 song by Ani DiFranco, from her album Knuckle Down

Novels

 * Minerva (Re:Zero), a character in the light novel series Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World
 * Minerva Hadley, a character in the Noughts & Crosses book series by Malorie Blackman
 * Minerva McGonagall, a character in the Harry Potter book series by J. K. Rowling
 * Minerva Paradizo, a character in the book Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
 * Minerva, a ship and supporting character in The Baroque Cycle book series by Neal Stephenson
 * Minerva, a setting in the book A World of Difference by Harry Turtledove
 * Minerva, a setting in the Giants series by James P. Hogan
 * Minerva, a computer which becomes a human female in Robert A. Heinlein's 1973 Time Enough for Love
 * In Harry Turtledove's novel A World of Difference, the orbit of Mars is occupied by an Earth-sized planet called Minerva
 * Minerva, a character in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt, based on Valerie Bowles

Theatre

 * Minerva Theatre, Chichester, England, opened in 1989
 * Minerva Theatre, Kolkata, India, built in 1893
 * Minerva Theatre, Sydney, Australia 1939–1950
 * Minerva, a character in the 1929 West End musical Mr. Cinders

Publications

 * Minerva (German magazine), a nineteenth century journal published by Johann Wilhelm von Archenholz
 * Minerva (archaeology magazine), an international review of ancient art and archaeology
 * Minerva (Norwegian periodical), a Norwegian liberal conservative periodical first published in 1924
 * Minerva (Springer journal), a peer-reviewed sociology journal established in 1962
 * Minerva (Welsh periodical), earliest title of Swansea History Journal
 * Minerva Medica, a medical journal in Italian
 * Minerva, an intellectual magazine originally funded by the CIA via the Congress for Cultural Freedom

Astronomy and space

 * 93 Minerva, an asteroid discovered in 1867
 * MINERVA (spacecraft), a mini-lander on the uncrewed spacecraft Hayabusa
 * MINiature Exoplanet Radial Velocity Array (MINERVA), ground-based search for exoplanets
 * Minerva, a name originally proposed for the planet Pluto
 * Minerva, the name of the European Space Agency's segment of the SpaceX Crew-4 mission

Automotive

 * Minerva (automobile), a Belgian luxury automobile manufactured from 1902 until 1938
 * Minerva Armored Car, a World War I armoured car

Biology

 * Minerva (alga), a genus of red algae in the family Bangiaceae
 * Minerva (bird), a genus of prehistoric owls

Computing and telecommunication

 * MINERVA, a European Union organization concerned with the digitisation of cultural and scientific content
 * MINERVA (cable system), a submarine telecommunications cable system linking Italy and Cyprus
 * Minerva (QDOS reimplementation), a reimplementation of Sinclair QDOS
 * Minerva Initiative, a plan that looks to tap into the community of area specialists and other university researchers
 * Minerva Networks, a company that develops video compression technology and broadcast systems

Medicine

 * Minerva cast, a type of orthopedic cast enclosing the patient's trunk and head
 * A brand name of co-cyprindiol (cyproterone acetate/ethinylestradiol), an oral contraceptive

Physics

 * MINERνA, a neutrino scattering experiment

Ships

 * Minerva, several ships
 * HMS Minerva, several ships of the British Royal Navy
 * USS Minerva, several ships of the United States Navy
 * Minerva-class corvette, a class of ships of the Italian Marina Militare

Other uses

 * Editura Minerva, a Romanian publishing house
 * Minerva Bunkering, a marine fuel logistics company
 * Minerva Campbell, a character who is Finn Mertens' biological mother in the TV series Adventure Time
 * Minerva roundabout, famous landmark in Guadalajara, Jalisco
 * The Minerva Initiative is a U.S. Department of Defense program
 * Minerva F.C., a 19th-century amateur football club in England
 * Fuji Xerox Minerva AFC, an American football team in Ebina, Kanagawa, Japan, playing in the X-League X2 division
 * Minerva University, a private university based in San Francisco, California