Dora

Dora may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Television

• Dora (Dora the Explorer), a fictional character in the Dora the Explorer franchise
  • Dora the Explorer (TV series), 2000–2019
  • Dora (TV series), a 2024 reboot of the original series
• Dora, series 2 of the 1973 British sitcom Both Ends Meet

Film

• Dora (1933 film), a British comedy
• Dora or the Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents, a 2015 Swiss drama
• Dora (2017 film), a Tamil horror thriller
• Dora (2026 film), a drama film by July Jung
• Dora the Explorer (film), films from the franchise from 2019 and 2025
• Dora, fictional tribal chieftains in the 2023 Indian film Salaar

Other uses in arts and entertainment

• Dora Mavor Moore Awards, or the Doras, by the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts
• Dora: A Headcase, a 2012 novel about Freud's patient (see below)
• "Dora", a song by Ambitious Lovers from the 1984 album Envy
• Dora, bonus tiles in Japanese mahjong
• Dora festival, selection event for Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest

Military

• Dora, the name of a Schwerer Gustav World War II railway gun
• Dora I, and Dora II, German U-boat bases in Trondheim, Norway
• Dora, nickname of the Focke-Wulf Fw 190D German fighter aircraft

People and fictional characters

• Dora (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters
• Dora (case study), pseudonym given by Sigmund Freud to Ida Bauer (1882–1945), a patient he treated
• Sister Dora, Anglican nun and nurse Dorothy Wyndlow Pattison (1832–1878)
• Dora d'Istria, pen name of Duchess Helena Koltsova-Massalskaya (1828–1888), Romanian Romantic writer and feminist
• Dora, code name of Alexander Radó (1899–1981), Hungarian World War II Soviet spy

Places

United States

• Dora, Alabama, a city
• Dora, Arkansas, an unincorporated community and census-designated place
• Dora, Missouri, an unincorporated community
• Dora, New Mexico, a village
• Dora, Oregon, an unincorporated community
• Dora, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated community
• Dora Township, Otter Tail County, Minnesota
• Lake Dora (Florida)

Australia

• Lake Dora (Tasmania)
• Lake Dora (Western Australia)
• Dora Creek, New South Wales

Other places

• Dora, Cyprus, a village
• Dora, Baghdad, Iraq, a neighborhood
• Titular diocese of Dora, Israel, a Roman Catholic diocese
• Dora, Lebanon, a suburb northeast of Beirut
• Dura, Hebron, Palestinian West Bank, a city
• Dorasan or Mount Dora, a hill in South Korea
• 668 Dora, main belt asteroid

Science and technology

• Dual orexin receptor antagonist, an orexin antagonist
• DORA (downregulated by activation), a common name for the gene IGSF6
• Dora (case study), pseudonym of a Sigmund Freud patient
• Discover, offer, request, acknowledge process in Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
• DevOps Research and Assessment, a research team focused on software delivery practices

Transportation

• SS Dora, the name of several ships
• Dora (sternwheeler), a 1910 steamboat in Oregon

Acronyms

• Defence of the Realm Act 1914 (DORA), British war legislation
• Digital Operational Resilience Act, a European Union regulation
• Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies (DORA)
• Designated outdoor refreshment areas, in open-container law in Ohio, United States
• San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment

Other uses

• List of storms named Dora
• Dora Observatory, South Korea, near the Demilitarized Zone
• Dora, medieval title of the feudal landlord in the Telangana region of India
• Dora, another name for the Italian wine grape Fortana

See also

• Dorah (disambiguation)
• Dorie (disambiguation)
• Dumb Dora, comic strip and slang term
• Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp, World War II concentration camp