# Dale

Dale, The Dale, Dales or The Dales may refer to:

## People and fictional characters

* Dale (given name), a list of people and fictional characters with the given name or nickname
* Dale (surname), a list of people and fictional characters
* Dale Evans, stage name of American actress and singer born Frances Smith (1912–2001), wife of Roy Rogers
* Dale Messick, pen name of Dalia Messick (1906-2005), Brenda Starr American comic strip artist
* Dick Dale (1937-2019), Richard Anthony Monsour, American rock guitarist, "The King of the Surf Guitar"

## Places
### Terminology

* Dale (landform), an open valley
** Dale (place name element)

### Norway

* Dale, Fjaler, the administrative centre of Fjaler municipality, Vestland county
* Dale, Sel, a village in Sel municipality in Innlandet county
* Dale, Vaksdal, the administrative centre of Vaksdal municipality, Vestland county

### United Kingdom

* Dale, Cumbria, England, a hamlet
* Dale, Derbyshire, England, a village
* Dale, Pembrokeshire, Wales, a village
* Yorkshire Dales, England, an upland area

### United States

* Dale County, Alabama
* Dales, California, an unincorporated community
* Dale, Illinois, an unincorporated community
* Dale, Indiana, a town
* Dale, Iowa, an unincorporated community
* Dale, Kentucky, a defunct community since annexed to Fort Thomas
* Dale, Michigan, a former community
* Dale, Minnesota, a ghost town
* Dale, Nebraska, a ghost town
* Dale, New York, a hamlet
* Dale, Oklahoma, an unincorporated community and census-designated place
* Dale, Oregon, an unincorporated community
* Dale, Pennsylvania, a borough
* Dale, Berks County, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated community
* Dale, South Carolina, an unincorporated community
* Dale, Texas, an unincorporated community
* Dale, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
* Dale, Wisconsin, a town
** Dale (CDP), Wisconsin, a census-designated place within the town
* Dale Creek, Wisconsin - see Dale Creek Crossing
* Dale Township (disambiguation)

### Elsewhere

* Mount Dale, Western Australia, Australia
* The Dales (Christmas Island), an Australian external territory in the Indian Ocean
* Dale, Ontario, Canada, a community
* Dale (woreda), Ethiopia, a district
* Dale, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland, a village
* The Dales, English exonym for Dalarna province, Sweden
* Dale (crater), on the Moon

## Churches in Norway

* Dale Church (Fjaler), Fjaler municipality, Vestland county
* Dale Church (Luster), Luster municipality, Vestland county
* Dale Church (Vaksdal), Vaksdal municipality, Vestland county
* Dale Church, also known as Norddal Church, Fjord municipality, Møre og Romsdal county

## Arts and entertainment

* Dale (film), a 2007 documentary about the life of Dale Earnhardt
* The Dales, a BBC radio soap opera originally called Mrs Dale's Diary
* The Dales (TV programme), a 2013 British documentary travel show
* Dale (album), a 2015 album by American rapper Pitbull
* Dale (Middle-earth), a city in J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional universe of Middle-earth

## Business

* Dale of Norway, a textile company based in Dale, Vaksdal municipality, Norway
* Dale Electronics, Inc., an American electronic components manufacturer acquired by Vishay Intertechnology in 1985
* Dale (automobile), a 1970s prototype two-seater American car

## Military

* USS Dale, various ships
* RNAS Dale (HMS Goldcrest), a former Royal Naval Air Station in Pembrokeshire, Wales, also used by the Royal Air Force
* Dale Fort, a mid-19th-century coastal artillery fort near Dale, Pembrokeshire, Wales

## Other uses

* The Dale, nickname for Rochdale A.F.C., a football club based in Rochdale, Manchester, England