# 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

## Places
### Extraterrestrial

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

### Terrestrial

* Dove, Missouri, United States
* Dove Holes, Derbyshire, England
* Dove Lake (Tasmania), Australia
* Dove River (Canterbury), New Zealand
* Dove River (Tasman), New Zealand
* 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

## Arts, entertainment, and media
### Fictional characters

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

### Music
#### 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 brand of chocolate made by Mars
* Dove (Unilever brand), a brand of soap and other personal care products by Unilever

## 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