# Minerva (disambiguation)

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

## People

* Minerva (given name), including a list of people with the name

### Mononym or pseudonym

* Minerva (Internet celebrity), South Korean netizen known for his economic predictions
* Josephine Blatt (c. 1869–1923), American strongwoman who used the stage name Minerva
* Maria Minerva, Maria Juur (born 1988), Estonian musician

### Surname

* Francesco Minerva (1904–2004), Italian Roman Catholic prelate
* Michèle Minerva (1959–2021), French pétanque player
* Ponce de Minerva (1114/1115–1175), Occitanian nobleman, courtier, governor, and general

## Geography
### 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

## Entertainment
### 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

## Science and technology
### 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 (ship), 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 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