# Dora

Dora may stand for:

## 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, 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 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 190 D 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)

### Other countries

* Dora, Baghdad, Iraq, a neighborhood
* Dora, Cyprus, a village
* Dora, Lebanon, a suburb northeast of Beirut
* Dura, Hebron, Palestinian West Bank, a city
* Lake Dora (Tasmania)
* Lake Dora (Western Australia)
* Dorasan or Mount Dora, a hill in South Korea
* Titular diocese of Dora, Israel, a Roman Catholic diocese
* Dora Creek, New South Wales, Australia
* 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
* Dora: A Headcase, a 2012 novel about Freud's patient