Dora (given name)
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Dora (Greek: Δώρα) is a female name of Greek origin, being a shortened form or derived from Dorothea (Dorothy) and Theodora (masculine Theodore),[1][2] meaning "gift" or in its full form "god's gift", from δῶρον, doron, "gift"[3] + θεός, theos, "god".[4] The name Dora can also be a short form of other names containing -dora such as Eudora and Isadora (Isidora). Dora was used as an English equivalent for the name Doirend or Doireann in Ireland.[5] Doreen, Dorian, and Dorinda are other examples of names from the same root form.[1]
The earliest form of the word doron is the Mycenaean Greek 𐀈𐀨, dora, meaning "gifts", written in the Linear B syllabic script, but it is not an anthroponym, it is only the plural (δῶρα) of said word;[6] on the other hand, the names Theodora and Amphidora are attested in Linear B as 𐀳𐀃𐀈𐀨, te-o-do-ra, and 𐀀𐀠𐀈𐀨, a-pi-do-ra, respectively. The masculine counterpart of the latter, i.e. Amphidoros, is also found: 𐀀𐀠𐀈𐀫, a-pi-do-ro.[7]
In Albanian, dora means "hand". In Russian, Dora can be a diminutive of the male first name Agafodor.[8]
People
A
- Dora Acuña (1903–1987), Paraguayan poet, journalist and radio personality
- Dora Afi Abotsi (born 1991), Ghanaian weightlifter
- Dora Akunyili (1954–2014), Nigerian pharmacist and government official
- Dora Alcala, American politician
- Dora Alonso (1910–2001), Cuban journalist and writer
- Dora Altbir (born 1961), Chilean physicist
- Dora Altmann (1881–1971), German actress
- Dora Anastasiou (born 1988), Cypriot beauty queen
- Dora E. Angelaki, neuroscientist
- Dóra Antal (born 1993), Hungarian water polo player
- Dora Apel (born 1952), American author and academic
B
- Dora Sandoe Bachman (1869–1930), American lawyer
- Dora Bakoyannis (born 1954), Greek politician
- Dora Baret (born 1940), Argentine actress
- Dora Barilla, American health care strategist
- Dora Barrancos (born 1940), Argentine academic and politician
- Dora Barton (1880–1966), English actress
- Dora Isabel Baudinet (1883–1945), Australian nurse
- Dora Beedham née Spong (1879–1969), British nurse and suffragette
- Dora de Beer (1891–1982), New Zealand ethnologist and mountain climber
- Dora Beets (1812–1864), Dutch writer
- Dora Benjamin (1901–1946), German psychologist and economist
- Dora Beregi (1915–2011), British table tennis player
- Dora Bianka (c. 1895–1979), Polish-born French painter, illustrator
- Dora Billington (1890–1968), English studio potter
- Dora Biro, behavioral biologist
- Dora Birtles (1903–1992), Australian writer
- Dóra S. Bjarnason (1947–2020), Icelandic academic
- Dóra Bodonyi (born 1993), Hungarian canoeist
- Dora Boneva (1936–2021), Bulgarian painter
- Dora Boothby (1881–1970), English badminton and tennis player
- Dora Bouchoucha, Tunisian film producer
- Dora Boyd de Pérez Balladares (born 1948), Panamanian First Lady
- Dora Bria (1958–2008), Brazilian windsurfer
- Dora Bright (1863–1951), English composer and pianist
- Dora Brilliant (1880–1907), Ukrainian socialist revolutionary
- Dora Bromberger (1881–1942), German painter
- Dora Bryan (1923–2014), British actress
- Dora Budor (born 1985), Croatian artist
- Dora Madison Burge (born 1990), American actress
- Dora Byamukama, Ugandan politician
C
- Dora Cadavid (1937–2022), Colombian actress
- Dora Carrington (1893–1932), British painter
- Dora Castanheira (born 1960), Brazilian volleyball player
- Dora Chamberlain (1928–2016), Martin Beck Theatre treasurer
- Dora Chapman (1911–1995), Australian artist
- Dora Chatterjee, Indian physician
- Dora Chung Zane (1904–1991), American social worker
- Dora Clarke, British sculptor and wood carver
- Dora Cojocaru (born 1963), Romanian composer
- Dora Colebrook, doctor and bacteriologist
- Dora Colvin, American truck driver
- Dora Corty-Mönkemeyer (1890–1970), German painter
- Dora Cosens (1894–1945), pioneering female architect
- Dora L. Costa, American economist
- Dóra Csabai (born 1989), Hungarian water polo player
- Dora Curtis (1873–1920), American artist
- Dóra Czigány (born 1992), Hungarian water polo player
D
- Dóra Danics (born 1986), Hungarian singer
- Dóra Dávid (born 1985), Hungarian politician
- Dora de Beer (1891–1982), New Zealand ethnologist and mountain climber
- Dora De Larios (1933–2018), American ceramist and sculptor
- Dora De Winton (1874–?), British actress
- Dóra Deáki (born 1991), Hungarian handball player
- Dora Dean (1872–1949), American vaudeville dancer and entertainer
- Dora Deliyska, Bulgarian concert pianist
- Dora Diamant (1898–1952), Polish teacher and actress, lover of Franz Kafka
- Dora Annie Dickens (1850–1851), infant daughter of English novelist Charles Dickens
- Dora Djilianova (born 1976), Bulgarian tennis player
- Dora Doll (1922–2015), French actress
- Dora Dolz (1941–2008), Spanish Dutch artist
- Dora Draganova (born 1946), Bulgarian composer
- Dora Drake, 21st-century American politician
- Dora Duby (1901–1998), American dancer
- Dora Dueck, Canadian writer
- Dora Dumbuya, Christian evangelist preacher from Sierra Leonean
- Dora Duncker (1855–1916), German writer and theatre critic
- Dóra Dúró (born 1987), Hungarian politician
E
- Dora Francisca Edu-Buandoh, Ghanaian-English professor
- Dora Emdin (1912–1945), English table tennis player
- Dora Epstein-Jones, historian and architecture
- Dora Erway (1889–1976), American artist and home economist
F
- Dora Finch (1877–1943), British matron
G
- Dora Gabe (1886–1983), Bulgarian Jewish poet
- Dora Gaitskell, Baroness Gaitskell (1901–1989), Labour Party politician and life peer
- Dora Gález, Argentine actress and vedette
- Dora Elvira García González, Mexican philosopher
- Dora García (born 1965), Spanish artist
- Dora Gardner (1912–1994), English athlete
- Dora Gerson (1899–1943), German actress
- Dora Gibbs (1910–2008), British swimmer
- Dora Goldstein (1922–2011), pharmacologist and professor
- Dora Gordine (1895–1991), Estonian-British artist
- Dora Gorman (born 1993), Irish footballer
- Dora Greenwell (1821–1882), English poet
- Dora van der Groen (1927–2015), Belgian actress
- Dóra Győrffy (born 1978), Hungarian high jumper
H
- Dora Jane Hamblin (1920–1993), American journalist
- Dora Hand (c. 1844–1878), American dance hall singer in Dodge City, Kansas
- Dora Heldt (born 1961), German writer
- Dora Henninges Heinsohn (1861–1900), American opera singer
- Dora Hernández (born 1948), Mexican diver
- Dora Heyenn (born 1949), German politician
- Dora Hitz (1856–1924), German painter
- Dora Holzhandler (1928–2015), British painter
- Dora Honnywill (1870–1959), British archer
- Dóra Hornyák (born 1992), Hungarian handball player
I
- Dora Ilse (1898–1979), German entomologist
- Dora Irizarry (born 1955), Puerto Rican judge
- Dóra Ivanics (born 1994), Hungarian handball player
J
- Dora Jacobsohn (1908–1983), German-Swedish physiologist and endocrinologist
- Dora Jane Janson (1916–2002), American art historian
- Dora Jar (born 1996), American bedroom pop musician
- Dora Jelínková (1949–2007), Czech volleyball player
- Dora Jemaa-Amirouche (born 1985), French hurdler
- Dora Herbert Jones (1890–1974), Welsh administrator and singer
- Dora Justiniano de la Rocha (1925–2016), Bolivian linguist, educator and poet
K
- Dora Kaiser (1892–1972), Austrian actress
- Dora Kalaus (born 1996), Croatian handball player
- Dora Kallmus (1881–1963), Austrian photographer
- Dora Kaminsky (1909–1977), American painter
- Dora Keen (1871–1963), American mountain climber
- Dora Wheeler Keith (1856–1940), American painter
- Dóra Keresztes (born 1953), Hungarian artist
- Dora Khayatt (1912–1986), Egyptian-born American painter
- Dora Juárez Kiczkovsky, Mexican singer and filmmaker
- Dóra Kisteleki (born 1983), Hungarian water polo player
- Dora Koch-Stetter (1881–1968), German painter
- Dora Komar (1914–2006), Austrian dancer, actress and soprano
- Dora Kötél (born 1988), Hungarian volleyball player
- Dora Kotzee, South African politician
- Dora Krsnik (born 1992), Croatian handball player
- Dora Krstulović (born 1981), Croatian tennis player
- Dora Kyriakou (born 1967), Cypriot sprinter
L
- Dora Labbette (1898–1984), British opera singer
- Dóra María Lárusdóttir (born 1985), Icelandic footballer
- Dora Fugh Lee, Chinese-American painter, illustrator, and sculptor
- Dóra Leimeter (born 1996), Hungarian water polo player
- Dora Levy Mossanen (born 1945), American author
- Dora Lewis (1862–1928), American suffragist
- Dora Lindsay, Scottish comedian
- Dóra Lőwy (born 1977), Hungarian handball player
- Dóra Lucz (born 1994), Hungarian canoeist
- Dora Lush (1910–1943), Australian bacteriologist
- Dora Luz (1918–2018), Mexican singer
M
- Dora Maar (1907–1997), French model and photographer
- Dora Maclean (1892–1978), Australian horse-breeder
- Dóra Madarász (born 1993), Hungarian table tennis player
- Dora Maldonado (born 1970), Honduran judoka
- Dora Malech (born 1981), American poet
- Dora María (1933–2023), Mexican singer
- Dora Marsden (1882–1960), English suffragette and editor
- Dora Martínez Valero (born 1976), Mexican politician
- Dóra Maurer (1937–2026), Hungarian visual artist
- Dora Mayer (1868–1959), German-born activist and essayist on Peruvian topics
- Dora Mazzone (born 1966), Venezuelan actress
- Dora Mbanya (born 1956), Cameroonian professor of Hematology
- Dora McGrath, American politician
- Dóra Medgyessy (born 1986), Hungarian basketball player
- Dora Meeson (1869–1955), Australian artist
- Dora van der Meiden-Coolsma (1918–2001), Dutch writer
- Dora Melegari (1849–1924), Swiss writer
- Dora Metcalf (1892–1982), Anglo-Irish entrepreneur, engineer and mathematician
- Dora Richards Miller, (1842–1914), Danish West Indies-born American author and educator
- Dora Mills Adams (1874–1943), American film actress
- Dora Modestou (born 1988), Cypriot footballer
- Dóra Molnár (born 2006), Hungarian swimmer
- Dora Montefiore (1851–1933), English-Australian women's suffragist, socialist, poet and autobiographer
- Dora Kim Moon (1876–1971), Korean-American activist
- Dora Mavor Moore (1888–1979), Canadian actress
- Dora Emilia Mora de Retana (1939–2001), Costa Rican botanist
- Dora Moroni (born 1956), Italian singer
- Dora Louise Murdoch (1857–1933), American artist
- Dora Musielak, Mexican-American aerospace engineer, historian of mathematics, and book author
- Dora Mwima, Ugandan beauty pageant contestant
N
- Dora Nascimento (born 1967), Brazilian geographer and politician
- Dora Noyce, Scottish brothel keeper
- Dora Moono Nyambe (1992–2024), Zambian humanitarian and TikToker
O
- Dora Ohlfsen-Bagge (1869–1948), Australian painter, sculptor, and medallist
- Dóra Ólafsdóttir (1912–2022), Icelandic supercentenarian
- Dora Olivo (born 1943), American politician
- Dora Opoku (1948–2010), Ghanaian educationist
P
- Dora Panofsky (1885–1965), German-American art historian
- Dóra Papp (born 1991), Hungarian footballer
- Dóra Pásztory (born 1984), Hungarian Paralympic swimmer
- Dora Patzkowski, Cherokee Nation politician
- Dora Pavel (born 1946), Romanian novelist
- Dora de Pedery-Hunt (1913–2008), Hungarian-Canadian medallist
- Dora Pejačević (1885–1923), Croatian composer
- Dora de Phillippe (1877 – post-1931), French opera soprano
- Dora Pinkham (1891–1941), American politician
- Dora Polić (born 1971), Croatian actress
- Dora Postigo (born 2004), Spanish singer
- D. J. Potter (1915–1987), Australian children's author
- Dora Puelma (1898–1972), Chilean artist
R
- Dora Rangelova (born 1967), Bulgarian tennis player
- Dora Knowlton Ranous (1859–1916), American actress, author
- Dora Ratjen, birth name of Heinrich Ratjen (1918–2008), German high jumper who competed as a woman in the 1936 Olympics, but was later found to be male and/or intersex
- Dora Alicia Recinos Sorto (1976/1977–2009), Salvadoran anti-mining activist
- Dora Richardson (1919–1998), British organic chemist
- Dora Richter (1892–1966), German transgender woman and the first known person to undergo complete male-to-female gender-affirming surgery
- Dora Riedel (1906–1982), Chilean architect
- Dora Rosetti (1908–1989), Greek doctor and writer
- Dora Russell (disambiguation)
S
- Dora Jessie Saint (1913–2012), English novelist
- Dora Sánchez (1949–2011), Argentine politician
- Dora Sanders Carney, Canadian journalist
- Dora Schönemann, German swimmer
- Dora E. Schoonmaker (1851–1934), American missionary
- Dora Serle (1875–1968), Australian artist
- Dora Adele Shoemaker (1873–1962), American educator, writer
- Dora Shulner (1890–1964), Ukrainian-American writer
- Dora Sigerson Shorter (1866–1918), Irish poet and sculptor
- Dora Marie Sigar (1919–2008), Indonesian nurse, activist and homemaker
- Dora Siliya (born 1970), Zambian politician
- Dora Söderberg (1899–1990), Swedish actress
- Dora Staudinger (1886–1964), German-Swiss religious socialist and publicist
- Dóra Stefánsdóttir (born 1985), Icelandic footballer
- Dora Stock (1759–1832), German artist
- Dora von Stockert-Meynert (1870–1947), Austrian writer, poet and playwright
- Dora Hall Stockman (1872–1948), American politician
- Dora Stratou (1903–1988), Greek dancer and folklorist
- Dora Dougherty Strother (1921–2013), American aviator
- Dóra Süle (born 1998), Hungarian footballer
- Dora M. Sweeney (1907–2001), American secretary and politician
- Dora Sweetapple (1872–1972), Australian nurse
- Dora Szabados (born 2006), Hungarian rhythmic gymnast
T
- Dora Talamante Lemas (born 1965), Mexican politician
- Dora Tamana (1901–1983), South African anti-apartheid activist
- Dora Taylor, South African woman writer and propagandist
- Dora Tchakounté (born 1995), French weightlifter
- Dora María Téllez (born 1955), Nicaraguan revolutionary
- Dora Thewlis (1890–1976), British suffragette
- Dora E. Thompson (1876–1954), American nurse
- Dora Trigueras (born 1982), Mexican politician
- Dora Tulloch (1878–1945), English stage performer, actor and playwright
- Dora Turner (1888–1953), Australian educator
- Dóra Turóczi (born 1990), Hungarian former competitive ice dancer
V
- Dora Valesca Becker (1870–1958), American musician
- Dora Varella (born 2001), Brazilian skateboarder
- Dora Vasconcellos (1910–1973), Brazilian writer and diplomat
- Dora Vass (born 1991), Hungarian rhythmic gymnast
- Dora Varona (1932–2018), Cuban-Peruvian poet, narrator, and missionary
W
- Dora Wahlroos (1870–1947), Finnish painter
- Dora Wasserman (1919–2003), Jewish-Canadian actress, playwright and theater director
- Dora Werzberg (1920–2020), French nurse
- Dora V. Wheelock (1847–1923), American activist and writer
- Dora Wilcox (1873–1953), New Zealand-born Australian poet and playwright
- Dora Wiley (1853–1924), American actress
- Dora Wilson (1883–1946), British-born Australian artist
- Dora Wordsworth (1804–1847), daughter of William Wordsworth
Y
- Dora Yates (1879–1974), bibliographer and Romani scholar
Z
- Dora Zaslavsky (1904–1987), American pianist
- Dóra Zeller (born 1995), Hungarian footballer
Fictional characters
- Dora (Dora the Explorer), protagonist of the Dora the Explorer franchise
- Dora the Female Explorer, eponymous subject of a song on the 1971 album Stackridge
- Dora, a character from the second season of Battle for Dream Island, an animated web series
- Dora Bianchi, in the webcomic Questionable Content
- Dora Orefice, in the Life Is Beautiful movie
- Dora Winifred "D.W." Read, in the Arthur book and television series
- Dora Spenlow, in the Dickens novel David Copperfield
See also
- Dora (disambiguation)
- Doreen (given name)
- Doralice, a given name
