Dora (first name)
Dora is a feminine given name .
Origin and meaning
The name Dora is a short form of Dorothea or Theodora , both of which mean "gift of God". It is also a variant of the given name Doris .
Name bearers
- Dora (singer) (born 1966), Portuguese singer
- Dora Alonso (1910–2001), Cuban journalist and writer
- Dora Bakogianni (* 1954), Greek politician
- Dora Boothby (1881-1970), British tennis player
- Dora Bruder (1926–1942), French victim of the Holocaust
- Dora Carrington (1893-1932), British eccentric and feminist painter
- Dora Diamant (1898–1952), Franz Kafka's last partner, political activist and actress
- Dora Doll (1922-2015), French actress
- Dora Emdin (1912–1945), English table tennis player
- Dora Friese (1883–1965), German tamer
- Dora Garbade (1893–1981), German pioneer of the rural women movement
- Dora Gerson (1899–1943), German silent film actress and cabaret singer, Nazi victim
- Dora Heldt (* 1961), German writer
- Dora Hitz (1856–1924), German painter and co-founder of the Berlin Secession
- Dora Hohlfeld (1860–1931), German writer
- Dora d'Istria (1828–1888), pseudonym of Helena Koltsova-Masslaskaya
- Dora Jung (1906–1980), Finnish textile artist
- Dora Kallmus (1881–1963), Austrian photographer, known as Madame D'ora
- Dora Sophie Kellner (1890–1964), Austrian journalist, writer and translator
- Dora Komar (1914–2006), Austrian actress and singer
- Dora Koering (1880–1945), German tennis player
- Dora Lopes (1922–1983), Brazilian singer and composer of the Música Popular Brasileira
- Dora Maar (1907–1997), French photographer and painter
- Dora Osterloh (* around 1986), German jazz musician (vocals, composition)
- Dora Pejačević (1885–1923), Croatian composer
- Dora Rappard (1842–1923), Swiss missionary
- Dora Ratjen (1918–2008), German athlete
- Dora Siliya (* 1970), Zambian politician
- Dora Stock (1759–1832), German painter
- Dora Teleky (1879–1963), Austrian-Jewish gynecologist and urologist
- Dora Vallier (1921–1997), Bulgarian-French art historian
- Dora Wentscher (1883–1964), German actress, sculptor and writer
- Dóra Zeller (* 1995), Hungarian national soccer player
See also
- Dora Brother (book) , book by Patrick Modiano from 1997