Dov
DOV or Dov could refer to:
דב or דוב, a Hebrew male given name meaning "bear", derived from the Yiddish name "Ber" (בער) (cognate with "bear") which was common among East European Jews.
People
- Dov Ber of Mezeritch (1700/1704/1710?–1772 OS), second leader and main architect of Hasidic Judaism
- Dov Ber Abramowitz (1860–1926), American Orthodox rabbi and author
- Dov Charney (born 1969), President and Chief Executive Officer of clothing manufacturer American Apparel
- Dov Feigin (1907–2000), Israeli sculptor
- Dov Frohman (born 1939), Israeli electrical engineer and business executive
- Dov Gabbay (born 1945), logician and professor of logic and computer science
- Dov Grumet-Morris, American ice hockey player
- Dov Gruner (1912–1947), Jewish Zionist leader hanged by the British Mandatory authorities
- Dov Hikind (born 1959), American politician
- Dov Hoz (1894–1940), a leader of the Labor Zionism movement, one of the founders of the Haganah organization, and a pioneer of Israeli aviation
- Dov Karmi (1905–1962), Israeli architect
- Dov Khenin (born 1958), Israeli political scientist, politician and lawyer
- Dov Lior (born 1933), controversial Israeli rabbi
- Dov Lopatyn (died 1944), head of the Judenrat in Łachwa, Poland, and leader of a ghetto uprising* Dov-Ber Rasofsky (Barney Ross), American world champion Hall of Fame lightweight and junior welterweight boxer
- Dov Sadan (1902–1989), Israeli academic and politician
- Dov Schwartzman (1921–2011), Haredi Jewish rabbi and rosh yeshiva
- Dov Seltzer (born 1932), Israeli composer and conductor
- Dov Shilansky (1924–2010), Israeli politician and Speaker of the Knesset
- Dov Sternberg, American karateka
- Dov Tamari (1911–2006), French mathematician
- Dov Yosef (1899–1980), Israeli politician and government minister
- Dov S. Zakheim (born 1948), American former government official, economist and businessman
Other uses
- DOV Pharmaceutical
- Dover Corporation, stock exchange symbol DOV
- Dover (Amtrak station), New Hampshire, United States; Amtrak station code DOV
- German Eastern Marches Society; German: Deutscher Ostmarkenverein
- A type of pulsating white dwarf
- Dulwich OnView, a community-based online blog/magazine in Dulwich, London, UK
- Dover Air Force Base
See also
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