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Dolores Claiborne (film)
Dolores Claiborne (1995) is Taylor Hackford's psychological thriller adapted by Tony Gilroy from Stephen King's 1992 novel, starring Kathy Bates as a housekeeper accused of murdering her employer, with Jennifer Jason Leigh, Christopher Plummer, and David Strathairn; released March 24, 1995 by Columbia Pictures.
Dolores Costello
Dolores Costello, "The Goddess of the Silent Screen" (1903-1979), American silent film actress, star of The Sea Beast (1926), wife of John Barrymore, grandmother of Drew Barrymore, and Isabel in The Magnificent Ambersons.
Dolores del Río
Dolores del Río (María de los Dolores Asúnsolo y López Negrete, 1904/1905–1983) was a Mexican actress, Hollywood star from 1925 and later a leading figure of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, known for María Candelaria, The Fugitive, and Flaming Star.
Dolores Fonzi
Dolores Fonzi, born 1978 in Buenos Aires, is an Argentine actress, screenwriter, and director. Known for La patota, Truman, her directing debut Blondi, and the Goya-winning Belén (2025), based on Somos Belén.
Dolores Fuller
Dolores Fuller (born Dolores Agnes Eble, 1923–2011), American actress and songwriter, Ed Wood's girlfriend and star of Glen or Glenda, Jail Bait, and Bride of the Monster; later co-wrote Elvis Presley songs including Rock-A-Hula Baby; portrayed by Sarah Jessica Parker in Ed Wood (1994).
Dolores Hart
Dolores Hart (Dolores Hicks, born 1938) is an American Benedictine nun and former actress who starred with Elvis Presley in Loving You and King Creole, then entered the Abbey of Regina Laudis in Connecticut in 1963 and became its prioress.
Dolores Hope
Dolores Hope (Dolores DeFina, stage name Dolores Reade), 1909–2011, American singer and philanthropist, wife of Bob Hope for 69 years; performed on USO troop tours, sang Silent Night in Vietnam 1966 and White Christmas in Saudi Arabia 1990.
Dolores Huerta
Dolores Huerta, born Dolores Clara Fernández in 1930, is an American labor leader and civil rights activist who co-founded the farm workers' union with César Chávez and coined "Sí, se puede."
Dolores Ibárruri
Dolores Ibárruri (La Pasionaria, 1895-1989) was a Spanish communist leader, Civil War orator of "No pasarán", PCE secretary-general and president in Soviet exile, and a 1936 and 1977 deputy.
Dolores O'Riordan
Dolores O'Riordan (1971–2018), Irish singer-songwriter, lead vocalist of The Cranberries ("Linger", "Dreams", "Zombie"); also solo albums Are You Listening? and No Baggage; died in London in 2018.
Dolores R. Piperno
Dolores R. Piperno is an American archaeobotanist who founded phytolith analysis, showed the humid American tropics were centers of early plant domestication, and is a Smithsonian senior scientist emerita.
Dolores Umbridge
Dolores Jane Umbridge, villain of Rowling's Harry Potter series, Ministry Senior Undersecretary, Hogwarts High Inquisitor and Muggle-born Registration Commission head; permanent scar on Harry, convicted after Voldemort's fall.
Dolorimeter
A dolorimeter is an instrument for measuring pain threshold and pain tolerance, most classically the radiant-heat device built by Hardy, Wolff, and Goodell at Cornell in the 1940s.
Dolors Montserrat
Dolors Montserrat is a Spanish People's Party politician, Spain's Minister of Health from 2016 to 2018 and a Member of the European Parliament since 2019.
Dolos (breakwater)
The dolos is a concrete armor unit shaped like a ship's anchor, invented in South Africa in 1963 and placed on breakwaters worldwide to dissipate wave energy economically.
Dolostone
Dolostone is a carbonate sedimentary rock with more than 50 percent of the mineral dolomite, usually limestone altered by magnesium-rich fluids; it reacts weakly with dilute acid.
Dolours Price
Dolours Price (1950–2013) was an Irish republican paramilitary from Belfast who became the first female member of the Provisional IRA and led the 1973 Old Bailey bombing in London.
Dolph Lundgren
Dolph Lundgren (Hans Lundgren, born 1957) is a Swedish actor and karate champion, chemical engineer (Sydney master's, Fulbright to MIT), famous as Ivan Drago in Rocky IV, He-Man, Universal Soldier, and The Expendables.
Dolph Schayes
Dolph Schayes, born Adolph Schayes, was an American basketball player and coach who spent 16 seasons with the Syracuse Nationals and Philadelphia 76ers, winning the 1955 NBA championship.
Dolph Schluter
Dolph Schluter, born Adolphe Schluter in 1955, is a Canadian evolutionary biologist at the University of British Columbia who established ecological speciation and studied adaptive radiation in threespine sticklebacks.
Dolph Sweet
Dolph Sweet (Adolphus Jean Sweet, 1920-1985), American character actor, WWII B-24 navigator and POW, Broadway performer in Streamers and Rhinoceros, soap lead on Another World, and Police Chief Carl Kanisky on Gimme a Break! from 1981 to his death.
Dolph Ziggler
Dolph Ziggler, born Nicholas Theodore Nemeth in 1980 in Cleveland, Ohio, is an American professional wrestler who spent nearly two decades in WWE, winning the World Heavyweight Championship twice.
Dolphin
Dolphin: a marine mammal cetacean (Delphinidae and relatives), not a fish; breathes air via a blowhole, echolocates, whistles, and includes the orca; 32 species plus five river dolphins.
Dolphin (emulator)
Dolphin is an open-source GameCube and Wii emulator begun in 2003 by Henrik Rydgård and F|RES, open-sourced in 2008 under GPLv2, running on Windows, Linux, macOS, and Android with rolling date-based releases such as 2603.
Dolphin Aquarium (Iran)
Dolphin Aquarium (Iran), best known as the Kish Dolphin Park (پارک دلفینهای کیش), is a 100-hectare dolphinarium complex on Kish Island, home to Iran's first dolphinarium.
Dolphin Beach
Dolphin Beach refers to a 1 km kitesurfing beach in Table View, Cape Town, and Dolphin Beach Entertainment, a family-owned water park with Supertube slides and mini-golf at Jeffreys Bay's main beach, Eastern Cape.
Dolphin Explorer
Dolphin Explorer is a marine park founded in 2012 in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, offering dolphin swims in sea pens (about 30 dolphins), plus sea lion, shark, ray, and bird encounters; distinct from a Marco Island boat tour.
Dolphin Fantasy
Dolphin Fantasy (ドルフィン ファンタジー) is a dolphin aquarium at Yokohama Hakkeijima Sea Paradise, opened July 2004, with a 16 m roofless arch tank; distinct from same-named dolphin swim facilities in Ito and Ishigaki.
Dolphin fine-tunes
Dolphin fine-tunes are community-modified versions of open-weight language models, created by Eric Hartford, in which the base model's refusal behavior is removed from the weights; they power 30% of identified uncensored GitHub applications.
Dolphin Oil and Gas Field
The Dolphin Oil and Gas Field, also called the Dolphin Gas Project, pipes natural gas from Qatar's offshore North Field to the UAE and Oman, starting supply in July 2007.