Minerva (disambiguation)

Minerva is the Roman goddess of crafts and wisdom. The name may also refer to:

People

Geography

Australia

Pacific Ocean

United States

Land development

  • Minerva plc, a London-based British developer and property firm
  • Minerva Building, a skyscraper once planned for the eastern edge of London's main financial district
  • Lokhandwala Minerva, a skyscraper under construction in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Entertainment

Games

  • MINERVA (mod), a modification for the video game Half-Life 2
  • Minerva, a character in the final cutscene of Assassin's Creed II
  • Minerva, a class in the MMORPG Elsword
  • Ex Machina: Minerva, a character in the fighting game series BlazBlue

Comics

Film

  • Minerva Film, an Italian film distribution company operating between 1912 and 1956

Manga and anime

  • Minerva (Transformers), a character from the various Transformers universes
  • Minerva class battleship, a fictional class of space vessels from the anime series Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny
  • Minerva Mink, a character from the Animaniacs series
  • Fencer of Minerva, a five episode soft-core hentai anime series
  • Minerva Orland, a character in Fairy Tail
  • Minene Uryuu from Future Diary is named after Minerva

Music

Novels

  • Minerva (Re:Zero), a character in the light novel series Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World
  • Minerva Hadley, a character in the Noughts & Crosses book series by Malorie Blackman
  • Minerva McGonagall, a character in the Harry Potter book series by J. K. Rowling
  • Minerva Paradizo, a character in the book Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
  • Minerva, a ship and supporting character in The Baroque Cycle book series by Neal Stephenson
  • Minerva, a setting in the book A World of Difference by Harry Turtledove
  • Minerva, a setting in the Giants series by James P. Hogan
  • Minerva, a computer which becomes a human female in Robert A. Heinlein's 1973 Time Enough for Love

Theatre

Publications

Science and technology

Astronomy and space

Automotive

Biology

Computing and telecommunication

  • MINERVA, a European Union organization concerned with the digitisation of cultural and scientific content
  • MINERVA (cable system), a submarine telecommunications cable system linking Italy and Cyprus
  • Minerva (QDOS reimplementation), a reimplementation of Sinclair QDOS
  • Minerva Initiative, a plan that looks to tap into the community of area specialists and other university researchers
  • Minerva Networks, a company that develops video compression technology and broadcast systems

Education

Medicine

  • Minerva cast, a type of orthopedic cast enclosing the patient's trunk and head
  • A brand name of co-cyprindiol (cyproterone acetate/ethinylestradiol), an oral contraceptive

Physics

  • MINERνA, a neutrino scattering experiment

Ships

Other uses

See also

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