Dov

DOV or Dov could refer to:

דב or דוב, a Hebrew male given name meaning "bear", from which the Yiddish name "Ber" (בער) was derived (cognate with "bear") which was common among East European Jews.

People

• Dov J. Elkabas (1968), Amsterdam (Dutch) born musician and producer
• 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 Forman (born 2003), English born Author and social media star
• Dov Frohman (born 1939), Israeli electrical engineer and business executive
• Dov Gabbay (born 1945), logician and professor of logic and computer science
• Dov Groverman (born 1965), Israeli Olympic wrestler
• Dov Grumet-Morris (born 1982), American ice hockey player
• Dov Gruner (1912–1947), Jewish Zionist leader hanged by the British Mandatory authorities
• Dov Hikind (born 1950), 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 Jaron, American engineer
• Dow Baer (Berek) Joselewicz (1764–1809), Polish military commander
• 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 Lupi (born 1948), Israeli-American gymnast
• Dov Markus (born 1946), Israeli-American soccer player
• 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

Fictional characters

• Dov, a character in Michael Tippett's 1970 opera The Knot Garden
• Dov Epstein, one of the series protagonists of Canadian TV show Rookie Blue

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