Dolores is a common Spanish given name, it literally means "pains"; it is short for la Virgen María de los Dolores, "Virgin Mary of the Pains" (Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows). It is often shortened to the more colloquial forms Lola, Lolita or Loli. It may refer to: The statue of Our Lady of Sorrows, Å»ejtun, Malta Our Lady of Sorrows (Latin: Beata Maria Virgo Perdolens, or mater dolorosa, also known as the Sorrowful Mother, Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows and the Mother of Sorrows) is a devotion of the Roman Catholic Church to the Blessed Virgin...

Places

• Argentina
  • Dolores, Buenos Aires
• Guatemala
  • Dolores, El Petén
• Mexico
  • Dolores Hidalgo, a town in Guanajuato
  • Dolores, Baja California Sur
  • Dolores, Chihuahua
• Spain
  • Dolores, Alicante
• Philippines
  • Dolores, Abra,
  • Dolores, Eastern Samar
  • Dolores, Quezon
• United States
  • Dolores, Colorado
  • Mission San Francisco de Asís, in San Francisco, also known as "Mission Dolores"

Dolores is a municipality in the El Petén department of Guatemala. ... Dolores Hidalgo is a small city in the state of Guanajuato, Mexico. ... Interior of the church Virgen de los Dolores. ... Dolores is a 5th class municipality in the province of Abra, Philippines. ... Dolores is a 4th class municipality in the province of Eastern Samar, Philippines. ... Dolores is a 5th class municipality in the province of Quezon, Philippines. ... Dolores is a town located in Montezuma County, Colorado. ... A view of Mission Dolores on a rainy San Francisco day in December 2004. ...

People

• María Dolores Pradera, singer
• Dolores Ibárruri, "La Pasionaria", Spanish labour activist
• Dolores Huerta, Mexican-American labor activist
• Dolores del Río, Mexican film actress
• The Cranberries band member Dolores O'Riordan
• Dolores McNamara, winner of €115 million EuroMillions jackpot
• María de los Dolores Flores Ruiz, also known as Lola Flores, Spanish singer
• Dolores Keane, Irish folk singer

María Dolores (Fernández) Pradera (born August 29, 1924 in Madrid) is a Spanish melodic singer and actress, and one of the most prestigious voices in Spain and Latin America. ... Dolores Ibárruri Gómez, also known as La Pasionaria (the passion flower) (November 12, 1895–December 9, 1989) was a Spanish political leader. ... Dolores Huerta speaking at a rally in Santa Barbara, California on September 24, 2006 Dolores C. Huerta (born April 10, 1930) is the co-founder and First Vice President Emeritus of the United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO (UFW). ... Dolores Del Rio Dolores del Río (August 3, 1905 – April 11, 1983) was a Mexican film actress. ... The Cranberries are an Irish alternative rock band that rose to mainstream popularity in the 1990s. ... Delores ORiordan (second from left) Dolores Mary Eileen O’Riordan (Burton) (born September 6, 1971) is an Irish singer and songwriter. ... Dolores McNamara (born January 13, 1960 in Blackpool, UK) is the record-holding winner of EuroMillions. ... A map of the countries that participate in EuroMillions. ... Lola Flores, born February 21, 1923 in Jerez de la Frontera, Cadiz, Spain - died May 16, 1995, was a singer, dancer, and actress. ... Dolores Keane is an Irish folk singer. ...

Written Works

• Dolores (Notre-Dame des Sept Douleurs), a poem by A. C. Swinburne
• Dolores (novel), a 1911 novel by Ivy Compton-Burnett
• Dolores (1976 novel), a 1976 novel by Jacqueline Susann

Dolores (Notre-Dame des Sept Douleurs) is a poem by A. C. Swinburne first published in his 1866 Poems and Ballads. ... Algernon Swinburne, Portrait by Rossetti Algernon Charles Swinburne (April 5, 1837 – April 10, 1909) was a Victorian era English poet. ...

Fictional characters

• Dolores Haze, also known as Lolita, from Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• Dolores Umbridge, from the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
• The titular character in Stephen King's Dolores Claiborne
• A character appearing in an episode of the televsion program Seinfeld, whose name Jerry cannot figure out. His only clue was that it rhymed with a female body part.

A fictional character is any person who appears in a work of fiction. ... Lolita is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov, first published in 1955 in Paris. ... Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Набо́ков, pronounced ) (April 22, 1899 [O.S. April 10], Saint Petersburg – July 2, 1977, Montreux) was a Russian-American author. ... Dolores Jane Umbridge is a fictional character from the Harry Potter series of novels by J.K. Rowling. ... Cover of the first book in J. K. Rowlings series: Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone (British/Canadian/Australian/Irish version) The Harry Potter books are a series of fantasy novels by English writer J. K. Rowling. ... Joanne Rowling OBE (born July 31, 1965 in Chipping Sodbury, South Gloucestershire), commonly known as J.K. Rowling (pronunciation: roll-ing; her former students used to joke with her name calling her the Rolling Stone), is a British fiction writer. ... Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author best known for his enormously popular horror novels. ... Dolores Claiborne (1993) is a novel by Stephen King, which was adapted into a 1995 film starring Kathy Bates and Jennifer Jason Leigh. ... The Junior Mint is the 60th episode of the American sitcom Seinfeld. ... This article is about the sitcom. ... The clitoris (Greek ) is a female sexual organ. ...

Other

• Dolores River
• 1277 Dolores, an asteroid

This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.