Minerva is the Roman goddess of crafts and wisdom. The name may also refer to:
People
- Minerva (Daum Agora user), a South Korean netizen famous for his economic predictions
- Minerva G. Carcaño (born 1954), Hispanic episcopacy of The United Methodist Church
- Minerva J. Chapman (1858–1947), American painter
- Minerva Parker Nichols (1863–1949), American architect
- Minerva Teichert (1888–1976), American artist
- Minerva Urecal (1894–1966), American film and television actress
- Minerva, the stage name of Josephine Blatt (c. 1869 – 1923)
- Minerva Goodman (1876–1967), American physician, suffragist
- Minerva Hamilton Hoyt (1866–1945), an American activist famous for saving the deserts in California
- Minerva Brace Norton (1837–1894), American educator and author
- Minerva Dayton Bateham (1856–1885), American poet, hymn writer, temperance worker
- Minerva Cuevas (born 1975), Mexican conceptual artist
- Minerva Pious (1903–1979), American singer
- Minerva Mena (1930–2004), Mexican actress
- Minerva “Eva” Castillo (1969–2022), Filipino singer
- Minerva Herrera (1929–2016), Cuban folk singer
- Minerva Reid (1871–1957) Canadian teacher, medical doctor, and politician
- Minerva Hernández Ramos (born 1969), Mexican politician
- Minerva Koenig (born 1960), American author
- Minerva Bloom, (born 1959), Mexican poet
- Minerva Castillo Rodríguez (born 1955), Mexican politician
- Minerva Bernardino (1907–1998), Dominican diplomat
- Minerva Willis (c. 1820–?), Choctaw freedman and composer
- Michèle Minerva (1959–2021), French pétanque player
Geography
Australia
- Minerva, Queensland, a locality in the Central Highlands
Pacific Ocean
- Minerva Reefs, two submerged atolls between Tonga and New Zealand
- Republic of Minerva, a self-declared South Pacific republic on the Minerva Reefs
United States
- Minerva, Kentucky, United States
- Minerva, New York, United States
- Minerva, Ohio, United States
- Minerva, Oregon, United States
- Minerva, West Virginia
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 character in Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light
- Minerva, a class in the MMORPG Elsword
- Ex Machina: Minerva, a character used by Celica A. Mercury in the fighting game series BlazBlue
Comics
- Doctor Minerva, a Marvel Comics character who is a Kree scientist
- Cheetah, a DC Comics character whose name is Barbara Ann Minerva
- Minxy Minerva, a Wildstorm character who has appeared in Welcome to Tranquility
- Minerva (Image Comics), a reincarnated goddess in The Wicked + The Divine
Film
- Minerva Film, an Italian film distribution company operating between 1912 and 1956
Manga and anime
- Minerva, a character from the Transformers franchise
- Minerva class battleship, a fictional class of space vessels from the anime series Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny
- Fencer of Minerva, a hentai anime series
- Minerva Orland, a character in Fairy Tail
- Minene Uryuu, a character in Future Diary
Animation
- Minerva Campbell, the mother of Finn from Adventure Time
- Minerva Mink, a character from Animaniacs
- Minerva Mouse, the full name of Minnie Mouse
Music
- "Minerva" (song), a 2003 single by Deftones
- "Minerva", a 2005 song by Ani DiFranco, from her album Knuckle Down
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
- In Harry Turtledove's novel A World of Difference, the orbit of Mars is occupied by an Earth-sized planet called Minerva
- Minerva, a character in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt, based on Valerie Bowles
Theatre
- Minerva Theatre, Chichester, England, opened in 1989
- Minerva Theatre, Kolkata, India, built in 1893
- Minerva Theatre, Sydney, Australia 1939–1950
- Minerva, a character in the 1929 West End musical Mr. Cinders
Publications
- Minerva (German magazine), a nineteenth century journal published by Johann Wilhelm von Archenholz
- Minerva (archaeology magazine), an international review of ancient art and archaeology
- Minerva (Norwegian periodical), a Norwegian liberal conservative periodical first published in 1924
- Minerva (Springer journal), a peer-reviewed sociology journal established in 1962
- Minerva (Welsh periodical), earliest title of Swansea History Journal
- Minerva Medica, a medical journal in Italian
- Minerva, an intellectual magazine originally funded by the CIA via the Congress for Cultural Freedom
Science and technology
Astronomy and space
- 93 Minerva, an asteroid discovered in 1867
- MINERVA (spacecraft), a mini-lander on the uncrewed spacecraft Hayabusa
- MINiature Exoplanet Radial Velocity Array (MINERVA), ground-based search for exoplanets
- Minerva, a name originally proposed for the planet Pluto
- Minerva, the name of the European Space Agency's segment of the SpaceX Crew-4 mission
Automotive
- Minerva (automobile), a Belgian luxury automobile manufactured from 1902 until 1938
- Minerva Armored Car, a World War I armoured car
Biology
- Minerva (alga), a genus of red algae in the family Bangiaceae
- Minerva (bird), a genus of prehistoric owls
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
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
- Minerva (ship), several ships
- HMS Minerva, several ships of the British Royal Navy
- USS Minerva, several ships of the United States Navy
- Minerva-class corvette, a class of ships of the Italian Marina Militare
Other uses
- Editura Minerva, a Romanian publishing house
- Minerva Bunkering, a marine fuel logistics company
- Minerva Campbell, a character who is Finn Mertens' biological mother in the TV series Adventure Time
- Minerva roundabout, famous landmark in Guadalajara, Jalisco
- The Minerva Initiative is a U.S. Department of Defense program
- Minerva F.C., a 19th-century amateur football club in England
- Fuji Xerox Minerva AFC, an American football team in Ebina, Kanagawa, Japan, playing in the X-League X2 division
- Minerva University, a private university based in San Francisco, California
See also
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