Daphne (disambiguation)

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Daphne Given Name
Gender	Female
Wikipedia articles	All pages beginning with Daphne

Daphne is known to be a female's first name.

Daphne or Dafne may refer to:

Contents 1 Places 2 Vessels 3 Fictional people 4 Entertainment 5 Other uses

• The nymph Daphne in Greek mythology
• Dafne, an opera from late 16th century by Jacopo Peri, considered to be the first opera ever composed
• Daphne (opera), an opera by Richard Strauss based on the myth of the nymph Daphne
• Daphne (plant), a genus of shrubs in the plant family Thymelaeaceae, noted for their scented flowers and poisonous berries

[edit] Places

• Daphne Palace of Constantinople
• 41 Daphne, an asteroid
• Dafni (disambiguation), many cities and villages in Greece
• Daphne, Alabama, a city in the United States
• A former suburb of the ancient city of Antioch

[edit] Vessels

• SS Daphne, a ship which sank disastrously in 1883
• Daphne, a cruise ship operated by Costa Cruises (1979-1997)
• Daphne class submarine

[edit] Fictional people

• Daphne Blake, a character in the television cartoon Scooby-Doo
• Daphne Broon, a character in the Scottish cartoon strip The Broons
• Daphne Moon, a character in the Emmy Award winning television show Frasier
• Daphne Millicent Turner, a character in the Malory Towers books

[edit] Entertainment

• Daphné (singer), a French singer
• "Daphne Descends", a song on the Smashing Pumpkins' Adore (album)
• "Daphne", a song on several Django Reinhardt albums, such as Djangology. The song was originally written in 1938.
• DAPHNE, an emulator of Laserdisc arcade games
• Daphne in the Brilliant Blue, a 2004 anime

[edit] Other uses

• Détecteur à Grande Acceptance pour la Physique Photonucléaire Expérimentale (DAPHNE), a detector for real photon physics, built by CEA Saclay (France) and used at the electron accelerator facility SATURNE (CEA Saclay / France) between 1987 and 1990 and the electron accelerator facility MAMI (Mainz / Germany) between 1990 and 2003
• DAΦNE, a nuclear physics experiment in Frascati, Italy
• "Daphne II", a European Community program based on the decision 803/2004/CE from the European Parliament, to prevent and fight violence against women and children and protect the victims and risk groups
• "Daphne", a short story by Michael Cadnum, originally printed in the fantasy anthology The Green Man, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, originally printed in 2002