# Dov

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**Dov** (*דב* or *דוב*) is a [Hebrew](/source/Hebrew) male given name meaning "bear", akin to the [Yiddish](/source/Yiddish) name "[Ber](/source/Ber_(name))" (בער). Notable people with the name include:

- [Dov Charney](/source/Dov_Charney) (born 1969), Canadian entrepreneur, president and chief executive officer of clothing manufacturer American Apparel
- [Dov J. Elkabas](/source/Dov_J._Elkabas) (born 1968), Dutch DJ, musician and producer
- [Dov Feigin](/source/Dov_Feigin) (1907–2000), Israeli sculptor
- [Dov Forman](/source/Dov_Forman) (born 2003), English born Author and social media star
- [Dov Frohman](/source/Dov_Frohman) (born 1939), Israeli electrical engineer and business executive
- [Dov Gabbay](/source/Dov_Gabbay) (born 1945), Israeli logician and professor of logic and computer science
- [Dov Groverman](/source/Dov_Groverman) (born 1965), Israeli Olympic wrestler
- [Dov Grumet-Morris](/source/Dov_Grumet-Morris) (born 1982), American ice hockey player
- [Dov Gruner](/source/Dov_Gruner) (1912–1947), Jewish Zionist leader hanged by the British Mandatory authorities
- [Dov Hikind](/source/Dov_Hikind) (born 1950), American politician
- [Dov Hoz](/source/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](/source/Dov_Jaron), American engineer
- [Dow Baer (Berek) Joselewicz](/source/Berek_Joselewicz) (1764–1809), Polish military commander
- [Dov Karmi](/source/Dov_Karmi) (1905–1962), Israeli architect
- [Dov Khenin](/source/Dov_Khenin) (born 1958), Israeli political scientist, politician and lawyer
- [Dov Lior](/source/Dov_Lior) (born 1933), Israeli rabbi
- [Dov Lopatyn](/source/Dov_Lopatyn) (died 1944), head of the Judenrat in Łachwa, Poland, and leader of a ghetto uprising
- [Dov Lupi](/source/Dov_Lupi) (born 1948), Israeli-American gymnast
- [Dov Markus](/source/Dov_Markus) (born 1946), Israeli-American soccer player
- [Dov Noy](/source/Dov_Noy) (1920–2013), Israeli folklorist
- [Dov Reiser](/source/Dov_Reiser) (born 1947), Israeli actor and voice artist
- [Dov Sadan](/source/Dov_Sadan) (1902–1989), Israeli academic and politician
- [Dov Schwartzman](/source/Dov_Schwartzman) (1921–2011), Haredi Jewish rabbi and rosh yeshiva
- [Dov Seltzer](/source/Dov_Seltzer) (born 1932), Israeli composer and conductor
- [Dov Shilansky](/source/Dov_Shilansky) (1924–2010), Israeli politician and Speaker of the Knesset
- [Dov Sternberg](/source/Dov_Sternberg), American karateka
- [Dov Tamari (mathematician)](/source/Dov_Tamari_(mathematician)) (1911–2006), French mathematician
- [Dov Yosef](/source/Dov_Yosef) (1899–1980), Israeli politician and government minister
- [Dov S. Zakheim](/source/Dov_S._Zakheim) (born 1948), American former government official, economist and businessman

## Surname

- [Aleksandr Dov](/source/Aleksandr_Dov), Soviet Ukrainian and Israeli singer-songwriter

### Fictional characters

- Dov, a character in Michael Tippett's 1970 opera *[The Knot Garden](/source/The_Knot_Garden)*
- Dov Epstein, one of the series protagonists of Canadian TV show *[Rookie Blue](/source/List_of_Rookie_Blue_characters#Dov_Epstein)*

## See also

- [Dov-Ber](/source/Dov-Ber)

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