Dido (disambiguation)

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Dido may refer to several people:

• Dido (singer), an English BRIT Award-winning and Grammy Award-nominated singer and songwriter
  • Dido flip, her eponymous hairstyle
• Dido (Queen of Carthage), the founder and first queen of Carthage
• Dido Elizabeth Belle, black daughter of John Lindsay

Dido may also refer to:

• DIDO, a nuclear reactor
• DIDO (optimal control), a software package to solve optimal control problems
• Dido, Queen of Carthage, a play by Christopher Marlowe
• Dido and Aeneas, an opera by Henry Purcell, based on the play by Marlowe.
• HMS Dido, the name of seven British Royal Navy vessels
• Fido Dido, a cartoon character licensed to Pepsico for their 7UP brand
• 209 Dido, a very large main-belt asteroid
• Tsez language (also known as Dido), a Northeast Caucasian language
• Philaethria dido, also known as the Scarce Bamboo Page, a butterfly of the Heliconian family
• Helleborus Dido, a cultivar of the hellebore plant (described by Country Life as "dusky, double and demurely ruffled as a tutu": 9 February 2007)
• Dido, a character from Matthew Reilly's science fiction novel Hover Car Racer
• Dido (1860 - 1877), one of the eight South Devon Railway Dido class steam locomotives
• One of the planets in the long-running Doctor Who television series