Mole

Mole may refer to:

Animals

• Mole (animal) or "true mole", many of the mammals in the family Talpidae, found in Eurasia and North America
• Golden moles, southern African mammals, similar to but unrelated to Talpidae moles
• Marsupial moles, Australian mammals, similar to but unrelated to Talpidae moles

Other common meanings

• Mole (unit), the SI unit (symbol mol) used in chemistry for the amount of a substance
• Mole or melanocytic nevus, a benign tumor on human skin, usually with darker pigment
• Mole (sauce), a Mexican sauce made from chili peppers, other spices, and chocolate
• Mole (espionage), a spy who has worked his or her way into an organization or country
• Mole (architecture), a pier, jetty, breakwater, or junction between places separated by water
• Variant spelling of Moll (slang) in Australian
• Hydatidiform mole, an abnormal form of pregnancy

Places

Africa

• Mole River (Ghana), a tributary of the White Volta in Ghana
• Mole National Park, Ghana, named after the Mole River

Asia

• Mole, Belgaum, India

Europe

• River Mole in Surrey, in southern England
  • Mole Valley, a local government district in the valley of the River Mole
  • Mole Valley (UK Parliament constituency)
• River Mole, Devon, in south-west England
• La Môle, a commune of the Var Département, France
• Le Môle, a mountain peak in the French Alps

Oceania

• Mole Creek, Tasmania, a town in northern Tasmania, Australia
• Mole River (New South Wales), a river in northern New South Wales, Australia

People

• Louis-Mathieu Molé (1781-1855), French statesman and 18th Prime Minister of France
• Chris Mole (Christopher David Mole, born 1958), UK Labour Member of Parliament
• Fenton Mole (born 1925), American baseball player
• Jamie Mole (born 1988), English professional footballer
• Miff Mole, (Irving Milfred Mole, 1898–1961), American jazz trombonist and band leader
• The Mole (MC/producer) (Jonah Mociun), underground hip hop personality

Culture

Fictional characters

See also: List of fictional moles

• Mole, an anthropomorphic mole, a main character in the children's novel The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
• The Mole (South Park), a psychotic French character from the animated series South Park
• Mole (Zdeněk Miler character), an animated character
• Adrian Mole, a fictional diarist in a series of comic novels by Sue Townsend
• Rosie Mole, Adrian's sister
• The Mole, a fictional character in three fantasy novels in Terry Brooks' Shannara series
• The Mole (Happy Tree Friends), a character from the cartoon series Happy Tree Friends
• The Mole, Gaetan Moliére, a character in Atlantis: The Lost Empire and its sequel, Atlantis: Milo's Return
• Monty Mole, a video game character
• Morocco Mole, Secret Squirrel's sidekick

Film and television

• El Topo (The Mole), 1970 film
• The Mole (TV series), a reality television series
  • The Mole (Australian TV series) Australian version
  • The Mole (UK TV series) UK version
  • The Mole (U.S. TV series) U.S. version

Other uses

• Mole, a tunnel boring machine
• Mole, the NATO reporting name of the Soviet Beriev Be-8 amphibian aircraft
• Mole or Mole-Richardson, a stage and motion picture lighting manufacturing company
• Mole, an informal name for Cultivator No. 6, a Second World War trench-digging machine

See also

• Moles (disambiguation)
• Mol (disambiguation)
• Moll (disambiguation)

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