Minerva is the Roman goddess of crafts and wisdom. The name may also refer to:

• 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

• Minerva, Queensland, a locality in the Central Highlands

• Minerva Reefs, two submerged atolls between Tonga and New Zealand
• Republic of Minerva, a self-declared South Pacific republic on the Minerva Reefs

• Minerva, Kentucky, United States
• Minerva, New York, United States
• Minerva, Ohio, United States
• Minerva, Oregon, United States
• Minerva, West Virginia

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Minerva Film, an Italian film distribution company operating between 1912 and 1956

• 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

• Minerva Campbell, the mother of Finn from Adventure Time
• Minerva Mink, a character from Animaniacs
• Minerva Mouse, the full name of Minnie Mouse

• "Minerva" (song), a 2003 single by Deftones
• "Minerva", a 2005 song by Ani DiFranco, from her album Knuckle Down

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Minerva (automobile), a Belgian luxury automobile manufactured from 1902 until 1938
• Minerva Armored Car, a World War I armoured car

• Minerva (alga), a genus of red algae in the family Bangiaceae
• Minerva (bird), a genus of prehistoric owls

• 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

• 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

• MINERνA, a neutrino scattering experiment

• 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

• 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

• Minerve (disambiguation)