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Gadfly most commonly refers to:

• Horse fly or botfly
• Gadfly (philosophy and social science), a person who upsets the status quo

Gadfly may also refer to:

Entertainment

• The Gadfly, an 1897 novel by Ethel Lilian Voynich
  • The Gadfly (play), an 1898 play by George Bernard Shaw
  • The Gadfly (1928 film), a Soviet film by Kote Marjanishvili
  • The Gadfly (1955 film), a Soviet film by Aleksandr Fajntsimmer
    • The Gadfly Suite, a musical suite by Dmitri Shostakovich for the 1955 film
  • The Gadfly (1980 film), a Soviet film by Nikolai Mashchenko
  • The Gadfly (opera), a 1958 Russian opera by Antonio Spadavecchia
• Gadfly Online, an online and print magazine
• The Gadfly (Adelaide), a 1906–1909 Australian literary magazine produced by C. J. Dennis
• The Gadfly (album), a 2003 album by LPG
• The Gadfly, a fictional play in the novels of Geoffrey Trease, see The Hills of Varna

Other uses

• Gadfly (database), a relational database management system
• Gadfly (mythology), the insect as sent by Hera to torment Io in Greek mythology
• Gadfly, the NATO reporting name for a Russian 9K37 Buk surface-to-air missile system
• Education Gadfly, the weekly e-bulletin of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute
• Autism's Gadfly, a blog maintained by Jonathan Mitchell (writer)
• A package for plotting and data visualisation written in Julia.

See also

• HMS Gadfly, a list of ships of the Royal Navy

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