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Raven (disambiguation)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ226464 ↗
Source-derived summary

Raven is the common name given to several larger-bodied members of the passerine bird genus Corvus.

Raven may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

Raven (Ace Comics), a comic book character

Raven (DC Comics), from the Teen Titans series

Raven (Guilty Gear), in the Guilty Gear series

Raven (Tekken), in the Tekken series

Raven Baxter, title character of the American television series That's So Raven and its spinoff series, Raven's Home

Raven Branwen, a character in the web series RWBY

Raven Darkhölme, alter ego of Marvel Comics character Mystique

Raven Hex, in Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose

Raven Queen, the daughter of the Evil Queen from the Mattel franchise Ever After High

Jonathon Raven, title character of the American action drama television series Raven

Vulcan Raven, a character from the 1998 video game Metal Gear Solid

Dmitri "Raven" Ravinoff, in the Neal Stephenson book Snow Crash

Raven Reyes, a character in the television series The 100

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“Raven (disambiguation)” enters the record as wikimedia disambiguation page. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Raven, disambiguation and Wikimedia can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1998—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Raven, disambiguation and Wikimedia.
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This entry incorporates text from “Raven (disambiguation)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.