Leonora (given name)

Leonora

Leonora Braham as Patience in the opera Patience
Pronunciation	/liːəˈnɒrə/
Gender	Female
Origin
Word/name	Italian, Spanish
Region of origin	Europe
Other names
Related names	Eleanor

Leonora is a feminine given name which is a variation of Eleanor. It was relatively common in the 19th century in Western countries, ranking as the 314th most popular female given name in the United States in 1880. ^[1] The name has declined in popularity but remains in use. Sixty-four newborn American girls were given the name in 2020. ^[2]

People

• Leonara Elizabeth Grant (1931–2016), New Zealand actress, known as Lee Grant
• Leonora Ainsworth (1871–1939), American screenwriter
• Leonora de Alberti, English historian and suffragette
• Leonora Blanche Alleyne (1851–1933), English author, editor and translator
• Leonora Amar (1926–2014), Brazilian actress
• Leonora Anson, Countess of Lichfield (born 1949), British aristocrat
• Leonora LaPeter Anton, American journalist
• Leonora Armellini (born 1992), Italian pianist
• Leonora Armstrong (1895–1980), first Bahá’í to live in Brazil
• Leonora Arye (1931–2001), American sculptor and writer
• Leonora Baroni (1611-1670), seventeenth century musician and composer
• Leonora Barry (1849–1923), Irish-American labor activist
• Leonora Bilger (1893–1975), American chemist
• Leonora Braham (1853–1931), English opera singer and actress
• Leonora Brito (1954–2007), Welsh writer
• Leonora Carrington (1917–2011), Mexican surrealist painter
• Leonora Cohen (1873–1978), English suffragette and magistrate
• Leonora Corbett (1908–1960), British actress
• Leonora Scott Curtin, American botanist and philanthropist
• Leonora Demaj (born 1997), Danish-Kosovan handball player
• Leonora Dodge, American politician
• Leonora Dori (1568–1617), Italian-French courtier
• Leonora Duarte (1610–1678), Flemish musician and composer
• Leonora Ejupi (born 2000), Kosovan footballer
• Leonora Beck Ellis (1862-1951), American educator, author, poet, social reformer
• Leonora Eyles (1889–1960), English feminist writer
• Leonora Fani, Italian former film actress
• Leonora Geppi (born 1999), Italian cyclist
• Leonora van den Heever (born 1926), South African judge
• Leonora A. Hohl (1909–1997), American microbiologist
• Leonora Hornblow (1920–2005), American novelist, children's writer and socialite
• Leonora Hughes (1897–1978), American dancer
• Leonora Payne Ison, British architectural draughtsperson and artist
• Leonora Jakupi (born 1979), singer from Kosovo
• Leonora Jiménez, former Miss Asia Pacific International
• Leonora King (1851–1925), Canadian physician
• Leonora Lafayette (1926–1975), American soprano
• Leonora Jessie Little (1865–1945), Australian zoologist and philanthropist
• Leonora MacKinnon (born 1994), Canadian fencer
• Leonora Marescoe (1637–1715), English merchant
• Leonora Jackson McKim (1879–1969), American violinist
• Léonora Miano (born 1973), Cameroonian author
• Leonora O'Brien, Irish pharmacist and entrepreneur
• Leonora O'Reilly, American feminist, suffragist, and trade union organizer
• Leonora Okine (born 1981), Ghanaian actress
• Leonora von Ottinger, American actress
• Leonora Philipps (1862–1915), British feminist activist
• Leonora Piper (1857–1950), American trance medium
• Leonora Polkinghorne (1873–1953), Australian writer and women’s activist
• Leonora Pujadas-McShine (1910–1995), Trinidadian women’s rights activist
• Leonora Jeffrey Rintoul (1878–1953), Scottish ornithologist and author
• Leonora Milà Romeu, Catalan pianist and composer
• Leonora Ruffo (1936–2007), Italian film actress
• Leonora Sansay (1773–1821), American novelist
• Leonora Sanvitale
• Leonora Selmer (1851–1930), Norwegian actress
• Leonora Sparkes (1879–1969), British-American mezzo-soprano
• Leonora Speyer (1872–1956), American violinist and poet
• Leonora Cannon Taylor (1796–1868), member of the Relief Society
• Leonora Tyson (1883–1959), English suffragette
• Leonora Christina Ulfeldt, Danish princess
• Leonora Wigan (1805–1884), British actor
• Leonora Wray (1886–1979), Australian golfer
• Leonora Zheleva (born 1999), Bulgarian footballer
• Leonora (singer) Danish singer, representing Denmark at the Eurovision Song Contest 2019
• Leonora Celestine Turzanski Ahlers (1839-1879) First female music teacher appointed by the Brooklyn Board of Education in 1871 ^[3]

Fictional characters

• Leonora Johnson, in the 2013 videogame GTA V.
• Leonora Orantes, in the 2011 film Contagion , played by Marion Cotillard
• "Leonora" is used for Eleonora di Guienna, a main character in Donizetti's opera Rosmonda d'Inghilterra
• Leonora, the heroine of Verdi's operas La forza del destino and Il trovatore
• Leonora Ashburnham, in the Ford Madox Ford novel The Good Soldier
• Leonora Clyde, in the 1960 film The Little Shop of Horrors
• Leonora, in the film Topsy-Turvy
• Leonora, the villain of the Mexican TV series Miss XV
• Leonora, in the video game Final Fantasy IV: The After Years

References

1. "Popular Baby Names".
2. "Change in Popularity".
3. Times Union, December 6, 1871

See also

• Leonore (given name)
• Leonor, Princess of Asturias, Spanish princess