Irene

Irene Sue Vernon is a professor of Ethnic Studies Department at Colorado State University. She specialises in the field of Native Americans and HIV/AIDS. She is one of the very few full professors in the United States with Native ancestry.

Irene Cercado is a Filipino singer. She is a member of the Filipino girl group 4th Impact.

Irene Ryder (Chinese: 黎愛蓮; pinyin: Lí Àilián; born 1949) is a Eurasian Hong Kong English pop singer who was popular in Hong Kong during the 1960s.

RIP Irene Cara (1959 - 2022)

Irene Bedard was the voice actress and model for Disney’s Pocahontas!

Irene of Brunswick was the wife of Andronikos III Palaiologos, and Empress of Constantinople through her marriage.

Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine was the daughter of Princess Alice of the United Kingdom and Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine. Born at the end of the Austro-Prussian War, she was given the name due to its meaning of peace in Greek.

Irene Ryan was the actress who played Daisy Moses (better-known as Granny) on The Beverly Hillbillies (1962-1971).

Irene is a member of a very famous K-Pop girl group known as Red Velvet.

Irene Parenti Duclos (or Irene Parenti, or her academic nickname Lincasta Ericinia) (1754–1795) was an Italian painter and poet. Her work as an expert copyist of old master paintings was highly valued in her era, and brought her honors from several Italian art academies. Moreover, she achieved particular renown as a pioneer in the revival of encaustic painting.

Irene Zubaida Khan (Bengali: আইরিন জোবায়দা খান; born 24 December 1956) is a Bangladeshi lawyer who served as the seventh Secretary General of Amnesty International (from 2001 to 2009). In 2011, she was elected Director-General of the International Development Law Organization (IDLO) in Rome, an intergovernmental organization dedicated to the promotion of the rule of law, justice and development. She was a consulting editor of The Daily Star.

Irene of Athens was a Byzantine Roman empress. She is also venerated as a saint in the Greek Orthodox Church.

Irene from Red Velvet reinvented the name and brought peace upon the 2 Koreas, a goddess of peace indeed.. Even the president of North Korea is her fan.

American actress and songwriter Irene Molloy.

Irene (birth name Bae Joo-Hyun) is the oldest member and leader of the popular South Korean girl group Red Velvet.

"Goodnight Irene" is a song written and sung by the American folk and blues singer Lead Belly.

Irene Forsyte--pronounced Eye-REEN-ee--is the name of a character in John Galsworthy's *The Forsyte Saga*.

Irene Gut-Opdyke was a Holocaust survivor who saved several Jews from the Nazis. She was named Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem.

South Korean singer Bae Joo-Hyun of girl group Red Velvet goes by the stage name Irene.

Irene is the stage name of Bae Joohyun, a member of Red Velvet.

Irene Aldana is a Mexican mixed martial artist who competes in the Bantam weight division. She is currently signed with the UFC. In her lone fight with Brazilian mixed martial arts promotion Jungle Fight, Aldana faced Larissa Pacheco for the vacant JF Women's Bantamweight Championship at JF: Jungle Fight 63 on December 21, 2013. She lost the fight via third round TKO, giving her the first loss of her professional career.

Bae Joo-hyun, better known by her stage name Irene, is a South Korean singer, television host and actress. She is a member of South Korean girl group Red Velvet.

Irene is the name of the titular princess from The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald. The animated movie based on the book uses the ie-REE-nee pronunciation.

Irene is the younger sister of singer Mariska Veres.

A famous bearer of the name was Irene Dunne (1898-1990), American actress of golden Hollywood.

Irene Adler is a character in the Sherlock Holmes short story "A Scandal in Bohemia" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Irene Redfield is the main character in Passing, a novel by Nella Larsen. She is an unlikeable character.

In Gone with the Wind, Scarlett's youngest sister is named Caroline Irene, but she goes by Carreen.

This name is also used in The Netherlands - the most famous Dutch bearer of this name is Princess Irene (b. 1939), one of the sisters of Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands.

Irene Bedard (born July 22, 1967) is an American actress of Native American heritage. She provided the voice for Pocahontas in the Disney film of the same name.

The name "Irene" was also given to a hurricane which damaged severely the Caribbean, the United States East Coast and Atlantic Canada in 2011.

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I don't like it that they give female names to hurricanes. My name is Irene and I'm teased a lot about it!:(

I have loved the name Irene since I first saw the film "Gattaca." Until then I thought Irene was an old-lady's name, but the name seemed really fresh and elegant on Uma Thurman's character in the movie.

Irene (pronounced Ie-REE-nee) Handl (1901-87) was a British actress of Austrian and French parentage. She was a wonderful comedic presence in lots of films from the 1950s and 1960s that still occasionally appear on British television.
The pronunciation of Irene of her generation (reflected in the character Irene Heron in Galsworthy's "The Forsyte Saga" in the BBC television series of the late 1960s) is seldom if ever heard in Britain anymore.

The infamous title 'character' in the song known as either "Irene, Goodnight" or "Goodnight Irene," an old folk standard.

Irene was the sister of Alexandra Feodorovna, the last tsaritsa of Russia.

Irene (pronounced Ie-REE-nee) Worth was a British actress.

Correction! Irene Worth was American, not British. She was born Harriet Elizabeth Abrams. She did use the pronunciation "Ie-REE-nee."

Irene Van Dyk is a 6 foot goal shooter who plays for the Silver Ferns (New Zealand netball team.) She was a South African who moved to New Zealand. She is very good at Netball. :)

Irene de Todos los Santos Urdangarín y de Borbón is the name of the fourth child of Princess Cristina of Spain and her husband Iñaki Urdangarín.

A famous bearer is Irene Cara.

A famous bearer of this name is Princess Irene of Lippe-Biesterfeld. She is the sister of queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.

Irene was the baptismal name of Arlene Dietrich.