Agnes (name)
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For other uses, see Agnes (disambiguation).
Agnes is a woman's given name, which derives from the Greek word hagnē, meaning "pure" or "holy". The Latinized form of the Greek name is Hagnes, the feminine form of Hagnos, meaning "chaste" or "sacred". The name passed to Italian as Agnese, to (Portuguese) as Inês, and to Spanish, as Inés.
[edit] People named Agnes
- Saint Agnes
- St. Agnes of Bohemia
- Agnes of Gandersheim
- Agnes de Poitou, Regent of the Holy Roman Empire
- Agnes of Wittelsbach
- Agnes Le Thi Thanh, one of the Vietnamese Martyrs
[edit] People with the given name Agnes
- Agnes Ayres, silent film star
- Agnes Baden-Powell, establisher of the Girl Guides movement
- Agnes Baltsa, Greek mezzo-soprano
- Agnes Bernauer
- Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, Mother Teresa
- Agnes Bruckner, an American actress
- Agnes Carlsson, a Swedish pop-star.
- Agnes Chan
- Agnes Dunbar, 4th Countess of Moray
- Agnes Inglis
- Agnes Macdonald, wife of the Canadian Prime Minister
- Agnes Macphail, early Canadian politician
- Agnes Moorehead
- Agnes Nestor
- Agnes Pihlava, Polish musician
- Ágnes Primász, Hungarian water polo player
- Agnès Varda, movie director
- Agnes von Kurowsky, an American nurse during WW1 who also feel in love with Ernest Hemingway
- Juana Inés de la Cruz (Iohanna Agnes of the Cross), scholar, poet, nun and a writer.
[edit] See also
All pages beginning with Agnes
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