Leonora (given name)
| Leonora | |
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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 |
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Leonora or Leonore 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 US in 1880. [1] The name became less popular in the 20th Century, and is now the 2138th most popular name in the US with 7,774 people with the first name.
List of people with the given name Leonora or Leonore
- Leonora Baroni, seventeenth century musician and composer
- Leonora Braham, English opera singer and actress
- Leonora Carrington, painter and novelist
- Leonora Sanvitale
- Leonora Christina (disambiguation), Danish princess
- Leonora Duarte, Flemish musician and composer
- Leonora Jakupi, singer from Kosovo
- Leonora Jiménez, former Miss Asia Pacific International
- Leonora O'Reilly, American feminist, suffragist, and trade union organizer
- Infanta Leonor of Spain, daughter of Felipe, Prince of Asturias (* 31 October 2005 - )
- Princess Leonore, Duchess of Gotland, Swedish princess (* 20 February 2014 - )
Fictional characters
- Leonora Orantes, a fictional character played by Marion Cotillard in the 2011 film Contagion
- "Leonora" is used for Eleonora di Guienna, the name of 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, a character in the Ford Madox Ford novel, The Good Soldier
- Leonora, a character in the film Topsy-Turvy