Iris (given name)

Iris was the 221st most popular name given to baby girls in England and Wales in 2007^[1] and was the 245th most popular name given to baby girls born in the United States in 2014.^[2] It has ranked in the top 100 names given to baby girls in Slovenia and in Catalonia during the past decade.^[3]

Iris may refer to:

People

• Iris Adrian (1912–1994), American actress
• Iris Apatow (born 2002), American actress
• Iris Apfel (born 1921), American fashion icon
• Iris von Arnim (born 1945), German fashion designer
• Iris Ashley (1909–1994), Irish-born British stage and film actress
• Iris Bahr or Iris Bar-Ziv, an American actress, comedian, director, writer and producer
• Iris Bannochie (1914–1988), Barbadian horticulturalist
• Iris Yassmin Barrios Aguilar, Guatemalan judge
• Iris Barry (1895–1969), American film critic
• Iris Bell, American psychologist and alternative medicine researcher
• Iris Berben (born 1950), German actress
• Iris van Berne (born 1990), Dutch fashion model
• Iris Birtwistle (1918–2006), English lyric poet and gallery owner
• Iris Faircloth Blitch (1912–1993), United States Representative from Georgia
• Iris Bohnet, Swiss academic, Professor of Public Policy
• Iris Burgoyne (1936–2014), South Australian author and Kokatha (Aboriginal) elder
• Iris Burton (1930–2008), American talent agent and dancer
• Iris Butler (1905–2002), English journalist and historian
• Iris Cahn, Professor of the Film Conservatory at SUNY Purchase College
• Iris Cantor (born 1931), American philanthropist in medicine and the arts
• Iris Chacón (born 1950), Puerto Rican entertainer
• Iris Chang (1968–2004), American historian
• Iris Chung (born 1987), designer and model
• Iris Clert (died 1986), owner of the Galerie Iris Clert
• Iris Cummings (born 1920), American aviator and Olympic swimmer
• Iris Davis (born 1950), American track and field sprinter
• Iris DeBrito (born 1945), Brazilian footballer
• Iris DeMent (born 1961), American singer
• Iris Estabrook (born 1950), Democratic former member of the New Hampshire Senate
• Iris Evans (born 1941), Minister of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta
• Iris Falcam (1938–2010), American-born librarian, researcher and First Lady of Micronesia
• Iris Falcón (born 1973), Peruvian volleyball player
• Iris Fontbona (born c.1943), Chilean businesswoman
• Iris Fuentes-Pila (born 1980), Spanish middle distance runner
• Iris Gordy (born 1943), American songwriter, producer, and music executive
• Iris Gower (born 1939), Welsh novelist
• Iris Gusner (born 1941), German film director and screenwriter
• Iris Habib Elmasry (1910–1994), Egyptian historian
• Iris Hanika (born 1962), German writer and journalist
• Iris Häussler (born 1962), German artist
• Iris Hensley (1934–2003), Artistic Director of the Georgia Ballet
• Iris Hoey (1885–1979), British actress
• Iris Holland (1920–2001), American politician
• Iris Jharap (born 1970), Dutch cricketer
• Iris Johansen (born 1938), American author
• Iris Kelso (1926–2003), American journalist
• Iris Winnifred King (1910–2000), mayor of Kingston
• Iris Klein, German beauty pageant contestant
• Iris Komar, German swimmer
• Iris Kramer (born 1981), German International motorcycle trials rider
• Iris Krasnow (born 1954), American author, journalism professor, and speaker
• Iris Kroes (born 1992), Dutch singer-songwriter and harpist
• Iris Kyle (born 1974), American professional bodybuilder
• Iris Le Feuvre (née Renouf), Jersey politician
• Iris Long (born 1934), AIDS activist
• Iris Loveridge (1917–2000), English classical pianist
• Iris Mack, American banker, professor and writer
• Iris Maity, Indian model and actress
• Iris Martinez (born 1956), Democratic member of the Illinois Senate
• Íris Mendes, Portuguese acrobatic gymnast
• Iris Vianey Mendoza (born 1981), Mexican politician and lawyer
• Iris Meredith (1915–1980), American actress
• Iris Mittenaere (born 1993), French model, Miss Universe and Miss France 2016
• Iris Mora (born 1981), Mexican football forward
• Iris Morhammer (born 1973), Austrian handballer
• Iris Morley (1910–1953), English historian, writer and journalist
• Iris Murdoch (1919–1999), British novelist
• Iris Nampeyo (ca. 1856–1942), Hopi–Tewa potter in Arizona
• Iris Nazmy, Egyptian writer, journalist and film critic
• Iris Origo (1902—1988), Marchesa of Val d'Orcia, a British-born biographer and writer
• Iris M. Ovshinsky (1927–2006), American businesswoman
• Iris Owens, pseudonym Harriet Daimler, American novelist
• Iris Peterson, American flight attendant
• Iris Plotzitzka (born 1966), West German shot putter
• Iris Rainer Dart (born 1944), American author and playwright
• Iris Rideau (born c. 1937) is an American winemaker, businesswoman and activist
• Iris Riedel-Kühn (born 1954), German tennis player
• Iris Robinson (born 1949), Northern Irish politician
• Iris Rogers, English badminton player
• İris Rosenberger (born 1985), German-Turkish swimmer
• Iris Miriam Ruíz, Puerto Rican politician
• Iris Runge (1888–1966), German applied mathematician and physicist
• Iris Santos (born 1984), Dominican volleyball and beach volleyball player
• Iris Sihvonen (born 1940), Finnish speed skater
• Iris Sing (born 1990), taekwondo athlete from Brazil
• Iris Slappendel (born 1985), Dutch road racing cyclist
• Iris Smith (wrestler) (born 1979), American freestyle wrestler
• Iris Smyles, American writer
• Iris Strubegger (born 1984), Austrian model
• Iris Stuart (1903–1936), motion picture actress
• Iris Szeghy (born 1956), Slovak composer
• Iris Tanner (1906–1971), English swimmer
• Iris Tjonk (born 2000), female Dutch swimmer
• Iris Tree (1897–1968), English poet, actress and artists' model
• Iris Vermillion (born 1960), German operatic mezzo-soprano
• Iris Völkner (born 1960), German rower
• Iris Wang (born 1994), American badminton player
• Iris Wedgwood (1887–1982), British author, topographer and historian
• Iris Weinshall, (born 1953), commissioner of New York City Department of Transportation
• Iris Williams (born 1944), Welsh singer
• Iris Woolcock (died 1980), American artist, photographer, realtor and adventurer
• Iris Yamashita (born 1966), American screenwriter
• Iris Marion Young (1949–2006), American political scientist
• Iris M. Zavala (born 1936), Puerto Rican author, scholar, and poet
• Iris Zimmermann (born 1981), American fencer
• Iris Zscherpe (born 1967), German swimmer

Fictional

• Iris "Easy" Steensma, a 13 year old prostitute, featured in Taxi Driver, portrayed by Jodie Foster
• Iris, a Pokémon Gym Leader in Pokémon White, Pokémon League Champion in Pokémon Black 2 and White 2 and Pokémon series
• Iris Blanc/ Noire, a vampire featured in Rune Factory Frontier
• Iris West, the love interest of Flash (Barry Allen) from DC Comics
• Iris, a navigator and love interest to Zero, in the Mega Man X series
• Iris Clops, the daughter of the Cyclops from the Mattel franchise Monster High

See also

• Iris (disambiguation)
• Iris (mythology)
• List of most popular given names
• Iiris (name)

References