Eleanora (name)
Appearance
![]() Billie Holiday is the stage name of American jazz singer Eleanora Fagan | |
Gender | Female |
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Language(s) | Italian, Swedish |
Origin | |
Word/name | Greek |
Other names | |
Variant form(s) | Eleonora |
Related names | Eleanor |
Eleanora or Eleonora is a female given name, a variant of the name Eleanor.
Notable people with the name include:
- Countess Palatine Eleonora Catherine of Zweibrücken (1626–1692), Swedish princess
- Eleonora Luisa Gonzaga (1686–1741), Duchess of Rovere and Montefeltro as the wife of Francesco Maria de' Medici
- Eleonora, Princess of Ligne (born 1953), wife of Michel, 14th Prince of Ligne
- Eleanora Atherton (1782–1870), English philanthropist
- Eleonora Chiavarelli (1915–2010), wife of murdered Italian politician Aldo Moro
- Eleonora Duse (1858–1924), Italian actress, often known simply as Duse
- Eleonora Dziękiewicz (born 1978), Polish volleyball player
- Eleonora Ehrenbergová (1832–1912), Czech operatic soprano
- Eleanora Fagan (1915–1959), birth name of American jazz singer Billie Holiday
- Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden (1688–1741), queen of Sweden