Hermione (given name)
Appearance
Pronunciation | /hɜːrˈmaɪ.əni/ hur-MY-ə-nee[1] |
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Gender | Female |
Origin | |
Word/name | Greek |
Meaning | derived from Hermes |
Other names | |
Related names | Herminie, Minnie, Mimi |
Hermione (Template:Lang-grc [hermi.ónɛː]) Princess of Hermes, derived from the Greek messenger god Hermes.
Variations
- Arabic: هيرميون (Hayrmiuwn)
- Armenian: Հերիոնոն (Herionon)
- Belarusian: Герміёна (Hiermijona)
- Bengali: হার্মীয়নি (Hārmīẏani)
- Bulgarian: Хърмаяни (Khŭrmayani)
- Chinese (Simplified): 赫敏 (Hèmǐn)
- Chinese (Traditional): 赫敏 (Hèmǐn)
- Croatian: Hermiona
- Czech: Hermiona
- Georgian: ჰერმიონი (Hermioni)
- German: Hermione
- Greek: Ερμιόνη (Ermióni)
- Gujarati: હર્મિઓન (Harmi'ōna)
- Hebrew: הרמיוני (Hermayoni)
- Hindi : हरमायनी (Harmāianee)
- Italian: Ermione
- Macedonian: Хермиона (Hermiona)
- Malayalam: ഹെർമിയോണി (Hermiyēāṇi)
- Marathi: हरमायनी (Hermionee)
- Mongolian: Гермиона (Gyermiona)
- Pashto: هرمونی
- Tamil: ஹெர்மியோனுடன் (Hermiyōṉuṭaṉ)
- Telugu: హెర్మియాన్ (Hermiyān)
- Thai: เฮอร์ไมโอ (Ḥexr̒mịxo)
- Ukrainian: Герміона (Hermiona)
- Urdu: ہرمونی
- Uzbek: Germiona
People
- Hermione of Ephesus (died 117 A.D.), an early Christian martyr
- Hermione Asachi (1821-1900), Romanian writer
- Hermione Baddeley (1906–1986), English actress
- Hermione Bullough (1906-1990), Countess of Durham
- Hermione Byrt, production editor and manager
- Hermione Cobbold (1905–2004), British matriarch
- Hermione Cockburn (born 1973), British TV and radio presenter
- Hermione Cock (1904-2015), British female supercentenarian
- Hermione Corfield (born 1993), English actress and model
- Hermione Cronje, South African prosecutor
- Hermione Darnborough, (1915-2010), English ballerina
- Hermione Eyre (born 1980), British journalist and novelist
- Hermione Farthingale, (born 1949), English dancer and yoga teacher who was an ex-girlfriend of David Bowie and inspired his songs Letter to Hermione and Life on Mars
- Hermione FitzGerald (1864-1895), Duchess of Leinster
- Hermione FitzGerald (born 1985), Irish professional golfer
- Hermione Gingold (1897–1987), English actress
- Hermione Gregory, British actress
- Hermione Gulliford, English actress
- Hermione Hammond (1910–2005), English painter
- Hermione Hannen (1913–1983), English actress
- Hermione Harvey (1931-2016), English actress and dancer
- Hermione Ruth Herrick (1889-1983), New Zealand Guide leader and women's naval administrator
- Hermione Hobhouse (1934-2014), British architectural historian
- Hermione Hoby (born 1985), a British author, journalist, and cultural critic
- Hermione Johnson, New Zealander composer and pianist
- Hermione Kitson (born 1984), Australian news presenter and reporter
- Hermione Lee (born 1948), British biographer and critic
- Hermione Lister-Kaye (born 1990), British naturalist and journalist, daughter of John Lister-Kaye
- Hermione Norris (born 1967), English actress
- Hermione von Preuschen (1854-1918), German painter and author
- Hermione, Countess of Ranfurly (1913-2001), British author
- Hermione Rogers (1895-1917), British nurse who died when the Osmanieh was torpedoed during World War I
- Hermione (Hennessy) Ross (born 1966), British singer-songwriter
- Hermione Shirley (1891-1969), Countess Ferrers
- Hermione Thompson, British book editor
- Hermione Underwood, Australian actress
- Hermione Way (born 1985), English journalist
- Hermione Wiltshire (born 1963), English photographer
Fictional characters
- Hermione (mythology), the daughter of Menelaus and Helen in Greek mythology
- Hermione Bostock, a character in the fiction of P. G. Wodehouse
- Hermione Granger, a main character in the Harry Potter novels and films
- Hermione Gravell-Pitt, a character in the novel Around the World with Auntie Mame
- Hermione Herman, sister of Pee-wee Herman
- Hermione Lodge, a character in the Archie Comics and in the Netflix series Riverdale (2017 TV series)
- Hermione Makepeace (Minnie the Minx), comic strip character from The Beano
- Hermione, male character in the 1582 court drama The Rare Triumphs of Love and Fortune
- Hermione Montego, a character in the 1966 episode of Batman (TV series), "The Thirteenth Hat".
- Hermione Pennistone, the main character in the 1932 novel Marriage of Hermione by Richmal Crompton
- Hermione Seymour, the main character in the 1791 novel Hermione, or the Orphan Sister by Charlotte Lennox
- Hermione Shotover, a character in the play Heartbreak House of G. B. Shaw
- Hermione Trumpington-Bonnet, a character in the British TV series Monarch of the Glen
- Hermione, a character in the novel Atonement by Ian McEwan
- Hermione, a character in the novel Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence
- Hermione, a character in the opera Cadmus et Hermione by Jean-Baptiste Lully
- Hermione Morton, a character in the British TV series Ripper Street
- Hermione de Borromeo, a character in the Japanese animated TV series Romeo x Juliet
- Hermione, Queen of Sicily, a character in the play The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare
- Hermione, a male character in the court drama The Rare Triumphs of Love and Fortune
- Aunt Hermione, a character in the BBC TV Series The Durrells played by Barbara Flynn
- Hermione Gart, an autobiographical character in the novel HERmione by H.D.
- Hermione Bagwa, a character in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
See also
Look up Ἑρμιόνη in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
- ^ "Hermione". Dictionary.com Unabridged (Online). n.d. Retrieved 2016-01-24.