Irene

Irene is a name derived from εἰρήνη—the Greek for "peace". See Irene (given name).

Irene, Irina, Irini, Eirene, Eirini, Eireni, or Ireen may refer to:

As a given name

People

• Irene, baptismal name of Tzitzak (died 750), wife of Byzantine Emperor Constantine V
• Irene of Athens (c. 752–803), wife of Byzantine Emperor Leo IV and empress regnant, 797–802
• Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark (1904–1974), later Duchess of Aosta, Queen of Croatia
• Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark (born 1942)
• Princess Irene of the Netherlands (born 1939)
• Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine (1866–1953)
• Saint Irene (disambiguation), various saints
• Eirene (artist), ancient Greek artist
• Irene (singer) (born 1991), South Korean singer
• Irene Bedard (born 1967), Native American actress
• Irene Bridger (21st century), Canadian singer
• Irene Cara (born 1959), American singer, songwriter, and actress
• Irene Castle (1893–1969), half of the ballroom dance team of Vernon and Irene Castle
• Irene Charnley (born 1960), South African businesswoman
• Irene Chepet Cheptai (born 1992), Kenyan distance runner
• Irene Dick (born 1949), Curaçaoan politician
• Irene Dunne (1898–1990), American actress
• Irene Eijs (born 1966), Dutch rower
• Irini Georgatou, Greek tennis player
• Irini Giannatou, birth name of Greek actress and singer Rena Dor
• Irene Gilbert (1934–2011), German-American actress
• Irene Gilbert (swimmer) (1903–1988), British swimmer
• Irene Gilbert (fashion designer) (c.1910–1985), Irish fashion designer
• Irene Hunt, American children's writers
• Irene Jacob (born 1966), French-born Swiss actress
• Irène Joliot-Curie (1897–1956), French scientist
• Irini Karra, Greek fashion model
• Eirini Kavarnou, Greek swimmer
• Irene de Kok (born 1963), Dutch judoka
• Irene Lentz (1901–1962), American fashion and film costume designer, known simply as "Irene"
• Irene Papas (born 1926 or 1929), Greek actress
• Irene Piotrowski (born 1941), Lithuanian-Canadian athlete
• Irini Psyhrami, Greek pop singer
• Irene Ryan (1902–1973), American actress
• Irene Saez (born 1961), Venezuelan politician and former Miss Universe
• Irene Skliva (born 1978), Miss World 1996
• Irene Tedrow (1907–1995), American character actress
• Irini Terzoglou, Greek shot putter
• Irene van Dyk (born 1972), New Zealand netball player
• Mother Irini (1936–2006), Egyptian Abbess

Places

• Irene, Gauteng, a small town in South Africa
• Irene, South Dakota, United States, a town
• Irene, Texas, United States, an unincorporated community
• Irene, West Virginia
• Lake Irene, a small lake in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, United States
• Lake Irene, a lake in Minnesota
• Eirini station, an ISAP metro station in Ano Maroussi, Greece
• Irene Lake, Quebec, Canada
• Irene River (Opawica River tributary), a tributary of the Opawica River in Quebec, Canada
• Irene River (New Zealand), a river of New Zealand, flowing into Charles Sound, Fiordland

Storms and hurricanes

• Tropical Storm Irene (1947), part of the 1940–49 Pacific typhoon seasons
• Tropical Storm Irene (1959), caused minor damage to the Florida Panhandle
• Hurricane Irene–Olivia, struck Nicaragua in 1971
• Hurricane Irene (1981), part of the 1981 Atlantic hurricane season, eventually struck France
• Hurricane Irene (1999) passed over Cuba and inflicted much damage on Florida
• Hurricane Irene (2005)
• Hurricane Irene (2011), caused extensive damage to the Greater Antilles and the US East Coast—name was retired after 2011

Literature and entertainment

Films and anime

• Irene (1926 film)
• Irene (1940 film), an American film
• Irene (2009 film), a French film
• Eirene, a character in the anime SoltyRei
• Irene, the female protagonist of the 2011 movie Drive
• Irene, name of famous and bloody mission in Somalia, also seen in movie Black Hawk Down
• Irene Belserion, a character in the manga Fairy Tail
• Irina Jelavić, a character in the manga and anime of the same name, Assassination Classroom

In literature

• Irene (play), a play written by Samuel Johnson between 1726 and 1749
• Princess Irene, the heroine of The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
• Irene Redfield, a character in the novel Passing, by Nella Larsen
• Irene, also known as The sleeper, a poem or Edgar Allan Poe
• Irene Adler, a character in the Sherlock Holmes story "A Scandal in Bohemia"
• Irene Forsyte, a character in The Forsyte Saga
• Irene Pollock, a character in the 44 Scotland Street series
• Irene Van de Kamp, a character in the Good Girls (comics) series
• Destiny (Irene Adler), a Marvel Comics character
• Irene Kennedy, a character in multiple Vince Flynn novels
• Irene Iddesleigh, the eponymous protagonist of a novel by Amanda McKittrick Ros

In music

• "Irene", a song by tobyMac on his album Momentum (TobyMac album)
• Irene (musical), a 1919 Broadway musical
• Irene, a character in the opera Tamerlano by Handel
• Irene, a character in the opera Bajazet by Vivaldi
• Irene, a song by Beach House
• Irene, a song by Mike Oldfield on his album Man on the Rock
• Irene, the stage name of Red Velvet’s Bae Joohyun.

In television

• Irene the Concierge, character in the TV series The Suite Life of Zack & Cody
• Irene Frederic, a character in the series Warehouse 13

Ships

• MV Eirini, a British refrigerated cargo liner in service from 1961 to 1970
• MV Irene, a Greek-owned freighter
• Irene-class cruiser, of the German Imperial Navy
  • SMS Irene, a German protected cruiser in service from 1887 to 1921
• Irene (sternwheeler), a steamboat of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet in the early 1900s
• TSS Irene (1885), a steam turbine cargo vessel operated by the London and North Western Railway from 1885 to 1906
• MV Irene SL, a Greek-owned supertanker
• Irene (ketch), a sailing ship built in 1907 in Bridgwater
• HMS Princess Irene

Other uses

• IRENE System, an optical method for playing sound recordings
• 14 Irene, an asteroid
• Irene, in chemistry the hydrocarbon (CH₃)₄C₁₀H₈ formed by dehydration of irone
• A rosemary cultivar
• A brand name of desipramine, a tricyclic antidepressant
• Eirene (goddess), the Greek personification of peace.
• Eirene (daughter of Poseidon)
• Eirene, a genus of hydrozoans in the family Eirenidae

See also

• Irina (disambiguation)
• Irena (disambiguation)
• Iren (disambiguation)