Queenie (name)
The name Queenie is an affectionate, or pet use, of the term queen - and is thought to be derived from the Old English word 'cwen', meaning 'woman' rather than a reference to the monarch or his wife.
As a first name it can also mean "Royal Lady" or "Ruler". In this sense the name is also used as a nickname or pet name for a girl who shares her first name with a Queen. As such, it was popular name during Victorian times in the British Empire.
Given name
- Queenie Chu (born 1981), Hong Kong television presenter and actress
- Q. D. Leavis (1900-1982), English literary critic and essayist
- Queenie McKenzie (circa 1930-1998), indigenous Australian artist
- Queenie Rosson (1889-1978), American silent film actress
- Queenie Smith (1898-1978), American stage, film and television actress
- Queenie Thomas (1898–1977), British actress
- Queenie Watts (1926-1980), English actress and singer
- Queenie Ashton (1903-1999), stage name of British-born soprano and English and Australian character actress Ethel Muriel Cover (née Ashton)
Nickname
- Mary Jane Cain (1844-1929), Aboriginal Australian human rights activist
- Queenie Newall (1854-1929), British archer
- Merle Oberon (1911-1979), Anglo-Indian actress
- Queenie O'Rourke (1883-1955), Major League Baseball player in 1908
- Stephanie St. Clair (1886-1969), a French gangster who operated out of New York's Harlem
Stagenames
- Queenie Leighton (1874-1943), stage name of British music hall star Lilian Caroline Augusta Rickard
- Queenie, a performer in the English hip pop quintet KING
Animals
- Queenie (elephant) (put down in 1944), a famous elephant
- Queenie (waterskiing elephant) (1952-2011)
Fictional characters
- Queenie (Blackadder), a caricature of Elizabeth I of England in the British TV series Blackadder
- "Queenie" (EastEnders)
- the main character from Queenie (miniseries)
- A character in the musical Show Boat
- A character in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- A character in the short story of the same name by Nobel Prize winning writer Alice Munro
External links
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 9/14/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.