Corinna (given name)
Appearance
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Corinna or Korinna is a female given name of ancient Greek origin, derived from κόρη (korē) meaning "girl, maiden".[1][2] Notably, the ancient Greek lyric poet, as well as its use by Ovid for the women he addresses in the Amores, may have both infused the name's popularity.[3] Other variants include Corina and Corinne.
People with the name
[edit]- Corinna or Korinna, ancient Greek poet
Corinna
[edit]- Corinna Adam or Ascherson (1937–2012), British journalist
- Corinna Bath, mathematician, computer scientist and university lecturer
- S. Corinna Bille (1912–1979), Swiss writer in French
- Corinna Boccacini (born 1985), Italian snowboarder
- Corinna Brown, English actress
- Corinna Chamberlain (born 1982), New Zealand-Hong Kong singer and actress
- Corinne Cléry (born 1950), French actress
- Corinna Cortes, Danish computer scientist
- Corinna Dentoni (born 1989), Italian tennis player
- Corinna Everson (née Kneuer) (born 1958), American bodybuilder champion and actress
- Corinna Folkins (née MacDonald) (1918–1998), United States lawn bowler
- Corinna Genest (born 1938), German film and television actress
- Corinna Halke (born 1957), German sports journalist and skater
- Corinna Harfouch (née Meffert) (born 1954), German actress
- Corinna Harney (born 1972), American model and actress
- Corinna Harrer (born 1991), German middle-distance runner
- Corinna Hawkes, British professor of Food Policy
- Corinna Hein (née Biethan) (born 1983), German indoor cyclist
- Corinna Kennedy (born 1970), Canadian sprint canoer
- Corinna Kopf (born 1995 [citation needed]), American YouTuber and gamer
- Corinna Kunze (born 1963), German handball player
- Corinna E. Lathan, American entrepreneur
- Corinna Lawrence (born 1990), British épée fencer
- Corinna Lechner (born 1994), German racing cyclist
- Corinna Lin (born 1994), Taiwanese-American figure skater
- Corinna Lingnau (born 1960), German field hockey player
- Corinna Löckenhoff, German psychologist and gerontologist
- Corinna Kuhnle (née 1987), Austrian slalom canoeist
- Corinna Martini (born 1985), German luger
- Corinna May (née Meyer) (born 1970), German singer
- Corinna Miazga (1983–2023), German politician
- Corinna Mura (née Wall) (1910–1965), American cabaret singer, diseuse, and film actress
- Corinna von Rad (born 1971), German-American opera director
- Corinna Rüffer (born 1975), German politician
- Corinna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn (née Larsen) (born 1964), German philanthropist
- Corinna S. Schindler, University of Michigan faculty
- Corinna Schnitt (born 1964), German filmmaker, artist, and professor
- Corinna Scholz (born 1989), German curler
- Corinna Schumacher, née Betsch (born 1969), German animal rights activist, wife of racing driver Michael Schumacher
- Corinna Schwab (born 1999), German sprinter
- Corinna Shattuck (1848–1910), American educator and missionary in Turkey
- Corinna Putnam Smith (née Corinna Haven Putnam) (1876–1965), American writer, amateur archaeologist, scholar of Arabic
- Corinna Tsopei (born 1944), American Olympic judoka
- Corinna Ulcigrai (born 1980), Italian mathematician
- Corinna West, American Olympic judoka
- Cori Zarek, media lawyer
Korinna
[edit]- Korinna Fink (born 1981), German sprinter
- Korinna Ishimtseva (born 1984), Kazakhstani volleyball player
- Korinna Moon Bloodgood (born 1975), American actress and model
Pseudonyms
[edit]- Corinna, Ovid's (probably fictitious) lover in the Amores
- Corinna, pen name of English poet Elizabeth Thomas (1675–1731)
Fictional characters
[edit]- Corinna Chapman, series of mysteries written by Kerry Greenwood
- Corinna Schmidt, 1951 East German drama film
- Beloved Corinna, 1956 German drama film
- Corinna Wiles, character in the 2007 TV series Drive
- "Corrine, Corrina", 1928 blues song
References
[edit]- ^ Corinna, Behind the name
- ^ κόρη, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon
- ^ Hanks, Patrick; Hodges, Flavia; Mils, A. D.; Room, Adrian, eds. (2002). The Oxford names companion. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press. p. 731. ISBN 0198605617.