Leonor
Appearance
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Leonor or Léonor is a short form of the given name Eleanor.
People bearing the name include:
- Leonor Acevedo Suárez (1876–1975), Argentine translator and mother of Jorge Luis Borges
- Leonor Allende (1883–1931), Argentine writer and journalist
- Leonor Beleza (born 1948), Portuguese politician
- Leonor Briones (born 1940), Filipino academic and civil servant
- Leonor Cecotto (c.1920–1982), Argentine painter and engraver
- Leonor de Cisneros (died 1568), Spanish Protestant martyr
- Leonor de La Guerra y Vega Ramírez (died 1816), Venezuelan protester
- Leonor Fini (1907–1996), Argentine surrealist painter
- Leonor Gonzalez Mina (born 1934), vocalist in the cumbia genre of Colombian music
- Leonor López de Córdoba (1362–1420), advisor and confidant of Queen Catalina of Lancaster
- Leonor F. Loree (1858–1940), American civil engineer, lawyer and railroad executive
- Leonor Maia (1926–2010), Portuguese film actress
- Leonor Manso (born 1948), Argentine actress
- Leonor Martínez Villada (born 1950), Argentine politician
- Leonor Michaelis (1875–1949), German-born American biochemist and physician
- Leonor Orosa-Goquinco (1917–2005), Filipino national artist in creative dance
- Leonor Oyarzún (1919–2022), First Lady of Chile, wife of former President Patricio Aylwin
- Leonor Piuza (born 1978), Mozambican 800 metre runner
- Leonor Poeiras (born 1980), Portuguese television presenter
- Leonor Rivera (1867–1893), the childhood sweetheart of Philippine national hero José Rizal
- Leonor Sullivan (1902–1988), American politician
- Leonor Telles de Menezes (1350–1386), queen consort of Portugal and regent in 1383–1385
- Leonor Varela (born 1972), Chilean actress, and model
- Leonor Watling (born 1975), Spanish film actress
- Leonor, Princess of Asturias (born 2005), heir presumptive to the Spanish throne
See also
[edit]Leonor means:god is my strength or god is my light