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Queenie (name)

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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.

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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
  • Queenie Goldstein, a supporting character in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

    • References

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