Heidi (given name)
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Heidi is a feminine given name. It became an internationally popular first name as a direct result of the novel
. It is an affectionate diminutive of the name Adelheid (English: Adelaide), which means "nobility" or, more loosely, "of noble birth". The name began to be used in the English-speaking world shortly after the 1937 release of the movie adaptation. In German-speaking countries, Heidi is also used as a diminutive for other names, such as Heidrun, Heidelinde and Heidemarie.
Heidi
Heidi is a Swiss work of fiction, published in two parts as Heidi's years of learning and travel and Heidi makes use of what she has learned.It is a novel about the events in the life of a young girl in her grandfather's care, in the Swiss Alps...
. It is an affectionate diminutive of the name Adelheid (English: Adelaide), which means "nobility" or, more loosely, "of noble birth". The name began to be used in the English-speaking world shortly after the 1937 release of the movie adaptation. In German-speaking countries, Heidi is also used as a diminutive for other names, such as Heidrun, Heidelinde and Heidemarie.
- Heidi AndersonHeidi AndersonHeidi Anderson is an American voice actor from Honolulu, Hawaii. She is best known to gamers as the voice of Jill Valentine from the Nintendo GameCube version of Resident Evil. She was also the voice of Samantha Sitbon in the game Killer7....
, an American voice actress - Heidi AnderssonHeidi AnderssonHeidi Andersson is a Swedish armwrestler. She has won the World Championships in armwrestling eight times...
, a Swedish armwrestler - Heidi AndreasenHeidi AndreasenHeidi Andreasen is a Faroese swimmer.She represented the Faroe Islands at the 2000 Summer Paralympics, winning three silver medals, in the S8 50m freestyle, the S8 100m freestyle, and the S8 400m freestyle, and a bronze in the S8 100m backstroke.She was the Faroe Islands' sole representative at...
, a Faroese swimmer - Heidi AndrolHeidi AndrolHeidi Androl is an American website host for the Los Angeles Kings and The Hockey Show on NHL.com. She also serves as a reporter for Fox Sports West/Prime Ticket on Kings telecasts, and for Showtime at Strikeforce Mixed martial arts events...
, a candidate for The Apprentice:Los Angeles (US Season 6, 2005) - Heidi AstrupHeidi AstrupHeidi Astrup is a Danish team handball player and Olympic champion. She received a gold medal with the Danish national team at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. She is two times European champion, and received a bronze medal at the 1995 World championship.-References:...
, a Danish handball player - Heidi BakerHeidi BakerHeidi Baker is a Christian missionary and with her husband Rolland co-founder of IRIS Ministries and the author of several books.With her husband Rolland, Heidi founded IRIS Ministries in 1980, a non-profit Christian ministry dedicated to Jesus and service, especially among the poor...
, an American missionary in Africa - Heidi BarrettHeidi BarrettHeidi Peterson Barrett is a winemaker who has been responsible for some of California's most notable cult wines, including Screaming Eagle, Dalla Valle Vineyards, Paradigm Winery, Grace Family Vineyards, Amuse Bouche, Lamborn Family Vineyards, Showket Vineyards and Fantesca, is a consultant for...
, a Californian winemaker - Heidi Becker, an Austrian Playboy Playmate
- Heidi Behrens-BenedictHeidi Behrens-BenedictHeidi Behrens-Benedict, an American political candidate. She has been a four-time candidate for the United States House of Representatives, running as a Democrat in the Eighth Congressional District of Washington...
, an American politician - Heidi BerryHeidi BerryHeidi Berry is an American singer-songwriter who recorded for Creation Records and 4AD in the late 1980s and 1990s.-Biography:Born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1958, Berry's mother was a jazz singer with French-Canadian roots, and her father was an actor. Her mother re-married and the family moved...
, an American singer-songwriter - Heidi BieblHeidi BieblHeidi Biebl is a former German Alpine skier. She was born in Oberstaufen.She won gold medal in the downhill at the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley just three days after her 19th birthday and then she became the games youngest gold medal winner...
, a former German alpine skier - Heidi BlickenstaffHeidi BlickenstaffHeidi Blickenstaff is an actress based in New York City best known for playing a version of herself in the musical [title of show] during its Off-Broadway and Broadway runs.-[title of show]:...
, an American actress - Heidi BohayHeidi BohayHeidi Bohay is an American actress and television presenter.Born in South Bound Brook, New Jersey, Bohay is best known for her role as Megan Kendall from 1983 to 1987 on the prime-time ABC drama Hotel. She appeared as a celebrity guest on game shows, including The $25,000 and $100,000 Pyramid,...
, an American actress - Heidi BurgeHeidi BurgeHeidi Ann Horton is a former professional basketball player and is the twin sister of Heather Quella.-Growing up:...
, a retired American women's basketball player - Heidi ChuHeidi ChuHeidi CHU Hoi Ting is the 2nd runner-up and winner of Miss International Goodwill of the 2001 Miss Hong Kong contest. She is currently a presenter/actress of TVB television company, which is also her management agent from 2005. She is also a guest host for radio station...
, a former Miss Hong Kong contestant - Heidi CollinsHeidi CollinsHeidi Collins is an American correspondent and anchor for KMSP-TV Fox 9 News in Minneapolis – Saint Paul. She formerly worked for CNN.-Life and career:...
, a CNN correspondent - Heidi CortezHeidi CortezHeidi Cortez is an American entrepreneur . In November 2005, Cortez was hired by Howard Stern to be the radio host and co-writer for the show Tissue Time with Heidi Cortez Sirius XM satellite radio channel. On the show, Cortez read saucy, comical, bedtime stories to listeners at the end of the day...
, an American model - Heidi W. DurrowHeidi W. DurrowHeidi W. Durrow is an American writer, author of The Girl Who Fell From the Sky, and the winner of the 2008 Barbara Kingsolver Bellwether Prize for Literature of Social Change.-Early life and education:...
, an American author - Heidi-Elke Gaugel, a German athlete
- Heidi FleissHeidi FleissHeidi Lynne Fleiss is an American former madam, and also a columnist and television personality regularly featured in the 1990s in American media. She is often referred to as the "Hollywood Madam"....
(born 1965), a former American procuress - Heidi FossHeidi FossHeidi Foss is a Canadian actor, comedian, and writer. In 2001 she won a Canadian Comedy Awards honoring her achievements in the field of comedy writing for the Canadian television comedy program This Hour Has 22 Minutes.Her film and television credits include:...
, a Canadian TV writer - Heidi Grande RøysHeidi Grande RøysHeidi Grande Røys is a Norwegian politician for the Socialist Left Party. She became Minister of Modernisation in 2005, renamed to Minister of Government Administration and Reform since 2006 in the second cabinet Stoltenberg. She was replaced by Rigmor Aasrud in 2009.-References:...
, a Norwegian politician - Heidi GroskreutzHeidi GroskreutzHeidi Groskreutz is a ballroom dancer, specializing in the fields of Latin and swing dancing. She is known for making the final in the second season of the Fox TV series So You Think You Can Dance.-Biography:...
, an American ballroom dancer - Heidi Hamilton, a co-host of radio show Frosty, Heidi & Frank
- Heidi HarleyHeidi HarleyHeidi B. Harley is an Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona. She is the author or coauthor of three books, and has several papers published on formal syntactic theory, morphology, and lexical semantics. She was born in Oregon, but was raised in St. John's, Newfoundland...
, an American linguist - Heidi HarrisHeidi HarrisHeidi Harris is an American talk radio host and author. She lives in Las Vegas, Nevada.The Heidi Harris Show airs weekday mornings on NewsTalk 720 KDWN 5-9 AM...
, an American radio personality - Heidi HautalaHeidi Hautala-External links:* * *...
, a Finnish politician - Heidi HeitkampHeidi HeitkampHeidi Heitkamp is a lawyer and politician from the U.S. state of North Dakota. She served as the 28th attorney general of the state from 1993 to 2001. She ran on the Democratic-NPL ticket for governor in 2000, losing to John Hoeven. She was considering a bid for the Democratic nomination for the...
, an American lawyer - Heidi HerzonHeidi HerzonHeidi Herzon is an American television producer who has served as a producer on Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic and The Sarah Silverman Program.- External links :...
, an American TV producer - Heidi HollingerHeidi HollingerHeidi Hollinger is widely credited with having revolutionized political photography in Russia during her 10-year residence in Moscow during the 1990s. Her portraits of leading politicians captured the spirit of Russian cultural emerging from behind the walls of the former Soviet bureaucracy...
, a Canadian photographer - Heidi Jenkins, a British historian
- Heidi JulavitsHeidi JulavitsHeidi Suzanne Julavits is an American author and co-editor of The Believer magazine. She has been published in The Best Creative Nonfiction Vol. 2, Esquire, Story, Zoetrope All-Story, and McSweeney’s Quarterly...
, an American author - Heidi KabelHeidi KabelHeidi Bertha Auguste Kabel was a German musician and actress. Most of her stage roles were performed at the Ohnsorg-Theater in Hamburg, many of them in Low German....
, a German musician and actress - Heidi KlumHeidi KlumHeidi Samuel , better known by her birth name Heidi Klum, is a German model, actress, television host, businesswoman, fashion designer, television producer, and occasional singer. In 2008 she became an American citizen while maintaining her native German citizenship...
, a German supermodel and host of Project Runway - Heidi KozakHeidi KozakHeidi Kozak is an American actress. She is perhaps best known for her act as Sally Burns in Slumber Party Massacre 2 and Sandra in Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood...
, an American actress - Heidi LarssenHeidi LarssenHeidi Larssen is a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party.She was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Oslo in 2001, but was not re-elected in 2005. She served in the position of deputy representative during the term 2005–2009.Larssen held various positions in Oslo city council...
, a Norwegian politician - Heidi Lee MorganHeidi Lee MorganHeidi Lee Morgan the daughter of Lester Morgan, is a retired American professional wrestler who competed in the World Wrestling Federation, International World Class Championship Wrestling, Ladies Pro Wrestling Association, and National Wrestling Federation...
, an American female professional wrestler - Heidi LenhartHeidi LenhartHeidi Noelle Lenhart is an American actress, best known for her role as Jenny Garrison in the American TV series California Dreams and Jenny Caldwell in the Au Pair films....
, an American actress - Heidi LucasHeidi Lucas-Biography:During the early 1990s, she played Dina Alexander on Nickelodeon's Salute Your Shorts, which ran from 1991-1992. In 1992 she appeared in the 'Fantasy Dating Game' Girls' Club. Created for the Philip's CD-I, Imagination Machine, it allowed girls to go on interactive dates with thirty of...
, an American actress - Heidi LückHeidi LückHeidi Lück née Pfeifer, born April 6, 1943 in Strokele/Zwittau in Bohemia–Moravia , Roman Catholic, resident since 1978 in Kempten/Allgäu, divorced, one adult son, is a German politician, social-democratic party of Germany , and member of the Bavarian state parliament in the...
, a German politician - Heidi MacDonald, an American journalist
- Heidi MarkHeidi MarkHeidi Mark is an American model and actress. Heidi is of Finnish origin. Her father was born in Helsinki, Finland. She worked at her father's law office and Hooters. She was chosen as Playboy's Playmate of the Month in July 1995. Prior to being a Playmate, she appeared on the cover of April...
, an American Playboy Playmate - Heidi MillerHeidi MillerHeidi Miller is an American female bodybuilder who held the title Ms. Natural America in 1981. She is also a former National Gymnastics Champion.Her other bodybuilding awards include Ms...
, an American female bodybuilder - Heidi MollenhauerHeidi MollenhauerHeidi Mollenhauer is an actress and singer. She is best known for her role as the singing voice of Esmeralda in Disney's 1996 animated film The Hunchback of Notre Dame....
, a voice actor - Heidi MontagHeidi MontagHeidi Blair Pratt is an American media personality and singer. She came to prominence with her starring role on the MTV reality series The Hills from 2006 to 2010. Montag has also appeared on I'm a Celebrity.....
, an actress in The Hills - Heidi MuellerHeidi MuellerHeidi Jo Mueller is an American actress. She portrayed the role of Kay Bennett on the NBC daytime soap opera Passions from 2003 until 2008-Career:...
, an American actress - Heidi MurkoffHeidi MurkoffHeidi Murkoff is the author of the world's best-selling pregnancy and parenting series, What to Expect, that began with What to Expect When You're Expecting. She is also the creator of WhatToExpect.com and founder of the What to Expect Foundation. Time magazine named Heidi one of the 100 Most...
, an American author - Heidi NeumarkHeidi NeumarkHeidi Neumark is the author of the book Breathing Space: A Spiritual Journey in the South Bronx . She grew up in Summit, New Jersey and now lives on the Upper West Side with her husband Gregorio Orellano of Manhattan, and has two children, Ana and Hans. Rev...
, an American spiritual writer - Heidi NewfieldHeidi NewfieldHeidi Newfield is an American country music artist. She was lead singer, rhythm guitarist and harmonica player for the group Trick Pony, alongside Keith Burns and Ira Dean from 1996 until 2006, when she left in pursuit of a solo career...
, an American country music singer and former frontwoman of "Trick Pony" - Heidi PelttariHeidi PelttariHeidi Pelttari is a Finnish hockey player who plays for Ilves and the Finnish national team on Winter Olympics 2006. She is also played for team Finland in the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada...
, a Finnish ice hockey player - Heidi Postlewait, a former UN social worker
- Heidi Puurula, a Finnish singer
- Heidi RakelsHeidi RakelsHeidi Rakels is a retired female judoka from Belgium.Rakels claimed the bronze medal in the Women's Middleweight division at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. In the bronze medal match she defeated Germany's Alexandra Schreiber...
, a Belgian judoka - Heidi RangeHeidi RangeHeidi India Range is an English singer, songwriter and member of the Sugababes. Range was an original member of girl group Atomic Kitten, although she left the group after two years of its formation with no album released...
, a member of British girl group Sugababes - Heidi RavvenHeidi RavvenHeidi Ravven is Professor of Religious Studies at Hamilton College. She specializes in ethics and philosophy and the intersection between neuroscience and emotions.-Biography:...
, an American professor - Heidi RoizenHeidi RoizenHeidi Roizen is a Silicon Valley executive, venture capitalist, and entrepreneur.She graduated from Stanford University in 1980 with a bachelor's degree in English and earned her MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business three years later.From 1983 to 1996, Roizen was co-founder...
, an American businesswoman - Heidi SagerHeidi SagerHeidi Sager is a German-born, Australian sprint canoer who competed in the early 1960s. At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, she was eliminated in the semifinals in both in the K-1 500 m event and the K-2 500 m event.-References:*...
, a German-Australian canoer - Heidi SchmidHeidi SchmidAdelheid "Heidi" Schmid is a former German fencer, world champion and Olympic champion in foil competition. She received a gold medal in individual foil at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. She received a bronze medal in the team foil event in 1964...
, a German fencer - Heidi SchüllerHeidi SchüllerHeidi Schüller is a West German-German long jumper who competed in the early 1970s. She took the Athlete's Oath at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, the first for a woman in the Summer Olympics. Schüller finished fifth in the women's long jump at those same games.She later became known as Dr...
, a German athlete - Heidi Sorenson, a Danish-Canadian Playboy Playmate
- Heidi SørensenHeidi SørensenHeidi Sørensen is a Norwegian politician for the Socialist Left Party.She was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Oslo in 2001, but was not re-elected in 2005. She instead served as a deputy representative, but met on a regular basis as Kristin Halvorsen was appointed to the second cabinet...
, a Norwegian politician - Heidi Sørensen (S.O.A.P.), a member of Danish musical duo S.O.A.P.S.O.A.P.S.O.A.P. were a Danish pop music duo made up of sisters, Heidi and Saseline Sørensen. Their music was primarily written and produced by Holger Lagerfeldt and Remee Zhivago for Sony Music Entertainment Denmark. They are best known for their single, "This Is How We Party."They were selected by the...
- Heidi StøreHeidi StøreHeidi Støre is a former Norwegian footballer and world champion as captain for the national team.She played for the clubs Sprint-Jeløy , Trollhättan , Kolbotn , Nikko and Athene Moss...
, a Norwegian footballer - Heidi SundalHeidi SundalHeidi Sundal is a Norwegian team handball player and Olympic medalist. She received silver medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul with the Norwegian national team, and at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona....
, a Norwegian handball player - Heidi SwedbergHeidi SwedbergHeidi Swedberg is an American actress known for her role as Susan Ross, the fiancée of George Costanza on the television sitcom Seinfeld....
, an American actress - Heidi TalbotHeidi TalbotHeidi Talbot is an Irish folk singer from Kill, County Kildare, Ireland. Talbot is the former singer of Irish-American musical group Cherish the Ladies.-Early life and education:...
, an Irish folk singerand - Heidi ThomasHeidi ThomasHeidi Thomas is an English screenwriter and playwright.-Career:After reading English at Liverpool University, Thomas gained national attention when her play, Shamrocks And Crocodiles, won the John Whiting Award in 1985. Her play Indigo was performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company in their...
, an English screenwriter and playwright - Heidi TjugumHeidi TjugumHeidi Marie Tjugum is a Norwegian team handball player and goalkeeper, and World Champion from 1999. She was born in Drammen. She received a silver medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. She received a bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney...
, a Norwegian handball player - Heidi ValkenburgHeidi ValkenburgHeidi Valkenburg is an Australian television actress.She attended East Doncaster Secondary College but began acting at an early age, her first big break came in 2000 when she was cast for the role of Penny Gallagher in the children's series Crash Zone alongside Cassandra Magrath, Paul Pantno,...
, an Australian actress - Heidi VanDerveerHeidi VanDerveerHeidi VanDerveer is a women's basketball collegiate and professional coach. She is currently the head coach at Occidental College.VanDerveer served as a basketball coach in the WNBA, as an assistant with the Seattle Storm, and had been the Minnesota Lynx second head coach in 2002 after Brian Agler...
, an American basketball coach - Heidi Alice VoightHeidi Alice VoightHeidi Alice Voight is a former pageant titleholder from Milford, Connecticut who held the Miss Connecticut title and competed in the Miss America pageant.-Personal life:...
, a Miss Connecticut in 2006 - Heidi Von GundenHeidi Von GundenHeidi C. Von Gunden is a musicologist and Associate Professor of Composition-Theory at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She has written books on the music of Ben Johnston, Pauline Oliveros, Lou Harrison, and Vivian Fine...
, an American musicologist - Heidi ZeiglerHeidi ZeiglerHeidi Zeigler is a former child actress from the United States. Zeigler's most notable roles were in the television series Rags to Riches and Just the Ten of Us...
, an American child actress - Heidi Zeller-BählerHeidi Zeller-Bähler-External links:*...
, a Swiss alpine skier - Heidi ZimmerHeidi ZimmerHeidi Zimmer is a American deaf mountaineer who has accomplished several notable firsts in mountaineering. She was born deaf, and became the first deaf woman in history to reach the top of Mt. McKinley on June 13, 1991. At the top, she unfolded a banner reading "DEAF WOMAN, A PARADE THROUGH THE...
, an American hearing-impaired mountain climber - Heidi ZurbriggenHeidi ZurbriggenHeidi Andenmatten-Zurbriggen in Saas-Almagell, Kanton Wallis) is a Swiss former alpine skier and sister of Pirmin Zurbriggen. She won 3 Downhill races on the World Cup tour. She now operates Chalet Rustica with her husband Damian in Saas-Almagell.-Downhill:-Footnotes:...
, a Swiss alpine skier