Lorena (name)
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Lorena is a feminine given name with different origins. It can be used as an Italian
Italian language
Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...

, Portuguese
Portuguese language
Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...

 and Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

 version of Lorraine
Lorraine (given name)
Lorraine is used as a feminine name, meaning "From Lorraine, France". The name is of French origin, and is above all in the United States and Canada, after World War I, during which events brought Lorraine, France to the North American public imagination. Variations include: Lori, Lorri, Lorrie,...

 or, alternately, as a Latin version of Lauren
Lauren
Lauren may be a name or surname. The name's meaning may be "Laurel tree", "sweet of honor" or "victory of wisdom".- Given name :* Lauren Alaina , American singer and former 'American Idol' 10 contestant...

. As used in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

, it may have come from the song title
Lorena (song)
"Lorena" is an antebellum song with Northern origins. The lyrics were written in 1856 by Rev. Henry D. L. Webster, after a broken engagement. He wrote a long poem about his fiancée but changed her name to "Lorena," an adaptation of "Lenore" from Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven." Webster's friend,...

 of a popular 1856 song by Rev. Henry D.L. Webster and Joseph Philbrick Webster
Joseph Philbrick Webster
Joseph Philbrick Webster, also known as J.P. Webster , was an American songwriter and composer most notable for his musical compositions during the Antebellum and American Civil War periods of United States history, and his post-war religious hymns.Amongst his most notable works are the ballad...

, who are said to have derived the name from an anagram
Anagram
An anagram is a type of word play, the result of rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce a new word or phrase, using all the original letters exactly once; e.g., orchestra = carthorse, A decimal point = I'm a dot in place, Tom Marvolo Riddle = I am Lord Voldemort. Someone who...

 of the name Lenore, a character in Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective...

's 1845 poem The Raven
The Raven
"The Raven" is a narrative poem by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in January 1845. It is often noted for its musicality, stylized language, and supernatural atmosphere. It tells of a talking raven's mysterious visit to a distraught lover, tracing the man's slow descent into madness...

. In Margaret Mitchell
Margaret Mitchell
Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell was an American author and journalist. Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937 for her epic American Civil War era novel, Gone with the Wind, which was the only novel by Mitchell published during her lifetime.-Family:Margaret Mitchell was born in Atlanta,...

's 1936 novel Gone with the Wind
Gone with the Wind
The slaves depicted in Gone with the Wind are primarily loyal house servants, such as Mammy, Pork and Uncle Peter, and these slaves stay on with their masters even after the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 sets them free...

,
Scarlett O'Hara
Scarlett O'Hara
Scarlett O' Hara is the protagonist in Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel Gone with the Wind and in the later film of the same name...

's daughter with Frank Kennedy was named Ella Lorena in reference to the song Lorena.

People with the given name Lorena

  • Lorena Ayala
    Lorena Ayala
    Lorena Ayala is a Spanish and Dutch model. Her father, Gerald, is Dutch and her mother is Spanish....

     (born 1984), Spanish/Dutch model
  • Lorena Berdún
    Lorena Berdún
    Lorena Berdún is a Spanish psychologist, TV presenter and actress born in 1973. She studied psychology in Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. She is also sexologist by La Laguna college of Tenerife, one of the most famous sexologist in Spain because of her appearances in radio and TV programmes giving...

     (born 1963), Spanish sexologist
  • Lorena Bernal
    Lorena Bernal
    Lorena Bernal Pascual is an actress and model with Argentine and Spanish nationality.-Early life:...

     (born 1977), Argentine model and former Miss Spain
  • Lorena Blanco
    Lorena Blanco
    Lorena Blanco is a female badminton player from Peru, who won two bronze medals at the 2003 Pan American Games.She played badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics, losing to Wang Chen of Hong Kong in the round of 32.-References:*...

     (born 1977), Peruvian badminton player
  • Lorena Bobbitt (born 1970), former wife of John Wayne Bobbitt
  • Lorena Briceño
    Lorena Briceño
    Lorena Briceño is a female judoka from Argentina. She competed for her native South American country at the 2008 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.-References:*...

     (born 1978), Argentine judoka
  • Lorena Gale
    Lorena Gale
    Lorena Gale was a Canadian actress, director, and writer. She was active onstage and in films and television since the 1980s...

     (1958-2009), Canadian actress
  • Lorena (singer)
    Lorena (singer)
    Lorena Gomez Pérez is an Spanish pop singer known artistically as Lorena.She was the winner of TV's Spanish Language's talent-search program Operación Triunfo 2006 . In 2007, her debut album, Lorena was released under the Sony BMG label.- Early years :She was born April 12, 1986 in Lleida, Spain...

     (born 1986), Spanish singer, born Lorena Gómez Pérez
  • Lorena Herrera
    Lorena Herrera
    Lorena Herrera is a Mexican actress.- Biography :Lorena moved with her family to Mexico City, where she began a career as a fashion model. She became highly successful in Mexico, and gained an international reputation, posing for advertiments in Mexico and South America...

     (born 1967), Mexican actress
  • Lorena Hickok
    Lorena Hickok
    Lorena Alice Hickok was an American journalist and confidante of Eleanor Roosevelt. Her relationship with Roosevelt has been the subject of research.-Early life:...

     (1893-1968), American journalist and friend of Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Lorena Ochoa
    Lorena Ochoa
    Lorena Ochoa Reyes is a Mexican professional golfer who played on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour from 2003 to 2010, and was the top-ranked female golfer in the world for over three years, from April 2007 to her retirement in May 2010...

     (born 1981), Mexican golfer
  • Lorena Rojas
    Lorena Rojas
    Lorena Rojas is a Mexican actress and singer, a song writer and best known for her leading roles in popular Telenovelas.- Biography :...

     (born 1972), Mexican actress and singer
  • Lorena Velázquez
    Lorena Velázquez
    Lorena Velázquez is a Mexican actress and former beauty pageant titleholder.-Biography:Born María de la Concepción Lorena Villar Dondé in Mexico City, Velázquez debuted in 1955. She competed in Miss Mexico in 1958 and placed second...

     (born 1937), Mexican actress
  • Lorena Wood Parker
    Lorena Wood Parker
    Lorena Wood Parker is a fictional character who appears in two of the novels and films in the Lonesome Dove series-Lonesome Dove:She first appears in Lonesome Dove, the first book published, but the third chronologically....

    , a fictional character in the Lonesome Dove series
  • Lorena Krasiki, a fictional character in the Southern Vampire Mysteries series and True Blood
    True Blood
    True Blood is an American television series created and produced by Alan Ball. It is based on The Southern Vampire Mysteries series of novels by Charlaine Harris, detailing the co-existence of vampires and humans in Bon Temps, a fictional, small town in the state of Louisiana...

    television show
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