Dolores (first name)
Dolores is a female given name .
Origin and meaning
The name Dolores comes from the Latin dolor " pain ". Mater Dolorosa is the Latin name for the feast of Mary's pain ( memory of the pain of Mary ). Above all, it is intended to remember the torments that Mary suffered as the mother of Jesus Christ when she accompanied her son on the Way of the Cross , stood under the cross , saw him die and had to put him in the grave ; see also Via Dolorosa .
distribution
Dolores is particularly popular as a first name in the Spanish- speaking world, but also occurs occasionally in Germany , Austria , the USA and other countries.
The Legs of Dolores is a German comedy film by Géza von Cziffra from 1957, and That only makes the legs of Dolores is a hit by the German composer Michael Jary that is sung by many interpreters.
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Well-known namesake
- Dolores Bauer (1934–2010), Austrian journalist
- Dolores del Río (1905–1983), Mexican film actress
- Dolores French (* 1951), American prostitute and suffragette
- Dolores Fuller (1923-2011), b. Dolores Eble, American film actress and songwriter
- Dolores González Flores (* 1958), stage name Lolita Flores, Spanish actress and singer
- Dolores Hart (* 1938), former American film actress, later Benedictine
- Dolores Hitchens (1907–1973), American writer
- Dolores Hope (1909–2011), American singer and wife of actor Bob Hope
- Dolores Ibárruri (1895–1989), origin. Dolores Ibárruri Gómez, known as La Pasionaria, Spanish revolutionary and politician
- Dolores Jay (* 1922), American, a famous case of xenoglossia
- Dolores Marco (* 1973), Spanish badminton player
- Dolores O'Riordan (1971–2018), Irish singer and songwriter, member of the Cranberries
- Dolores R. Piperno (* 1949), American anthropologist and archaeobotanist
- Dolores Rente (* 1959), German politician (WASG)
- Dolores Schmidinger (* 1946), Austrian actress and cabaret artist
- Dolores Silva (* 1991), Portuguese soccer player
- Dolores Spikes (1936–2015), American mathematician and university director
- Dolores Viesèr (1904–2002), origin. Wilhelmine Maria Aichbichler or Maria Valdez, Austrian writer and narrator
Fictional characters:
- Dolores Haze, better known as Lolita in the novel Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- Dolores Jane Umbridge is a character from the Harry Potter novels, see Characters from the Harry Potter novels: Dolores Umbridge
- Dolores Claiborne is the main character in Stephen King's novel Dolores
See also
- Dolores (disambiguation), Dolorosa , Dolors Batalla i Nogués
