Leonore
Leonore is a female given name .
Origin and meaning
Leonore is the abbreviation of the first name Eleonore . The Spanish and Portuguese forms can also be a male given name.
Name bearers
Leonore
- Leonore Auerbach (* 1933), German politician (SPD), mayor of Hildesheim
- Leonore Bartsch (* 1988), German pop singer and songwriter
- Leonore Brecher (1886–1942), Austrian experimental zoologist
- Leonore Capell (* 1970), German actress
- Leonore Ehn (1888–1978), Austrian actress
- Leonore Goldschmidt (1897–1983), German educator
- Leonore Krenzlin (* 1934), German specialist in German
- Leonore Mau (1916–2013), German photographer
- Leonore Niessen-Deiters (also: Leonore Deiters-Quesada; 1879–1939), German journalist and writer
- Leonore Pany (1877–1965), Austrian writer and composer
- Leonore Siegele-Wenschkewitz (1944–1999), German church historian
- Leonore Teles de Menezes (around 1340–1386), Queen of Portugal
- Leonore Vespermann (1900–1974), German painter of late expressionism and the new objectivity
- fiction
- Leonore: female figure in the opera Fidelio by Ludwig van Beethoven . The original version of the opera was called Leonore .