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Eileen (
eye-LEEN or
EYE -leen ) is an Irish feminine
given name anglicised from Eibhlín, an Irish form of the Norman French name Aveline, which is derived from the
Germanic Avi , possibly meaning
desire in combination with the
diminutive
suffix el and -in. . It is related to the English name
Evelyn and the variant name
Aileen . The name Eileen has been featured in classic Irish songs.
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It may refer to:
People
Artists
Entertainers
Eileen (singer) (born 1941), American-born singer in France
Eileen Atkins (born 1934), English actress
Eileen Barton (1924–2006), American singer
Eileen Bellomo , member of rock group The Stilettos
Eileen April Boylan (born 1987), Filipina/Irish-American actress
Eileen Brennan (1932–2013), American actress
Eileen Catterson , Scottish fashion model and former Miss Scotland
Eileen Daly (born 1963), English actress, singer and director
Eileen Davidson (born 1959), American film actress
Eileen Derbyshire (born 1930), English character actress
Eileen DeSandre , American actress
Eileen Essell (1922–2015), Irish actress
Eileen Farrell (1920–2002), American opera and concert singer
Eileen Fulton (born 1933), American actress
Eileen Heckart (1919–2001), American actress
Eileen Helsby (born 1937), British actress
Eileen Herlie (1918–2008), Scottish-American actress
Eileen Ivers (born 1965), Irish-American musician
Eileen Joyce (1908–1991), Australian pianist
Eileen McCallum (born 1936), Scottish actress
Eileen O'Brien (actress) , English actress
Eileen Pollock (1947–2020), Northern Ireland actress
Eileen Rodgers (1930–2003), American singer and Broadway performer
Eileen Rose (born 1965), American singer/songwriter
Eileen Ryan , American actress
Eileen Sedgwick (1898–1991), American silent film actress
Eileen Walsh (born 1977), Irish actress
Eileen Way (1911–1994), English actress
Eileen Whitfield , Canadian journalist and playwright
Eileen Wilson (1923-2018), American television star
Eileen Yeow (born 1972), Singaporean actress
Politicians
Eileen Anderson (1928–2021), Hawaii politician
Eileen Bell (born 1943), Northern Ireland politician
Eileen Desmond (1932–2005), British politician
Eileen C. Dugan (1945–1996), New York politician
Eileen Gordon (born 1946), United Kingdom politician
Eileen Hickey (New York politician) (1945–1999), New York politician
Eileen M. Hickey (1886–1960), Northern Irish politician
Eileen Lemass (born 1932), Irish politician
Eileen Malloy (born 1954), US ambassador
Eileen Paisley, Baroness Paisley of St George's (born 1931), Northern Irish politician
Eileen Parsons , British Virgin Islands politician
Sportspeople
Writers
Eileen Albrizio (born 1960), American writer
Eileen Chang (1920–1995), Chinese writer
Eileen Dunne (born 1958), Irish newsreader
Eileen Gunn (born 1945), American science fiction writer and editor
Eileen Kernaghan (born 1939), Canadian novelist
Eileen McNamara (born 1952), American columnist and professor
Eileen Myles (born 1949), American poet
Eileen Pollock (writer) , American television screenwriter and producer
Eileen Power (1889–1940), British economic historian and medievalist
Eileen Tabios (born 1960), Filipino-American writer and artist
Eileen Wilks (born 1952), American fiction writer
Other
Eileen Barker (born 1938), UK professor
Eileen Caddy (1917–2006), founder of the Findhorn Foundation community
Eileen Collins (born 1956), American astronaut
Eileen de Coppet, Princess of Albania (1922–1985)
Eileen Rockefeller Growald (born 1952), daughter of David Rockefeller
Eileen McKenney , wife of American writer Nathanael West
Eileen Nearne (1921–2010), member of UK Special Operations Executive (SOE)
Eileen O'Shaughnessy , wife of British writer George Orwell
Eileen Saxon (1942–1945), infant known as "The Blue Baby"
Eileen Southern (1920–2002), African American musicologist
Eileen Tallman Sufrin (1913-1999), Canadian author and labour activist
Eileen Vidal (died 2003),
kelper telephone and radio operator
Characters
Media
See also
Notes