Carme is a feminine given name of two separate origins. The first is a
Galician and
Catalan
Catalan may refer to:
Catalonia
From, or related to Catalonia:
* Catalan language, a Romance language
* Catalans, an ethnic group formed by the people from, or with origins in, Northern or southern Catalonia
Places
* 13178 Catalan, asteroid #1 ...
form of
Hebrew
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''
karmel'', "garden". The second is from
Greek ''
Karmē'', whose name means "she who cuts the grain", from ''keirein'', "to cut".
People
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Carme Figueras
Carme Figueras i Siñol (Molins de Rei - July 12, 1955) http://www.socialistes.cat/index.php/psc/layout/set/print/El-Partit/Directori/Qui-es-qui/Carme-Figueras-Sinol/(language)/cat-ES is a Spanish politician
A politician is a person active i ...
, a Catalan politician
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Carme Laura Gil
Carme Laura Gil i Miró (born 1935 in Benissanet, Tarragona) is a Spanish professor and politician. She was Catalonia's Minister of Education from 1999 to 2003. She has degrees in Classical Philology and Pedagogy and she is also a University prof ...
, a Catalan professor
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Carme Pinós
Carme Pinós (born 1954) is a Spanish architect.
Biography
Pinós graduated Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona (ETSAB) in Barcelona in 1979 and returned to the school in 1981 to study Urbanism. From 1982 on she formed a part ...
, a Catalan architect
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Carme Riera, a Catalan professor
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Carme Ruscalleda
Carme Ruscalleda i Serra (, born in 1952) is the renowned Spanish chef of the restaurant Sant Pau in Sant Pol de Mar, near Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. She also owns and manages the restaurant Sant Pau de Tòquio in Japan.
Ruscalleda was raise ...
, a Catalan chef
Other
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Carme (mythology), a figure in
Greek mythology
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See also
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Carle
Carle or Carlé is a surname. Notable people with the name include:
*Andrea Cosima Carle, whose stage name is Maggie Mae (1960 – 2021), German singer
*Barbara Carle (born 1958), French-American poet, critic, translator and Italianist
* David Ca ...
, surnames
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Carle (given name)
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Karmei Tzur
Karmei Tzur, or Carmei Tzur ( he, כַּרְמֵי צוּר) is an Israeli settlement organized as a community settlement in the West Bank located north of Hebron in the Judean hills between the Palestinian towns of Beit Ummar and Halhul. The Na ...
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Carmen (given name)
Carmen is a given name with two different origins. Its first root is Spanish and Italian and used as a nickname for Carmel and Carmelo (respectively), from Hebrew '' karmel'' ("God's vineyard"), which is the name of a mountain range in northern I ...
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