Heidi is a Germanic feminine given name. It became an internationally popular first name as a direct result of the Swiss children's book, ''Heidi''. It can sometimes be an affectionate diminutive of the name

Adelheid Adelheid is the modern Dutch and German form of the Old High German female given name Adalheidis, meaning "nobility" or "noble-ness". It may refer to the following people: * Saint Adelheid or Adelaide of Italy, (931–999), Holy Roman Empress an ...

(English: Adelaide), which means "nobility" or, more loosely, "of noble birth". The name began to be used in the English-speaking world shortly after the 1937 Shirley Temple movie adaptation of the novel. In German-speaking countries, Heidi is also used as a diminutive for other names, such as Heidrun, Heidelinde, and Heidemarie.

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Heidi Alexander Heidi Alexander (born 17 April 1975) is a British politician who served as Deputy Mayor of London for Transport from 2018 to 2021. A member of the Labour Party, she was Member of Parliament (MP) for Lewisham East from 2010 to 2018. Alexander ...

(born 1975), British politician *

Heidi Allen Heidi Suzanne Allen (' Bancroft; born 18 January 1975) is a British former politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Cambridgeshire from 2015 to 2019. Initially elected as a Conservative, she resigned from the party in Fe ...

(born 1975), British politician *

Heidi Andersson Heidi Andersson (born 27 February 1981 in the locality of Ensamheten ( en, "Solitude"), Storuman, Sweden) is a Swedish armwrestler. She has won the World Championships in armwrestling eleven times. She is married to Swedish biathlete Björn Ferr ...

(born 1981), Swedish armwrestler * Heidi Andreasen (born 1985), Faroese swimmer * Heidi Androl (born 1980), candidate for ''The Apprentice:Los Angeles'' (US Season 6, 2005) *

Heidi Astrup Heidi Astrup (born 31 May 1972) is a former Danish team handball player and Olympic champion. She received a gold medal with the Danish national team at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.Heidi Baker Heidi Gayle Baker''Long-time resident had a love of teaching'', https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/tn-cpt-1022-farrell-obit-20101021-story.html (born August 29, 1959) is a Christian missionary, itinerant speaker, and the CEO of Iris ...

(born 1959), American missionary in Africa *

Heidi Barrett Heidi Peterson Barrett is an American winemaker and entrepreneur who has been responsible for some of California's most notable cult wines. Her career has included stints at Screaming Eagle, Dalla Valle Vineyards, Paradigm Winery, Grace Family ...

(born 1958), Californian winemaker * Heidi Becker-Ramlow (1954–1987), German Olympic diver * Heidi Behrens-Benedict, American politician *

Heidi Berry Heidi Berry (born December 8, 1958) is an American musician. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, she recorded and released four critically acclaimed solo albums on the British independent record labels Creation Records and 4AD. Career Her earlie ...

(born 1958), American singer-songwriter * Heidi Biebl (1941–2022), German alpine skier *

Heidi Blickenstaff Heidi Blickenstaff (born December 28, 1971) is an American actress based in New York City best known for playing a version of herself in the musical '' itle of show' during its Off-Broadway and Broadway runs, as well as for originating the role ...

(born 1971), American actress * Heidi Bohay (born 1959), American actress *

Heidi Burge Heidi Ann Horton (née Burge; November 11, 1971) is a former American professional women's basketball player. She is the twin sister of Heather (Burge) Quella. Early life As a 5-month-old in 1972, Heidi Burge was found to have a second aorta wr ...

(born 1971), American basketball player * Heidi Chu (born 1977), Miss Hong Kong contestant * Heidi Collins (born 1967), American correspondent and news anchor *

Heidi Cortez Heidi Cortez (born March 11, 1981) is an American entrepreneur, coach, speaker, writer, and advisor. In November 2005, Cortez was hired by Howard Stern to be the radio host and co-writer on a segment on his Sirius XM satellite channel. On the sho ...

(born 1981), American model *

Heidi Crowter Heidi Crowter is an English disability rights advocate. Crowter campaigns for the anti-abortion group Don't Screen Us Out, challenging the Abortion Act 1967 which she views as discriminatory against fetuses with disabilities. Early life Heidi ...

, English disability rights advocate * Heidi W. Durrow (born 1969), American author * Heidi-Elke Gaugel (born 1959), German athlete *

Heidi Li Feldman Heidi Li Feldman is an American professor of law at Georgetown Law. Her areas of research are torts, ethics, political philosophy, and legal theory. She is an elected member of the American Law Institute. Education Feldman attended Brown Un ...

, American law professor *

Heidi Fleiss Heidi Lynne Fleiss (born December 30, 1965) is an American former madam. She ran an upscale prostitution ring based in Los Angeles and is often referred to as the "Hollywood Madam". Fleiss has also worked as a columnist and was a television pers ...

(born 1965), former American procuress *

Heidi Foss Heidi Foss is a Canadian actor, comedian, and writer. In 2001 she won a Canadian Comedy Awards honoring her achievements in the field of comedy writing for the Canadian television comedy program This Hour Has 22 Minutes. Her film and television c ...

, Canadian TV writer

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Heidi Grande Røys Heidi Grande Røys (born 6 May 1967) is a Norwegian politician for the Socialist Left Party. She became Minister of Modernisation in 2005, renamed to Minister of Government Administration and Reform since 2006 in the second cabinet Stoltenberg. S ...

(born 1967), Norwegian politician *

Heidi Groskreutz Heidi Skletroz Groskreutz (born September 3, 1981) is an American ballroom dancer, specializing in the fields of Latin and swing dancing. She is known for making the final in the second season of the Fox TV series '' So You With Think You Can Dan ...

(born 1981), American ballroom dancer *

Heidi Harley Heidi Britton Harley (born September 26, 1969) is a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona. Her areas of specialization are formal syntactic theory, morphology, and lexical semantics. Career Harley was born in Oregon, but was ra ...

(born 1969), American linguist * Heidi Harris, American radio personality *

Heidi Hautala Heidi Anneli Hautala (born 14 November 1955) is a Finnish politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Finland. She is a member of the Green League, part of the European Green Party. She is currently a Member of the European Parl ...

(born 1955), Finnish politician *

Heidi Heitkamp Mary Kathryn "Heidi" Heitkamp ( ; born October 30, 1955) is an American politician who served as a United States senator from North Dakota from 2013 to 2019. A member of the North Dakota Democratic–Nonpartisan League Party, she was the first wom ...

(born 1955), American lawyer, and politician * Heidi Herzon, American TV producer * Heidi Hollinger (born 1968), Canadian photographer *

Heidi Julavits Heidi Suzanne Julavits (born April 20, 1969) is an American author and was a founding editor of '' The Believer'' magazine. She has been published in ''The Best Creative Nonfiction Vol. 2'', '' Esquire'', ''Culture+Travel'', ''Story'', '' Zoetrope ...

(born 1969), American author *

Heidi Kabel Heidi Bertha Auguste Kabel (; 27 August 1914 – 15 June 2010) was a German actress and musician. Most of her stage roles were performed at the Ohnsorg-Theater in Hamburg, many of them in Low German. She became famous in Germany as many of the pr ...

(1914–2010), German musician and actress * Heidi Klum (born 1973), German model * Heidi Kozak (born 1963), American actress * Heidi Larssen (born 1951), Norwegian politician * Heidi Lee, Hong Kong singer * Heidi Lenhart (born 1973), American actress * Heidi Lucas (born 1977), American actress *

Heidi Lück Heidi Lück née Pfeifer (born 6 April ,1943) is a German Social-Democratic ( Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands SPD) politician and member of the Bavarian state parliament (Bayerischer Landtag) in the Sonthofen-Lindau electoral constituenc ...

(born 1943), German politician *

Heidi Løke Heidi Løke (born 12 December 1982) is a Norwegian handball player for Larvik HK and the Norwegian national team. Among her achievements as club player are national championships, a silver medal in the EHF Women's Cup Winners' Cup, and winner of ...

(born 1982), Norwegian handball player *

Heidi MacDonald Heidi MacDonald (born November 15) is a writer and editor in the field of comic books based in New York City. She runs the comics industry news blog '' The Beat''. Career MacDonald is a former editor for DC Comics' Vertigo imprint and ''Disney ...

, American journalist * Heidi Mark (born 1971), American ''Playboy'' Playmate * Heidi Miller (born 1950s), American female bodybuilder * Heidi Safia Mirza (born 1958), British academic * Heidi Mohr (1967–2019), German footballer *

Heidi Montag Heidi Blair Pratt (née Montag; born September 15, 1986) is an American reality television personality, model, singer and actress. Born and raised in Crested Butte, Colorado. In 2006, Montag came to prominence after being cast in the MTV reality ...

(born 1986), American television personality *

Heidi Lee Morgan Heidi Lee Morgan (born June 29, 1967) is a retired American professional wrestler who competed in the World Wrestling Federation, International World Class Championship Wrestling, Ladies Pro Wrestling Association, and National Wrestling Federatio ...

(born 1967), American female professional wrestler * Heidi Mueller (born 1982), American actress * Heidi Murkoff, American author

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* Heidi Neumark (born 1954), American spiritual writer *

Heidi Newfield Heidi Kay Newfield (born October 4, 1970) is an American country music artist. She was lead singer, rhythm guitarist and harmonica player for the group Trick Pony, alongside Keith Burns and Ira Dean from 1996 until 2006, when she left in pursuit ...

(born 1970), American country music singer and former frontwoman of "Trick Pony" * Heidi Nordby Lunde (born 1973), Norwegian politician *

Heidi Parviainen Heidi Parviainen (born 8 March 1979) is a Finnish heavy metal singer and lead vocalist of symphonic metal band Dark Sarah. She previously fronted Amberian Dawn. She is a classically trained lyric soprano. Career Agonia, Iconofear (1997� ...

(born 1979), Finnish singer and songwriter * Heidi Pelttari (born 1985), Finnish ice hockey player * Heidi Postlewait, former UN social worker * Heidi Puurula (born 1971), Finnish singer * Heidi Rakels (born 1968), Belgian judoka *

Heidi Range Heidi India Partakis ( Range; born 23 May 1983) is an English singer, best known as a former member of the girl group Sugababes. She was an original member of girl group Atomic Kitten, although she left the group before they released any mater ...

(born 1983), member of British girl group Sugababes * Heidi Ravven (born 1952), American professor * Heidi Roizen (born 1958), American businesswoman *

Heidi Ryom Heidi Ryom Kristensen (26 August 1955 – 5 October 2013) was a Danish ballerina and educator for the Royal Danish Ballet. She began dancing at the Royal Danish Ballet school and became an in 1972 before being made a corps dancer at the Royal Dani ...

(1955–2013), Danish ballerina and educator * Heidi Sager (1939–2004), German-Australian canoeist * Heidi Schanz (born 1972/1973), American-German actress * Heidi Schmid (born 1938), German fencer *

Heidi Schüller Heidi Schüller (born June 15, 1950 in Passau, Lower Bavaria) is a West German-German long jumper who competed in the early 1970s. She took the Athlete's Oath at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, the first for a woman in the Summer Olympics ...

(born 1950), German athlete * Heidi Shepherd, American singer *

Heidi Sorenson __NOTOC__ The following is a list of Playboy Playmates of 1981. ''Playboy'' magazine names their Playmate of the Month each month throughout the year. January Karen Elaina Price (born July 17, 1960) is an American model, stunt woman and tele ...

(born 1960), Danish-Canadian ''Playboy'' Playmate * Heidi Sørensen (born 1970), Norwegian politician * Heidi Soulsby, British politician from Guernsey * Heidi Støre (born 1963), Norwegian footballer * Heidi Sundal (born 1962), Norwegian handball player * Heidi Swedberg (born 1966), American actress * Heidi Talbot (born 1980), Irish folk singer *

Heidi Thomas Heidi Thomas (born 13 August 1962) is an English screenwriter and playwright. Career After reading English at Liverpool University, Thomas gained national attention when her play, ''Shamrocks And Crocodiles'', won the John Whiting Award in ...

(born 1962), English screenwriter and playwright *

Heidi Tjugum Heidi Marie Tjugum (born 5 September 1973) is a Norwegian team handball player and goalkeeper, and World Champion from 1999. She was born in Drammen. She received a silver medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.

(born 1973), Norwegian handball player * Heidi Valkenburg, Australian actress *

Heidi VanDerveer Heidi Elizabeth VanDerveer (born February 11, 1964) is a women's basketball collegiate and professional coach. She is currently the women's basketball head coach at UC San Diego. A native of Chautauqua, New York, VanDerveer was a four-year letter- ...

(born 1964), American basketball coach * Heidi Von Gunden, American musicologist * Heidi Weisel (1961/1962–2021), American fashion designer *

Heidi Weng Heidi Weng (born 20 July 1991) is a Norwegian cross-country skier and fell runner. Career In cross-country skiing her best individual World Cup finish is her victories in Tour de Ski both 2016–17 and 2017–18. She has won three gold medals ...

(born 1991), Norwegian cross-country skier *

Heidi Williams Heidi Williams (born 1981) is the Charles R. Schwab Professor of Economics at Stanford University and Director of Science Policy at the Institute for Progress. She is a graduate of Dartmouth College, and earned her MSc in development economics fr ...

(born 1981), American attorney and judge * Heidi Wunderli-Allenspach (born 1947), Swiss biologist and first women rector of ETH Zurich * Heidi Yuen (born 1992), Hong Kong athlete * Heidi Zeigler (born 1979), American child actress * Heidi Zeller-Bähler (born 1967), Swiss alpine skier * Heidi Zimmer, American deaf mountain climber * Heidi Zurbriggen (born 1967), Swiss alpine skier

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