Irma is a female

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.http://verkkopalvelu.vrk.fi/Nimipalvelu/default.asp?L=1 nimipalvelu It is also used in combination with other names in the abbreviated form "Irm-," for example, Irmine, Irmela, Irmgard, Irmgardis, and Irmentraud. The name comes from the Old High German "irmin", meaning "world". The Georgian given name "Irma" comes from the Georgian word "iremi"—"deer". The

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s for Irma are February 19 (Germany), March 31 (Finland), April 7 (Sweden), May 3 (Hungary), September 10 (Czech Republic), September 18 (Poland), October 13 (Latvia), October 25 (USA), and November 14 (Slovakia).

People

* Irma, Cameroonian singer/songwriter * Irma Baltuttis, German singer *

Irma Brandeis Irma Brandeis (1905–1990) was an American scholar of Dante Alighieri. Her work ''The Ladder of Vision'' was acclaimed as a breakthrough in Dantean studies upon its publication in the 1960s. Brandeis graduated from Barnard College in 1926. In he ...

, American Dante scholar *

Irma Capece Minutolo Irma Capece Minutolo (6 August 1935 – 7 June 2023) was an Italian opera singer who was one of the last companions of King Farouk I of Egypt. In later years, she claimed she was the king's last wife and used the name ''Irma Capece Minutolo Faro ...

, Italian opera singer * Irma Flaquer, Guatemalan government critic *

Irma Grese Irma Ilse Ida Grese (7 October 1923 – 13 December 1945) was a Nazi concentration camp guard at Ravensbrück and Auschwitz, and served as warden of the women's section of Bergen-Belsen. She was a volunteer member of the SS. Grese was convi ...

, German Nazi SS Holocaust concentration camp supervisor executed for war crimes * Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher, Dutch freestyle swimmer * Irma Huerta, Mexican freestyle swimmer * Irma Khetsuriani, Georgian wheelchair fencer *

Irma Kurtz Irma Kurtz (born September 3, 1935) is an American-born UK-based writer and agony aunt. She has worked in that capacity for ''Cosmopolitan'' magazine for over 40 years. She lives in London's King’s Cross. Early life Kurtz was born in New Jerse ...

(born 1935), American-born UK-based agony aunt * Irma de Malkhozouny, Serbian ballet dancer * Irma May, Polish social reformer *

Irma McClaurin Irma P. McClaurin is an American poet, anthropologist, academic, and leadership consultant. She was the first female president of Shaw University, and is the author or editor of several books on topics including the culture of Belize, black feminism ...

, American poet and anthropologist *

Irma Miranda Irma Cristina Miranda Valenzuela (born August 15, 1996) is a Mexican model, TV host and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Mexicana Universal 2022 at the pageant on May 21, 2022. As Mexicana Universal, Miranda represented Mexico at the M ...

, Mexican model, TV Host and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Mexicana Universal 2022 *

Irma Nioradze Irma Nioradze in 2011 Irma Nioradze ( ka, ირმა ნიორაძე, russian: Ирма Ниорадзе; born June 15, 1969 in Tbilisi, Georgia), is a Georgian ballerina and Principal Dancer of the Kirov-Mariinsky Ballet. Biography Ir ...

, Georgian ballerina * Irma S. Raker, American lawyer * Irma Rangel, American politician *

Irma S. Rombauer Irma S. Rombauer (October 30, 1877 – October 14, 1962) was an American cookbook author, best known for ''The Joy of Cooking'' (1931), one of the world's most widely read cookbooks. Following Irma Rombauer's death, periodic revisions of the book ...

, cookbook author *

Irma Sandoval-Ballesteros Irma Eréndira Sandoval Ballesteros (born 1972) is a Mexican politician and scholar, expert in public administration and corruption control. In 2018 she was appointed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador as head of the Ministry of Public Ad ...

, Mexican academic *

Irma Serrano Irma Consuelo Cielo Serrano Castro (; born 9 December 1933) is a Mexican singer, actress and politician. Famous for her "tantalizing", "untamed spitfire" voice, she is one of the most noted performers of the ranchera and corrido genres; she was ni ...

, Mexican actress *

Irma Stern Irma Stern (2 October 1894 – 23 August 1966) was a major South African artist who achieved national and international recognition in her lifetime. Life Stern was born in Schweizer-Reneke, a small town in the Transvaal, of German-Jewish par ...

, South African painter *

Irma St. Paule Irma St. Paule (March 23, 1926 – January 9, 2007) was a Ukrainian-born American character actress who appeared on stage, screen and television from 1985 to 2007. Often portraying elderly characters, she appeared in productions on Broadway thea ...

, Ukrainian-born American character actress * Irma Theoda Jones, American philanthropist *

Irma Thomas Irma Thomas ( Lee; born February 18, 1941) is an American singer from New Orleans. She is known as the "Soul Queen of New Orleans". Thomas is a contemporary of Aretha Franklin and Etta James, but never experienced their level of commercial succ ...

, soul singer * Irma Toivanen (1922–2010), Finnish politician and teacher *

Irma Voigt Irma Elizabeth Voigt (September 1, 1882 – May 9, 1953) was an American educator. She was the first Dean of Women at Ohio University; she held that office from 1913 until her retirement in 1949. Early life Voigt was born in Quincy, Illinois, ...

(1882–1953), American educator *

Irma von Cube Irma von Cube (December 26, 1899, Hanover; July 25, 1977) was a German-American screenwriter. She began as an actress and a writer for films in Germany in the early 1930s, and continued when she arrived in the United States in 1938. Among her f ...

, American screenwriter

Fictional characters

Irma (comics) This is the list of fictional characters in ''The Adventures of Tintin'', the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. The characters are listed alphabetically, grouped by the Main characters, the Antagonists, and the Supporting characters. ...

, a character from ''The Adventures of Tintin'' by Hergé *Irma, the title character of ''

Irma la Douce ''Irma la Douce'' (, "Irma the Sweet") is a 1963 American romantic comedy film directed by Billy Wilder from a screenplay he co-wrote with I. A. L. Diamond, based on the 1956 French stage musical of the same name by Marguerite Monnot and Alexa ...

'' (1963), a comedy film by Billy Wilder *Irma, the title character of the ''My Friend Irma'' television and radio situation comedies and a 1949 film *

Irma Barlow ''Coronation Street'' is a British soap opera, initially produced by Granada Television. Created by writer Tony Warren, ''Coronation Street'' first broadcast on ITV on 9 December 1960. The following is a list of characters introduced in the show' ...

, a character in the

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Coronation Street ''Coronation Street'' is an English soap opera created by Granada Television and shown on ITV since 9 December 1960. The programme centres around a cobbled, terraced street in Weatherfield, a fictional town based on inner-city Salford. Origi ...

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Irma Bunt Irma may refer to: People * Irma (name), a female given name * Irma (singer), full name Irma Pany, a Cameroonian female singer-songwriter Places * Irma, Alberta, Canada, a village * Irma, Lombardy, Italy, a ''comune'' * Irma, Wisconsin, USA, a ...

, from On Her Majesty’s Secret Service * Irma Gobb, a character from the British sitcom

Mr. Bean ''Mr. Bean'' is a British sitcom created by Rowan Atkinson and Richard Curtis, produced by Tiger Aspect and starring Atkinson as the title character. The sitcom consists of 15 episodes that were co-written by Atkinson alongside Curtis and Ro ...

and its

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. *

Irma Lair The following is a list of characters in the '' W.I.T.C.H.'' comics. The series revolves around five teenage girls who possess magical powers over the first five elements of nature and are revealed to be the second generation of Guardians of th ...

, character in ''

W.I.T.C.H ''W.I.T.C.H.'' (stylised as ''W.i.t.c.h.'') is an Italian fantasy Disney comics series created by Elisabetta Gnone, Alessandro Barbucci, and Barbara Canepa. The series features a group of five teenage girls who become the guardians of the classi ...

.'' series * Irma Langinstein, in the 1987-1996 ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' cartoon and Archie TMNT Adventures comics *Irma Leopold, a character from Joan Lindsay's novel '' Picnic at Hanging Rock'' * Irma Pince, librarian in the ''Harry Potter'' series * Irma Crabbe, character in the ''Harry Potter'' series *Irma the waitress, character in the Garfield comic strip by Jim Davis *Irma Homais, daughter of fictional apothecary, M. Homais, and a minor character in Flaubert's ''Madame Bovary'' *

Irma Vep ''Irma Vep'' is a 1996 French comedy-drama film written and directed by Olivier Assayas. Hong Kong actress Maggie Cheung plays a fictionalised version of herself, as disasters result when an unstable French film director (played by Jean-Pierre ...

, character in the

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central to the 1996 French film titled ''Irma Vep'' *'Irma', lieutenant of Colony Mu who is also the Consul I, in ''

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'' * Irma Steiner, a character of the anime and manga ''

Edens Zero ''Edens Zero'' (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese science fantasy manga series written and illustrated by Hiro Mashima. It has been serialized in Kodansha's ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' since June 2018, with its chapters collected into twenty ...

'' and the mother of Weisz Steiner

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Hurricane Irma Hurricane Irma was an extremely powerful Cape Verde hurricane that caused widespread destruction across its path in September 2017. Irma was the first Category 5 hurricane to strike the Leeward Islands on record, followed by Maria two ...

, 2017 *Hamilton women's watch Irma, 1952

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