ancient Greek
Ancient Greek includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Dark Ages (), the Archaic peri ...
origin, derived from κόρη (''korē'') meaning "girl, maiden".κόρη
''Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon'' Other variants include
Corina
Corina is a female given name of ancient Greek origin, derived from κόρη (''korē'') meaning "girl, maiden".Corinne.
People with the name
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Corinna
Corinna or Korinna ( grc, Κόριννα, Korinna) was an ancient Greek lyric poet from Tanagra in Boeotia. Although ancient sources portray her as a contemporary of Pindar (born ), not all modern scholars accept the accuracy of this tradition ...
or Korinna, ancient Greek poet
Corinna
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Corinna Adam
Corinna Jane Adam (31 January 1937 – 8 March 2012), also known by her married name Corinna Ascherson, was a British journalist, particularly for the ''New Statesman'', ''The Guardian'', and ''The Observer''. According to her obituary in ''The ...
or Ascherson (1937–2012), British journalist
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S. Corinna Bille
Stéphanie Corinna Bille (29 August 1912 – 24 October 1979) was a French-speaking writer from Switzerland.
Bille was born in Lausanne, the daughter of Swiss painter Edmond Bille, and grew up in Sierre. Bille went to Paris, where she married but ...
(1912–1979), Swiss writer in French
* Corinna Boccacini (born 1985), Italian snowboarder
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Corinna Chamberlain
Corinna Kathy Chamberlain Cheng () is a New Zealand-Hong Kong singer and actress. She is also a musical theatre performer, model, and occasional television host for TVB. She was a director for the dance company, "Morethandance" until December 20 ...
(born 1982), New Zealand-Hong Kong singer and actress
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Corinne Cléry
Corinne Cléry (born 23 March 1950), also known as Corinne Piccolo, is a French actress. She is known for the films ''Moonraker'' (1979), '' The Story of O'' (1975), ''Hitch-Hike'' (1977) and ''Yor, the Hunter from the Future'' (1983).
Early l ...
(born 1950), French actress
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Corinna Cortes
Corinna Cortes is a Danish computer scientist known for her contributions to machine learning. She is currently the Head of Google Research, New York City, New York. Cortes is a recipient of the Paris Kanellakis Award, Paris Kanellakis Theory and ...
, Danish computer scientist
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Corinna Dentoni
Corinna Dentoni (born 30 July 1989) is an inactive Italians, Italian tennis player.
On 22 June 2009, she achieved her best WTA singles ranking of 132. Her career-high in doubles is world No. 151, which she reached on 25 May 2009.
Dentoni has wo ...
(born 1989), Italian tennis player
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Corinna Everson
Corinna "Cory" Everson ( née Kneuer; born January 4, 1958) is an American female bodybuilding champion and actress. Everson won the Ms. Olympia contest six years in a row from 1984 to 1989.
Education
Corinna Kneuer was born in Racine, Wiscons ...
(née Kneuer) (born 1958), American bodybuilder champion and actress
* Corinna Folkins (née MacDonald) (1918-1998), United States lawn bowler
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Corinna Genest
Corinna Genest (born August 16, 1938) is a German film and television actress.Cowie p.158 She is the daughter of the actress Gudrun Genest and the great niece of Hubert von Meyerinck.
Selected filmography
* ''Stage Fright'' (1960)
* ''Always Tr ...
(born 1938), German film and television actress
* Corinna Halke (born 1957), German sports journalist and skater
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Corinna Harfouch
Corinna Harfouch (; née Meffert; 16 October 1954) is a German actress.
Life and work
Harfouch was born in Suhl, East Germany, the daughter of the teacher Wolfgang Meffert and his wife Marianne (née Kleber). She worked as a nurse and studi ...
(née Meffert) (born 1954), German actress
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Corinna Harney
Corinna Harney (born February 20, 1972) is an American model and actress. She was chosen as ''Playboy's'' Playmate of the Month for August 1991 and ''Playboy's'' Playmate of the Year for 1992. Harney is sometimes credited as Corina Harney, Cor ...
(born 1972), American model and actress
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Corinna Harrer
Corinna Harrer (born 19 January 1991) is a German middle distance runner. She was born in Regensburg. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed in the 1500 metres. She won a silver medal at the 2013 European Athletics Indoor Championships in the ...
(born 1991), German middle distance runner
* Corinna Hawkes, British professor of Food Policy
* Corinna Hein (née Biethan) (born 1983), German indoor cyclist
* Corinna Kennedy (born 1970), Canadian sprint canoer
* Corinna Kopf (born 1995 ), American YouTuber and gamer
* Corinna Kunze (born 1963), German handball player
* Corinna E. Lathan, American entrepreneur
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Corinna Lawrence
Corinna Lawrence (born 25 June 1990) is a British épée fencer.
Lawrence was the British Olympic Association's 2011 Olympic Athlete of the Year for Fencing. She competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Women's épée, but was defeated in ...
(born 1990), British épée fencer
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Corinna Lechner
Corinna Lechner (born 10 August 1994) is a German racing cyclist, who currently rides for Dutch amateur team MEXX–Watersley International. She rode at the 2014 UCI Road World Championships.
Major results
;2021
: 2nd Mixed team relay, Europ ...
(born 1994), German racing cyclist
* Corinna Lin (born 1994), Taiwanese-American figure skater
* Corinna Lingnau (born 1960), German field hockey player
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Corinna Löckenhoff
Corinna Elisabeth Löckenhoff (also spelled Loeckenhoff) is a gerontologist. She is a professor of Human Development at Cornell University and of Gerontology in Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine.
Education
Löckenhoff earned her undergraduate de ...
, German psychologist and gerontologist
* Corinna Kuhnle (née 1987), Austrian slalom canoeist
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Corinna Martini
Corrina Martini (born 19 June 1985 in Winterberg, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German luger who has competed since 2005. She won two medal at the FIL European Luge Championships 2010 in Sigulda
Sigulda (; german: Segewold, pl, Zygwold, ...
(born 1985), German luger
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Corinna May
Corinna May (born 6 October 1970 in Bremen, Germany as Corinna Meyer) is a blind singer from Germany. She is best known for competing in the 2002 Eurovision Song Contest with the song "I Can't Live Without Music".
Career
From an early age she ...
(née Meyer) (born 1970), German singer
* Corinna Miazga (born 1983), German politician
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Corinna Mura
Corinna Mura (born Corinna Wall; March 16, 1910 – August 1, 1965) was a cabaret singer, actress, and diseuse. She had a small role in the classic film ''Casablanca (film), Casablanca'' as the woman playing the guitar while singing "Tango ...
(née Wall) (1910–1965), American cabaret singer, diseuse, and film actress
* Corinna von Rad (born 1971), German-American opera director
* Corinna Rüffer (born 1975), German politician
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Corinna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn
Corinna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn (''née'' Larsen; born 28 January 1965) is a German-born Danish entrepreneur.
Early life
Corinna Larsen was born on 28 January 1964 in Frankfurt, Germany to a German mother, Ingrid Sauer, and a Danish father, ...
(née Larsen) (born 1964), German philanthropist
* Corinna S. Schindler, University of Michigan faculty
* Corinna Schnitt (born 1964), German filmmaker, artist, and professor
* Corinna Scholz (born 1989), German curler
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Corinna Schumacher
Corinna Schumacher ('' née'' Betsch; born 2 March 1969) is a German animal rights activist and accomplished horse rider. She is married to German former racing driver Michael Schumacher.
Personal life
A keen horsewoman, in 2010 Schumacher won ...
, née Betsch (born 1969), German animal rights activist, wife of racing driver Michael Schumacher
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Corinna Schwab
Corinna Schwab (born 5 April 1999) is a German athlete. She competed in the women's 400 metres event at the 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships
The 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held from 4 to 7 March 2021 at the ...
(born 1999), German sprinter
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Corinna Shattuck
Corinna Shattuck (April 21, 1848 – May 22, 1910) was an American educator and missionary in Turkey, recognized for heroism at Urfa in 1895–1896.
Early life
Corinna Shattuck was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1848. After her parents died, sh ...
(1848–1910), American educator and missionary in Turkey
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Corinna Putnam Smith
Corinna Putnam Smith (born, Corinna Haven Putnam; later, Corinna Lindon Smith; September 27, 1876 – died 1965) was an American writer, amateur archaeologist, scholar of Arabic and Islam, and an activist.
Life
Corinna Haven Putnam was born in N ...
(née Corinna Haven Putnam) (1876–1965), American writer, amateur archaeologist, scholar of Arabic
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Corinna Tsopei
Kyriaki "Corinna" Tsopei ( el, Κυριακή (Κορίννα) Τσοπέη; born 21 June 1944) is a Greek actress, model and beauty queen who won Miss Universe 1964.
Career
On 20 June 1964, Tsopei was crowned Miss Star Hellas by Miss Star Hellas ...
(born 1944), American Olympic judoka
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Corinna Ulcigrai
Corinna Ulcigrai (born 3 January 1980, Trieste) is an Italian mathematician working on dynamical systems. With Krzysztof Frączek in 2013, Ulcigrai is known for proving that in the Ehrenfest model (a mathematical abstraction of billiards with an i ...
(born 1980), Italian mathematician
* Corinna West, American Olympic judoka
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Cori Zarek
Corinna "Cori" Zarek is a lawyer, public interest technologist and adjunct professor of media law.
In August 2022, Zarek was appointed as the 3rd Deputy Administrator of the United States Digital Service at the White House. Zarek was the Executi ...
Korinna Ishimtseva
Korinna Ishimtseva (born ) is a Kazakhstani female volleyball player. She is a member of the Kazakhstan women's national volleyball team and played for Zhetysu Almaty in 2014.
She was part of the Kazakhstani national team at the 2014 FIVB Volley ...
(born 1984), Kazakhstani volleyball player
* Korinna Moon Bloodgood (born 1975), American actress and model
Pseudonyms
*Corinna, Ovid's (probably fictitious) lover in the ''
Amores
Amores may refer to:
* ''Amores'' (Ovid), the first book by the poet Ovid, published in 5 volumes in 16 BCE
* ''Amores'' (Lucian), a play by Lucian; also known as ''Erotes''
* Erotes (mythology), known as Amores by the Romans
* ''Amores'', a bo ...
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*Corinna, pen name of English poet Elizabeth Thomas (1675–1731)
Fictional characters
* Corinna Chapman, series of mysteries written by Kerry Greenwood
* ''
Corinna Schmidt
''Corinna Schmidt'' is a 1951 East German drama film directed by Arthur Pohl and starring Trude Hesterberg, Willy Kleinoschegg and Ingrid Rentsch. It is based on the novel ''Jenny Treibel'' by Theodor Fontane. A penniless young woman falls in lo ...
'', 1951 East German drama film
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Beloved Corinna
''Beloved Corinna'' (german: Geliebte Corinna and also known as ''Corinna Darling'') is a 1956 German drama film directed by Eduard von Borsody and starring Elisabeth Müller. It was shot at the Pichelsberg Studios in West Berlin. The art directo ...
'', 1956 German drama film
* Corinna Wiles, character in the 2007 TV series ''Drive''
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Corrine, Corrina
"Corrine, Corrina" (sometimes "Corrina, Corrina") is a 12-bar country blues song in the AAB form. "Corrine, Corrina" was first recorded by Bo Carter ( Brunswick 7080, December 1928). However, it was not copyrighted until 1932 by Armenter "Bo Cart ...