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Leonora (given name) Leonora is a feminine given name which is a variation of Eleanor. It was relatively common in the 19th century in Western countries, ranking as the 314th most popular female given name in the United States in 1880. The name has declined in popula ...

, a feminine given name *

Leonora of Castile (disambiguation) Leonora of Castile or Eleanor of Castile may refer to: * Eleanor of England, Queen of Castile (1162–1214), wife of Alfonso VIII, who brought the name into the Castilian Royal Dynasty * Eleanor of Castile (died 1244), queen consort of Aragon, wife ...

Leonora of England Eleanor of England ( es, Leonor; – 31 October 1214), was Queen of Castile and Toledo as wife of Alfonso VIII of Castile. She was the sixth child and second daughter of Henry II, King of England, and Eleanor of Aquitaine. Early life and fam ...

(1162–1216), Queen of Castile and Toledo as wife of Alfonso VIII of Castile *

Leonora (singer) Leonora Colmor Jepsen (born 3 October 1998), also known simply as Leonora, is a Danish singer and former competitive figure skater. As a figure skater, she was a two-time national junior champion in singles in 2015, 2016 and represented her coun ...

(born 1998), Danish singer representing her country at the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 * John Leonora (1928–2006), research scientist, Loma Linda University

Places

Leonora, Guyana Leonora is a village in Essequibo Islands-West Demerara (Region 3), one of Guyana's 10 regions. Its subdivisions are Pasture, Sea Field, Para Field, Groenveldt and Sea Spray. The neighboring villages are Anna Catherina and Uitvlugt. Leonora encompa ...

Leonora, Western Australia Leonora is a town in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia, located northeast of the state capital, Perth, and north of the city of Kalgoorlie. History The first European explorer to visit the area was John Forrest in 1869. ...

Shire of Leonora The Shire of Leonora is a local government area in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia, about north of the city of Kalgoorlie and about northeast of the state capital, Perth. The Shire covers an area of , and its seat of go ...

, a local government area of Western Australia

Arts and entertainment

*''Leonora'' (opera), the original title of Ludwig van Beethoven's opera ''

Fidelio ''Fidelio'' (; ), originally titled ' (''Leonore, or The Triumph of Marital Love''), Op. 72, is Ludwig van Beethoven's only opera. The German libretto was originally prepared by Joseph Sonnleithner from the French of Jean-Nicolas Bouilly, with ...

'', in which the heroine is named Leonora (or ''Leonore'' in German) *''Leonora'' (opera) by

William Henry Fry William Henry Fry (August 10, 1813 – December 21, 1864) was an American composer, music critic, and journalist. Fry was the first known person born in the United States to write for a large symphony orchestra, and the first to compose a public ...

(the first known performance of an opera by an American composer on March 18, 1845) * ''Leonora'' (opera), the 1804 opera by Ferdinando Paer based on the same source as the work by Beethoven *Leonora, heroine of the opera ''

Il trovatore ''Il trovatore'' ('The Troubadour') is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto largely written by Salvadore Cammarano, based on the play ''El trovador'' (1836) by Antonio García Gutiérrez. It was García Gutiérrez's mos ...

'', the 1853 opera by Giuseppe Verdi based on the 1836 drama ''El trovador'' by Antonio García Gutiérrez *Leonora, heroine of the opera ''

La forza del destino ' (; ''The Power of Fate'', often translated ''The Force of Destiny'') is an Italian opera by Giuseppe Verdi. The libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on a Spanish drama, ' (1835), by Ángel de Saavedra, 3rd Duke of Rivas, wi ...

'', the 1862 opera by Giuseppe Verdi based on the 1835 drama ''Don Álvaro o la fuerza del sino'' by Ángel de Saavedra, 3rd Duke of Rivas *''Leonora'', another name for ''Lenore'' (ballad), by Gottfried August Bürger * ''Leonora'' (novel), by Maria Edgeworth * ''Leonora'' (film), a 1984 Australian film * ''Leonora'' (Hazel Holt novel), by

Hazel Holt Hazel Holt (nee Young, 3 September 1928 – 23 November 2015) was a British novelist. She studied at King Edward VI High School for Girls in Birmingham, England, and then Newnham College, Cambridge. She went on to work at the International Afric ...

* ''Leonora'' (Arnold Bennett novel), by

Arnold Bennett Enoch Arnold Bennett (27 May 1867 – 27 March 1931) was an English author, best known as a novelist. He wrote prolifically: between the 1890s and the 1930s he completed 34 novels, seven volumes of short stories, 13 plays (some in collaboratio ...

*Leonora, the main character of a brief narrative pocket in Henry Fielding's ''

Joseph Andrews ''The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of his Friend Mr. Abraham Adams'', was the first full-length novel by the English author Henry Fielding to be published and among the early novels in the English language. Appearing in 1742 ...

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696 Leonora 696 Leonora is a Meliboean asteroid orbiting the Sun in the asteroid belt. It was discovered 10 January 1910 by American astronomer Joel Hastings Metcalf, at Taunton, Massachusetts. It was named by Arthur Snow of the United States Naval Observa ...

, a minor planet

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