Lorna is a
feminine given name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a ...
. The name is said to have been first coined by
R. D. Blackmore for the heroine of his novel ''
Lorna Doone
''Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor'' is a novel by English author Richard Doddridge Blackmore, published in 1869. It is a romance based on a group of historical characters and set in the late 17th century in Devon and Somerset, particularly ar ...
'', which appeared in 1869. Blackmore appears to have derived this name from the Scottish placename ''Lorn''/''
Lorne''. In the U.S., according to the 1990 census,
Think Baby Names: Lorna
/ref> the name ranks 572 of 4275, and as a surname, Lorna ranks 62296 out of 88799.
Notable people named Lorna
* Lorna Anderson
Lorna Anderson is a Scottish soprano from Glasgow, noted for her Baroque recitals.
Anderson attended the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland with Patricia MacMahon and the Royal College of Music. She has performed with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, ...
, Scottish soprano
* Lorna Aponte, Panamanian rapper
* Lorna Arnold, British historian of the UK's nuclear weapons programmes
* Lorna Bennett, Jamaican reggae singer
* Dame Lorna May Boreland-Kelly, British magistrate and member of the Judicial Appointments Commission
* Lorna Dee Cervantes, Chicana American poet
* Lorna Cordeiro
Lorna Cordeiro, (born 9 August 1944) also known as Lorna, is a Konkani singer from the coastal state of Goa, India, and is popularly known as the "Nightingale of Goa".
Early and personal life
Lorna was born in Bombay on 9 August 1944 to Ce ...
, singer from Goa
Goa () is a state on the southwestern coast of India within the Konkan region, geographically separated from the Deccan highlands by the Western Ghats. It is located between the Indian states of Maharashtra to the north and Karnataka to the ...
, India
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* Lorna Jane Clarkson
Lorna Jane Clarkson (née Smith, born 24 November 1964) is an Australian fashion designer, entrepreneur and author. She is the creator of the Lorna Jane brand of activewear for women, and owner of a chain of retail outlets that market the cloth ...
, Australian fashion designer, entrepreneur and author.
* Lorna Crozier
Lorna Crozier, OC (born 24 May 1948) is a Canadian poet who holds the Head Chair in the Writing Department at the University of Victoria. She has authored fifteen books and was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2011. She is credited as ...
, Canadian poet and essayist
*Lorna Dewaraja
Lorna Srimathie Dewaraja (born 1929; died 2014) was a Sri Lankan historian.
Biography
Dewaraja graduated from the University of Ceylon, followed by postgraduate studies at the University of London. She was a faculty member of the University of C ...
(born 1929), Sri Lankan historian
* Lorna Dixon, Australian Aboriginal custodian and preserver of the Wangkumara language
* Lorna Doom
Lorna Doom (born Teresa Marie Ryan, January 4, 1958–January 16, 2019) was an American musician best known as the bass guitarist for the punk rock band the Germs from 1976 to 1980, and again after they got back together from 2005 to 2009.
Ea ...
, American bassist for punk band The Germs
* Lorna Feijóo, Cuban ballet dancer
* Lorna Fitzgerald
Lorna Katie Fitzgerald (born 17 April 1996) is a British actress from Northampton. Her most notable role to date is that of Abi Branning in the BBC soap opera, '' EastEnders''. Since leaving ''EastEnders'' in January 2018, Fitzgerald has develo ...
, British actress
* Lorna French
Lorna French is a British playwright and the two-time winner of the Alfred Fagon Award for the best new play by a Black playwright of African or Caribbean descent living in the United Kingdom. Her Fagon Award winner plays are ''Safe House'' and ' ...
, British playwright
* , Jamaican poet
* Lorna Griffin
Lorna Joann Griffin (born June 9, 1956, in Hamilton, Montana) is a retired female shot putter and discus thrower from the United States. She was a two-time silver medalist at the 1983 Pan American Games. Griffin qualified for the 1980 U.S. Olym ...
, American shot putter and discus thrower
* Lorna Hill
Lorna Hill (born Lorna Leatham, 21 February 1902 in Durham, England, died 17 August 1991 in Keswick, Cumbria), was an English author of over 40 books for children. These remained popular into the 21st century.
Life and works
Lorna, the daugh ...
, British author, primarily of children's books
* Lorna Kesterson
Lorna J. Kesterson (December 30, 1925 – January 16, 2012) was an American journalist, newspaper editor and politician. She served as the first female mayor of the city of Henderson, Nevada, for two consecutive four-year terms from 1985 to 199 ...
, American politician, first woman to serve as Mayor of Henderson, Nevada
* Lorna E. Lockwood, first female Chief Justice of a state supreme court in the US
* Lorna Luft
Lorna Luft (born November 21, 1952) is an American actress, author, and singer. She is the daughter of Judy Garland and Sidney Luft and the half-sister of Liza Minnelli.
Early life
Luft was born on November 21, 1952, at Saint John's Health Cent ...
, American singer and actress, daughter of Judy Garland
Judy Garland (born Frances Ethel Gumm; June 10, 1922June 22, 1969) was an American actress and singer. While critically acclaimed for many different roles throughout her career, she is widely known for playing the part of Dorothy Gale in '' The ...
and half-sister of Liza Minnelli
* Lorna Mahlock
Lorna M. Mahlock (born 1968/1969) is a senior officer in the United States Marine Corps who currently serves as the Deputy Director for Combat Support for the National Security Agency's Cybersecurity Directorate. Her prior assignment was as the ...
, American Brigadier general
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(one star) in the United States Marine Corps
* Lorna Maitland
Lorna Maitland, born Barbara Ann Popejoy (November 19, 1943), is an American film actress. She appeared in three Russ Meyer films: '' Lorna'', '' Mudhoney'', and '' Mondo Topless''.
Biography
Lorna Maitland was born in Glendale, Los Angeles ...
, American actress
* Lorna Maseko
Lorna Maseko (born 3 July 1983), is a South African chef, media personality and former ballet dancer.
Early life and education
Maseko was born and raised in the Johannesburg township of Alexandra, Gauteng, Alexandra. Her mother was a receptioni ...
, South African chef and ballerina
* Lorna McNee
Lorna McNee is a Scottish chef who was a winner of '' Great British Menu'' in 2019.
Early life
McNee was born in 1987 and raised in Forres, Scotland. She studied at Moray College before spending two weeks at Gordon Ramsay at Claridge's.
She u ...
, Scottish chef
* Lorna Nyarinda, Kenyan footballer
* Lorna Patterson
Lorna Patterson (born October 1, 1956) is an American film, stage and television actress and, more recently, a Jewish cantor. As an actress, her best-known roles were as Randy, the singing stewardess, in ''Airplane!'', and as the lead in the tel ...
, American actress
* Lorna Raver
Lorna Raver is an American retired actress who has appeared in numerous plays, films, and television series. She is sometimes credited as Lorna Raver Johnson.
Life and career
Raver was born in York, Pennsylvania, and was raised in a Pennsylvan ...
, American actress who played Sylvia Ganush in the 2009 horror film ''Drag Me to Hell
''Drag Me to Hell'' is a 2009 American supernatural horror film directed and co-written by Sam Raimi. It stars Alison Lohman, Justin Long, Lorna Raver, Dileep Rao, David Paymer, and Adriana Barraza. The plot, written with his older brother Ivan, ...
''
* Lorna Sage
Lorna Sage (13 January 1943 – 11 January 2001) was an English academic, literary critic and author, remembered especially for contributing to consideration of women's writing and for a memoir of her early life, '' Bad Blood'' (2000).ODNB entry ...
, British literary critic and author
* Lorna Simpson
Lorna Simpson (born August 13, 1960) is an American photographer and multimedia artist. She came to prominence in the 1980s and 1990s with artworks such as ''Guarded Conditions'' and ''Square Deal''. Simpson is most well-known for her work in c ...
, American photographer
* Lorna Slater
Lorna Slater (born 27 September 1975) is a Canadian-born Scottish politician who has served as Minister for Green Skills, Circular Economy and Biodiversity since 2021. She has served as co-leader of the Scottish Greens alongside Patrick Harvi ...
, Canadian-born Scottish politician and co-leader of the Scottish Greens
The Scottish Greens (also known as the Scottish Green Party; gd, Pàrtaidh Uaine na h-Alba ; sco, Scots Green Pairtie) are a green political party in Scotland. The party has seven MSPs in the Scottish Parliament as of May 2021. As of the 2 ...
* Lorna Tolentino
Victoria Lorna Perez Aluquin-Fernandez (born December 23, 1961), better known by her stage name Lorna Tolentino, sometimes known as ''L.T.'', an abbreviation of her screen name, is a Filipino actress, host and executive producer. Regarded as ...
, Filipino film actress
*Lorna Vinden
Lorna Vinden Anderson (1931 – June 9, 2008), born Lorna Margaret Skidmore, was a Canadian wheelchair athlete, competing in pentathlon, track and field, archery, and swimming events at the 1967 and 1969 Wheelchair Pan American Games, and the 19 ...
, Canadian wheelchair athlete
* Lorna Yabsley, British actress and photographer
Fictional characters
* ''Lorna Doone
''Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor'' is a novel by English author Richard Doddridge Blackmore, published in 1869. It is a romance based on a group of historical characters and set in the late 17th century in Devon and Somerset, particularly ar ...
'', protagonist of the 1869 a novel of the same name by Richard Doddridge Blackmore
* Lorna the Jungle Girl
Lorna the Jungle Girl, initially called Lorna the Jungle Queen, is a comic book jungle girl protagonist created by writer Don Rico and artist Werner Roth. She debuted in ''Lorna the Jungle Queen'' #1 (July 1953), published by Marvel Comics' 1950s ...
, comics character who debuted in 1953
* Lorna Dane, alter-ego of the female X-Men member Polaris
* Lorna, protagonist of the 1964 Russ Meyer film of the same name
* Lorna, principal character in the 2008 Belgian film ''Lorna's Silence
''Lorna's Silence'' (french: Le Silence de Lorna) is a 2008 drama film by the Belgian brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. It was the winner of the 2008 LUX Prize, as well as the Best Screenplay Award at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival.
Plot
Lo ...
''
* Lorna Morello, women's prison inmate in Netflix television series '' Orange Is The New Black''
* Lorna, a character from the animated miniseries ''Over the Garden Wall
''Over the Garden Wall'' is an American animated television miniseries created by Patrick McHale for Cartoon Network. The series centers on two half-brothers who travel across a mysterious forest to find their way home, encountering a variet ...
''
* LORNA, protagonist of Lynn Hershman Leeson's 1983 Art game of the same name
* Lorna, younger sister to Maggie Beare in the ABC Television series ''Mother and Son
''Mother and Son'' is an Australian television sitcom that was broadcast on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) from 16 January 1984 until 21 March 1994. The show stars Ruth Cracknell, Garry McDonald, Henri Szeps and Judy Morris. It ...
'' (1984–1994)
* Lorna, comic book character by Alfonso Azpiri, and protagonist of the video game of the same name
* Lorna from the MMORPG Mabinogi (game)
''Mabinogi'' ( ko, 마비노기) is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game released by Nexon Corporation, Nexon, and developed by devCAT studio. The name of the game is taken from the Welsh word ''Mabinogi'', a Welsh language, Welsh antho ...
edutainment series "Lorna & Pan's Fantasy Life!"
* Lorna McNessie, the daughter of the Loch Ness Monster
The Loch Ness Monster ( gd, Uilebheist Loch Nis), affectionately known as Nessie, is a creature in Scottish folklore that is said to inhabit Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands. It is often described as large, long-necked, and with one or mor ...
from ''Monster High
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''
Other uses
*"Lorna", Allied WWII reporting name for the Japanese Kyushu Q1W
The Kyūshū Q1W ''Tokai'' (東海 "Eastern Sea") was a land-based anti-submarine patrol bomber aircraft developed for the Imperial Japanese Navy in World War II. The Allied reporting name was ''Lorna''. Although similar in appearance to the G ...
airplane
*"Lorna Shore
Lorna Shore is an American deathcore band formed in New Jersey in 2009. The group currently consists of lead guitarist Adam De Micco, drummer Austin Archey, rhythm guitarist Andrew O'Connor, vocalist Will Ramos, and bassist Michael Yager. The ba ...
", American Deathcore Band from Warren County, New Jersey
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