Sinéad ( , ) is an Irish feminine name. It is derived from the
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to the English Janet, itself a feminine form of the Hebrew''Yohannan'', "God forgave/God gratified". In English, ''Sinéad'' is also commonly spelled ''Sinead''. The name is generally translated into English as either ''Jane'' or ''Jennifer'', or as the Scottish female name ''Jean''.
Notable people and characters with the name include:
Sinéad Millea
Sinéad Millea (born in Kilkenny) is a former camogie player for Kilkenny GAA, Kilkenny, winner of an Camogie All Stars Awards, All-Star award in Camogie All Stars Awards#2004, 2004 and two All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, All Ireland me ...
Sinéad Madden
Sinéad Madden (born in County Galway, Galway, Ireland) is an Irish singer-songwriter and Fiddle, fiddle player, best known as a member of the Moya Brennan band. She also teaches at Waltons New School of Music in Dublin.Sinéad Mulvey, singer, air hostess
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Sinéad O'Carroll
Sinéad Maria O'Carroll (born 14 May 1973) is an Irish singer and businesswoman. She is best known for being a member of the girl group B*Witched.
Career
1998–2002: B*Witched
In 1998, Edele Lynch formed the girl group Butterfly Farm with her ...
, singer with Irish pop band B*Witched
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Sinéad O'Connor
Shuhada Sadaqat (born Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor on 8 December 1966; ) is an Irish singer-songwriter. Her debut album, ''The Lion and the Cobra'', was released in 1987 and charted internationally. Her second album, ''I Do Not Want What ...
, singer/songwriter
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Sinéad Quinn
Sinéad Quinn ( ga, Sinéad Ní Chuinn; born 24 March 1980) is a Northern Irish singer, best known as a contestant in the first series of the UK BBC TV series '' Fame Academy'' in 2002. She later went on to sign a recording contract, released ...
, recording artist, reality show contestant
Film and television
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Sinéad Cusack
Sinéad Moira Cusack ( ) is an Irish actress. Her first acting roles were at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, before moving to London in 1969 to join the Royal Shakespeare Company. She has won the Critics' Circle and ''Evening Standard'' Awards f ...
Sinead Matthews
Sinead Matthews (born ) is an English actress whose credits include film, television and stage. Her notable TV roles include Marcia Williams in '' The Crown''.
She was born in Coventry, England, and attended Cardinal Wiseman Catholic School ...
Sinéad de Valera
Sinéad de Valera (; 3 June 1878 – 7 January 1975) was an Irish author of a number of children's books in both Irish and English. She was married to Taoiseach and third president of Ireland, Éamon de Valera.
Background
She was born Jane ...
, children's book author
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Sinead Farrington
Sinéad Farrington is a British particle physicist who works on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider.
Farrington is interested in B physics, Higgs physics, tau physics, and long-lived particles. She is a Professor of Physics at ...
, British particle physicist
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Sinéad Gleeson
Sinéad Gleeson is an Irish writer, editor and freelance broadcaster. She has won the Irish Book Award.
Career
Having edited the work of others, in 2016's ''The Long Gaze Back'' and 2017's ''The Glass Shore'', she released her first book ''Cons ...
, author and book editor
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Sinéad Griffin
Sinéad Majella Griffin (born 1986) is an Irish physicist working at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on high energy physics and condensed matter. She won the 2017 Swiss Physical Society Award in General Physics.
Early life
Griffin was ...
Sinéad Sheppard
Sinéad Sheppard is an Irish politician and dancing tutor, and former member of the pop group Six. She rose to fame in the 2001–02 RTÉ One television series ''Popstars'', in which she was selected as a member of the group. After the band ...
, dancer
Fictional characters
* Sinead O'Connor, in the TV series ''Hollyoaks'', played by Stephanie Davis
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Sinead Tinker
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, in the TV series ''Coronation Street'', played by Katie McGlynn
See also
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Siobhán
Siobhán is a female given name of Irish origin. The most common anglicisations are Siobhan (identical to the Irish spelling but omitting the acute accent over the 'a'), Shevaun and Shivaun. A now uncommon spelling variant is Siubhán.
It is de ...
, feminine Irish-language name ultimately derived from the same Hebrew name