Old Norse
Old Norse, Old Nordic, or Old Scandinavian, is a stage of development of North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages. Old Norse was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and their overseas settlemen ...
name ''Ingiríðr'', which was a short form of ''Ingfríðr'', composed of the theonym ''
Ing
Ing, ING or ing may refer to:
Art and media
* '' ...ing'', a 2003 Korean film
* i.n.g, a Taiwanese girl group
* The Ing, a race of dark creatures in the 2004 video game '' Metroid Prime 2: Echoes''
* "Ing", the first song on The Roches' 1992 ...
'' and the element ''fríðr'' "beloved; beautiful" common in Germanic feminine given names. The name Ingrid (more rarely in the variant ''Ingerid'', ''Ingris'' or ''Ingfrid''; short forms ''Inga, Inger, Ingri'') remains widely given in all of Scandinavia, with the highest frequency in Norway.
Norwegian usage peaked in the interbellum period, with more than 2% of newly born girls so named in 1920; popularity declined gradually over the 1930s to 1960s, but picked up again in the late 1970s, peaking above 1.5% in the 1990s.Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
Ingrid of Sweden
Ingrid of Sweden (born: Princess Ingrid Victoria Sofia Louise Margareta of Sweden; 28 March 1910 – 7 November 2000) was Queen of Denmark from 1947 until 1972 as the wife of King Frederick IX.
Born into the House of Bernadotte, she was the dau ...
(1910–2000), Swedish princess, Queen Consort of Denmark
* Ingrid Alberini (In-Grid, born 1973), Italian singer
* Ingrid Alexandra (born 2004), Norwegian princess
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Ingrid Andress
Ingrid Elizabeth Andress (born September 21, 1991) is an American country music singer-songwriter. Her breakthrough single, " More Hearts Than Mine" peaked at number 30 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. Andress released her debut studio album '' ...
, American singer-songwriter
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Ingrid van Bergen
Ingrid van Bergen (; born 15 June 1931) is a German film actress. She has appeared in 100 films since 1954. She was born in Free City of Danzig, today Gdańsk, Poland.
Career
Since 1954, Ingrid van Bergen appeared in more than 170 film and tele ...
(born 1931), German actress
* Ingrid Bergman (1915–1982), Swedish actress
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Íngrid Betancourt
Íngrid Betancourt Pulecio (; born 25 December 1961) is a Colombian politician, former senator and anti-corruption activist, especially opposing political corruption.
Betancourt was kidnapped by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) ...
(born 1961), Colombian politician
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Ingrid Bjørnov
Ingrid Bjørnov (born 5 December 1963) is a Norwegian singer, songwriter, keyboard player, composer and text writer. Her debut album ''Første Akt'' from 1980 with the duo Dollie de Luxe, Dollie (together with Benedicte Adrian) was awarded Spellem ...
(born 1963), Norwegian musician
* Ingrid Bruce (1940–2012), Swedish civil engineer
* Ingrid Bruckert (born 1952), German field hockey player
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Ingrid Burley
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(born 1986), American singer and rapper
* Ingrid Burman (born 1952), Swedish politician
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Ingrid Caven
Ingrid may refer to:
* Ingrid (given name)
* Ingrid (record label), and artist collective
* Ingrid Burley, rapper known mononymously as Ingrid
* Tropical Storm Ingrid, various cyclones
* 1026 Ingrid, an asteroid
* InGrid, the grid computing pr ...
(born 1938), German actress
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Ingrid Chauvin
Ingrid Chauvin (; born 3 October 1973) is a French television and stage actress, known for her roles in the miniseries ''Méditerranée'', ''Dolmen'', and the police procedural series ''Femmes de loi''.
Early life and career
Ingrid Chauvin was ...
(born 1973), French actress
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Ingrid Daubechies
Baroness Ingrid Daubechies ( ; ; born 17 August 1954) is a Belgian physicist and mathematician. She is best known for her work with wavelets in image compression.
Daubechies is recognized for her study of the mathematical methods that enhance ...
(born 1954), Belgian physicist and mathematician
* Ingrid Deltenre (born 1960), Dutch-Swiss manager
* Ingrid Engen (born 1998), Norwegian international football player
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Ingrid Fliter
Íngrid Fliter (born September 23, 1973, Buenos Aires) is an Argentinian pianist. She began her formal piano studies with Elizabeth Westerkamp. Her first public appearance in recital was at age 11, and she made her concerto debut at the Teatro ...
(born 1973), Argentinian classical pianist
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Ingrid Godon
Ingrid Godon (born 29 August 1958) is a Flanders, Flemish illustrator of children's literature.
Career
She won the Prijs van de Kinder- en Jeugdjury voor het boek in Vlaanderen in 1988 and in 1989 for respectively illustrating the books ''Piu ...
Ingrid Guimarães
Ingrid da Silva Guimarães (born July 5, 1972) is a Brazilian actress, comedian and, television presenter.
Filmography
Television
* 1993 - ''Mulheres de Areia'' .... Jurema
* 1996 - ''Chico Total'' .... Reporter
* 1997 - '' Por Amor'' .... ...
(born 1972), Brazilian actress, comedian
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Ingrid Hafner
Ingrid Hafner (13 November 1936 – 20 May 1994) was a British actress, born in London. Her father was Raoul Hafner, an Austrian helicopter pioneer, and her mother Eileen Myra McAdam was a descendant of Scottish-born John Loudon McAdam, the roa ...
(1936–1994), British actress
* Ingrid Hernandez (born 1988), Colombian race walker
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Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld
Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld (; 21 October 1921 – 30 March 2015) was a Dutch astronomer.
Background
In a jointly credited trio with Tom Gehrels and her husband Cornelis Johannes van Houten, she was the discoverer of many thousands of astero ...
(1921–2015), Dutch astronomer
* Ingrid Isotamm (born 1979), Estonian actress
* Ingrid Janbell (born 1955), Swedish actress, director and lecturer
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Ingrid Jensen
Ingrid Jensen (born January 12, 1966) is a Canadian jazz trumpeter.
Music career
Jensen was born in North Vancouver and grew up in Nanaimo. She received a scholarship to the Berklee College of Music in Boston.
After graduating from Berklee, she ...
(born 1966), Canadian trumpet player and composer
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Ingrid Jonker
Ingrid may refer to:
* Ingrid (given name)
* Ingrid (record label), and artist collective
* Ingrid Burley, rapper known mononymously as Ingrid
* Tropical Storm Ingrid, various cyclones
* 1026 Ingrid, an asteroid
* InGrid, the grid computing project ...
(born 1933), South African poet
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Ingrid Kavelaars
Ingrid Kavelaars (born March 20, 1971) is a Canadian actress known for her role on the science-fiction series '' Code Name: Eternity''.
Early life
Kavelaars was born in London, Ontario, Canada. Her parents are Dutch. Her mother, Anne, was a home ...
(born 1971), Canadian actress
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Ingrid de Kok
Ingrid de Kok aka Ingrid Fiske (born 1951) is a South African author and poet.
Biography
Ingrid de Kok grew up in Stilfontein, a gold mining town in what was then the Western Transvaal. When she was 12 years old, her parents moved to Johanne ...
(born 1951), South African author
* Ingrid Leijendekker (born 1975), Dutch water polo player
* Ingrid van Lubek (born 1971), Dutch triathlete
* Ingrid Lukas (born 1984), Estonian musician
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Ingrid Luterkort
Carola Ingrid Margareta Segerstedt Luterkort (''née'' Eklundh, 28 June 1910 – 3 August 2011) was a Swedish actress and stage director, whose professional career spanned from the 1930s until 2010.
Born in Lund, Luterkort studied in the Royal D ...
(1910–2011), Swedish actress
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Ingrid Mattson
Ingrid Mattson (born August 24, 1963) is a Canadian activist and scholar, A professor of Islamic studies, she is currently the London and Windsor Community Chair in Islamic Studies at Huron University College at the University of Western Ontario ...
(born 1963), Canadian activist and scholar
* Ingrid Michaelson (born 1979), American singer
* Ingrid Moses-Scatliffe (born 1969), British lawyer politician from the British Virgin Islands
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Ingrid Nargang
Ingrid Nargang (17 April 1929 – 10 May 2019) was an Austrian lawyer, judge, and contemporary historian. From 1964 to 1993, she was head of the district court in Engelhartszell. She was the first woman to head a rural district court in the Judici ...
(1929–2019), Austrian judge and contemporary historian
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Ingrid Newkirk
Ingrid Elizabeth Newkirk (née Ward; born June 11, 1949) is a British-American animal activist and the president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), the world's largest animal rights organization. She is the author of several ...
(born 1949), American animal rights activist
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Ingrid Nilsen
Ingrid Nilsen (born February 2, 1989) is an American YouTube personality from Rowland Heights, California.
Career
Nilsen began a YouTube channel with the name Missglamorazzi on October 23, 2009, because she wanted to share her feeling of confi ...
(born 1989), American video blogger
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Ingrid Noll
Ingrid Noll (married name Ingrid Gullatz, born 29 September 1935 in Shanghai) is a German thriller writer. She has written several novels, including ''Head Count'' (''Die Häupter meiner Lieben''), ''Hell Hath No Fury'' (''Der Hahn ist tot'') ...
(born 1935), German author
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Ingrid Park
Ingrid Park (born February 1971) is a New Zealand television actress. She began her acting career in 1998 appearing in the New Zealand television soap opera series '' Shortland Street''.
Early life and career breakthrough
Ingrid was born in 1 ...
(born 1971), New Zealand television actress
* Ingrid Paul (born 1964), Dutch speed skater
* Ingrid Pedersen (1933–2012), Swedish aviator
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Ingrid Peters
Ingrid Peters (born 19 April 1954 in Dudweiler, Saar Protectorate) is a German singer.
She represented Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 1986 held in Bergen. Her song, "Über die Brücke geh'n
West Germany (performing under the banner G ...
(born 1954), German singer
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Ingrid Pitt
Ingrid Pitt (born Ingoushka Petrov; 21 November 193723 November 2010) was a Polish-British actress and writer best known for her work in horror films of the 1970s.
Early life
Ingoushka Petrov was born in Warsaw, Poland, one of two daughters ...
(1937–2010), Polish-British actress
* Ingrid Puusta (born 1990), Estonian windsurfer
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Ingrid Ragnvaldsdotter
Ingrid Ragnvaldsdotter ( Old Norse: ''Ingiríðr Rögnvaldsdóttir'') (1100/1110 – after 1161 AD) was born a member of the Swedish royal family, became a member of Danish royalty by marriage and later was Queen consort of Norway as the spouse of ...
(12th century), Queen Consort of Norway
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Ingrid Rimland
Ingrid A. Rimland, also known as Ingrid Zündel (May 22, 1936 – October 12, 2017), was an American writer. She wrote several novels based upon her own experiences growing up in a Mennonite community in Ukraine and as a refugee child during Wor ...
(1936–2017), American psychologist and author
* Ingrid Marie Rivera (born 1983), Puerto Rican actress and model
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Ingrid Rivera Rocafort
Ingrid I. Rivera Rocafort is a marketing professional and the current executive director of the Puerto Rico Tourism Company. She has worked as a market analyst, strategic planner, and Director of such firms as Procter & Gamble, Wal-Mart, and Adve ...
, Puerto Rican businesswoman
* Ingrid Rodríguez (born 1991), Ecuadorian footballer
* Ingrid von Rosen (1930–1995), Swedish diarist, wife of film director Ingmar Bergman
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Ingrid Rubio
Ingrid Rubio Ruiz (born 2 August 1975 in Barcelona, Spain) is a Spanish actress. She won the Special Mention Award at the 1996 San Sebastián International Film Festival for her performance in the film ''Taxi''.
Career
She has appeared in ove ...
(born 1975), Spanish actress
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Ingrid Rüütel
Ingrid Rüütel ( Ruus; born 3 November 1935) is an Estonian folklorist and philologist. From 2001 to 2006 she was the First Lady of Estonia, married to President Arnold Rüütel.
Personal life
Ingrid Rüütel was born in Tallinn as a daughter ...
(born 1935), Estonian folklorist and philologist, First Lady of Estonia
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Ingrid Silva
Ingrid Silva (born 1988/1989) is a Brazilian ballet dancer who currently performs with the Dance Theatre of Harlem in New York City.
Early life
Silva was born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, to a father who served in the air force and mother who w ...
, Brazilian ballet dancer
* Ingrid Sischy (1952–2015), South African-born American art and fashion editor
* Ingrid Steeger (born 1947), German actress and comedian
* Ingrid Stengård, Finnish mountain bike orienteer
* Ingrid Stöckl (born 1969), Austrian alpine skier
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Ingrid Thulin
Ingrid Lilian Thulin (; 27 January 1926 – 7 January 2004) was a Swedish actress and director who collaborated with filmmaker Ingmar Bergman. She was often cast as harrowing and desperate characters, and earned acclaim from both Swedish ...
(1926–2004), Swedish film actress
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Ingrid Tørlen
Ingrid Tørlen (born July 21, 1979 in Ålesund) is a Norwegian female beach volleyball player. Her beach volleyball partner since 2002 has been Nila Håkedal. The pair competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece where they placed 22nd. ...
(born 1979), Norwegian beach volleyball player
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Ingrid Veninger
Ingrid Veninger (born August 21, 1968) is a Canadian actress, writer, director, producer, and film professor at York University. Veninger began her career in show business as a child actor in commercials and on television; as a teen, she was fea ...
(born 1968), Canadian actress, writer, director, producer, and film professor
* Ingrid Visser (born 1966), New Zealand scientist of Dutch parentage
* Ingrid Visser (1977–2013), Dutch volleyball player
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Ingrid Gärde Widemar
Ingrid Gärde Widemar (1912–2009) was a Swedish lawyer and politician (Liberal People's Party (Sweden)). She was the first female Supreme Court Justice in Sweden.
Biography
Gärde was born on 24 March 1912. Her father was Natanael Gärde, a ju ...
(1912–2009), Swedish lawyer and politician
* Ingrid Wildi Merino (born 1963), Chilean-born Swiss video artist
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Ingrid Ylva
Ingrid Ylva of Bjelbo (born c. 1180s, died c. 1250–1255), was a Swedish noblewoman, the wife of Magnus Minnesköld of Bjälbo and the mother of regent Birger Jarl. The exact years of her birth and death are unclear; a traditional year quoted fo ...
(13th century), Swedish noblewoman
Fictional characters
*Ingrid, from television series ''
Once Upon a Time
"Once upon a time" is a stock phrase used to introduce a narrative of past events, typically in fairy tales and folk tales. It has been used in some form since at least 1380 (according to the ''Oxford English Dictionary'') in storytelling in t ...
''
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Ingrid
Ingrid may refer to:
* Ingrid (given name)
* Ingrid (record label), and artist collective
* Ingrid Burley, rapper known mononymously as Ingrid
* Tropical Storm Ingrid, various cyclones
* 1026 Ingrid, an asteroid
* InGrid, the grid computing project ...
, from television series ''
Sesame Street
''Sesame Street'' is an American educational children's television series that combines live-action, sketch comedy, animation and puppetry. It is produced by Sesame Workshop (known as the Children's Television Workshop until June 2000) ...
''
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Ingrid
Ingrid may refer to:
* Ingrid (given name)
* Ingrid (record label), and artist collective
* Ingrid Burley, rapper known mononymously as Ingrid
* Tropical Storm Ingrid, various cyclones
* 1026 Ingrid, an asteroid
* InGrid, the grid computing project ...
, a character from the fighting game series ''
Street Fighter
, commonly abbreviated as ''SF'' or スト (''Suto''), is a Japanese media franchise centered on a series of fighting video and arcade games developed and published by Capcom. The first game in the series was released in 1987, followed by six ...
Witches of East End
''Witches of East End'' is a 2011 novel by author Melissa de la Cruz and the first entry in her ''Beauchamp Family'' series. It was published on June 21, 2011, by Hyperion Books and follows a family of Long Island witches struggling against da ...
'' and television series ''
Witches of East End
''Witches of East End'' is a 2011 novel by author Melissa de la Cruz and the first entry in her ''Beauchamp Family'' series. It was published on June 21, 2011, by Hyperion Books and follows a family of Long Island witches struggling against da ...
''
*Ingrid Avellan Cortez, from the ''
Spy Kids
''Spy Kids'' is an American spy family action-adventure comedy franchise created by Robert Rodriguez. The plot follows adventures of Carmen and Juni Cortez, two children who become involved in their parents' espionage organization. The films i ...
'' film trilogy
*Ingrid Dracula, from horror drama comedy ''
Young Dracula
''Young Dracula'' is a British children's horror drama comedy television series which aired on CBBC, loosely based on '' Young Dracula'', a 2002 children's book by Michael Lawrence. It is also based on the epistolary novel ''Dracula'', writt ...
Going Straight
''Going Straight'' is a BBC sitcom created and written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, and starring Ronnie Barker and Richard Beckinsale. The programme was a direct spin-off to the sitcom '' Porridge'', which all four were involved in, wit ...
''
*Ingrid Brandl Galatea, from the video game '' Fire Emblem: Three Houses''
*Ingrid Giraffe, from the animated television series ''
My Gym Partner's a Monkey
''My Gym Partner's a Monkey'' is an American animated television series created by Tim Cahill and Julie McNally Cahill for Cartoon Network. It aired from December 26, 2005, to November 27, 2008, ending with a total of four seasons and 56 episode ...
''
*Ingrid Navaro, an antagonist from the Mexican telenovela ''
Abismo de pasión
''Abismo de pasión (Abyss of Passion)'' is a Mexican telenovela produced by Angelli Nesma Medina and written by Caridad Bravo Adams for Televisa. The show follows childhood friends Elisa (Angelique Boyer), Damián (David Zepeda), Gael (Mark Ta ...
''
*Ingrid Third, from the animated television series ''
Fillmore!
''Fillmore!'' is an American animated television series created by Scott M. GimpleIngrid Goes West''