Oriana is a

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meaning 'gold, sunrise, or dawn'. Variants include ''Orianna'', ''Oriane'' or ''Orianne''. Sometimes ''Orian, Orestes'' or '' Dorian'' may be a male given name or a

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, as ''Orians, Oriani'', or '' Doria.''

Possible roots of the name

There is the

Latin Latin ( or ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic languages, Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally spoken by the Latins (Italic tribe), Latins in Latium (now known as Lazio), the lower Tiber area aroun ...

meaning of ''rising'' (as in

sunrise Sunrise (or sunup) is the moment when the upper rim of the Sun appears on the horizon in the morning, at the start of the Sun path. The term can also refer to the entire process of the solar disk crossing the horizon. Terminology Although the S ...

; see a similar

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Orient The Orient is a term referring to the East in relation to Europe, traditionally comprising anything belonging to the Eastern world. It is the antonym of the term ''Occident'', which refers to the Western world. In English, it is largely a meto ...

). Things get even more complicated as in the

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of the

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, namely

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and Portuguese, there is the

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''Oroana'' or ''Ouroana'', from ''Oro'' or ''Ouro'' meaning Gold, whose origin is the Latin ''Aurum'', and whose root, ''Aur'', may be related to ''Ori''. The Irish version of this name means ' the golden one' and stems from 'Ór' which is the Irish for gold.

Notable people

Notable people with the name include: *Nickname for English queen

Elizabeth I Elizabeth I (7 September 153324 March 1603) was List of English monarchs, Queen of England and List of Irish monarchs, Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603. She was the last and longest reigning monarch of the House of Tudo ...

; the Oriana madrigals were written for her. *

Oriana Wilson Oriana Fanny Wilson, (née Souper; c. 1874 – 25 April 1945) was a British naturalist and humanitarian who received the Commander of the Order of the British Empire for her services during the First World War. Her husband was the polar explorer ...

(1876-1945), MBE, British humanitarian and wife of explorer

Edward Adrian Wilson Edward Adrian Wilson (23 July 1872 – 29 March 1912) was an English polar explorer, ornithologist, natural historian, physician and artist. Early life Born in Cheltenham on 23 July 1872, Wilson was the second son and fifth child of ...

Oriana Fallaci Oriana Fallaci (; 29 June 1929 – 15 September 2006) was an Italian journalist and author. A member of the Italian resistance movement during World War II, she had a long and successful journalistic career. Fallaci became famous worldwide for h ...

(1929-2006), Italian journalist, author, political *Oriana Clare Tickell, Dame

Clare Tickell Dame Oriana Clare Tickell, DBE (born 25 May 1958) is an Independent Director of the John Lewis Partnership. Career Clare Tickell joined the John Lewis Partnership as an Independent Director in October 2019. The John Lewis Partnership, which in ...

Oriana Panozzo ''Sons and Daughters'' is an Australian Logie Award-winning soap opera/drama serial, broadcast by the Seven Network between January 1982 and December 1987 and produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation. It was created by executive Reg Watson, and ...

, Australian actress *

Oriana Scheuss Oriana Scheuss (born 7 February 1972 in Teufen, Appenzell Ausserrhoden) is a Swiss sport shooter. She competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, officially branded as Sydney 2 ...

, Swiss Olympic sport shooter *

Oriana Civile Oriana Civile () (born in Messina, Sicily, 19 November 1980) is an Italian singer, performer, and songwriter. She is a scholar of Sicilian traditional music and an important exponent of reviving the musical repertory of Sicilian oral tradition. He ...

, Sicilian folk singer and ethnomusicologist, exponent of Sicilian

oral tradition Oral tradition, or oral lore, is a form of human communication in which knowledge, art, ideas and culture are received, preserved, and transmitted orally from one generation to another.Jan Vansina, Vansina, Jan: ''Oral Tradition as History'' (19 ...

and of

world music "World music" is an English phrase for styles of music from non-English speaking countries, including quasi-traditional, Cross-cultural communication, intercultural, and traditional music. World music's broad nature and elasticity as a musical ...

interviewer. *Oriana Small, birth name of

Ashley Blue Oriana Small, known professionally as Ashley Blue, is an American pornographic actress. She is a member of the AVN Hall of Fame, has hosted her own Vivid Radio show and written for '' Hustler'' magazine. In 2011, she published a memoir of her c ...

, US actress *

Oriane Lassus Oriane Lassus (born in 1987) is a French author and cartoonist, as well as an illustrator. Biography Since 2009, Lassus has contributed to the ''Spongiculture'' blog in which she goes through her daily life against a backdrop of acerbic humour. ...

(born 1987), author, cartoonist, illustrator *

Oriana Sabatini Oriana Gabriela Sabatini (born 19 April 1996) is an Argentine model, actress and singer. Early life and education Oriana Gabriela Sabatini was born on 19 April 1996 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is the daughter of the entrepreneur and form ...

, Argentine actress, model and singer *

Oriana Skylar Mastro Oriana Skylar Mastro is an American political scientist and author. She is a Center Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and assistant professor of Political Science at Stanford University. She is also a non-resident ...

, American political scientist

Fictional characters

*Oriana, heiress to the throne of Great Britain and beloved of Amadis de Gaula, in ''Oriana'' by

Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo (; – 1505) was a Castilian people, Castilian author who arranged the modern version of the chivalric romance ''Amadís de Gaula'', originally written in three books in the 14th century by an unknown author. Montalv ...

*Oriana, fairy and main character in the children's book '' A Fada Oriana'', by Portuguese writer Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen *Oriane de Guermantes, Duchesse de Guermantes, character in Marcel Proust's novel ''

In Search of Lost Time ''In Search of Lost Time'' (), first translated into English as ''Remembrance of Things Past'', and sometimes referred to in French as ''La Recherche'' (''The Search''), is a novel in seven volumes by French author Marcel Proust. This early twen ...

'' *Oriana, the princess whom the protagonist of '' Felix the Cat: The Movie'' must save, as well as the name of the land she rules over *Orianna, the daughter of Talon and Oria in the metal opera '' Days of Rising Doom'' by Aina *Oureana, Moorish princess who converted to Christianity in 12th-century Portugal *Oriane, a character in the novel ''

Labyrinth In Greek mythology, the Labyrinth () is an elaborate, confusing structure designed and built by the legendary artificer Daedalus for King Minos of Crete at Knossos. Its function was to hold the Minotaur, the monster eventually killed by the h ...

'' by Kate Mosse *Orianna, The Lady of Clockwork, a character in the video game ''

League of Legends ''League of Legends'' (''LoL'', commonly referred to as ''League'', is a multiplayer online battle arena video game developed and published by Riot Games. Inspired by ''Defense of the Ancients'', a Mod (video games), custom map for ''Warcraf ...

'' *Oriana, genetic twin of Miranda Lawson in the video game ''

Mass Effect 2 ''Mass Effect 2'' is a 2010 action role-playing game developed by BioWare and published by Microsoft Game Studios and Electronic Arts. It was released for Windows and the Xbox 360 in January 2010, as well as the PlayStation 3 the following ye ...

'' *Oriana, subject of the poem by the same name by

Alfred, Lord Tennyson Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (; 6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was an English poet. He was the Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign. In 1829, Tennyson was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of ...

*Orianna Spearling, a character in the novel '' The Walls Around Us'' by Nova Ren Suma *Oriana de la Force, a villainous lawyer in the book series ''

Conspiracy 365 ''Conspiracy 365'' is a 12-part Australian television miniseries based on the novels written by Gabrielle Lord. Produced by Circa Media for Family Movie Channel, the series screened from January 2012. It also began screening on ABC3 in Januar ...

'' by Gabrielle Lord. *Orianna, a higher vampire in '' The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Blood and Wine'' *Rose Oriana, the princess of the Midgar kingdom, a character in the TV show, manga and light novel

The Eminence in Shadow is a Japanese light novel series written by Daisuke Aizawa and illustrated by Tōzai. It began serialization online in May 2018 on the user-generated novel publishing website Shōsetsuka ni Narō. It was later acquired by Enterbrain, wh ...

Ships

* SS ''Oriana'' (1959), former ocean liner * MV ''Oriana'' (1995), former cruise ship

Other

* "

The Ballad of Oriana "The Ballad of Oriana" is an early poem by Alfred Tennyson, published in 1830, but not in 1833.Collins, ed. 1900, p. 36. Background According to critic John Churton Collins, "This fine ballad was evidently suggested by the old ballad of " Hele ...

", 1830 poem by Alfred Tennyson * '' Oriana. Una donna'', a 2013 biography of Oriana Fallaci

References

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