Queenie (name)
The name Queenie is an affectionate, or pet use, of the term queen - and is thought to be derived from the Old English word 'cwen', meaning 'woman' rather than a reference to the monarch or his wife.
As a first name it can also mean "Royal Lady" or "Ruler". In this sense the name is also used as a nickname or pet name for a girl who shares her first name with a Queen. As such, it was popular name during Victorian times in the British Empire. It was once very popular in London's East End.
Given name
- Queenie Chu (born 1981), Hong Kong television presenter and actress
- Q. D. Leavis (1900-1982), English literary critic and essayist
- Queenie McKenzie (circa 1930-1998), indigenous Australian artist
- Queenie Rosson (1889-1978), American silent film actress
- Queenie Smith (1898-1978), American stage, film and television actress
- Queenie Thomas (1898–1977), British actress
- Queenie Watts (1926-1980), English actress and singer
- Queenie Ashton (1903-1999), stage name of British-born soprano and English and Australian character actress Ethel Muriel Cover (née Ashton)
Nickname
- Mary Jane Cain (1844–1929), Aboriginal Australian human rights activist
- Queenie Newall (1854–1929), British archer
- Merle Oberon (1911–1979), Anglo-Indian actress
- Jimmy O'Rourke (baseball) (1883–1955), American professional baseball player
- Stephanie St. Clair (1886–1969), a French gangster who operated out of New York's Harlem
Stage names
- Queenie Leighton (1874-1943), stage name of British music hall star Lilian Caroline Augusta Rickard
- Queenie Leonard (1905-2002), stage name of English character actress and singer Pearl Walker
- Queenie, a performer in the English hip pop quintet KING
- Queenie Williams (1896-1962), stage name of Australian actress Alfreda Ina Williams
Animals
- Queenie (Melbourne elephant) (put down in 1944)
- Queenie (waterskiing elephant) (1952-2011)
Fictional characters
- Queenie (Blackadder), a caricature of Elizabeth I of England in the British TV series Blackadder
- "Queenie" (EastEnders)
- Queenie Yoh, a character in the 2018 Japanese anime "Lost Hope"
- the main character from Queenie (miniseries)
- A character in the musical Show Boat
- A character in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- A character in the short story of the same name by Nobel Prize winning writer Alice Munro
- Queenie Goldstein, a main character in the Fantastic Beasts film series.
- A character on the show American Horror Story
- The name of the dog in the short story "A Christmas Memory"
- A character based on Hester Maria Elphinstone, Viscountess Keith in the Aubrey–Maturin book series
- A character in Joseph Moncure March's poem "The Wild Party" and in two musicals of the same name by Andrew Lippa and Michael John LaChiusa
- Magdalene "Queenie" Shaw, a character from the Fast & Furious franchise
- Queenie Gibbons, younger daughter of Frank and Ethel Gibbons in the Noel Coward play This Happy Breed
- Queenie Pickering, a character from Emma Carroll's book Letters From The Lighthouse
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