Eleanora (name)

Eleanora

Billie Holiday is the stage name of American jazz singer Eleanora Fagan
Gender	Female
Language(s)	Italian, Swedish
Origin
Word/name	Greek
Other names
Variant form(s)	Eleonora
Related names	Eleanor

Eleanora or Eleonora is a female given name, a variant of the name Eleanor.

Notable people with the name include:

• Countess Palatine Eleonora Catherine of Zweibrücken (1626–1692), Swedish princess
• Eleonora Luisa Gonzaga (1686–1741), Duchess of Rovere and Montefeltro as the wife of Francesco Maria de' Medici
• Eleonora, Princess of Ligne (born 1953), wife of Michel, 14th Prince of Ligne
• Eleanora Atherton (1782–1870), English philanthropist
• Eleonora Chiavarelli (1915–2010), wife of murdered Italian politician Aldo Moro
• Eleonora Duse (1858–1924), Italian actress, often known simply as Duse
• Eleonora Dziękiewicz (born 1978), Polish volleyball player
• Eleonora Ehrenbergová (1832–1912), Czech operatic soprano
• Eleanora Fagan (1915–1959), birth name of American jazz singer Billie Holiday
• Eleonora Gaggero (born 2001), Italian actress and writer
• Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden (1688–1741), Queen of Sweden