Renée

Renée
Renée of France was a 16th century French princess
Pronunciation	French: [ʁəˈne] English: /rəˈneɪ/
Gender	Female
Origin
Word/Name	French, Latin
Meaning	reborn, born again
Other names
Related names	René, Renata

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Renée (often spelled without the accent in non-French speaking countries) is a French feminine first name.

Renée is the female form of René, with the extra –e making it feminine according to French grammar.^[1] The name René is the French form of the late Roman name Renatus and the meaning is reborn or born again. In medieval times, the meaning was associated with the Christian concept of being spiritually born again through baptism.^[2]

Renee was among the top 100 names given to girls in the United States in the late 1950s, the 1960s, the 1970s and the early 1980s.^[3] It ranked as the 734th most popular name given to American girls in 2008 and is continuing to fall in popularity.^[4]

First name

As a first name, it may refer to:

People

• Renée Adorée (1898–1933), French actress of the silent era
• Renée Asherson (born 1920), English actress
• Renée Bourque (born 1977), American actress
• Renée Bordereau (1770-1824), French woman who disguised herself as a man
• Renée Carl (1875–1954), French actress of the silent era
• Renée Chen, Taiwanese singer and songwriter
• Renée Colliard (born 1933), Swiss alpine skier
• Renée Cox (born 1960), Jamaican-American artist, political activist and curator
• Renée Estevez (born 1967), American actress
• Renée Doria (born 1921), French opera singer
• Renée Jeanne Falconetti (1892–1946),
• Renée Faure (1919-2005), French actress
• Renée Ferrer de Arréllaga (born 1944), Paraguayan poet and novelist
• Renée Fleming (born 1959), American soprano
• Renée Fox (born 1928), American sociologist
• Renée of France (1510–1574), younger daughter of Louis XII of France
• Renée French (born 1963), American comics writer and illustrator
• Renée French (actress), American actress
• Renée Friedman, American egyptologist
• Renée Geyer (born 1953), Australian singer
• Renée Gill Pratt (born 1954), local politician from New Orleans
• Renée Green (born 1959), American artist, writer and filmmaker
• Renée Houston (1902-1980), Scottish comedy actor and revue artist
• Renée Jeryd (born 1965), Swedish social democratic politician
• Renée Jones (born 1958), American actress
• Renée Manfredi, American novelist
• Renée Montagne, American radio journalist
• Renée Morisset (1928–2009), Canadian pianist
• Renée Nicoux (born 1951), French politician and member of the Senate of France
• Renée O'Connor (born 1971), American actress, producer and director
• Marie-Renée Oget (born 1945), French politician, member of the National Assembly
• Renée Richards (born 1934), American ophthalmologist, author and tennis player
• Renée Roca (born 1963), American figure skater and choreographer
• Renée Scheltema (born 1951), Dutch documentary filmmaker
• Renée Schwarzenbach-Wille (1883-1959), Swiss photographer
• Renée Simonsen (born 1965), Danish model and writer
• Jamie Renée Smith (born 1987), American actress
• Renée Sintenis (1888–1965), German artist
• Renée Soutendijk (born 1957), Dutch actress
• Renée Taylor (born 1933), American actress
• Renée Victor, actress
• Renée Vivien (1877-1909), British poet writing in French
• Renée Weibel (born 1986), Swiss actress
• Renée Zellweger (born 1969), American actress
• Renée Björling (1898–1975), Swedish actress
• Renée and Renato, a British female/male vocal duo

Fictional characters

• Renée DuMonde, a character on the television soap opera Days of our Lives
• Renée Dwyer, a character in the Twilight novel series
• Renée Rienne, a character in the spy-fi television series Alias
• Renée, a minor character in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Renée, a character in Claymore
• Renée Divine Buchanan, a character on the American soap opera One Life to Live
• Renée de Villefort, first wife of Gérard de Villefort in Alexandre Dumas's "The Counte of Monte Cristo"

Family name

As a family name, it may refer to:

• Lyne Renée (born 1979), a Belgian actress
• Tiffany Renée (born 1971), a member of the Petaluma City Council in Petaluma, California

Other

• Renée, a song by Talk Talk on their 1984 album It's My Life
• Renée, a 2011 made-for-TV documentary film on Renée Richards
• Renee (song), a 1996 song by rap group Lost Boyz
• Walk Away Renée, a song made popular by the band The Left Banke in 1966

Variants in different languages

• Rena English, Polish
• Renae English
• Renáta Czech, Hungarian, Slovak
• Renata Croatian, Czech, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Slovene, Spanish, Lithuanian
• Renate Dutch, French, German
• Renátka Czech
• Renatka Polish
• Renča Czech
• Renea Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, Slovene
• Renée Dutch, French
• Renee English
• Reneeke Dutch
• Reneetje Dutch
• Renia Polish
• Renita English, Spanish
• Renāte Latvian

References

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