Sinéad
Sinéad (/ʃɪˈneɪd/ shi-NAYD; Irish: [ˈʃɪnʲeːd̪ˠ, ʃɪˈnʲeːd̪ˠ]) is an Irish feminine name. It is derived from the French Jeanette, which is cognate to the English Janet, itself a feminine form of the Hebrew Yohannan, "God forgave/God gratified". In English, Sinéad is also commonly spelled Sinead. The name is generally translated into English as either Jane or Jennifer, or as the Scottish female name Jean.
Sinéad may refer to:
People
- Sports
- Sinéad Cahalan, camogie player
- Sinead Jennings, rower
- Sinead Kerr, ice dancer
- Sinéad Millea, former camogie player
- Sinead Miller, cyclist
- Sinead Russell, Olympic swimmer
- Music
- "Sinéad", a song by Within Temptation from their album The Unforgiving, and the name of a character in the album's tie-in comic book
- Sinead Harnett, singer/songwriter
- Sinéad Lohan, singer/songwriter
- Sinéad Madden, singer/songwriter
- Sinéad Mulvey, singer, air hostess
- Sinéad O'Carroll, singer with Irish pop band B*Witched
- Sinéad O'Connor, singer/songwriter
- Sinéad Quinn, recording artist, reality show contestant
- Film and television
- Sinéad Cusack, actress
- Sinead Desmond, TV presenter
- Sinead Keenan, actress
- Sinead Matthews, actress
- Sinéad Moynihan, model and actress
- Sinéad Noonan, model and actress
- Other
- Sinéad de Valera, children's book author
- Sinéad Morrissey, poet
- Sinéad Ní Loideáin, presenter
- Sinéad Ní Neachtain, magazine editor
- Sinéad Sheppard, dancer
Fiction
- Sinead O'Connor, a character in the TV series Hollyoaks, played by Stephanie Davis
- Sinead Starling is a fictional character from The 39 Clues.
- Sinéad Ní Shúilleabháin, a fictional character in The Wind That Shakes the Barley
- Sinead Tinker, a character in the TV series Coronation Street, played by Katie McGlynn
See also
- Siobhán, feminine Irish-language name ultimately derived from the same Hebrew name
References
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