Doreen
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Doreen is a woman's name, usually found in English speaking countries. It is a combination of Dora with the suffix -een, therefore it can be said to mean "gift" from Greek
doron http://www.behindthename.com/php/view.php?name=doreen. The -een suffix could also be related to the ín suffix used in the Irish language, added to first names to distinguish a child with the same first name as its parent.
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Greek language
Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...
doron http://www.behindthename.com/php/view.php?name=doreen. The -een suffix could also be related to the ín suffix used in the Irish language, added to first names to distinguish a child with the same first name as its parent.
- Doreen AmataDoreen AmataDoreen Amata is a female track and field athlete from Nigeria. She specialised in the high jump event.Amata represented Nigeria at the 2008 Olympic Games, finishing in 16th place in the overall-rankings. She claimed a gold medal for her native West African country at the 2007 All-Africa...
- Doreen CarwithenDoreen CarwithenDoreen Mary Carwithen was a British composer of classical and film music. She was also known as Mary Alwyn.-Biography:...
- Doreen ChanterDoreen ChanterDoreen Chanter is a British singer best known for her career as a member of the Chanter Sisters and for her work as a backing vocalist and session vocalist during the 1970s and 1980s.-Chanter Sisters:...
- Doreen CroninDoreen CroninDoreen Cronin is an American author of children's books, most notably the award-winning Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type.Born in New York and growing up on Long Island, she published in 2000 her first book, Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type , She attended law school, eventually completing it around...
- Doreen DodickDoreen DodickDoreen Dodick is a politician in Manitoba, Canada. She was a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1981 to 1986....
- Doreen EaglesDoreen EaglesDoreen Eagles is a Canadian provincial politician. She is the Saskatchewan Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan for the constituency of Estevan.-References:...
- Doreen GentzlerDoreen GentzlerDoreen Gentzler is an American television news anchor. She is currently a 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. news anchor at WRC-TV, alongsideco-anchor Jim Vance.-Personal:...
- Doreen HamiltonDoreen HamiltonDoreen Ellen Hamilton is a Canadian politician. She received her Education Standard A Certificate at the University of Regina.In 1985, she was elected to Regina City Council and re-elected in 1988...
- Doreen KimuraDoreen KimuraDoreen Kimura is a professor at Simon Fraser University. She holds a PhD in psychobiology. Among other interests, her interests include the relationship between sex and cognition and promoting academic freedom; she is the founding president of the .While some criticized Lawrence Summers' claims...
- Doreen Knatchbull, Baroness BrabourneDoreen Knatchbull, Baroness BrabourneDoreen Knatchbull, Baroness Brabourne, CI was an Anglo-Irish aristocrat, socialite and victim of the Provisional IRA.-Family life:...
- Doreen MantleDoreen MantleDoreen Mantle is a South African-born British actress who is probably best known for her role as Mrs Jean Warboys in One Foot in the Grave ....
- Doreen Massey, Baroness Massey of DarwenDoreen Massey, Baroness Massey of DarwenDoreen Elizabeth Massey, Baroness Massey of Darwen is a Labour member of the House of Lords.A former teacher and education advisor, she was the Director of the from 1989 to 1994...
- Doreen Massey (geographer)Doreen Massey (geographer)Doreen Barbara Massey FRSA FBA AcSS , is a contemporary British social scientist and geographer, working among others on topics typical of marxist geography...
- Doreen SloaneDoreen SloaneDoreen Sloane was an English actress best known for her roles in the soap operas Coronation Street, Emmerdale and Brookside....
- Doreen Tracey
- Doreen ValienteDoreen ValienteDoreen Edith Dominy Valiente , who also went under the craft name Ameth, was an influential English Wiccan who was involved in a number of different early traditions, including Gardnerianism, Cochrane's Craft and the Coven of Atho...
- Doreen WicksDoreen WicksDoreen Wicks, was a Canadian nurse, humanitarian and Citizenship Judge. Her husband was the cartoonist Ben Wicks....
- Doreen WilberDoreen WilberDoreen Viola Hansen Wilber was an American archer from Rutland, Iowa.-Biography:At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Wilber won the gold medal in the women's section of the first modern Olympic archery competition, aged 42. Along with John Williams, Wilber led the U.S...
- Doreen Young WickremasingheDoreen Young WickremasingheDoreen Wickremasinghe was a British leftist who became a prominent Communist politician in Sri Lanka and a Member of Parliament . She was one of the handful of European Radicals in Sri Lanka....
- Doreen Hephzibah Miriam
Fictional characters:
- Doreen CorkhillDoreen CorkhillDoreen Corkhill was a fictional character in the British soap opera, Brookside, played by Kate Fitzgerald .-Introduction of the Corkhills:The Corkhills moved into number 10 in 1985...
- Doreen Fenwick
- Doreen GreenSquirrel GirlSquirrel Girl, real name Doreen Green, is a fictional character and superhero in the . Her first appearance was in Marvel Super-Heroes #8 , in a story plotted and drawn by Steve Ditko and scripted by Will Murray. Her ability to control squirrels is surprisingly powerful and has allowed her to...
- Doreen Lostock
- Doreen, the female protagonist in The Songs of a Sentimental BlokeThe Songs of a Sentimental BlokeThe Songs of a Sentimental Bloke is a verse novel by Australian novelist and poet C. J. Dennis. The book sold over 60,000 copies in nine editions within the first year, and is probably one of the highest selling verse novels ever published in Australia....
(1915) and its sequels, including Doreen (1917) - Doreen is the sister of Masa and Mune in the Chrono Trigger series
Others uses
- Doreen, VictoriaDoreen, VictoriaDoreen is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, north-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Whittlesea and Shire of Nillumbik...
, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia - Hurricane Doreen (disambiguation)
- Triumph Doreen, a model of bra
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(large muscadine Vitis rotundifolia) cultivar - a track on Frank Zappa's You Are What You IsYou Are What You IsYou Are What You Is is a double album by Frank Zappa. It was originally released as a two-record set in 1981 and later by Rykodisc as a 20-song CD. The album relies on a heavy use of overdubbing. This album was the first one to feature material recorded using Zappa's home studio Utility Muffin...
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