Eva (given name)
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The given name Eva
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Eva (name)
Eva is a female given name, the Latinate counterpart of English Eve, derived from a Hebrew name meaning "life" or "living one." It can also mean full of Life or mother of life. It is the standard biblical form of Eve in many European languages.-Popularity:...
can refer to the following people:
- Eva Ahnert-RohlfsEva Ahnert-RohlfsEva Ahnert-Rohlfs was a German astronomer. She made important observations of variable stars.Eva Rohlfs was born in Coburg . She studied in Würzburg, Munich and Kiel from 1931 to 1933. After nine years of withdrawal into family life, she studied from 1942 until the end of the Second World War at...
, German astronomer - Eva Burrows, the 13th General of The Salvation Army
- Eva DicksonEva DicksonEva Dickson, born Eva Lindström , was a Swedish explorer, rally driver and writer. She was the first woman to have crossed the Sahara desert by car...
, Swedish explorer - Eva EkebladEva EkebladEva Ekeblad , née Eva De la Gardie, was a Swedish agronomist, scientist, Salonist and noble . Her most known discovery was to make flour and alcohol out of potatoes...
, (1724–1786), botanist - Eva MerthenEva MerthenEva Merthen , known as "The Duchess of Finland", was a Finnish woman known for her relationship with the General James Keith during the Russian occupation of the Swedish province of Finland during the Russo-Swedish War...
, (1723-1811), known as "The Duchess of Finland" - Eva MorrisEva MorrisEva Morris née Sharpe was the oldest recognised person in the world, by the Guinness Book of Records, from December 1999 until November 2000...
, native of England, known for a time as the oldest recognized person in the world
In arts
- Eva Gore-BoothEva Gore-BoothEva Selina Laura Gore-Booth was an Irish poet and dramatist, and a committed suffragist, social worker and labour activist...
, Irish poet and dramatist, and a committed suffragist, social worker and labour activist - Eva HesseEva HesseEva Hesse , was a German-born American sculptor, known for her pioneering work in materials such as latex, fiberglass, and plastics. -Early life:Hesse was born into a family of observant Jews in Hamburg, Germany...
, artist - Eva MalerEva MalerEva Maler is a German born playwright, currently living in London.-Writing credits:* If I Was To Speak..., first performed as a piece of Guerilla theatre alongside London's South Bank in 2008.* Mission Impursable....
, German playwright - Eva SilversteinEva SilversteinEva Silverstein is a string theorist. She is married to fellow string theorist Shamit Kachru. She and Kachru were both proteges of Edward Witten.She is best known for her work on tachyon condensation...
, a dancer and choreographer, director of The Silver-Brown Dance Company
In sports
- Eva AsderakiEva AsderakiEva Asderaki is a Greek tennis chair umpire and one of only a few women to hold a Gold certification from the International Tennis Federation; others are Mariana Alves and Allison Lang....
(born 1982), Greek tennis chair umpire - Eva CelbováEva CelbováEva Celbová-Ryšavá is a female beach volleyball player from the Czech Republic, who twice represented her native country at the Summer Olympics: 2000 and 2004...
(born 1975), Czech beach volleyball player - Eva CruzEva CruzEva Marie Cruz Dalmau is a member of the Puerto Rican national volleyball team. Cruz plays for Valencianas of Juncos in the Puerto Rican league of volleyball. She is for many "La Reina" of volleyball in Puerto Rico. Cruz was the first player in the Puerto Rico woman's volleyball league to have...
(born 1974), Puerto Rican volleyball player - Eva DimasEva DimasEva María Dimas Fontanals is a retired female weightlifter from El Salvador. She competed for her native Central American country in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2000. Dimas is a niece of Valerio Fontanals...
(born 1973), Salvadoran weightlifter - Eva PawlikEva PawlikEva Pawlik was an Austrian figure skater , a show star, an actress and the first European figure skater to be a TV figure skating commentator .-Childhood:Born in 1927, Pawlik was regarded as a child prodigy, able to jump a single axel and do a large number of spins...
(1927–1983), Austrian figure skater
In television and film
- Eva Almos, Canadian actress, famous for voicing Friend Bear and Swift Heart Rabbit in the first generation of the Care BearsCare BearsThe Care Bears are characters created by American Greetings in 1981 for use on greeting cards. The original artwork for the cards was painted by artist Elena Kucharik. In 1983, Kenner turned the Care Bears into plush teddy bears...
series and villainess Donita Donata in Wild KrattsWild KrattsWild Kratts is a children’s animated television series educationally targeting children aged 6 to 8 , produced by 9 Story for PBS Kids and TVO. The show premiered on January 3, 2011 on most PBS stations... - Eva AmurriEva AmurriEva Maria Livia Amurri is an American actress.- Early life :Amurri was born in New York City, New York, to Italian director Franco Amurri and American actress Susan Sarandon. Her grandfather was television writer Antonio Amurri, and her aunt is television writer Valentina Amurri...
, American actress - Eva AngelinaEva AngelinaEva Angelina is the stage name of an American former pornographic actress and adult model. She began her career at 18 and has won several industry awards, including the 2008 AVN Award for Best Actress .-Early life:...
, American adult film actor - Eva LaRue Callahan, American actor
- Eva GaborEva GaborEva Gabor was a Hungarian-born socialite and actress. She was widely known for her role on Green Acres as Lisa Douglas, the wife of Eddie Albert's character, Oliver Wendell Douglas, Duchess in the 1970 Disney film The Aristocats, and Miss Bianca in Disney's The Rescuers and The Rescuers Down Under...
, Hungarian-born actor - Eva GrayEva GrayEva Gray is a British actress of half English, half Polish descent.-Youth:Gray’s grandfather, a landed Polish aristocrat, was arrested during World War Two by Stalin's troops when they invaded and took possession of the family farm near Vilno...
, British actress - Eva GreenEva GreenEva Gaëlle Green is a French actress and model.Green performed in theatre before making her film debut in The Dreamers , which generated controversy over her numerous nude scenes. She achieved greater fame for her parts in Kingdom of Heaven , and in the 2006 James Bond film Casino Royale, for...
, French actor - Eva LongoriaEva LongoriaEva Jacqueline Longoria is an American actress, best known for portraying Gabrielle Solis on the ABC television series Desperate Housewives...
, American actor - Eva MendesEva MendesEva Mendes is an American actress.She began acting in the late 1990s, and after a series of minor roles and performances in several smaller films such as Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror and Urban Legends: Final Cut , she broke into the mainstream, appearing in leading roles in Hollywood...
, American actor - Eva MooreEva MooreEva Moore was an English actress. Her career on stage and in film spanned six decades, and she was active in the women's suffrage movement.-Early life and career:...
, British actor - Eva Marie SaintEva Marie SaintEva Marie Saint is an American actress who has starred in films, on Broadway, and on television in a career spanning seven decades. She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the drama film On the Waterfront , and later starred in the thriller film North by...
, American actor - Eva PopielEva PopielEva Sachiko Popiel , more commonly known as Eva, is an actress and model of Polish and Japanese ancestry active in South Korea.-Biography:...
, Japanese-British actress in South Korea
In music
- Eva NedinkovskaEva NedinkovskaEva Nedinkovska is a Macedonian singer.-Biography:Eva's career started in 2003 with the song "Dali Denot Ke E Raj". She has performed on many music contests including "Ohrid Fest" in her native city, Ohrid. Almost on every contest she has the award for the best stage performance...
, ethnic Macedonian singer - Eva AmaralEva AmaralEva María Amaral Lallana is a Spanish singer-songwriter, and member of the group Amaral with Juan Aguirre.She studied sculpture studies at the Art School of Zaragoza. During this time, she was a member of the band Bandera Blanca, where she was the drummer. In 1993, she met the guitarist Juan...
, Spanish singer - Eva AvilaEva AvilaEva Avila is a singer and songwriter. She won the fourth season of the CTV reality show Canadian Idol in 2006.-Early life:...
, 2006 Canadian Idol winner - Eva CassidyEva CassidyEva Marie Cassidy was an American vocalist known for her interpretations of jazz, blues, folk, gospel, country and pop classics. In 1992 she released her first album, The Other Side, a set of duets with go-go musician Chuck Brown, followed by a live solo album, Live at Blues Alley in 1996...
(1963–1996), American singer - Eva TanguayEva TanguayEva Tanguay was a Canadian-born singer and entertainer who billed herself as "the girl who made vaudeville famous".-Early life:...
, Canadian-born vaudeville entertainer - Little EvaLittle EvaEva Narcissus Boyd , known by the stage name of Little Eva , was an American pop singer.-Biography:...
, American singer - Eva, German-born singer of Russian-Lithuanian parentage, now living in Canada, born c.1946. Many hit records in French and German
In politics
- Eva BowringEva BowringEva Kelly Bowring was a U.S. Senator from Nebraska. Bowring was born in Nevada, Missouri. In 1928, she married Arthur Bowring. They made their home at the Bowring Ranch near Merriman in Cherry County, Nebraska....
, U.S. politician and United States Senator - Eva BraunEva BraunEva Anna Paula Hitler was the longtime companion of Adolf Hitler and, for less than 40 hours, his wife. Braun met Hitler in Munich, when she was 17 years old, while working as an assistant and model for his personal photographer and began seeing him often about two years later...
, lover, and later wife, of Adolf Hitler - Eva M. ClaytonEva M. ClaytonEva M. Clayton is a politician from the state of North Carolina.Clayton was born in Savannah, Georgia. She graduated from Johnson C. Smith University with a bachelor's degree and from North Carolina Central University with a master's degree...
, U.S. politician and United States Congresswoman - Eva KöhlerEva Köhler' is the wife of the former German President Horst Köhler and First Lady of Germany from 2004 to 2010....
, wife of the German President Horst Köhler - Eva PerónEva PerónMaría Eva Duarte de Perón was the second wife of President Juan Perón and served as the First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952. She is often referred to as simply Eva Perón, or by the affectionate Spanish language diminutive Evita.She was born in the village of Los Toldos in...
, President of Argentina, Argentinian First Lady, political leader, actor, and philanthropist; wife of Juan Perón
In modeling
- Eva HerzigováEva HerzigováEva Herzigová is a Czech model and actress.-Early life and career:Herzigová was born in Litvínov, Czechoslovakia . She began her modeling career after winning a modeling beauty contest in Prague in 1989, at the age of sixteen. After arriving in Paris, her popularity increased...
, Czech supermodel - Eva Pigford, American model
- Eva AngelinaEva AngelinaEva Angelina is the stage name of an American former pornographic actress and adult model. She began her career at 18 and has won several industry awards, including the 2008 AVN Award for Best Actress .-Early life:...
In fiction
- Eva, MarcoMarco (Animorphs)Marco is a fictional character from the sci-fi book series, Animorphs, written by K. A. Applegate. His last name is never mentioned.-Biography:...
's mom from the AnimorphsAnimorphsAnimorphs is an English language science fiction series of young adult books written by K. A. Applegate and published by Scholastic. Five humans, Jake, Marco, Cassie, Rachel, and Tobias, and one alien, Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill , obtain the ability to morph into any animal they touch. They name...
book series. - Little Eva, a character in Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Eva KantEva KantEva Kant is a fictional character in the Italian comics series starring the anti-hero Diabolik. She first appeared in Diabolik #3 .-Fictional character biography:Eva is the girlfriend and sidekick of criminal mastermind Diabolik...
, character from Diabolik comics and Danger: Diabolik movie - Eva Wei, the main character of the animated series Oban Star Racers
- EVA (Metal Gear), character in the video games Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops, and Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
- Evangeline A.K. McDowell, a character from the manga and anime series "Negima"
- Eva, the Goddess of Water in the mythology of the MMORPG Lineage IILineage IILineage II is a massive multiplayer online role-playing game for Microsoft Windows. It is a prequel to Lineage, and is set 150 years before the earlier game. It has become very popular since its October 1, 2003 launch in South Korea, reporting 1,000,918 unique users during the month of March 2007...
- Eva, a character on the television series Total Drama IslandTotal Drama IslandTotal Drama Island is a Canadian animated television series which lampoons the conventions commonly found in reality shows. The show and its sequel seasons are collectively referred to as the Total Drama series. It premiered on the Canadian cable television specialty channel Teletoon on July 8, 2007...
- Eva, a character in the film IgorIgor (film)Igor is a 2008 computer animated family comedy film about the stock character Igor. The plot revolves around the grotesque title figure Igor and his dreams of winning first place at the Evil Science Fair. The movie was released on September 19, 2008...
- Eva Ushiromiya, a character in the visual novel, manga and anime series Umineko no Naku Koro niUmineko no Naku Koro niis a Japanese murder mystery dōjin soft visual novel series produced by 07th Expansion. The first game in the series, Legend of the Golden Witch, was first released at Comiket 72 on August 17, 2007 playable on the PC; the game sold out in thirty minutes...
- Eva, a character in The Zimmer Twins