Corinna or Korinna is a female given name of

ancient Greek Ancient Greek (, ; ) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the classical antiquity, ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Greek ...

origin, derived from κόρη (''korē'') meaning "girl, maiden". Notably, the ancient Greek lyric poet, as well as its use by

Ovid Publius Ovidius Naso (; 20 March 43 BC – AD 17/18), known in English as Ovid ( ), was a Augustan literature (ancient Rome), Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a younger contemporary of Virgil and Horace, with whom he i ...

for the women he addresses in the

Amores Amores may refer to: * ''Amores'' (Ovid), the first book by the poet Ovid, published in 5 volumes in 16 BCE * ''Amores'' (Lucian), a play by Lucian; also known as ''Erotes'' * Erotes (mythology), known as Amores by the Romans * ''Amores'', a bo ...

, may have both infused the name's popularity. Other variants include

Corina Corina is a female given name of Ancient Greece, ancient Greek origin, derived from κόρη (''korē'') meaning "girl, maiden".Corinne.

People with the name

Corinna Corinna or Korinna () was an ancient Greek lyric poet from Tanagra in Boeotia. Although ancient sources portray her as a contemporary of Pindar (born ), not all modern scholars accept the accuracy of this tradition. When she lived has been th ...

or Korinna, ancient Greek poet

Corinna

Corinna Adam Corinna Jane Adam (31 January 1937 – 8 March 2012), also known by her married name Corinna Ascherson, was a British journalist, particularly for the ''New Statesman'', ''The Guardian'', and ''The Observer''. According to her obituary in ''The ...

or Ascherson (1937–2012), British journalist *

Corinna Bath Corinna Bath (born 1963) is a German computer scientist and university lecturer. After holding the Maria Goeppert-Mayer Professorship for Gender, Technology and Mobility from 2012 to 2022, she has since been Head of the Coordination and Research C ...

, mathematician, computer scientist and university lecturer * S. Corinna Bille (1912–1979), Swiss writer in French * Corinna Boccacini (born 1985), Italian snowboarder *

Corinna Brown Corinna Brown is an English actress. She is best known for her role as Tara Jones in the Netflix series '' Heartstopper'' (2022–present). Life and career Brown was born in the East London Borough of Waltham Forest. She began performing as ...

, English actress * Corinna Chamberlain (born 1982), New Zealand-Hong Kong singer and actress *

Corinne Cléry Corinne Marie-Madeleine Geneviève Pierrette Picolo (born 23 March 1950), better known as Corinne Cléry, is a French actress. Her breakthrough role was as the title character in ''Story of O'' (1975), based on the novel of the same name. She su ...

(born 1950), French actress * Corinna Cortes, Danish computer scientist *

Corinna Dentoni Corinna Dentoni (born 30 July 1989) is a former tennis player with a highest career ranking of 132 in the singles category as well as a tennis influencer. Biography Born in Pietrasanta, Dentoni grew up in Milan. She turned pro in 2005 at the ag ...

(born 1989), Italian tennis player *

Corinna Everson Corinna "Cory" Everson (née Kneuer; born January 4, 1958) is an American female bodybuilding champion and actress. Everson won the Ms. Olympia contest six years in a row from 1984 to 1989. Education Corinna Kneuer was born in Racine, Wisconsin ...

(née Kneuer) (born 1958), American bodybuilder champion and actress *

Corinna Folkins Corinna Helen Folkins, née MacDonald (1918–1998), was a United States international lawn bowler. Bowls career World Championships Folkins won a bronze medal at the 1977 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Worthing, in the triples event with Do ...

(née MacDonald) (1918–1998), United States lawn bowler *

Corinna Genest Corinna Genest (16 August 1938 – 22 November 2023) was a German film and television actress. She was the daughter of the actress Gudrun Genest and the great niece of Hubert von Meyerinck. Genest died in Munich on 22 November 2023, at the age o ...

(born 1938), German film and television actress *

Corinna Halke Corinna Halke-Teichmann (born 9 July 1957 in Dortmund) is a German former pair skater and current sport journalist. With partner Eberhard Rausch, she is the 1974–1976 German national champion. They competed five times at the European Figure S ...

(born 1957), German sports journalist and skater *

Corinna Harfouch Corinna Harfouch (; ; born 16 October 1954) is a German actress. Early life and education Harfouch was born in Suhl, East Germany, the daughter of the teacher Wolfgang Meffert and his wife Marianne (née Kleber). She worked as a nurse and stu ...

(née Meffert) (born 1954), German actress *

Corinna Harney Corinna Harney (born February 20, 1972) is an American model and actress. She was chosen as ''Playboy's'' Playmate of the Month for August 1991 and ''Playboy's'' Playmate of the Year for 1992. Harney is sometimes credited as Corina Harney, Cori ...

(born 1972), American model and actress * Corinna Harrer (born 1991), German middle-distance runner *

Corinna Hawkes Corinna Hawkes is a specialist in food systems. She is Director, Division of Food Systems and Food Safety for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Between 2016 and 2023 she was Director, Centre for Food Policy at City ...

, British professor of Food Policy *

Corinna Hein Corinna Hein born Corinna Biethan (born 6 February 1983) is a German indoor cyclist. She has been World Artistic cycling Champion five times and the German champion seven times (2016). Life Hein was born in Achern in 1983. From 2002 to 2007 Cori ...

(née Biethan) (born 1983), German indoor cyclist *

Corinna Kennedy Corrina Kennedy (born November 30, 1970, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian sprint kayaker who competed in the mid-to-late 1990s. She won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m and K- ...

(born 1970), Canadian sprint canoer *

Corinna Kopf Dávid Julián Dobrík (; ; born July 23, 1996) is an Internet personality, YouTuber, streamer and vlogger. He amassed a million followers on the video-sharing platform Vine before starting his vlog on YouTube in 2015. Dobrik is the leader of ...

(born 1995 ), American YouTuber and gamer *

Corinna Kunze Corinna Kunze (7 October 1963 – 11 June 2022) was a German handball player who played for the West German national team. She was born in Dortmund. She represented West Germany at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles Los Angeles, of ...

(born 1963), German handball player * Corinna E. Lathan, American entrepreneur *

Corinna Lawrence Corinna Lawrence (born 25 June 1990) is a British épée fencer. Lawrence was the British Olympic Association's 2011 Olympic Athlete of the Year for Fencing. She competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Women's épée, but was defeated in t ...

(born 1990), British épée fencer *

Corinna Lechner Corinna Lechner (born 10 August 1994) is a German racing cyclist, who currently rides for Dutch amateur team MEXX–Watersley International. She rode at the 2014 UCI Road World Championships. Major results ;2021 : 2nd Mixed team relay, Europe ...

(born 1994), German racing cyclist *

Corinna Lin Corinna Lin (; born October 26, 1994) is a Taiwanese-American figure skater who competes internationally for Taiwan in ladies singles. She is the 2011 Taiwanese National Champion. Personal background Lin attended Pearl River High School in ...

(born 1994), Taiwanese-American figure skater *

Corinna Lingnau Corinna Margarete Lingnau (born 18 January 1960 in Leverkusen) is a German former field hockey player who competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics The 1984 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXIII Olympiad and commonly known as Los An ...

(born 1960), German field hockey player *

Corinna Löckenhoff Corinna Elisabeth Löckenhoff (also spelled Loeckenhoff) is a gerontologist. She is a professor of Human Development at Cornell University and of Gerontology in Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine. Education Löckenhoff earned her undergraduate de ...

, German psychologist and gerontologist *

Corinna Kuhnle Corinna Kuhnle (born 4 July 1987 in Vienna) is an Austrian Canoe slalom, slalom canoeist who has competed at the international level since 2002. She won five medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with two golds (K1: 2010 ICF Canoe S ...

(née 1987), Austrian slalom canoeist * Corinna Martini (born 1985), German luger *

Corinna May Corinna May (born 6 October 1970 in Bremen, Germany as Corinna Meyer) is a blind singer from Germany. She is best known for competing in the 2002 Eurovision Song Contest with the song "I Can't Live Without Music". Career From an early age she ...

(née Meyer) (born 1970), German singer * Corinna Miazga (1983–2023), German politician *

Corinna Mura Corinna Mura (born Corinna Wall; March 16, 1910 – August 1, 1965) was a cabaret singer, actress, and diseuse. She had a small role in the classic film ''Casablanca'' as the woman playing the guitar while singing "Tango Delle Rose" and "L ...

(née Wall) (1910–1965), American cabaret singer, diseuse, and film actress * Corinna von Rad (born 1971), German-American opera director *

Corinna Rüffer Corinna Rüffer (born 11 October 1975) is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Rhineland-Palatinate since 2013. Early life and education Born in Osnabrück, Lower Sax ...

(born 1975), German politician *

Corinna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn Corinna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn (''née'' Larsen; born 28 January 1964) is a Danish-German entrepreneur. Early life Corinna Larsen was born on 28 January 1964 in Frankfurt, Germany to a German mother, Ingrid Sauer, and a Danish father, Finn ...

(née Larsen) (born 1964), German philanthropist * Corinna S. Schindler, University of Michigan faculty * Corinna Schnitt (born 1964), German filmmaker, artist, and professor *

Corinna Scholz Corinna Scholz (born 1 August 1989 in Schongau, Bavaria) is a German curler from Bernbeuren. She competed as the alternate for Germany at the 2010 Winter Olympics. At the 2009 Aberdeen European Championships she also served as the Alternate, ...

(born 1989), German curler *

Corinna Schumacher Corinna Schumacher ( Betsch; born 2 March 1969) is a German champion equestrian. She is married to German former racing driver Michael Schumacher. Personal life A horsewoman, in 2010 Schumacher won the European Championship in western style h ...

, née Betsch (born 1969), German animal rights activist, wife of racing driver Michael Schumacher *

Corinna Schwab Corinna Schwab (born 5 April 1999) is a German athlete An athlete is most commonly a person who competes in one or more sports involving physical strength, speed, power, or endurance. Sometimes, the word "athlete" is used to refer specifica ...

(born 1999), German sprinter * Corinna Shattuck (1848–1910), American educator and missionary in Turkey * Corinna Putnam Smith (née Corinna Haven Putnam) (1876–1965), American writer, amateur archaeologist, scholar of Arabic *

Corinna Tsopei Kyriaki "Corinna" Tsopei (; born 21 June 1944) is a Greek actress, model and beauty queen who won Miss Universe 1964. Career On 20 June 1964, Tsopei was crowned Miss Star Hellas by Miss Star Hellas 1963, Despina Orgeta. She moved on to represen ...

(born 1944), American Olympic judoka *

Corinna Ulcigrai Corinna Ulcigrai (born 3 January 1980, Trieste) is an Italian mathematician working on dynamical systems. With Krzysztof Frączek in 2013, Ulcigrai is known for proving that in the Ehrenfest model (a mathematical abstraction of billiards with an ...

(born 1980), Italian mathematician *

Corinna West Corinna West (née Corinna Broz and also known as Corinna Broz-West; born March 13, 1974) is an American retired judo and Olympian. The first competition she participated in was at the 1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officia ...

, American Olympic judoka *

Cori Zarek Corinna "Cori" Zarek is an American lawyer, public interest technologist and adjunct professor of media law. In August 2022, Zarek was appointed as the 3rd Deputy Administrator of the United States Digital Service at the White House. Zarek was ...

, media lawyer

Korinna

* Korinna Fink (born 1981), German sprinter * Korinna Ishimtseva (born 1984), Kazakhstani volleyball player * Korinna Moon Bloodgood (born 1975), American actress and model

Pseudonyms

*Corinna, Ovid's (probably fictitious) lover in the ''

'' *Corinna, pen name of English poet Elizabeth Thomas (1675–1731)

Fictional characters

* Corinna Chapman, series of mysteries written by Kerry Greenwood * ''

Corinna Schmidt ''Corinna Schmidt'' is a 1951 East German drama film directed by Arthur Pohl and starring Trude Hesterberg, Willy Kleinoschegg and Ingrid Rentsch. It is based on the novel ''Jenny Treibel'' by Theodor Fontane. A penniless young woman falls in love ...

'', 1951 East German drama film * ''

Beloved Corinna ''Beloved Corinna'' ( and also known as ''Corinna Darling'') is a 1956 German drama film directed by Eduard von Borsody and starring Elisabeth Müller. It was shot at the Pichelsberg Studios in West Berlin. The art director Gabriel Pellon worked ...

'', 1956 German drama film * Corinna Wiles, character in the 2007 TV series ''Drive'' * "

Corrine, Corrina "Corrine, Corrina" (sometimes spelled "Corrina, Corrina") is a 12-bar country blues song in the AAB form. "Corrine, Corrina" was first recorded by Bo Carter ( Brunswick 7080, December 1928). However, it was not copyrighted until 1932 by Bo Carter ...

", 1928 blues song

References

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