Hermione ( ) is a feminine given name derived from the Greek messenger god

Hermes Hermes (; ) is an Olympian deity in ancient Greek religion and mythology considered the herald of the gods. He is also widely considered the protector of human heralds, travelers, thieves, merchants, and orators. He is able to move quic ...

Hermione Hermione most commonly refers to: * Hermione (given name), a female given name * Hermione (mythology), only daughter of Menelaus and Helen in Greek mythology and original bearer of the name * Hermione Granger, a character in ''Harry Potter'' Hermi ...

was the daughter of

Menelaus In Greek mythology, Menelaus (; ) was a Greek king of Mycenaean (pre- Dorian) Sparta. According to the ''Iliad'', the Trojan war began as a result of Menelaus's wife, Helen, fleeing to Troy with the Trojan prince Paris. Menelaus was a central ...

and Helen in

Greek mythology Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the Ancient Greece, ancient Greeks, and a genre of ancient Greek folklore, today absorbed alongside Roman mythology into the broader designation of classical mythology. These stories conc ...

. It was also the name of an early Christian martyr,

Hermione of Ephesus Hermione of Ephesus (; ) is a 2nd-century saint and martyr venerated by the Eastern Orthodox Church and Catholic Church. She was well known as a "great healer" and founded the first Christian hospital in Ephesus. Biography Hermione was born ...

, and of a character in

William Shakespeare William Shakespeare ( 23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's nation ...

’s play ''

The Winter's Tale ''The Winter's Tale'' is a play by William Shakespeare originally published in the First Folio of 1623. Although it was grouped among the comedies, many modern editors have relabelled the play as one of Shakespeare's late romances. Some criti ...

''. Usage of the name has increased in recent years due largely to a

character Character or Characters may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Literature * ''Character'' (novel), a 1936 Dutch novel by Ferdinand Bordewijk * ''Characters'' (Theophrastus), a classical Greek set of character sketches attributed to Theoph ...

with the name in the

Harry Potter ''Harry Potter'' is a series of seven Fantasy literature, fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling. The novels chronicle the lives of a young Magician (fantasy), wizard, Harry Potter (character), Harry Potter, and his friends ...

series by

J.K. Rowling Joanne Rowling ( ; born 31 July 1965), known by her pen name , is a British author and philanthropist. She is the author of ''Harry Potter'', a seven-volume fantasy novel series published from 1997 to 2007. The series has sold over 600&nb ...

People

(died 117 A.D.), an early Christian martyr * Hermione Asachi (1821–1900), Romanian writer and translator *

Hermione Baddeley Hermione Youlanda Ruby Clinton-Baddeley (13 November 1906 – 19 August 1986) was an English actress of theatre, film, and television. She typically played brash, vulgar characters, often referred to as "brassy" or "blowsy".Folkart, Burt, "Note ...

(1906–1986), English actress * Hermione Cobbold (1905–2004), British matriarch * Hermione Cock (1904–2015), British female supercentenarian *

Hermione Cockburn Hermione Anne Phoebe Cockburn (born 1973, Sussex, England) is a British television and radio presenter specialising in scientific and educational programmes. She is currently Scientific Director at Our Dynamic Earth. Early life and education ...

(born 1973), British TV and radio presenter *

Hermione Corfield Hermione Isla Conyngham Corfield (born 19 December 1993) is an English actress. She starred in the films '' Rust Creek'' (2018), '' Sea Fever'' (2019), '' The Misfits'' (2021) and '' The Road Dance'' (2022). Her other films include '' Mission: I ...

(born 1993), English actress and model *

Hermione Cronje Hermione Theresa Cronje is a South African lawyer and former prosecutor. She was the inaugural head of the National Prosecuting Authority's Investigating Directorate (ID) from May 2019 to February 2022. Early life and education Cronje was ...

, South African prosecutor *

Hermione Darnborough Hermione Maria Louise Darnborough (1915 – 29 October 2010), later Hermione Mathieson, was an English principal ballerina who made her name at Sadler's Wells in the 1930s. She retired at a young age after marrying the conductor and composer Muir ...

(1915–2010), English ballerina *

Hermione Eyre Hermione Eyre (born 1980) is a British journalist, novelist, and former child actor. Early life Hermione Eyre was born in 1980. Her parents were Sir Reginald Eyre, a British Conservative party politician, and Anne Clements. Her godmother was ...

(born 1980), British journalist and novelist *

Hermione Farthingale David Robert Jones (8 January 194710 January 2016), known as David Bowie ( ), was an English singer, songwriter and actor. Regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Bowie was acclaimed by critics and musicians, pa ...

(born 1949), English dancer, yoga teacher, and dated David Bowie and inspired some of his songs *

Hermione FitzGerald Hermione FitzGerald (born 11 October 1985) is an Irish professional golfer. Early life FitzGerald is the daughter of Lord John FitzGerald and wife Barbara Zindel. She is of Irish and Swiss descent. She began playing golf at the age of eight w ...

(1864–1895), Duchess of Leinster *

(born 1985), Irish professional golfer *

Hermione Gingold Hermione Ferdinanda Gingold (; 9 December 189724 May 1987) was an English actress known for her sharp-tongued, eccentric character. Her signature drawling, deep voice was a result of nodules on her vocal cords she developed in the 1920s and ea ...

(1897–1987), English actress *

Hermione Gulliford Hermione Valentine Gulliford is an English actress, born in Somerset. She trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama, graduating in 1994. She has worked in the theatre, appearing in ''The Merchant of Venice'', ''Othello'', and ''A Midsumme ...

, English actress *

Hermione Hammond Hermione Hammond (11 August 1910 – 29 July 2005) was an English painter who is most famous for her paintings of London damaged by the Blitz during World War II. Born in Hexham, Northumberland, to an artist mother and an invalid father, Hermion ...

(1910–2005), English painter *

Hermione Hannen Hermione Hannen (26 January 1913 – 1 October 1983) was an English theatre and film actress. She was born in London, the daughter of Nicholas "Beau" Hannen, who was also an actor on the stage and in film. Biography Hermione Hannen was born on ...

(1913–1983), English actress *

Hermione Harvey Hermione Harvey (born Hermione Helen Mary Hudson; 25 June 1931 - 25 September 2016), was an English actress and dancer. She was known in the 1950s for starring on the West End stage in London. Early life Harvey was born Hermione Helen Mary Hud ...

(1931–2016), English actress and dancer *

Hermione Ruth Herrick Hermione Ruth Herrick (19 January 1889 – 21 January 1983) was the Chief Commissioner for the New Zealand Girl Guides and the first director of the Women's Royal New Zealand Naval Service. Biography Herrick was born in Ruataniwha, Cent ...

(1889–1983), New Zealand Guide leader and women's naval administrator *

Hermione Hobhouse Mary Hermione Hobhouse (2 February 1934 – 17 October 2014) was a British architectural historian and prominent preservation campaigner. Family and early life Hobhouse was born on 2 February 1934 to Sir Arthur Hobhouse and Konradin Huth Ja ...

(1934–2014), British architectural historian *

Hermione Hoby Hermione Hoby is a British author, journalist, and cultural critic. In her career as a journalist she writes on books, music, theatre and feminism. She is the author of the novels ''Neon in Daylight'' and ''Virtue.'' Early and personal life Hoby ...

(born 1985), British author, journalist, and cultural critic *

Hermione Kitson Hermione Kitson is an Australian news presenter and reporter. Career Kitson studied Media/Communications at Sydney University and completed an internship at ABC Sydney News and Current Affairs. Network Ten Before joining Network Ten, Kitson ...

(born 1984), Australian news presenter and reporter * Hermione Knox, (1913–2001), British author, Countess of Ranfurly * Hermione Lambton (1906–1990), Countess of Durham *

Hermione Lee Dame Hermione Lee (born 29 February 1948) is a British biographer, literary critic and academic. She is a former President of Wolfson College, Oxford, and a former Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature in the University of Oxford and Pr ...

(born 1948), British biographer and critic * Hermione Lister-Kaye (born 1990), British naturalist and journalist, daughter of John Lister-Kaye *

Hermione Norris Hermione Norris is an English actress. She attended the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in the 1980s, before taking small roles in theatre and on television. In 1996, she was cast in her breakout role of Karen Marsden in the comedy dr ...

(born 1967), English actress * Hermione Peters (born 1994), Belgian canoeist * Hermione von Preuschen (1854–1918), German painter and author * Hermione Rogers (1895–1917), British nurse who died when HMS ''Osmanieh'' was torpedoed *

Hermione (Hennessy) Ross Hermione Ross (born 7 February 1966) is a British singer-songwriter and joint owner of H&I Music. She is the daughter of Irish singer-songwriter Christie Hennessy. Her debut album ''Songs My Father Taught Me'' (Warner Brothers Ireland) stayed at n ...

(born 1966), British singer-songwriter * Hermione Shirley (1891–1969), Countess Ferrers * Hermione Underwood, Australian actress *

Hermione Wiltshire Hermione Wiltshire (born 7 April 1963, in London) is an English sculptor and photographer. Wiltshire studied at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and the Chelsea School of Art, completing her education in 1987.Summers, Francis"W ...

(born 1963), English photographer

Fictional characters

Hermione (mythology) In Greek antiquity, Hermione (; ) was the daughter of Menelaus, king of Sparta, and his wife, Helen of Troy. Prior to the Trojan War, Hermione had been betrothed by Tyndareus, her grandfather, to her cousin Orestes, son of her uncle, Agamemnon. ...

, the daughter of

and Helen in Greek mythology * Hermione, a character in the novel ''

Atonement Atonement, atoning, or making amends is the concept of a person taking action to correct previous wrongdoing on their part, either through direct action to undo the consequences of that act, equivalent action to do good for others, or some othe ...

'' by Ian McEwan * Hermione, a character based on the mythological

Harmonia In Greek mythology, Harmonia (; /Ancient Greek phonology, harmoˈnia/, "harmony", "agreement") is the goddess of harmony and concord. Her Greek opposite is Eris (mythology), Eris and her Roman mythology, Roman counterpart is Concordia (mythol ...

in the opera ''

Cadmus et Hermione ''Cadmus et Hermione'' is a ''French lyric tragedy, tragédie en musique'' in a prologue and five acts by Jean-Baptiste Lully. The French-language libretto is by Philippe Quinault, after Ovid's ''Metamorphoses''. It was first performed on 27 April ...

'' by Jean-Baptiste Lully * Aunt Hermione, a character in the BBC TV Series ''

The Durrells ''The Durrells'' (known in North America as ''The Durrells in Corfu'') is a British comedy-drama television series loosely based on Gerald Durrell's three autobiographical books about his family's four years (1935–1939) on the Greek island of ...

'' played by Barbara Flynn * Hermione, a male character in the 1582 court drama ''The Rare Triumphs of Love and Fortune'' * Hermione, Queen of Sicily, a character in the play ''

'' by William Shakespeare * Hermione, a character in the novel ''

Women in Love ''Women in Love'' is a 1920 novel by English author D. H. Lawrence. It is a sequel to his earlier novel, '' The Rainbow'' (1915), and follows the continuing loves and lives of the Brangwen sisters, Gudrun and Ursula. Gudrun Brangwen, an arti ...

'' by D.H. Lawrence * Hermione Bagwa, a character in '' Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones'' * Hermione de Borromeo, a character in the Japanese animated TV series ''

Romeo x Juliet Romeo Montague () is the male protagonist of William Shakespeare's tragedy ''Romeo and Juliet''. The son of Lord Montague and his wife, Lady Montague, he secretly loves and marries Juliet, a member of the rival House of Capulet, through a pries ...

'' * Hermione Bostock, a character in the fiction of

P. G. Wodehouse Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse ( ; 15 October 1881 – 14 February 1975) was an English writer and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century. His creations include the feather-brained Bertie Wooster and his sagacious valet, Je ...

* Hermione Gart, an autobiographical character in the novel ''

HERmione Hermione most commonly refers to: * Hermione (given name), a female given name * Hermione (mythology), only daughter of Menelaus and Helen in Greek mythology and original bearer of the name * Hermione Granger, a character in ''Harry Potter'' Hermi ...

'' by

H.D. Hilda Doolittle (September 10, 1886 – September 27, 1961) was an American modernist poet, novelist, and memoirist who wrote under the name H.D. throughout her life. Her career began in 1911 after she moved to London and co-founded th ...

Hermione Granger Hermione Jean Granger ( ) is a fictional character in the ''Harry Potter'' series of novels by J. K. Rowling. She first appeared in '' Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'' (1997), as a first-year student on her way to Hogwarts. She becom ...

, a main character in the ''

'' novels and films * Hermione Gravell-Pitt, a character in the novel ''

Around the World with Auntie Mame ''Around the World with Auntie Mame'' (1958) is a novel by Patrick Dennis and sequel to his bestseller ''Auntie Mame''.UIUC website
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'' * Hermione Herman, the sister of character

Pee-wee Herman Pee-wee Herman is a comedy character created and portrayed by the American comedian Paul Reubens. He starred in films and television series during the 1980s. The childlike Pee-wee Herman character developed as a stage act that quickly led to an ...

Hermione Lodge The following is a list of members of the families of Archie's Gang appearing in Archie Comics. Primarily featured are the parents of Archie Andrews, Betty Cooper, Veronica Lodge and Jughead Jones. The Andrews family Fred Andrews Frederick "F ...

, a character in the ''Archie Comics'' and in the TV series ''Riverdale'' * Hermione Makepeace (Minnie the Minx), comic strip character from ''The Beano'' * Hermione Montego, a character in the 1966 episode of ''

Batman (TV series) ''Batman'' is an American Live action, live-action television series based on the DC Comics Batman, character of the same name. It stars Adam West as Bruce Wayne/Batman and Burt Ward as Dick Grayson/Robin (character), Robin—two crime-fighting ...

'', "The Thirteenth Hat" * Hermione Morton, a character in the British TV series ''

Ripper Street ''Ripper Street'' is a British mystery drama television series set in Whitechapel in the East End of London starring Matthew Macfadyen, Jerome Flynn, Adam Rothenberg, and MyAnna Buring. It begins in 1889, six months after the infamous Jack t ...

'' * Hermione Pennistone, the main character in the 1932 novel ''Marriage of Hermione'' by

Richmal Crompton Richmal Crompton Lamburn (15 November 1890 – 11 January 1969) was a popular English writer, best known for her ''Just William (book series), Just William'' series of books, humorous short stories, and to a lesser extent adult fiction books. L ...

* Hermione Seymour, the main character in the 1791 novel ''Hermione, or the Orphan Sister'' by

Charlotte Lennox Charlotte Lennox, ''née'' Ramsay (4 January 1804), was a Scottish author and a literary and cultural critic, whose publishing career flourished in London. Best known for her novel '' The Female Quixote'' (1752), she was frequently praised for ...

* Hermione Shotover, a character in the play ''

Heartbreak House ''Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes'' is a play written by Bernard Shaw during the First World War, published in 1919 and first performed in November 1920 at the Garrick Theatre, New York, followed by a West ...

'' of G. B. Shaw * Hermione Trumpington-Bonnet, a character in the British TV series '' Monarch of the Glen''

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