Imelda is a feminine Spanish/Italian given name derived from the German form of Irmhild.

People

Notable people with the name include: *

Imelda Calixto-Rubiano Imelda Gallardo Calixto-Rubiano (born August 16, 1960), known as Emi Rubiano, is a Filipino businesswoman and politician currently serving as mayor of Pasay since 2019. She previously served as a member of the House of Representatives for the lo ...

, Filipina politician * Imelda Chiappa, Italian road racing cyclist * Imelda Concepcion, Filipina actress * Imelda Corcoran, Australian actress * Imelda Crawford, birth name of

Anne Crawford Imelda Anne Crawford (22 November 1920 – 17 October 1956) was a British film actress. Biography Crawford was born in Palestine to a Scottish father and an English mother, and brought up in Edinburgh. On the advice of Alastair Sim, she atten ...

, British actress * Imelda Fransisca, Indonesian beauty queen * Imelda Gruber, Italian

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Imelda Henry Imelda Henry (born 5 March 1967) is an Irish Fine Gael politician and former senator. She was elected to the 24th Seanad in April 2011 on the Industrial and Commercial Panel. and lost her seat at the following election in April 2016. She was a ...

, Irish politician *

Imelda Hobbins Imelda Hobbins is a former camogie player, captain of the All Ireland Camogie Championship winning team in 1996, the first for Galway at senior level. Early career She won an All Ireland minor medal with Galway in 1986, captained the Cyril Far ...

, Irish

camogie Camogie ( ; ) is an Irish stick-and-ball team sport played by women. Camogie is played by 100,000 women in Ireland and worldwide, largely among Irish communities. A variant of the game "hurling" (which is played by men only), it is organised ...

player * Imelda Kennedy, Irish camogie player * Imelda Lambertini, 14th-century Italy Dominican

child saint Child saints are children who died or were martyred and have been declared saints or martyrs of the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Anglican, Episcopalian Anglicanism, also known as Episcopalianism in some countries, ...

Imelda Marcos Imelda Romualdez Marcos (; born Imelda Remedios Visitación Trinidad Romuáldez; July 2, 1929) is a Filipino politician who was First Lady of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986, wielding significant political power after her husband Ferdinand ...

, wife of

Ferdinand Marcos Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos Sr. (September 11, 1917 – September 28, 1989) was a Filipino lawyer, politician, dictator, and Kleptocracy, kleptocrat who served as the tenth president of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986. He ruled the c ...

and 10th

First Lady of the Philippines The first lady or first gentleman of the Philippines () is the courtesy title given to the host or hostess of Malacañang Palace, the residence of the head of state and head of government of the Philippines. The title is traditionally held by t ...

Imelda Martínez Imelda Martínez Gómez (born July 16, 1982, in Monterrey, Nuevo León) is a Mexican swimmer, who specialized in open water marathon. Martinez qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, after placing seventh in the 10 km Marathon Swi ...

, Mexican swimmer *

Imelda May Imelda Mary Higham (; born 10 July 1974), professionally known as Imelda May, is an Irish singer, songwriter, television presenter and multi-instrumentalist. She is known for her musical style of rockabilly revival and has also been compared to ...

, Irish singer * Imelda Molokomme, feminist activist from Botswana *

Imelda Papin Imelda Arcilla Papin (born January 26, 1956) is a Filipino singer and politician. Known as the "Sentimental Songstress," she rose to fame in the late 1970s with hits such as "Bakit (Kung Liligaya Ka sa Piling ng Iba)" and "Isang Linggong Pag-ib ...

, Filipina singer * Imelda Mary Read, known as

Mel Read Imelda Mary Read (born 8 January 1939), known as Mel Read, is a British politician who served in the European Parliament. Read was educated at Bishopshalt Grammar School and the University of Nottingham, before becoming a laboratory technici ...

, British politician * Imelda Roche, Australian businessperson *

Imelda Staunton Dame Imelda Mary Philomena Bernadette Staunton (born 9 January 1956) is an English actress and singer. After training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Staunton began her career in repertory theatre in 1976 and appeared in various theatre pr ...

, British actress * Imelda Therinne, Indonesian actress *

Imelda Wiguna Imelda Wiguna (also known as ''Imelda Wigoena'', , born 12 October 1951) is an Indonesian badminton player who played at the world class level from the mid-1970s through the mid-1980s. Career A doubles specialist, Wiguna's two most impressive ye ...

, Indonesian badminton player

Fictional characters

Imelda de' Lambertazzi ''Imelda de' Lambertazzi'' is a ''melodramma tragico'' or tragic opera in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti from a libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola, based on the tragedy ''Imelda'' by Gabriele Sperduti. It received its first performance on 5 Septembe ...

, main character in the tragic opera of that name * Imelda Quirke, backing singer in Roddy Doyle's '' The Commitments'' and later in '' The Guts'' * Imelda Rivera, main character in the 2017 animated film ''

Coco Coco or variants may refer to: Arts and entertainment Film * ''Coco'' (2009 film), a French comedy film * ''Coco'' (2017 film), an American animated fantasy film * '' Pokémon the Movie: Secrets of the Jungle'' (), a 2020 Japanese anime film ...

References

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