Irma is a female given name.http://verkkopalvelu.vrk.fi/Nimipalvelu/default.asp?L=1 nimipalvelu It is also used in combination with other names in the abbreviated form "Irm-," for example, Irmine, Irmela, Irmgard, Irmgardis, and Irmentraud. The name comes from the Old High German "irmin", meaning "world". The Georgian given name "Irma" comes from the Georgian word "iremi"—"deer". The

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s for Irma are February 19 (Germany), March 31 (Finland), April 7 (Sweden), May 3 (Hungary), September 10 (Czech Republic), September 18 (Poland), October 13 (Latvia), October 25 (USA), and November 14 (Slovakia).

People

* Irma, Cameroonian singer/songwriter *

Irma Baltuttis Elsbeth Johanna Irma Baltuttis (Lithuanian: ''Baltutis''; 28 September 1920 — 20 May 1958) was a German singer and entertainer based in Leipzig, Germany. Early life Irma was born in the Leutzsch district of Leipzig, to Ernst Baltuttis and ...

, German singer *

Irma Brandeis Irma Brandeis (1905–1990) was an American scholar of Dante Alighieri. Her work ''The Ladder of Vision'' was acclaimed as a breakthrough in Dantean studies upon its publication in the 1960s. Brandeis graduated from Barnard College in 1926. In he ...

, American Dante scholar *

Irma Capece Minutolo Irma Capece Minutolo (6 August 1935 – 7 June 2023) was an Italian opera singer who was one of the last companions of King Farouk I of Egypt. In later years, she claimed she was the king's last wife and used the name ''Irma Capece Minutolo Faro ...

, Italian opera singer *

Irma Flaquer Irma Flaquer Azurdia (5 September 1938 - disappeared 16 October 1980), was a Guatemalan psychologist and reporter known for her pointed critiques against the Guatemalan government. Biography Born to a Catalan theater producer father, Fernand ...

, Guatemalan government critic *

Irma Grese Irma Ilse Ida Grese (7 October 1923 – 13 December 1945) was a Nazi concentration camp guard at Ravensbrück and Auschwitz, and served as warden of the women's section of Bergen-Belsen. She was a volunteer member of the SS. Grese was convict ...

, German Nazi SS Holocaust concentration camp supervisor executed for war crimes *

Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher (24 February 1925 – 8 January 2014) was a freestyle swimmer from the Netherlands who won two medals at the Summer Olympics. After having claimed the bronze medal in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay in London (1948), ...

, Dutch freestyle swimmer *

Irma Huerta Irma Huerta (born August 19, 1969) is a former female freestyle swimming, freestyle Swimming (sport), swimmer from Mexico. She participated at the 1984 Summer Olympics for her native country. Her best result in Los Angeles, California was the 11t ...

, Mexican freestyle swimmer *

Irma Khetsuriani Irma Khetsuriani is a Georgian wheelchair fencer. She won the world championship in October 2015, which was held in France, and again in 2017 in Rome, and in 2018 in Warsaw, Poland. She won silver in the sabre B discipline in the world championshi ...

, Georgian wheelchair fencer * Irma Kurtz (born 1935), American-born UK-based agony aunt *

Irma de Malkhozouny Irma Amelia de Malkhozouny (formerly Irma Osborne, Duchess of Leeds) was an Italian-born Serbian ballet dancer. She was Duchess of Leeds from 1933 until 1948, during her marriage to John Osborne, 11th Duke of Leeds. Biography Irma Amelia de Ma ...

, Serbian ballet dancer *

Irma May Irma May (born June 10, 1899) was a Polish social reformer and humanitarian who sought to publicise within North America the plight of Eastern European Jews during the 1920s. Career Irma Weitzenkorn, later known as Irma May, was born in the Polish ...

, Polish social reformer * Irma McClaurin, American poet and anthropologist * Irma Miranda, Mexican model, TV Host and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Mexicana Universal 2022 * Irma Nioradze, Georgian ballerina *

Irma S. Raker Irma Steinberg Raker (born April 24, 1938) is a Senior Judge of the Maryland Court of Appeals, the state's highest court. In 2007, she was awarded the American Bar Association's Margaret Brent Award for outstanding women lawyers who have achieved ...

, American lawyer * Irma Rangel, American politician * Irma S. Rombauer, cookbook author *

Irma Sandoval-Ballesteros Irma Eréndira Sandoval Ballesteros (born 1972) is a Mexican politician and scholar, expert in public administration and corruption control. In 2018 she was appointed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador as head of the Ministry of Public Ad ...

, Mexican academic * Irma Serrano, Mexican actress *

Irma Stern Irma Stern (2 October 1894 – 23 August 1966) was a major South African artist who achieved national and international recognition in her lifetime. Life Stern was born in Schweizer-Reneke, a small town in the Transvaal, of German-Jewish pa ...

, South African painter * Irma St. Paule, Ukrainian-born American character actress * Irma Theoda Jones, American philanthropist *

Irma Thomas Irma Thomas ( Lee; born February 18, 1941) is an American singer from New Orleans. She is known as the "Soul Queen of New Orleans". Thomas is a contemporary of Aretha Franklin and Etta James, but never experienced their level of commercial succ ...

, soul singer *

Irma Toivanen Irma Hellin Toivanen ( Taavitsainen; 27 October 1922 – 30 July 2010) was a Finnish politician and teacher. She was a member of the Parliament of Finland from 1970 to 1979, representing Turku Province South as a member of the Liberal People's ...

(1922–2010), Finnish politician and teacher * Irma Voigt (1882–1953), American educator *

Irma von Cube Irma von Cube (December 26, 1899, Hanover; July 25, 1977) was a German- American screenwriter. She began as an actress and a writer for films in Germany in the early 1930s, and continued when she arrived in the United States in 1938. Among her ...

, American screenwriter

Fictional characters

* Irma (comics), a character from ''The Adventures of Tintin'' by Hergé *Irma, the title character of ''

Irma la Douce ''Irma la Douce'' (, "Irma the Sweet") is a 1963 American romantic comedy film directed by Billy Wilder from a screenplay he co-wrote with I. A. L. Diamond, based on the 1956 French stage musical of the same name by Marguerite Monnot and Al ...

'' (1963), a comedy film by Billy Wilder *Irma, the title character of the ''My Friend Irma'' television and radio situation comedies and a 1949 film *

Irma Barlow ''Coronation Street'' is a British soap opera, initially produced by Granada Television. Created by writer Tony Warren, ''Coronation Street'' first broadcast on ITV on 9 December 1960. The following is a list of characters introduced in the show ...

, a character in the

British British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English ...

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Coronation Street ''Coronation Street'' is an English soap opera created by ITV Granada, Granada Television and shown on ITV (TV network), ITV since 9 December 1960. The programme centres around a cobbled, terraced street in Weatherfield, a fictional town based ...

'' * Irma Bunt, from On Her Majesty’s Secret Service *

Irma Gobb ''Mr. Bean'' is a British sitcom created by Rowan Atkinson and Richard Curtis, produced by Tiger Aspect and starring Atkinson as the Mr. Bean (character), title character. The sitcom consists of 15 episodes that were co-written by Atkinson a ...

, a character from the British sitcom

Mr. Bean ''Mr. Bean'' is a British sitcom created by Rowan Atkinson and Richard Curtis, produced by Tiger Aspect and starring Atkinson as the title character. The sitcom consists of 15 episodes that were co-written by Atkinson alongside Curtis and ...

and its

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. *

Irma Lair The following is a list of characters in the '' W.I.T.C.H.'' comics. The series revolves around five teenage girls who possess magical powers over the first five elements of nature and are revealed to be the second generation of Guardians of the ...

, character in '' W.I.T.C.H.'' series *

Irma Langinstein The following is a list of characters in the '' Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' franchise. Overview * This table shows the recurring characters and the actors who have portrayed them throughout the franchise. * A dark grey cell indicates the ...

, in the 1987-1996 ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' cartoon and Archie TMNT Adventures comics *Irma Leopold, a character from Joan Lindsay's novel '' Picnic at Hanging Rock'' *

Irma Pince The following fictional characters are staff members and denizens of Hogwarts in the ''Harry Potter'' books written by J. K. Rowling. The staff and their positions Teachers and staff members The following teachers and staff members do not ha ...

, librarian in the ''Harry Potter'' series * Irma Crabbe, character in the ''Harry Potter'' series *Irma the waitress, character in the Garfield comic strip by Jim Davis *Irma Homais, daughter of fictional apothecary, M. Homais, and a minor character in Flaubert's ''Madame Bovary'' *

Irma Vep ''Irma Vep'' is a 1996 French comedy-drama film written and directed by Olivier Assayas. Hong Kong actress Maggie Cheung plays a fictionalised version of herself, as disasters result when an unstable French film director (played by Jean-Pierr ...

, character in the

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central to the 1996 French film titled ''Irma Vep'' *'Irma', lieutenant of Colony Mu who is also the Consul I, in ''

Xenoblade Chronicles 3 ''Xenoblade Chronicles 3'' is a 2022 action role-playing game developed by Monolith Soft and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch. Released on July 29, it is the fourth installment of the open-world ''Xenoblade Chronicles'' franchise, ...

'' * Irma Steiner, a character of the anime and manga ''

Edens Zero ''Edens Zero'' (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese science fantasy manga series written and illustrated by Hiro Mashima. It has been serialized in Kodansha's ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' since June 2018, with its chapters collected into twen ...

'' and the mother of Weisz Steiner

Other uses

Hurricane Irma Hurricane Irma was an extremely powerful Cape Verde hurricane that caused widespread destruction across its path in September 2017. Irma was the first Category 5 hurricane to strike the Leeward Islands on record, followed by Hurricane Ma ...

, 2017 *Hamilton women's watch Irma, 1952

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