Renate is a feminine given name. It is derived from the Latin name

Renatus Renatus is a first name of Latin origin which means "born again" ("natus" = "born"). The name has a spiritual meaning, i.e., to be born again with baptism, i.e., from water and the Holy Spirit. It was extensively adopted by early Christians in ...

. It is common in German, Dutch and Norwegian. Notable people with the given name include: * Renate Aschauer-Knaup (born 1948), German singer (Amon Düül II) * Renate Blauel, music engineer, married to Elton John * Renate Dorrestein (1954–2018), Dutch writer, journalist and feminist * Renate Gebhard (born 1977), Italian jurist and politician * Renate Götschl (born 1975), Austrian alpine skier *

Renate Groenewold Renate Titzia Groenewold (born 8 October 1976) is a Dutch former long track speed skater and road bicycle racer. Groenewold has won several Dutch Championships. In 1999, 2002 and 2003 she won the Dutch allround championship. At the European ...

(born 1976), Dutch speed skater * Renate Hellwig (born 1940), German politician * Renate Holub (born 1946), German political philosopher and social theorist * Renate Kamener (1933–2009), Australian educator * Renate Klein (born 1945), Australian writer, publisher and feminist health activist *

Renate Künast Renate Elly Künast (born 15 December 1955) is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens party. She was the Minister of Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture from 2001 to 2005 and subsequently served as chairwoman of her party's parliame ...

(born 1955), German Minister of Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture, 2001–2005 * Renāte Lāce (1943–1967), Latvian track and field athlete *

Renate Loll Renate Loll (born 19 June 1962, Aachen) Is a German physicist. She is a Professor in Theoretical Physics at the Institute for Mathematics, Astrophysics and Particle Physics of the Radboud University in Nijmegen, Netherlands. She previously wo ...

(born 1962), Dutch physicist * Renate Müller (1906–1937), German actress * Renate Prince (born 1929), German-New Zealand architect *

Renate Reinsve Renate Reinsve (; born 24 November 1987) is a Norwegian actress. She made her film debut in the Joachim Trier film ''Oslo, August 31st'' (2011). Her breakout role came in Trier's romantic drama ''The Worst Person in the World (film), The Worst Pe ...

, (born 1987), Norwegian actress *

Renate Schmidt Schmidt in 2014 Renate Schmidt (' Pokorny; born 12 December 1943 in Hanau) is a German Social Democratic politician. Early life Schmidt grew up in Coburg, Fürth, and Nuremberg. Due to a pregnancy at the age of 17, she was forced to leave school ...

(born 1943), German Social Democratic politician *

Renate Sommer Renate Sommer (born 10 September 1958) is a German politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1999 until 2019. She was a member of the Christian Democratic Union (Germany), Christian Democratic Union, part of the Eur ...

(born 1958), German politician and Member of the European Parliament *

Renate Stecher Renate Stecher (, ; née Meißner, born 12 May 1950) is a German (former East German) sprint runner and a triple Olympic champion. She held 34 world records and was the first woman to run 100 metres within 11 seconds. Biography Born as Renate ...

(born 1950), German athlete and Olympic champion *

Renate Tobies Renate A. Tobies (born January 25, 1947) is a German mathematician and historian of mathematics known for her biographies of Felix Klein and Iris Runge. Education and career Tobies grew up in East Germany, and studied mathematics and chemistry ...

(born 1947), German historian of mathematics *

Renate von Natzmer Renate von Natzmer (1898 in Borkow (Kreis Schlawe, Pomerania) – February 18, 1935 in Berlin) was a German noblewoman who worked for the army during the Weimar Republic and Third Reich. She also worked for Polish intelligence. In the early ...

(1898–1935), German noble lady convicted of spying and treason *

Silvia Renate Bernadotte Silvia (born Silvia Renate Sommerlath; 23 December 1943) is Queen of Sweden as the wife of King Carl XVI Gustaf. She has held this title since her marriage to Carl XVI Gustaf in 1976. The king and queen have three children: Crown Princess Victo ...

(born 1943), Queen consort of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden *

Marion Rose Wiesel Marion Rose Wiesel (born Mary Renate Erster; January 27, 1931 – February 2, 2025) was an Austrian-American Holocaust survivor, humanitarian, and translator. She was married to author and fellow Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, the 1986 Nobel P ...

(born Mary Renate Erster; 1931–2025), Austrian-American

Holocaust survivor Holocaust survivors are people who survived the Holocaust, defined as the persecution and attempted annihilation of the Jews by Nazi Germany and Collaboration with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, its collaborators before and during World War II ...

, humanitarian, and translator

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