Sinéad ( , ) is an Irish feminine name. It is derived from the French '' Jeanette'', which is

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to the English

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, itself a feminine form of the

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'', "God forgave/God gratified". In English, ''Sinéad'' is also commonly spelled ''Sinead''. The name is generally translated into English as either ''Jane'' or ''Jennifer'', or as the Scottish female name ''Jean''. Notable people and characters with the name include:

People

Sports

* Sinéad Cahalan, camogie player * Sinead Farrelly (born 1989), American soccer player * Sinead Jennings (born 1976), rower * Sinead Kerr (born 1978), ice dancer * Sinéad Millea, former camogie player * Sinead Miller (born 1990), cyclist * Sinéad Russell (born 1993), Olympic swimmer

Music

Sinéad Harnett Sinéad Monica Harnett (born 12 October 1989) is an English singer and songwriter of Irish and Thai descent. Early life Born to a Thai mother and an Irish father who separated when she was a toddler, Harnett was raised by her mother in Finchley ...

(born 1990), singer/songwriter * Sinéad Lohan (born 1971), singer/songwriter * Sinéad Madden, singer/songwriter *

Sinéad Mulvey Sinéad Mulvey (born 22 January 1988) is an Irish singer and flight attendant. Alongside Black Daisy, she represented her country at the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 with the pop-rock song "Et Cetera". The song was performed in the second semi- ...

(born 1988), singer, air hostess *

Sinéad O'Carroll Sinéad Maria O'Carroll (born 14 May 1973) is an Irish singer and businesswoman. She is best known for being a member of the girl group B*Witched. Career 1998–2002: B*Witched In 1998, Edele Lynch formed the girl group Butterfly Farm with h ...

(born 1973), singer with Irish pop band B*Witched *

Sinéad O'Connor Shuhada' Sadaqat (born Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor; , ; 8 December 1966 – 26 July 2023) was an Irish singer, songwriter, record producer and activist. Her debut studio album, ''The Lion and the Cobra'', was released in 1987 and achieve ...

(1966–2023), singer/songwriter * Sinéad Quinn (born 1980), recording artist, reality show contestant

Film and television

Sinéad Cusack Sinéad Moira Cusack ( ; born 18 February 1948) is an Irish actress. Her first acting roles were at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, before moving to London in 1969 to join the Royal Shakespeare Company. She has won the Critics' Circle and ''Eve ...

(born 1948), actress * Sinead Desmond (born 1974), TV presenter * Sinead Keenan (born 1977), actress * Sinead Matthews, actress * Sinéad Moynihan (born 1982), model and actress * Sinéad Noonan (born 1987), model and actress

Other

* Sinead Bovell, Canadian futurist * Sinéad Burke (born 1990), writer, academic, influencer * Sinéad de Valera (1878–1975), children's book author and wife of Ireland’s first

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* Sinéad Donnelly, Irish professor of palliative medicine * Sinead Farrington, British particle physicist * Sinéad Gleeson, author and book editor * Sinéad Griffin (born 1986), Irish physicist *

Sinéad Morrissey Sinéad Morrissey (born 24 April 1972 in Portadown, County Armagh) is a Northern Irish poet. In January 2014 she won the T. S. Eliot Prize for her fifth collection ''Parallax: And Selected Poems, Parallax'' and in 2017 she won the Forward Priz ...

(born 1972), poet *

Sinéad Sheppard Sinéad Sheppard is an Irish politician and dancing tutor, and former member of the pop group Six. She rose to fame in the 2001–2002 RTÉ One television series ''Popstars'', in which she was selected as a member of the group. After the ...

, dancer

Fictional characters

* Sinead O'Connor, in the TV series ''Hollyoaks'', played by Stephanie Davis * Sinead Tinker, in the TV series ''Coronation Street'', played by Katie McGlynn *Sinead Starling, in the series The 39 Clues

References

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