Eileen ( eye-LEEN or EYE-leen) is an Irish feminine given name anglicised from Eibhlín, an Irish form of the Norman French name Aveline, which is derived from the Germanic Avi, possibly meaning desire in combination with the diminutive suffix el and -in. It is related to the English name Evelyn and the variant name Aileen. It has been featured in classic Irish songs.
It may refer to:
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People
Artists
Eileen Agar (1899–1991), British Surrealist painter and photographer
Eileen Andjelkovitch (1896–1941), British violinist
Eileen Fisher (born 1951), clothing retailer and designer
Eileen Folson (1956–2007), Broadway composer
Eileen Ford (1922–2014), American model agency executive
Eileen Gray (1878–1976), Irish furniture designer and architect
Eileen Hazell (1903–1984), Canadian sculptor and potter
Eileen Ramsay (1915–2017), British maritime photographer
Eileen Shields (born 1970), American footwear designer and entrepreneur
Entertainers
Eileen (singer) (born 1941), American-born singer in France
Eileen Atkins (born 1934), English actress
Eileen Barton (1924–2006), American singer
Eileen Bellomo, member of rock group The Stilettos
Eileen Bowman (born 1966), American actress
Eileen April Boylan (born 1987), Filipina/Irish-American actress
Eileen Brennan (1932–2013), American actress
Eileen Catterson, Scottish fashion model and former Miss Scotland
Eileen Daly (born 1963), English actress, singer and director
Eileen Davidson (born 1959), American film actress
Eileen Derbyshire (born 1930), English character actress
Eileen DeSandre, American actress
Eileen Essell (1922–2015), Irish actress
Eileen Farrell (1920–2002), American opera and concert singer
Eileen Fulton (born 1933), American actress
Eileen Heckart (1919–2001), American actress
Eileen Helsby (born 1937), British actress
Eileen Herlie (1918–2008), Scottish-American actress
Politicians
Eileen Anderson (1928–2021), Hawaii politician
Eileen Bell (born 1943), Northern Ireland politician
Eileen Desmond (1932–2005), British politician
Eileen C. Dugan (1945–1996), New York politician
Eileen Ehlers, New Hampshire politician
Eileen Flockhart (born 1944), American politician
Eileen Gordon (born 1946), United Kingdom politician
Eileen Hickey (New York politician) (1945–1999), New York politician
Eileen M. Hickey (1886–1960), Northern Irish politician
Eileen Lemass (born 1932), Irish politician
Eileen Malloy (born 1954), US ambassador
Eileen Paisley, Baroness Paisley of St George's (born 1931), Northern Irish politician
Eileen Parsons, British Virgin Islands politician
Eileen Woestmann (born 1993), German politician
Sportspeople
Eileen Ash (1911–2021), English cricketer
Eileen Coparropa (born 1981), freestyle swimmer from Panama
Eileen Ellison (1910–1967), English Grand Prix racer
Eileen Gleeson (born 1972), Irish football manager
Eileen Gu (born 2003), Chinese freestyle skier
Eileen Hiscock (1909–1958), British athlete
Eileen McNamara (born 1952), equestrian
Eileen O'Keeffe (born 1981), Irish hammer thrower
Eileen Bennett Whittingstall (1907–1979), UK tennis player
Writers
Eileen Albrizio (born 1960), American writer
Eileen Chang (1920–1995), Chinese writer
Eileen Dunne (born 1958), Irish newsreader
Eileen Gunn (born 1945), American science fiction writer and editor
Eileen Kernaghan (born 1939), Canadian novelist
Eileen McNamara (born 1952), American columnist and professor
Eileen Myles (born 1949), American poet
Eileen Pollock (writer) (1926–2012), American television screenwriter and producer
Eileen Power (1889–1940), British economic historian and medievalist
Eileen Tabios (born 1960), Filipino-American writer and artist
Eileen Wilks (born 1952), American fiction writer
Other
Eileen Barker (born 1938), British sociologist
Eileen Blair (1905–1945), British poet and psychologist
Eileen Caddy (1917–2006), founder of the Findhorn Foundation community
Eileen Collins (born 1956), American astronaut
Eileen de Coppet, Princess of Albania (1922–1985)
Eileen Rockefeller Growald (born 1952), American philanthropist
Eileen Nearne (1921–2010), member of UK Special Operations Executive (SOE)
Eileen Costello O'Shaughnessy (died 1947), Irish murder victim
Eileen Saxon (1942–1945), infant known as "The Blue Baby"
Eileen Southern (1920–2002), African-American musicologist
Eileen Tallman Sufrin (1913–1999), Canadian author and labour activist
Eileen Vidal (1926–2003), kelper telephone and radio operator
Characters
Eileen Shallot, from the novella The Dream Master
Eileen the Crow, from the 2015 video game Bloodborne
Eileen Roberts, from the cartoon Regular Show
Eileen Galvin, from the horror video game Silent Hill 4
Eileen Leahy, from the television series Supernatural
Eileen Grimshaw from the British soap opera Coronation Street
Eileen, a fairy in the charmed ridge level from Spyro: Year of the Dragon
Eileen, a character from Tyler Perry's 2013 film A Madea Christmas
Eileen (Virtua Fighter), a character in the game Virtua Fighter 5
Eileen, a character from Craig of the Creek
Eileen, a character from Library of Ruina
The Birthday Girl: Eileen
Eileen Prince, mother of Severus Snape from the Harry Potter book series
Media
Eileen (film), a 2023 psychological thriller
Eileen (novel), a 2015 novel
Come on Eileen, a 1982 song by Dexys Midnight Runners