Irene (given name)
Irene, sometimes written Irini, is derived from εἰρήνη, the Greek word for "peace". Eirene was the Greek goddess of peace. Irene was also the name of an 8th-century Byzantine empress, as well as the name of several saints.
Variants
- Arina
- Arisha
- Eireen
- Eirena
- Eirene
- Eirini
- Eraina
- Erayna
- Erea
- Erene
- Ereni
- Eriny
- Ira
- Ireen
- Iren
- Irén
- Irena
- Irene
- Irène
- Irenea
- Irenka
- Iria
- Iriana
- Iriana, Irene
- Iriena
- Irin
- Irini
- Irina
- Irine
- Irina
- Irinka
- Irishka
- Irinushka
- Irisha
- Irja
- Irka
- Iryna
- Irynka
- Irynochka
- Reeni
- Reeny
- Rena
- Rene
- Reney
- Reni
- Renie
- Rina
- Yarina
- Yaryna
- Yeran
- Yeranouhi
People with the given name
- Irene, baptismal name of Tzitzak, wife of Byzantine Emperor Constantine V
- Irene of Athens, wife of Byzantine Emperor Leo IV and empress regnant, 797–802
- Irene of Hungary, empress consort of John II Komnenos of the Byzantine Empire
- Irene Angelina
- Irene Palaiologina, illegitimate daughter of Andronikos II Palaiologos, wife of John II Doukas of Epirus
- Irene Shpata, Albanian Princess of Arta and Despotess consort of Epirus
- Irene Dushmani, Albanian Princess of Zadrima and Pult
- Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark, later Duchess of Aosta, Queen of Croatia
- Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark
- Princess Irene of the Netherlands
- Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine
- Saint Irene (disambiguation), various saints
- Eirene (artist), ancient Greek artist
- Irene (singer), South Korean singer
- Irene Abel, East German gymnast
- Irene Abendroth, Austrian operatic soprano
- Irene Abrigo, Italian violinist
- Irene Adams, Scottish politician
- Irene Aebi, Swiss singer, violinist and cellist
- Irene Aguilar, American politician
- Irene Agyepong, Ghanaian public health physician
- Irene Ajambo, Ugandan weightlifter
- Irene Zoe Alameda, Spanish writer, filmmaker and composer
- Irene Alexander, Australian spiritual director, writer and lecturer
- Irene Osgood Andrews, American writer
- Irene Ang, Singaporean actress, comedian, host and entrepreneur
- Irene Angelico, Canadian film director, producer and writer
- Irene Kataq Angutitok, Inuk sculptor
- Irene Arcos, Spanish actress
- Irene Aronson, German-American painter
- Irene Astor, Baroness Astor of Hever, English philanthropist
- Irene Avaalaaqiaq Tiktaalaaq, Canadian artist
- Irene Awret, German artist and writer
- Irene Azuela, Mexican actress and producer
- Irene Bache, British artist
- Irene Baird, English-Canadian novelist
- Irene Baker (botanist), British-born American botanist
- Irene Baker, American politician
- Irene Baldessari, Italian middle-distance runner
- Irene Barberis, Australian artist
- Irene Barclay, British surveyor
- Irene Barros, Indian politician
- Irene Bayer-Hecht, American photographer
- Irene Beardsley, American mountaineer
- Irene Beasley, American singer
- Irene Blanco Becerra, Mexican politician
- Irene Becker, German nurse and serial killer
- Irene Bedard, Native American actress
- Irene Beland, American nursing educator and patient-centered care researcher
- Irene Bell Bonong, Cameroonian sprinter
- Irene Below, German art historian
- Irene Benneweis, Danish acrobat and circus director
- Irene Bentley, American actress
- Irene Berger, American judge
- Irene Bernasconi, Argentine marine biologist
- Irene Bertschek, German economist
- Irene Beyeler, Swiss sport shooter
- Irene Beyerlein, American materials scientist
- Irene Bianucci, Italian-American painter
- Irene Bitto, Italian cyclist
- Irene Craigmile Bolam, American banker and former aviator
- Irene Borrego, Mexican weightlifter
- Irene Bosch, Venezuelan biologist and researcher
- Irene Mott Bose, American social worker
- Irene Bridger, Canadian singer
- Irene Brietzke, Brazilian actress and theatre director
- Irene Brin, Italian journalist and writer
- Irene Britton Smith, American classical composer
- Irene Broe, Irish sculptor
- Irene Brown, British code breaker
- Irene Bennett Brown, American author
- Irene Browne, British actress
- Irene Mary Browne, British artist
- Irene Bucher, Swiss orienteering competitor
- Irene Bürgi, Swiss curler
- Irene Burillo Escorihuela, Spanish tennis player
- Irene Burns, American television producer
- Irene Bustamante Adams, American politician
- Irene H. Butter, German-born American economist and holocaust survivor
- Irene Byers, English novelist, poet and children’s writer
- Irene Caba Alba, Spanish actress
- Irene Cabrera Lorenzo, Spanish former volleyball player
- Irene Cadurisch, Swiss biathlete
- Irene Calvert, Northern Irish politician and economist
- Irene Camber, Italian fencer
- Irene Campbell, Scottish Labour politician
- Irene Capek, Australian politician
- Irene Cara, American singer, songwriter, and actress
- Irene Castelli, Italian gymnast
- Irene Aragón Castillo, Mexican politician
- Irene Castle, half of the ballroom dance team of Vernon and Irene Castle
- Irene Cefaro, Italian stage and film actress
- Irene Champlin, American actress
- Irene Chang, Malaysian politician
- Irene Chanter, British singer
- Irene Charalambidou, Cypriot journalist and politician
- Irene Charnley, South African businesswoman
- Irene Chen, Australian actress
- Irene Cheng, Hong Kong educationalist
- Irene Chepet Cheptai, Kenyan distance runner
- Irene Chou, Chinese artist
- Irene Clarin, German television and theatre actress
- Irene Clark Durrell, American educator
- Irene Clark, Navajo weaver
- Irene V. Clark, American artist
- Irene Coates, English playwright, poet, painter, feminist and environmentalist
- Irene Collins, British historian and writer
- Irene Colvin Corbett, American nurse and musician who died on the Titanic
- Irene Condachi, Maltese physician
- Irene Cortes, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines
- Irene Cortes (artist), filmmaker and artist
- Irene Costa, Portuguese politician and social worker
- Irene Cozad, American pianist, piano teacher and composer
- Irene Crespin, Australian geologist and micro paleontologist
- Irene Cruz, Spanish photographer and video artist
- Irene Cruz-González, Mexican astronomer
- Irene Cuadrado, Spanish painter
- Irene Cuesta, Spanish archer and archery coach
- Irene Curtoni, Italian alpine skier
- Irene Curzon, 2nd Baroness Ravensdale, British hereditary peeress
- Irene Cybulsky, Canadian lawyer and cardiac surgeon
- Irene Dailey, American actress
- Irene Dalby, Norwegian swimmer
- Irene Dalis, American opera singer
- Irene Dallas, British suffragette
- Irene Dalton, American actress
- Irene Dare, American figure skater and film star
- Irene Daw, British sports shooter
- Irene Daye, American jazz musician
- Irene Dean-Williams, aviator
- Irene DeBari, American television actress
- Irène Debrunner, Swiss swimmer
- Irene DeLaby, American baseball player
- Irène Deliège, Belgian cognitive scientist
- Irene Delroy, American stage actress
- Irene Desmet, English pediatric surgeon
- Irene Devin, Wyoming politician
- Irene Diaz, American singer-songwriter
- Irene Dick, Curaçaoan politician
- Irene Caroline Diner Koenigsberger, American chemist
- Irene Dingel, German historian and Protestant theologian
- Irene Dische, American-Austrian writer
- Irene Dixon, Bletchley Park codebreaker
- Irene Dölling, German sociologist
- Irene Dorner, American businesswoman
- Irene Doukaina, Empress Consort of the Byzantine Empire
- Irene Doutney, Australian politician
- Irène Drésel, French electronic music producer
- Irene Drummond, Australian Army nurse
- Irene Dubois, American drag performer
- Irene Dufaux, Swiss sport shooter
- Irene Dunne, American actress
- Irene Eastman, American singer
- Irene Eber, Israeli orientalist
- Irene Edgar, Scottish lawn bowler
- Irene Eijs, Dutch rower
- Irene Eisinger, German-British opera singer and film actress
- Irene Ekelund, Swedish sprinter
- Irene Ellenberger, German architect
- Irene Emery, American art historian, scholar, curator, textile anthropologist, sculptor, and modern dancer
- Irene Epple, German alpine skier
- Irene Escolar, Spanish actress
- Irene Esser, Venezuelan actress, model and beauty queen
- Irene Evans, musician and educator
- Irene Eyaru, Ugandan netball player
- Irene Fairbairn, Girl Guide Commissioner
- Irene Falcón, Spanish journalist, feminist, pacifist and communist activist
- Irene Fargo, Italian singer and actress
- Irene Fenwick, American actress
- Irene Ferguson, New Zealand painter
- Irene Fernandez, Malaysian human rights activist
- Irene Ferreira, Venezuelan model
- Irene Ferreiro, Spanish actress, singer and author
- Irene Ferri, Italian actress and television presenter
- Irene Fischer, Austrian-American mathematician and geologist
- Irene Fitzner, Argentine sprinter
- Irene Fonseca, Portuguese-American mathematician
- Irene Foote, several people
- Irene Forbes, Cuban fencer
- Irene Fornaciari, Italian singer-songwriter
- Irene Fountas, American educational theorist
- Irène Frain, French novelist, journalist and historian
- Irene Franchini, Italian archer
- Irene Franklin, American actress
- Irene Hanson Frieze, American psychologist and academic
- Irene Frisch, American writer
- Irene Fuhrmann, Austrian footballer
- Irene McCoy Gaines, American social worker and civil rights activist
- Irene Galitzine, Russian-Georgian fashion designer
- Irene O. Galloway, American Army soldier
- Irène Galter, Italian actress
- Irene M. Gamba, Argentine-American mathematician
- Irene Gammel, Canadian literary historian, biographer and curator
- Irene García, Spanish politician
- Irene Gardner, American rugby sevens player
- Irene Gargantini, Italian-Canadian computer scientist
- Irene Gattilusio, Byzantine Empress consort
- Irene Gauthier, American massage teacher
- Irene Antoinette Geffen, South African lawyer
- Irene Genna, Greek-born Italian film and television actress
- Irene Georgakoudi, Greek physicist
- Irini Georgatou, Greek tennis player
- Irene George, Solomon Islands tennis player
- Irene Germini, Italian rhythmic gymnast
- Irene Ghobrial, American-Egyptian physician and academic
- Irini Giannatou, birth name of Greek actress and singer Rena Dor
- Irene M. Giblin, American pianist and composer
- Irene Gifford, American politician
- Irène Gijbels, mathematical statistician
- Irene Gilbert, German-American actress
- Irene Gilbert (swimmer), British swimmer
- Irene Gilbert (fashion designer), Irish fashion designer
- Irene Gleeson, Australian aid worker
- Irene Goergens, German militant
- Irene Gonçalves, Angolan footballer
- Irene González, several people
- Iréne Grahn, Swedish visual artist and inventor
- Irene Grandi, Italian singer and songwriter
- Irene Greenwood, Australian feminist, pacifist activist, broadcaster and writer
- Irene Gregory, American aerospace engineer
- Irene Greif, American computer scientist
- Irene Griegst, Moroccan-born Danish goldsmith
- Irene Griffin (activist), African-American activist
- Irene Griffin, American politician
- Irene Welch Grissom, American poet
- Irene Grootboom, South African housing rights activist
- Irene Güdel, Swiss cellist
- Irene Guerrero, Spanish footballer
- Irene Guest, American swimmer
- Irene Gurney, Canadian pianist and clubwoman
- Irene Haines, American politician and businesswoman from Connecticut
- Irene Hall, Australian hospital matron
- Irene Handl, British character actress
- Irene Hannon, American author
- Irene Harand, Austrian human rights activist
- Irene Haschke, German SS guard during World War II
- Irene Hayes, American actress
- Irene Hays, British civil servant and businesswoman
- Irene Headin, Canadian handball player
- Irene Hedlund, Danish illustrator and children’s writer
- Irene Heim, American linguist
- Irene Hervey, American film, stage and television actress
- Irene Hess, American statistician
- Irene Hickson, American baseball player
- Irene Higginbotham, American musician
- Irene Hirano, American business executive
- Irene Hirst, British gymnast
- Irene Hoffar Reid, Canadian painter
- Irene Whitfield Holmes, American musicologist and ethnomusicologist
- Irene Hostettler, Swiss cyclist
- Irene Howard, British costume designer
- Irene Hughes, American psychic
- Irene Hunt (actress), American actress
- Irene Hunt, American children's writer
- Irene ʻĪʻī Brown Holloway, Hawaiian philanthropist
- Irene Iacopi, Italian archaeologist
- Irene Ibsen Bille, Norwegian novelist and playwright
- Irene Ighodaro, Sierra Leone Creole physician and social worker
- Irene Ivancan, German table tennis player
- Irene Jacob, French-born Swiss actress
- Irene Jakab, Hungarian-born psychiatrist
- Irene James, Welsh politician
- Irene Jansen, Dutch singer
- Irene Jelagat, Kenyan middle-distance runner
- Irene Jerotich Kosgei, Kenyan long-distance runner
- Irène Joachim, French soprano and vocal teacher
- Irene Johansen, Norwegian politician
- Irène Joliot-Curie, French scientist
- Irene Jones, Canadian politician
- Irene de Jong, Dutch classicist
- Irene Joseph, Indonesian sprinter
- Irene Junquera, Spanish journalist
- Irene Kampen, American writer
- Irene Kantakouzene, wife of Serbian despot
- Irini Karra, Greek fashion model
- Eirini Kavarnou, Greek swimmer
- Irene Kelley, American country and bluegrass singer
- Irene Keng, American actress
- Irene Kepl, Austrian violinist and composer
- Irene Kerwin, American baseball player
- Irene Khan, Bangladeshi academic
- Irene Kim, Korean-American model and television personality
- Irene Kirpal, Czech politician
- Irene Kitchings, American musician and pianist
- Irene Koh, comics artist
- Irene de Kok, Dutch judoka
- Irene Kopelman, Argentine-Dutch artist
- Irene Koss, German actress and presenter
- Irene Kotowicz, American baseball player
- Irene Koumarianou, Greek actress
- Irene Kowaliska, Italian painter, ceramicist and fabric designer
- Irene Kral, American jazz musician
- Irene Krugman, American sculptor
- Irene Krugman Rudnick, American politician
- Irene Corbally Kuhn, American journalist and author
- Irene Küng, Swiss photographer
- Irene Kuo, Chinese-American chef and bookwriter
- Irene Kuzemko, intersex activist
- Irene Kwambai, Kenyan long-distance runner
- Irene Kwok, Hong Kong swimmer
- Irene Lalji, Surinamese lawyer and television presenter
- Irène Landau, French parasitologist
- Irene Lardschneider, Italian biathlete
- Irene Larsen, co-founder of the Magic Castle and the Academy of Magical Arts
- Irene Latham, American author
- Irène Laure, French socialist activist and politician
- Irene Heng Lauvsnes, Norwegian politician
- Irene Leache, American teacher
- Irene Leigh, British dermatologist
- Irene Lemos, British classical archaeologist
- Irene Lentle, British table tennis player
- Irene Lentz, American fashion and film costume designer, known simply as "Irene"
- Irene Leverton, American pilot
- Irene Lewisohn, American philanthropist
- Irene Li, Boston based chef and restaurateur
- Irène Lidova,, Russian-French dance critic
- Irene Lieblich, Polish-American painter
- Irene Lim, several people
- Irene Lindh, Swedish actress and singer
- Irène de Lipkowski, French politician
- Irene Lisboa, Portuguese novelist
- Irene Logan, Liberian-Ghanaian singer
- Irene Loizate, Spanish cyclist
- Irene D. Long, American aerospace physician
- Irene Longman, Australian politician
- Irene López, Spanish footballer
- Irene Loughlin, Canadian artist
- Irene Lozano, Spanish writer and journalist
- Irene Lusztig, British-American filmmaker
- Irene Luxbacher, Canadian artist, author and illustrator
- Irene MacDonald, Canadian diver
- Irene Maguire, American figure skater
- Irène Major, British-Cameroonian fashion model and musical artist
- Irene Rima Makaryk, Canadian English-language academic
- Irene Mambilima, 7th Chief Justice of Zambia
- Irene Manjeri, Ugandan pastor
- Irene Mann, German dancer, actress and choreographer
- Irene Manning, American actress and singer
- Irene Manton, British botanist
- Irene Marcos, Filipino exile
- Irene Marcuse, American author of mystery novels
- Irene Martínez, Cuban track and field athlete
- Irene Martínez (gymnast), Spanish gymnast
- Irene Mathyssen, Canadian politician
- Irene Mawela, South African singer and composer
- Irene Mawer, English educator
- Irene McAra-McWilliam, British design researcher and Director of the Glasgow School of Art
- Irene McCormack, Australian Catholic Sister murdered by guerrillas in Peru
- Irene McCulloch, American marine biologist of the 20th century
- Irene McFarland, American aviator
- Irene McGee, American podcaster
- Irene McGugan, Scottish politician
- Irene McKinney, American poet
- Irene R. McLeod, British poet, writer and editor
- Irene Mecchi, American screenwriter and playwright
- Irene Meichsner, German science journalist and author
- Irène Mélikoff, Russian-French Turkologist
- Irene Miguel-Aliaga, Spanish-British physiologist
- Irene de Miguel, Spanish politician
- Irene Miguélez, Spanish footballer
- Irene Mihalic, German politician
- Irene Miller, British screenwriter
- Irene Miracle, American actress
- Irene Mitchell, Australian actress and theatre director
- Irene Mitterstieler, Italian luger
- Irene Mogaka, Kenyan long-distance runner
- Irene Moillen, Swiss para-alpine skier
- Irène Molitor, Swiss alpine skier
- Irene Molloy, American actress, singer and songwriter
- Irene Molyneux, English lawn bowls player
- Irene Monaco, Italian Paralympic competitor
- Irène Monesi, French writer
- Irene Montalà, Spanish actress
- Irene Montero, Spanish politician and psychologist
- Irene Montie, American statistician
- Irene Montrucchio, Spanish synchronized swimmer
- Irene Moon, American entomologist and musician
- Irene Moorman Blackstone, African-American businesswoman and club member
- Irene Moors, Dutch singer and television presenter
- Irene Morales, Chilean soldier
- Irene Moreira, Uruguayan lawyer, businesswoman and politician
- Irene Moreno, American rower
- Irene Morgan, African-American anti-segregation activist
- Irene Moroz, British applied mathematician
- Irene Morra, American film editor
- Irene Moss, Australian solicitor and public servant
- Irene Mossop, British writer
- Irene Mounce, Canadian mycologist
- Irene Mountbatten, Marchioness of Carisbrooke, British noblewoman
- Irene Mullen, Canadian swimmer
- Irene Müller, East German pair skater
- Irene Muloni, Ugandan politician
- Irene Mulvey, American mathematician
- Irene Mulyagonja, Ugandan lawyer and judge
- Irene Patricia Murphy Keeley, American judge
- Irene Mutsila, South African politician
- Irene Koki Mutungi, Kenyan aviator
- Irene Muyanga, Ugandan sprinter
- Irene Zin Mar Myint, Burmese pop singer
- Irene Napier, Scottish makeup designer
- Irene Jai Narayan, Fijian politician
- Irene Natividad, Filipino-American women’s rights activist
- Irene Neal, American painter
- Irene Nelson, Russian singer, songwriter and record producer
- Irene Neverla, Austrian professor
- Irene Ng (politician), Singaporean politician
- Irene Ng, former American actor
- Irene Mrembo Njoki, Kenyan politician
- Irene Lange Nordahl, Norwegian politician
- Irene Nordli, Norwegian artist
- Irene Ntale, Ugandan musician
- Irene Núñez, Panamanian model and beauty pageant titleholder
- Irene Obera, American track and field athlete
- Irene Oguiza, Spanish footballer
- Irene Ogus, English table tennis player
- Irene Ogutu, Kenyan footballer
- Irene Ojala, Norwegian politician
- Irene Oldfather, Scottish politician
- Irene Gut Opdyke, Polish Righteous Among the Nations
- Irene Osgood, American poet
- Irene Otieno, American football player
- Irene Ovonji-Odida, Ugandan lawyer, politician, and women's rights activist
- Irene Pacheco, Colombian boxer
- Irene Papas, Greek actress
- Irene Paredes, Spanish footballer
- Irene Parenti Duclos, Italian artist
- Irene Parlby, Canadian politician
- Irene E. Parmelee, American painter
- Irene Levine Paull, American writer and labor activist
- Irene Pavloska, American opera singer
- Irene Bowder Peacock, South African tennis player
- Irene C. Peden, American engineer
- Irene Peirano Garrison, American philologist
- Irene Pepinghege, German canoeist
- Irene Pepperberg, American scientist noted for her studies in animal cognition
- Irene Pérez, Chicana muralist
- Irene Perveen, Pakistani film playback singer
- Irene Peslikis, American feminist artist and activist
- Irene de Peyré, Guatemalan educator and feminist
- Irene Pijoan, Swiss-born American painter, sculptor, and educator
- Irene Flunser Pimentel, Portuguese historian of the 20th century
- Irene Piotrowski, Lithuanian-Canadian athlete
- Irene Pirie, Canadian swimmer
- Irène Pittelioen, French gymnast
- Irene Pivetti, Italian politician
- Irene Pnevmatikos, Australian politician
- Irene Pollin, American sports executive
- Irene Polo, Spanish journalist, publicist and translator
- Irène Popard, French choreographer
- Irène Possemiers, Belgian swimmer
- Irene Prador, Austrian actress and writer
- Irene Prescott, Tongan swimmer
- Irini Psyhrami, Greek pop singer
- Irene Purcell, American actress
- Irène Pusterla, Swiss long jumper
- Irene Rathbone, novelist
- Irene Ravache, Brazilian actress
- Irene Victoria Read, Australian charity and community worker
- Irene Reed, American anthropologist, linguist and educator
- Irene Reid, American jazz singer
- Irene Reyes-Noguerol, Spanish writer
- I. Rice Pereira, American abstract artist, poet and philosopher
- Irene Rich, American actress
- Irene Richards, New Zealand painter
- Irene Rigau, Spanish politician
- Irene del Río, Spanish footballer
- Irene Roberts, American mezzo-soprano
- Irene Robertson, American hurdler
- Irene Robledo, Mexican educator and humanist
- Irene Rocas i Romaguera, Catalan folklorist and lexicographer
- E. Irene Rood, founder of the Chicago Audubon Society
- Irene Rooke, English actress
- Irene Rosenfeld, American businesswoman
- Irene Rousseau, American artist
- Irene S. Rubin, American political scientist
- Irene Ruhnke, baseball player
- Irene Runge, American-German-Jewish sociologist and writer
- Irene E. Ryan, American aviator, engineer, geologist, government official and politician
- Irene Ryan, American actress
- Irene Ryder, Hong Kong musical artist
- Irene Sabadini, Italian mathematician
- Irene Sabatini, Zimbabwean writer
- Irene Sabido, Mexican producer and writer
- Irene Saez, Venezuelan politician and former Miss Universe
- Irene Salemka, Canadian opera singer
- Irene Saltern, German-born American costume and fashion designer
- Irene Sánchez-Escribano, Spanish athletics competitor
- Irene Sandiford-Garner, Barbadian politician
- Irene Sänger-Bredt, German engineer, mathematician and physicist
- Irene Sankoff, Canadian librettist and composer
- Irene Santiago, Filipina peace negotiator and women’s advocate
- Irene Sargent, American art historian
- Irene Saunders, American lexicographer
- Irene Savidge, English factory worker and subject of police interrogation scandal
- Irene Scharrer, English classical pianist
- Irene Schloss, Argentine Antarctic researcher
- Irene Schmidt, Dutch para table tennis player
- Irene H. Schöne, German environmental economist
- Irene Schoof, Dutch cricketer
- Irene Schori, Swiss curler
- Irene Schouten, Dutch speed skater
- Irene Schroeder, American murderer
- Irene Schuch, German discus thrower
- Irène Schweizer, Swiss pianist
- Irene Sciriha, Maltese mathematician
- Irene F. Scott, American Tax Court judge
- Irene Scruggs, American singer
- Irene Mayer Selznick, American theatre producer
- Irene Sewankambo, Ugandan electrical engineer
- Irene Sharaff, American costume designer
- Irene Shepard, American politician
- Irene Shin, Virginia politician
- Irene Shubik, British television producer and story editor
- Irene Siegel, American artist
- Irene Siragusa, Italian sprinter
- Irene Skliva, Miss World 1996
- Iréne Slättengren, Swedish equestrian
- Irene Sloan, American journalist
- Irene Smart, American politician
- Irene Solà, Spanish writer and an artist
- Irene Spencer, American author
- Irene di Spilimbergo, Italian painter
- Irene Spry, Canadian economist
- Irene Staunton, Zimbabwean publisher and editor
- Irène Stecyk, Belgian writer
- Irene Steer, British swimmer
- Irene Stefani, 20th-century Italian Catholic religious sister
- Irene Stegun, American politician
- Irene Stelling, Danish footballer
- Irene Monat Stern, Polish-American painter
- Irene Steyn, Namibian cyclist
- Irene Stoehr, German journalist
- Irene Stolofsky, American violinist
- Irene Strong, Canadian swimmer
- Irene Strychalski, American comic book writer
- Irene Kharisma Sukandar, Indonesian chess player
- Irene Sunters, Scottish actress
- Irene Sutcliffe, English actress
- Irène Sweyd, Belgian swimmer
- Irene Barnes Taeuber, American demographer
- Irene Tamborra, Italian particle astrophysicist
- Irene Tarimo, Tanzanian scientist, biologist and educator
- Irene Frances Taylor, Australian journalist and activist
- Irene S. Taylor, American journalist and public information specialist
- Irene Taylor, American singer
- Irene Taylor (filmmaker), American director and producer
- Irene Tedrow, American character actress
- Irini Terzoglou, Greek shot putter
- Irene Thomas, British radio personality
- Irène Tiendrébéogo, Burkinabé-Monegasque athlete
- Irene Tinagli, Italian economist and politician
- Irene Tinker, American economist
- Irene Tobar, Ecuadorian footballer
- Irène Tolleret, French politician
- Irene Tomaszewski, Canadian writer, editor and translator
- Irene Naa Torshie Addo, Ghanaian politician and lawyer
- Irene Tracey, British neuroscientist
- Irène de Trebert, French singer, dancer and actress
- Irene Treppler, American politician
- Irene Triplett, last recipient of an American Civil War pension
- Irene Tripod, British actress
- Irene Trowell-Harris, United States Air Force general
- Irene Tsu, American actress
- Irene Tu, American comedian, actor and writer
- Irene Tucker, American literary critic and theorist
- Irène Tunc, French actress
- Irene Tupuna, Cook Islander lawn bowler
- Irene Uchida, Canadian scientist and Down Syndrome researcher
- Irene Usabiaga, Spanish cyclist
- Irene Uwoya, Tanzanian actress and businesswoman
- Irene Vallejo, Spanish writer and academic
- Irene van den Broek, Dutch cyclist
- Irene van Dyk, New Zealand netball player
- Irene van der Reijken, Dutch athlete
- Irene van Renswoude, Dutch historian
- Irene van Zyl, Namibian cricketer
- Irene Vanbrugh, English actress
- Irene Vecchi, Italian fencer
- Irene Vélez Torres, Minister of Mines and Energy of Colombia
- Irène Vernal, Belgian actress
- Irene Vernon, American actress
- Irene Sue Vernon, American professor
- Irene Viaene, Argentine alpine skier
- Irene Vilar, Puerto Rican writer
- Irene Villa, Spanish author and journalist
- Irene Visedo, Spanish actress
- Irene B. Vogel, American linguist
- Irene von Chavanne, Austrian opera singer
- Irene von Fladung, Austrian opera singer
- Irene von Meyendorff, Russian-born German-British actress
- Irene Vorrink, Dutch politician
- Irene Wagner-Döbler, German microbiologist
- Irene Wan, Hong Kong actress and singer
- Irene Wang, Hong Kong model and actress
- Irene Ward, British Conservative Party politician
- Irene Ware, American actress
- Irene N. Watts, German-born Canadian writer and educator
- Irene Weir, American artist and art educator
- Irene Wellington, British calligrapher and teacher
- Irene Whittome, Canadian multimedia artist
- Irene Williams, American artist
- Irene J. Winter, American art historian
- Irene Woodall, American journalist
- Irene Worth, American actress
- Irene Wosikowski, German political activist
- Irene Wrenner, American politician
- Irene Aloha Wright, American historian
- Irene Xavier, Malaysian activist
- Irene Yah-Ling Sun, American actor and collector
- Irene Young Mattox, American Christian speaker and educator
- Irene Vera Young, Australian dancer and dance educator
- Irene Zazians, Iranian actress
- Irene Zechner, Austrian luger
- Irena Zemanová, Czech figure skater
- Irène Zilahy, Hungarian actress
- Irene Zisblatt, Carpathian-American Holocaust survivor
- Irene M. Zoppi, Brigadier General, United States Army Reservist
- Irene Zundel, Mexican sculptor, painter and photographer
- Irène Zurkinden, Swiss painter
- Mother Irini, Egyptian abbess