Queenie (name)
The name Queenie is an affectionate, or pet use, of the term "queen", and is thought to be derived from the word "quean", meaning 'woman' rather than a reference to the monarch or his wife.
As a first name it can also mean "Royal Lady" or "Ruler". In this sense the name is also used as a nickname or pet name for a girl who shares her first name with a Queen. As such, it was popular name during the Victorian era in the British Empire. It was once very popular in London's East End.
Given name
- Q. D. Leavis, English literary critic and essayist
- Queenie Allen, English badminton player
- Queenie Ashton, English-born Australian television- and film actress, stage performer, singer, dancer, and radio personality
- Queenie Chan, Hong Kong-born Australian comic artist
- Queenie Chong, Brunei businessperson and politician
- Queenie Chu, Hong Kong television presenter, actress, and beauty pageant titleholder
- Queenie Foote, American performer
- Queenie H. C. Captain, Indian social worker
- Queenie McKenzie, Aboriginal Australian artist
- Queenie Muriel Francis Adams, English academic, physician, and missionary
- Queenie Mvana, South African politician
- Queenie Paul, Australian performer
- Queenie Rosson, American silent film actress
- Queenie Rynjah, Indian social worker and educationist
- Queenie Scott-Hopper, English author of children’s stories, poetry, and devotional literature
- Queenie Smith, American stage-, film-, and television actress
- Queenie Tai, Taiwanese actress
- Queenie Thomas, Welsh actress
- Queenie van de Zandt, Australian actress, singer, comedian, recording artist, writer, and arts educator
- Queenie Vassar, Scottish-born American film- and stage actress
- Queenie Watts, English television- and film actress, singer, and publican
Nickname
- Jimmy O'Rourke (baseball), American MLB player
- Mary Jane Cain, Aboriginal Australian human rights activist
- Merle Oberon, Anglo-Indian actress
- Queenie Newall, English archer
- Stephanie St. Clair, French gangster who operated out of New York's Harlem
Stage names
- Queenie, English member of pop quintet King (pop band)
- Queenie Leighton, stage name of British music hall star Lilian Caroline Augusta Rickard
- Queenie Leonard, stage name of English actress and singer Pearl Walker
- Queenie Williams, stage name of Australian actress, singer, and dancer Alfreda Ina Williams
Animals
Fictional characters
- Queenie, in the Australian adult independent animated web series The Amazing Digital Circus
- Queenie (Blackadder), a caricature of Elizabeth I of England in the UK sitcom Blackadder, played by Miranda Richardson
- Queenie Cooper, in the UK comedy drama series Ackley Bridge, played by Jasmine Payne
- Magdalene "Queenie" Shaw, a character from the Fast & Furious franchise, played by Helen Mirren
- Queenie Gibbons, in Noël Coward's play This Happy Breed, played by Jennifer Gray (actress)
- Queenie Goldstein, in the Fantastic Beasts (film series), played by Alison Sudol
- Queenie Hennessy, in the 2012 UK novel The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
- Queenie Jenkins, in the UK TV series Queenie, played by Dionne Brown
- Queenie Kelley, main character in the 1987 Queenie (miniseries), played by Mia Sara
- Queenie or Queeney, a character in the Aubrey–Maturin series of novels by Patrick O'Brian
- Queenie Price, in the UK TV soap opera EastEnders, played by John Labanowski
- Queenie Shepherd, in the UK sitcom Queenie's Castle, played by Diana Dors
- Queenie Trott, in the UK TV soap opera EastEnders, played by Judy Cornwell
- Queenie Yoh, in the 2018 Japanese anime Lost Hope (TV series), voiced by Kana Hanazawa and Laura Post
- Queenie, a dog in Truman Capote's short story A Christmas Memory
- Queenie, in Joseph Moncure March's poem "The Wild Party" (poem)
- Queenie, in the 2008 US romantic fantasy drama film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (film), played by Taraji P. Henson
- Queenie, in the musical Show Boat, played by Tess Gardella, Alberta Hunter, Helen Dowdy, Ena Cabayo, Karla Burns, Gretha Boston, Sandra Marvin, and Hattie McDaniel
- Queenie, in the US horror anthology TV series American Horror Story, played by Gabourey Sidibe
- Queenie the Dog, in the 1931 US comedy film ''Queenie of Hollywood''