Regina (given name)
Regina is a Late Latin feminine name meaning "queen" from the Latin, Italian and Romanian word meaning the same. Regina was the name of an early Christian saint.
Variant forms include:
- Queenie
- Raina, Rayna, Raya
- Régine
- Ρήγαινα, Ρεγγίνα
- Regine
- Ríona, Ríonach
- Reina
Notable people
- Regina Askia-Williams, Nigerian actress and model
- Régina Badet, French actress and dancer
- Regina Belle, American singer-songwriter
- Regina Benjamin, American physician
- Regina de Jesús Betancourt Ramírez, known to her followers as Regina 11, Colombian self-described mystic, faith healer, mentalist and psychic
- Regina Bianchi, Italian actress
- Regina Casé, Brazilian actress, screenwriter, director, producer and television presenter
- Regina Marie Cuttita, stage name Regina (American singer), American pop singer
- Regīna Ezera, Latvian author
- Regina Frank, German textile artist
- Regina Fryxell, American educator and musician
- Regina Chistyakova, Lithuanian distance runner
- Regina George (sprinter), American-born Nigerian sprinter
- Regina Gorman, Irish camogie player
- Regina Gwynn, American tech entrepreneur
- Regina Honu, Ghanaian social entrepreneur and software developer
- Regina José Galindo, Guatemalan performance artist
- Regina Kalinichenko, Ukrainian and Russian handballer
- Regina Kapeller-Adler, Austrian biochemist
- Regina Khayatt, Egyptian educator, philanthropist, feminist, suffragist and temperance worker
- Regina King,, American actress and director
- Regina Kodymová-Jirkalová, Czech sports shooter
- Regina Kopp-Herr, German politician
- Regina de Lamo, Spanish intellectual
- Regina Lesoma, South African politician
- Regina Leung, Hong Kong solicitor
- Regina Louise, American author, child advocate and motivational speaker
- Regina M. Anderson, American playwright and librarian
- Regina Maršíková, Czech tennis player
- Regina Martínez Pérez, Mexican journalist
- Regina Rajchrtová, Czech tennis player
- Regina Resnik, American opera singer
- Regina Shotaro, Micronesian sprinter
- Regina Spektor, Russian-born American singer
- Regina Uchoa, Brazilian volleyball player
- Regina von Habsburg, German-born Austrian social worker
- Regina Washington, American public health professional, activist and researcher