Serena (given name)
Serena is a feminine given name. It is derived from the Latin word serēnus, meaning "clear, tranquil, serene". This name was borne by one of the first saints, Serena of Rome, purported wife of Emperor Diocletian.
This name is pronounced as 星礼奈, 瀬怜奈, 世伶奈 in Japan.
People
- Serena (wife of Stilicho), important noblewoman of the late Western Roman Empire
- Serena Altschul, broadcast journalist
- Serena Bocchino, American artist
- Serena Brancale, Italian singer-songwriter
- Serena Auñón-Chancellor, American physician, engineer, and NASA astronaut
- Serena Katherine Dandridge, American scientific illustrator, painter, naturalist, and suffragist
- Serena DeBeer, American chemist
- Serena Deeb, American professional wrestler
- Serena Grandi, Italian actress
- Serena Ivaldi Italian-born robotics researcher
- Serena Kani, Indonesian badminton player
- Serena McIlwain, American government official
- Serena McKay, a Canadian woman whose brutal murder was posted online
- Serena Nanda, American author, anthropologist, and professor emeritus
- Serena Ortolani, Italian volleyball player
- Serena Pergher, Italian speed skater
- Serena Ryder, Canadian singer-songwriter
- Serena Shim, American journalist
- Serena Sundell, American basketball player
- Serena Williams, American tennis player
- Serena Sonoda, Japanese racewalking athlete.
Fictional characters
- Serena, cousin of main character Samantha Stephens in Bewitched; both roles were played by Elizabeth Montgomery
- Serena (Pokémon), the playable female protagonist in Pokémon X and Y and one of the main characters in the Pokémon anime
- Serena, in Edmund Spenser's poem The Faerie Queene
- Serena, in the film Terminator Salvation
- Serena, a swan in E. B. White's children's novel The Trumpet of the Swan
- Serena, one of the main characters from the video game Dragon Quest XI
- Serena the Healer, one of the heroes from the video game Master of Magic
- Serena, a character played by Deepika Padukone in XXX: The Return of Xander Cage
- Serena Baldwin, in the American soap operas General Hospital and Port Charles
- Serena Bishop, in the Australian soap opera Neighbours
- Serena Butler, from the Legends of Dune series of books
- Serena Kamin, in the 1998 American comedy movie My Giant
- Serena Southerlyn, a district attorney in Law & Order
- Serena Tsukino, the English dub name of the Japanese character Usagi Tsukino, the main character in Sailor Moon media
- Serena van der Woodsen, Gossip Girl character
- Serena Joy, an antagonistic character in The Handmaid's Tale, named Serena Joy Waterford in the television adaptation
- Serena, a character in season 1 of That '90s Show
- Serena, in the Disney Channel show ''Primos''