Deirdre (given name)
Deirdre is a feminine given name. Deirdre is the name of a tragic heroine of Irish mythology. It is also the name of:
People
- Deirdre Bair (1935–2020), American literary scholar and biographer
- Deirdre Blomfield-Brown (born 1936), American Tibetan Buddhist nun
- Deirdre Connelly (born 1961), Puerto Rican business executive, particularly with pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline
- Deirdre English (born 1948), American former editor of Mother Jones and author
- Deirdre Hargey, Irish Sinn Féin politician, Minister for Communities within the Northern Ireland Executive, and former Lord Mayor of Belfast
- Deirdre Hutton (born 1949), British public servant
- Deirdre Lovejoy (born 1962), American actress
- Deirdre Madden (born 1960), Irish novelist
- Deirdre McCloskey (born 1942), American economist and philosopher
- Deirdre Mullins, 21st-century Irish actress, director and activist
- Deirdre Sullivan, 21st-century Irish children's writer and poet
- Deirdre Wilson (born 1941), British linguist and cognitive scientist
Fictional characters
- Deirdre Barlow, in the British soap opera Coronation Street
- Deirdre Beaubeirdre, in Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
- Deirdre Hortense (Dodie) Bishop, in the American animated TV series As Told by Ginger (2000–2004)
- Deirdre (Halloween), from the 1979 novelization Halloween by Curtis Richards
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