People have asked where we got the names for our children from. The answer is, just around the place, but here’s a list of various people and entities with the same names.
Edith
- Edith Bouvier Beale (1917–2002), American socialite and cousin to Jacqueline Kennedy
- Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale (1895–1977), American socialite and aunt of Jacqueline Kennedy
- Edith Cavell (1865–1915), British nurse
- Edith Falco (born 1963), American actress
- Edith Frank (1900–1945), German mother of diarist and Holocaust victim Anne Frank
- Edith Head (1897–1981), American costume designer
- Edith Jacobson (1897–1978), German psychoanalyst
- Edith Massey (1918–1984), American actress and singer
- Edith Nesbit (1858–1924), British writer
- Édith Piaf (1915–1963), French singer
- Edith Pitt (1906–1966), British politician
- Edith Roosevelt (1861–1948), American first lady and wife of Theodore Roosevelt
- Edith S. Sampson (1898–1979), American judge and diplomat
- Edith Schippers (born 1964), Dutch politician
- Édith Scob (born 1937), French actress
- Edith Sedgwick (1943–1971), American model and actress
- Edith Sitwell (1887–1964), British poet and critic
- Edith Södergran (1892–1923), Finnish poet
- Edith Somerville (1858–1949), Irish novelist
- Edith Stein (1891–1942), German philosopher and nun
- Edith Summerskill (1901–1980), British politician
- Edith Unnerstad (1900–1982), Swedish author
- Edith Wharton (1862–1937), American writer
- Edith Wilson (1872–1961), American first lady and wife of Woodrow Wilson
- Edith Windsor (born 1929), American plaintiff
- Edith Artois, fictional character in the British television series ‘Allo ‘Allo!
- Edith Bunker, fictional character portrayed by Jean Stapleton on the American television series All in the Family
- Lady Edith Crawley, fictional character in the British television series Downton Abbey
- Edith Gru, fictional character in the film Despicable Me
- Edith Hughes, fictional character in the American television series As The World Turns
- Edith Keeler, fictional character in the Star Trek episode “The City on the Edge of Forever”
- Edith Prickley, fictional character portrayed by Andrea Martin on the Canadian television series SCTV
- Edith Ross, fictional character in the American television series Suits
Lenore
- Lenore is a poem by the American author Edgar Allan Poe
- Lenore (ballad), a 1773 poem by Gottfried August BĂĽrger
- Symphony No. 5 (Raff), a symphony by Joachim Raff entitled “Lenore”
- Lenore, the Cute Little Dead Girl, a comic series
- Lenore Blum (born 1942), mathematician and professor of computer science
- Lenore J. Coffee (1896–1984), American screenwriter, playwright and novelist
- Lenore Kandel (1932-2009), American poet
- Lenore Kight (1911-2000), American swimmer
- Lenore Marshall (1899-1971), American poet, novelist and activist
- Lenore Raphael (born 1942), American jazz pianist and educator
- Lenore Romney (1908-1998), wife of American businessman and politician George W. Romney and mother of politician Mitt Romney
- Lenore Skenazy, American newspaper columnist
- Lenore Tawney (1907–2007), American artist
- Lenore Ulric (1892–1970), American stage and film star
- Lenore Zann (born 1959), Canadian politician and actress
Petty
- Bruce Petty (born 1929), Australian political satirist and cartoonist
- George Petty (1894–1975), American pin-up artist
- Lori Petty (born 1963), American movie actress
- Norman Petty (1927–1984), American musician, songwriter, and record producer
- Tom Petty (born 1950), American musician
- W. Morgan Petty, a fictional writer
- Richard Petty (born 1937), son of Lee and the winningest driver in NASCAR Cup Series history
- Matthew Petty, Alderman on City Council in Fayetteville, Arkansas