📖 About Inez
Inez is the anglicised form of the Spanish Inés and Latin Agnes, meaning 'pure' and 'holy'; it was especially popular in the English-speaking world in the early 20th century and is honoured by suffragist martyr Inez Milholland, who died at 30 campaigning for women's right to vote.
📍 Details
- OriginSpanish
- Gender♀ Female
- MeaningVariant of Ines. Pure, holy (Spanish form of Agnes)
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⭐ Famous People
- Inez Milholland — American suffragist, lawyer, and activist (1886-1916); rode a white horse at the head of the 1913 suffrage parade in Washington DC, wearing white robes and a tiara; died at 30 during a cross-country speaking tour for women's suffrage, becoming a martyr of the movement; her last words — 'Mr. President, how long must women wait for liberty?' — became a rallying cry.
- Inez van Lamsweerde — Dutch fashion and fine art photographer (born 1963), one half of the celebrated duo Inez and Vinoodh (with Vinoodh Matadin); known for technically extraordinary, psychologically charged images that have graced the covers of Vogue, W, and other major publications; has photographed Madonna, Björk, Kate Moss, and many others.
- Inez Foxx — American soul and R&B singer (born 1942) best known for the 1963 duet Mockingbird, recorded with her brother Charlie Foxx; the song was later covered by Carly Simon and James Taylor; she was one of the pioneering female voices in early 1960s American soul music.
- Inez Haynes Gillmore — American journalist, novelist, and feminist (1873-1970) who was a founding member of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage and later wrote the first history of the American suffrage movement, The Story of the Woman's Party (1921); one of the most prolific and politically engaged women writers of her era.