Doreen

Alicia Dorotea Fernández (1934–2002), better known as Doreen Fernandez, was a noted Filipino writer, teacher, cultural historian, food critic and scholar who wrote extensively about Philippine theatre and Filipino cuisine.

Doreen Lawrence, Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon, OBE (née Graham) is a British Jamaican campaigner and the mother of Stephen Lawrence, a black British teenager who was murdered in a racist attack in South East London in 1993. She promoted reforms of the police service and founded the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust. She was appointed to the Order of the British Empire for services to community relations in 2003, and was created a Life Peer in 2013.

Doreen Kartinyeri (1935–2007) was an Ngarrindjeri (First Nations Australian) elder and historian. She played a key role in the Hindmarsh Bridge controversy and made many contributions to Indigenous activism.

Marvel superhero Squirrel Girl’s real name is Doreen Allene Green. She supposedly likes her name because it rhymes and is a combination of her parent’s names, Doris and Maureen.

Doreen is the name of a character in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar. She is a fellow intern at Mademoiselle magazine who is cautiously admired by the narrator Esther Greenwood.