Evelyn

Lord Evelyn Oakleigh, Hope Harcourt's fiance in the 1934 musical "Anything Goes" by Cole Porter. In the musical, the name is pronounced EEV-ə-lin (as the character is a British nobleman) and the character is male.

Evelyn Gray is a character from the 2009 video game MySims Agents.

Evelyn Sader, from the School for Good and Evil book series by Soman Chainani. She's evil. Actually, she's more evil than evil. The MOST EVIL!

Evelyn "Champagne" King is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. She is best known for her hit disco single "Shame", which was released in 1977 during the height of disco's popularity.

Two recent Disney movies featured female characters named Evelyn: Evelyn Deavor, the main antagonist of The Incredibles 2, and Evelyn Robin, Christopher Robin's wife in Christopher Robin.

Evelyn Chiu is a character in the book series STAR Academy. She is one of Amanda's best friends, and specializes in oceanography.

Evelyn Mali is a Norwegian singer.

Evelyn West (born Amy May Coomer) (Born: January 30, 1921) was an American burlesque legend of the forties, fifties, and sixties.

Evelyn is the middle name of Theodore "Ted" Mosby, played by Josh Radnor, from the tv show 'How I Met Your Mother'.

Evelyn Napier is a MALE character in Downton Abbey. It is pronounced EVE-lin (first syllable rhymes with Steve).

Evelyn McHale, the beauty who jumped off the Empire State Building and killed herself. She was cradled by a taxi, and a photographer took a famous photo of her lying there peacefully, which was shown in TIME.

In the new spy thriller "Salt", Angelina Jolie stars as a CIA operative (Evelyn Salt) on the run. The movie focuses upon the plight of a government agent who has been wrongly accused of being a Russian assassin that is out to take down the U.S. President.

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Also including Liev Schreiber (as Ted Winter) and Chiwetel Ejiofor (as Peabody).

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A Columbia Pictures production from writer Kurt Wimmer. Directed by Phillip Noyce.

Evelyn Nesbit, born Florence Evelyn Nesbit, was a model and Broadway chorus girl in the early 1900s, who became famous for her long, wavy red hair and stunning beauty. She became notorious when her abusive husband, Harry Thaw, murdered Stanford White, a man more than thirty years her senior with whom she had had an affair when she was sixteen. L. M. Montgomery based the looks of her most famous character, Anne Shirley, off a photo of a teenaged Evelyn she cut from a magazine.

Evelyn Dick who was on trial for cutting up her husband's torso and murdering him. She's a Canadian from around Ontario and it was the 1930's I believe when she was on trial. Had a daughter too. Very famous and pretty woman. She disappeared about 1980's. They're was a movie called Torso based on her trail and such.

On the adult swim cartoon "Frisky Dingo" Evelyn is revealed to be the real name of Killface, the super villain.

Famous bearer is Czech actress Evelyna Steimarová, born 5. June 1945 in Czechoslovakia.

Two famous bearers, actually! The author, Evelyn Waugh - most certainly a man - married a woman named Evelyn. They were referred to by their friends as The Evelyns.

While the male writer Evelyn Waugh was married to a woman of the same first name, he was known as 'He-Evelyn' and the female Evelyn was 'She-Evelyn'. His full name was Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh and hers was Evelyn Florence Margaret Winifred Gardner (no relation to Ava Gardner - at least I don't think so anyway).

Evelyn was the name of the Egyptian/English woman from 'The Mummy'.

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I love this name; it's in the top few of my favorites. I'd definitely consider naming a child this, and I love the nickname 'Evie'.

In the movie The Ring 2, the evil Samara's mother's name is Evelyn.

Evelyn was the name of Kate Beckinsale's character in the film "Pearl Harbor." After I learned here that Evelyn means "bird" I understood why they chose it! The movie dealt largely with pilots. Pilots fly. So do birds. That character could also be described as flighty. During the film she flitted back and forth from one man to another.

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Despite my somewhat negative association above, I love the name Evelyn and have for as long as I can remember. I would seriously consider it for a daughter. I almost always want to avoid names that have several pronunciations because one of them usually ends up bothering me. I’ve never heard Evelyn pronounced in a way that made my blood boil though. EH-vel-in, EV-lyn, EEV-lyn…I like ‘em all. A friend noted to me that the sound reminds her of the word “evil.†Inexplicably, even that doesn’t put me off! A real favorite.

Male author Evelyn Waugh was a famous bearer of this name.

Famous bearer is child actress of the 1940´s, Evelyn Rudie (born Evelyn Rudie Bernauer).

There was a movie entitled 'Evelyn' about an Irish man trying to get his kids back after his wife died. His daughter's name is Evelyn. It is very sad but a good movie. I love the name Evelyn. It is on my top three list!

Evelyn Keyes is an American actress. Among other roles, she played Suellen, one of Scarlett's sister, in the 1939 movie 'Gone with the Wind.'