Dame Karlene Davis, DBE is a Jamaican-British midwife. She is the former General Secretary of the Royal College of Midwives, Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Midwifery, Regional Representative for Europe in the International Confederation of Midwives, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, and a member of the Wellbeing Council at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. She has become one of the most senior black women in the health profession and the UK's first black woman trade union leader.
Karlene Faith (1938-2017) was a Canadian writer, feminist, scholar, and human rights activist. She was a professor emerita at the Simon Fraser University School of Criminology. She was famous for writing The Long Prison Journey of Leslie Van Houten in 2001.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karlene_Faith
Karlene is a very cute and unique name! I love it! ^_^
― Anonymous User 11/7/2014
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This is the sort of name that grows on you. Karlene Bridges is the main character in the novel Spelldown, about the National Spelling Bee. She's a sassy, yet intelligent and thoughtful girl, and this name fits that sort of a person perfectly. I like it how Karly could be a nickname for it, so you have two options.
I feel that my parents put a lot of thought into my name. It is different yet not completely uncommon. I love my name, and hope that someday one of my children or grandchildren will name their little girl Karlene Kay after me.
When my mother named me she thought she was making up the name from scratch. She liked the names Caroline and Karly and thought the combination would be unique. Although few others had the name as I grew up (although there was a Marlene in my grade school!) I didn't like that it was hard to spell, to remember, and stores carried pencils and the like with common names rather than mine. As I grew older, I understood the value of being unique and liked my name more.