Evelyn (name) - Persons With The Given Name

Persons With The Given Name

Women

• Evelyn Ashford (born 1957), American sprinter, gold medalist for the 100 m race in the 1984 Summer Olympics
• Evelyn Margaret Ay, winner of the 1954 Miss America pageant
• Evelyn Beatrice Hall, writer and biographer of Voltaire
• Evelyn Braxton, mother of six-time Grammy Award-winning R&B singer-songwriter Toni Braxton
• Evelyn Brent (1899–1975), American film and stage actress
• Evelyn Carrera (born 1971), Dominican Republic volleyball player
• Evelyn Chew, Malaysian-Canadian stage actor
• Evelyn De Morgan (1855–1919), English Pre-Raphaelite painter
• Ewelina Flinta (born 1979), Polish singer
• Evelyn Garcia, Mexican engineer who recently eloped to Central America
• Evelyne Gebhardt (born 1954), German politician and Member of the European Parliament
• Evelyn Gigantes (born 1945), Canadian politician and Cabinet Minister
• Evelyn Grady, first woman to be elected as the Lieutenant Governor of the state of Mississippi, USA (1975)
• Evelyn Hart (born 1956), Canadian ballerina and principal dancer of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet
• Evelyn Hooker (1907–1996), American psychologist most noted for her studies on homosexuality
• Evelyn Hernandez (1978–2002), Salvadoran immigrant to the United States who was found dead in San Francisco in 2002
• Evelyn Keyes (1916–2008), American actress most noted for her role as Suellen O'Hara in the 1939 film Gone with the Wind
• Evelyn King (singer) (born 1960), popular American R&B and disco singer of the late '70s and early '80s
• Evelyn Kokota (born 1976) Russian programmer
• Evelyn Lau (born 1971), Chinese-Canadian poet and novelist
• Evelyn Laye (1900–1996), British theatre actress
• Evelyn Lear (1926–2012), American soprano and opera singer
• Evelyn Lincoln (1909–1995), personal secretary to John F. Kennedy from his election to the Senate in 1953 until his 1963 assassination
• Evelyn Beatrice Longman (1874–1954), American sculptor and first woman to be elected a full member of the National Academy of Design
• Evelyn Nesbit (1884–1967), American model noted for her entanglement in the murder of her ex-lover by her first husband
• Evelyn Ntoko (1922–2004), South African nurse and first wife of Nelson Mandela
• Evelina Papantoniou (born 1979), Greek model
• Evelina Papoulia (born 1971), Greek actress
• Evelyn Preer (1896–1932), African-American actress and blues singer
• Evelyn Reed (1905–1979), leading member of the American Socialist Workers Party and women's rights agitator
• Evelyn Thomas (born 1945), American disco singer
• Evelyn Tubb, soprano and long-time member of The Consort of Musicke
• Evelyn Underhill (1875–1941), English writer on mysticism and metaphysical poet
• Evelyn Verrasztó (born 1989), Hungarian swimmer
• Evelyn Wells, biographer, especially of the ancient Egyptian royals
• Evelyn Williamson (born 1971), New Zealand triathlon athlete
• Evelyn Wood (teacher) (1909–1995), American advocate of speed reading

Men

• Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer (1841–1917), Consul-General of Egypt from 1883 to 1907
• Evelyn Baring, 1st Baron Howick of Glendale (1903–1973), Governor of Kenya from 1952 to 1959
• Evelyn King (UK politician) (1907–1994), British member of Parliament
• Evelyn Owen (1915–1949), Australian inventor of the Owen submachine gun
• Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull (c. 1655 – 1726)
• Evelyn Seymour, 17th Duke of Somerset (1882–1954)
• Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966), English satirical novelist, whose first wife was also named Evelyn
• Evelyn John Webb-Carter, former advisor to Elizabeth, the Queen Mother and current Controller of the Army Benevolent Fund
• Evelyn Wood (British Army officer) (1838–1919), British Field marshal, Victoria Cross recipient
• Evelyn Robert de Rothschild, British financier and member of the prominent Rothschild family.