26 September: Andrea Name Day

Today's Czech name day: Andrea. Andrea is a given name derived from Andrew. It is a common name for males in Italy, while in the English speaking world it is more often than not a female name. 10 famous Andreas:

1. Andrea Corr: Irish singer, lead singer of the Celtic folk rock and pop rock group The Corrs. As well as singing lead vocals, Corr plays the tin whistle, the Ukulele and the Piano.
2. Andrea Bocelli: Italian Opera tenor who became completely blind at age 12, following a football accident. He rose to fame in 1994, winning the preliminary round of the Sanremo Music Festival performing Miserere, achieving the highest score ever in the newcomers section.
3. Andrea Bowen: American actress who played Julie Mayer on the comedy-drama series Desperate Housewives.
4. Andrea Aguyar: nicknamed Andrea il Moro, was a former slave from Uruguay who became a follower of Garibaldi and who died in defence of the revolutionary Roman Republic of 1849.
5. Andrea Levy: English author best known for the novels Small Island and The Long Song. She was born in London to Jamaican parents, and her work explores topics related to British Jamaicans and how they negotiate racial, cultural and national identities.
6. Andrea Prader: Swiss scientist, physician, and paediatric endocrinologist. He co-discovered Prader–Willi syndrome and created two physiological sex development scales, the Prader scale and the orchidometer.
7. Andrea Dworkin: American radical feminist activist and writer. Her feminist writings span 40 years. She is best known for her analysis of pornography.
8. Andreas Vesalius: 16th-century anatomist, physician, and author of one of the most influential books on human anatomy, De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem. Vesalius is often referred to as the founder of modern human anatomy. He was Imperial physician at the court of Emperor Charles V.
9. Andrea Pia Yates: former resident of Houston, Texas, who confessed to drowning her five children in their bathtub in 2001. She had been suffering from very severe postpartum depression, postpartum psychosis and schizophrenia. Her case placed the irresistible impulse test, a legal test for sanity, under public scrutiny in the United States. She was convicted of capital murder, but the jury refused the death penalty. She was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 40 years. The verdict was overturned on appeal, in light of false testimony by one of the expert psychiatric witnesses.
10. Andrea Amati: luthier, from Cremona, Italy, credited with making the first instruments of the Violin family in the form we use today. Several of his instruments survive to the present day, and some of them can still be played.

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