Today is the name day for people called Ingrid. Ingrid is a feminine given name meaning "beloved; beautiful". 10 famous Ingrids:
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Blessed Ingrid of Skänninge: Swedish abbess venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church. She founded Skänninge Abbey, a nunnery belonging to the Dominicans, in 1272. Her feast day is on September 2.
Ingrid Bergman: Swedish actress often regarded as one of the most influential screen figures in cinematic history.
Ingrid of Sweden: Queen of Denmark from 1947 until 1972 as the wife of King Frederick IX.
Ingrid Pedersen: Swedish-American aviator. She was the first female pilot to fly over the North Pole.
Ingrid Burley: American singer, rapper and songwriter.
Ingrid Giraffe: from the animated television series My Gym Partner's a Monkey.
Baroness Ingrid Daubechies: Belgian physicist and mathematician known for her work with wavelets in image compression.
Ingrid Rüütel: Estonian folklorist and philologist. From 2001 to 2006 she was the First Lady of Estonia, married to President Arnold Rüütel.
Ingrid Jonker: South African poet and one of the founders of modern Afrikaans literature. Her poems have been widely translated into other languages.
Ingrid Avellan Cortez: from the Spy Kids film trilogy.
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