Inez

For other uses, see Inez (disambiguation).

Inez is a feminine given name. It is the English spelling of the Spanish and Portuguese name Inés/Inês/Inez, the forms of the given name "Agnes". The name is pronounced as /iːˈnɛz/, /aɪˈnɛz/, or /aɪˈnɛθ/.

Inez

Pronunciation	/iːˈnɛz/, /aɪˈnɛθ/
Gender	Female
Language(s)	Spanish, Portuguese, French
Origin
Meaning	"holy", "pure", "virginal"
Other names
Related names	Agnes

Agnes is a woman's given name, which derives from the Greek word hagnē, meaning "pure" or "holy". The Latinized form of the Greek name is Hagnes, the feminine form of Hagnos, meaning "chaste" or "sacred".

People

Given name

• Inez (Tina Inez Gavilanes Granda, born 1977), Danish singer
• Inéz (Ines Reingold-Tali), Estonian musician and artist
• Inez Knight Allen (1876–1937), American Mormon missionary and politician
• Inez Andrews (1929–2012), American singer
• V. Inez Archibald (born 1945), British Virgin Islander politician and businesswoman
• Inez Asher (1911–2006), American novelist and television writer
• Mildred Inez Caroon Bailey (1919–2009), American military commander
• Inez Barbour Hadley (1879–1971), American soprano singer
• Inez Barron, American politician
• Inez Baskin (1916–2007), American journalist
• Inez Clough (1873–1933), American actress
• Inez Courtney (1908–1975), American actress
• Emily Inez Denny (1853–1918), American painter
• Inez Dickens, American politician
• Inez Fabbri (1931–1909), Austrian American singer
• Inez Fischer-Credo (born 1928), Canadian equestrian
• Inez De Florio-Hansen (born 1943), German linguist
• Inez Foxx (1937–2022), American singer
• Inez Fung (born 1949), American climatologist
• Inez García (1941–2003), American feminist
• Inez M. Haring, (1875-1968) US botanist
• Inez Hogan (1895–1973), American writer and illustrator
• Inez Haynes Irwin (1873–1970), American author and politician
• Inez James (1919–1993), American composer
• Inez Y. Kaiser (1918–2016), American entrepreneur
• Inez van Lamsweerde (born 1963), Dutch photographer
• Inez McCormack (1943–2013), Northern Irish trade union leader and human rights activist
• Inez Milholland (1886–1916), American suffragist
• Inez Palange (1889–1962), American actress
• Inez Pearn (1913-1976), English novelist
• Inez Pijnenburg (born 1949), Dutch politician
• Inez Plummer, American actress
• Inez Beverly Prosser (1895–1934), American psychologist
• Inez Storer (born 1933), American painter
• Inez Tenenbaum (born 1951), American attorney
• Inez Trueman (1917–2015), Canadian politician
• Inez Turner (born 1972), Jamaican sprinter
• Inez Clare Verdoorn (1896–1989), South African botanist and taxonomist
• Inez Viegas (born 1970), Brazilian actress
• Inez Voyce (1924–2022), American baseball player
• Inez Bjørg David (born 1982), a Danish actress and TV presenter working in Germany

Surname

• Colette Inez (1931–2018), American poet
• Maycon Carvalho Inez (born 1986), Brazilian footballer
• Mike Inez (born 1962), American bass guitarist
• Romain Inez (born 1988), French footballer

Characters

• Inez, the character played by Lumi Cavazos in Bottle Rocket
• Inez, the character played by Sofía Vergara in Chef
• Inez, a character from the PBS children's animated TV series Cyberchase
• Inez, the character played by Rachel McAdams in Midnight in Paris
• Inez Salinger, a character from the American soap opera One Life to Live
• Inès Serrano, a character in Jean-Paul Sartre's No Exit
• Little Inez Stubbs, the character from Hairspray (2007) played by Taylor Parks
• Inez Temple, the superhero known as Outlaw in Marvel Comics
• Inez Victor, née Christian, character in Joan Didion's Democracy
• Inez Wong, the mother of Amy Wong on the TV series Futurama
• Inez, a doll from the Groovy Girls doll line by Manhattan Toy

Other

• Hurricane Inez, A destructive Category 5 Atlantic Hurricane that impacted the Caribbean, Bahamas, Florida, and Mexico, killing over 1,000 people in 1966.