Penelope (given name)
Penelope, derived from the name of Homer's character, is a female first name. It may refer to:People
- Penelope, Lady Aitken, English socialite
- Penelope Aubin, English novelist
- Penelope Austin, Australian singer-songwriter
- Penelope Blount, Countess of Devonshire, English noblewoman
- Penelope Boston, American speleologist
- Penelope Carwardine, English painter
- Penelope Casas, American food writer
- Penelope Chetwode, English travel writer
- Penelope Coelen, South African beauty pageant contestant
- Penélope Cruz, Spanish actress
- Penelope Delta, Greek author
- Penelope Dudley-Ward, English actress
- Penelope Fillon, wife of French politician and former Prime Minister of France François Fillon
- Penelope Fitzgerald, Booker Prize-winning English novelist, poet, essayist and biographer
- Penelope Gilliatt, English novelist, short story writer, screenwriter and film critic
- Penelope Heyns, South African swimmer and double gold medalist at the 1996 Olympic Games
- Penelope Houston, American singer-songwriter
- Penelope Keith, English actress famous for TV sitcoms
- Penelope Lively, British fiction writer
- Penelope Ann Miller, American actress
- Penelope Mortimer, British journalist, biographer and novelist
- Penelope Mountbatten, Lady Ivar Mountbatten, British philanthropist and businesswoman
- Penelope Spheeris, American director, producer and screenwriter
- Penelope Stout, early white settler of Monmouth County, New Jersey
- Penelope Tree, Anglo-American former fashion model prominent in swinging sixties London
- Penelope Wensley, Governor of Queensland, Australia
- Penelope Wilton, English actress
Fictional characters
- Penelope, in Homer's Odyssey, the faithful wife of Odysseus
- Penelope, mother of the god Pan in Greek mythology
- Penelope "Punky" Brewster, main character in the television sitcom Punky Brewster
- Penelope Clearwater, in the Harry Potter novels
- Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward, a puppet character from the 1960s television program Thunderbirds
- Penelope Garcia, on the television drama Criminal Minds
- Penelope Lang, an antagonist in the cartoon show Atomic Betty
- Penelope Pitstop, a Hanna Barbera cartoon character
- Penelope Pussycat, from Warner Brothers' Looney Tunes
- Penelope Shafai, in the Gossip Girl TV series
- Penelope Taynt, on The Amanda Show
- Penelope Wilhern, a character portrayed by Christina Ricci in Penelope
- Penny Widmore, a recurring character on the television show Lost
- Penelope, from the anime Hamtaro
- Penelope, from the video games Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves and Sly Cooper: Thieves In Time
- Penelope Alvarez, in the 2017 version of One Day at a Time .
