Irma (name)

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Irma Given Name
Gender	Female
Wikipedia articles	All pages beginning with Irma

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Irma is a female given name. It is also used in combination with other names in the abbreviated form "Irm-," for example, Irmine, Irmela, Irmgardis. The name comes from the Old High German irmin, meaning world.

The name days for Irma are February 19 (Germany), April 7 (Sweden), November 14 (Slovakia), September 18 (Poland), March 31 (Finland) and May 3 (Hungary).

[edit] Famous people

Irma S. Rombauer, cookbook author
Irma Rangel (Texas politician)
Irma Baltuttis, German singer
Irma Brandeis, Jewish-American Dante scholar´
Irma Bunt, a villain from Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Irma Capece Minutolo, Italian opera singer
Irma Flaquer, Guatemalan government critic
Irma Grese, Holocaust concentration camp supervisor
Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher, Dutch freestyle swimmer
Irma S. Raker, American lawyer
Irma Serrano, Mexican actress
Irma Thomas, soul singer
Irma von Cube, German-American screenwriter

[edit] Arts and literature

Irma la Douce - film musical by Billy Wilder (USA 1963)
Irma Lair, witch in W.I.T.C.H. series
Irma (Tintin character), a minor character in the Tintin series
Irma Langinstein, a fictional character in the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon
The Mystery of Irma Vep, play by Charles Ludlam
Irma Vep, French film
Irma Pince, librarian in the Harry Potter series
My Friend Irma, TV/radio situation comedy
My Friend Irma (film), 1949 George Marshall film
Irma Iszham, 1983
Irma Crnovrsanin