Renatus
Renatus is a first name of Latin origin which means "born again" (natus = born). In countries of Italian, Portuguese and Spanish languages it exists in a masculine and feminine form i.e., Renato and Renata. In the French language they have been translated to René and Renee’. The feminine form Renate is also common in Norwegian, Dutch and German language-speaking countries. Renata is a common female name in Poland, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Lithuania and Slovakia. In Russia the names Renat (Russian: Ренат) (usually as Rinat) and Renata (Russian: Рената) are widespread among the Tatar population.
The name has a spiritual, not literal meaning, i.e., to be born again with baptism, i.e., from water and the Holy Spirit. It was extensively adopted by early Christians in ancient Rome, due to the importance of baptism. The onomastic is Saint Renatus, a martyr, Bishop of Sorrento in the 5th century, which is celebrated on October 6.
In Persian Mithraism, which spread widely in the West as a religion of the soldiers and officials under the Roman Empire, persons initiated into its mysteries were designated renatus (with the meaning of regenerated).
With a completely different origin, the name "Renata" is a New Zealand Maori transliteration of the name "Leonard", and is a male's name.
People
Many noted people have this forename:
Renatus
- Renatus Cartesius (1596–1650), also known as René Descartes, French philosopher, mathematician, scientist and writer
- Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus, Later Roman Empire writer (4th century)
- Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus, historian (5th century)
- Renatus of Châlon (1519–1544), Prince of the House of Orange
- Renatus Harris (c. 1652–1724), English master organ maker
Renato
- Carlos Renato Frederico (born 1957), footballer
- Carlos Renato de Abreu (born 1978), footballer
- Renato (footballer, born 1979)
- Renato Aragão (born 1936), Brazilian comedian and actor
- Renato Archer (1922–1996), Brazilian naval officer and politician
- Renato Augusto (born 1988), footballer
- Renato Bartilotti (born 1976), Mexican actor
- Renato Beghe (born 1933), United States Tax Court judge
- Renato Birolli (1905–1959), Italian painter
- Renato Borghetti (born 1963), Brazilian folk musician and composer
- Renato Brunetta (born 1950), Italian economist and politician
- Renato Caccioppoli (1904–1959), mathematician
- Renato Canova, athletics coach
- Renato Capecchi, Italian opera singer
- Renato Carosone, Italian pianist
- Renato Cellini, Italian conductor
- Renato Cesarini (born 1906), Italian-Argentine football player and coach
- Renato Chiantoni, Italian actor
- Renato Constantino (1919–1999), Filipino historian
- Renato Corona (1948–2016), Filipino lawyer and former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines
- Renato Corsetti (born 1941), president of the World Esperanto Association
- Renato Cunha Valle (born 1944), retired goalkeeper
- Renato Curcio (born 1941), former leader of the Italian Red Brigades
- Renato D’Aiello, Italian saxophonist
- Renato de Albuquerque, Brazilian civil engineer and entrepreneur
- Renato de Villa (born 1935), Filipino political figure
- Renato del Prado (born 1940), Filipino actor
- Renato Dulbecco (born 1914), virologist
- Renato Eduardo de Oliveira Ribeiro footballer
- Renato Gaúcho (born 1962), footballer, real name Renato Portaluppi
- Renato Guttuso (1911–1987), Italian expressionist painter
- Renato Janine Ribeiro, Brazilian political philosopher
- Renato López (born 1983), Mexican television show host and musician
- Renato Leduc Mexican poet and newspaper writer
- Renato Malavasi, Italian actor
- Renato Martino, Italian Cardinal Deacon
- Renato Micallef (born 1951), Maltese pop singer
- Renato Migliorini, Brazilian physician and scientist
- Renato Naranja, chess master
- Renato Núñez, baseball player
- Renato Pagliari, of the 1980s vocal duo Renée and Renato
- Renato Pirocchi (1933–2002), Italian race car driver
- Renato Pozzetto, Italian comedian
- Renato Rosaldo, American anthropologist
- Renato Ruggiero (born 1930), Italian politician
- Renato Ruiz, Mexican professional wrestler
- Renato Russo (born 1960–1996), Brazilian singer and composer
- Renato M. E. Sabbatini (born 1947), Brazilian scientist and writer
- Renato Salvatori, Italian movie actor
- Renato Sanches (born 1997), Portuguese international footballer
- Renato Sobral (born 1975), mixed martial arts fighter
- Renato Soru (born 1957), Italian entrepreneur
- Renato Tapia, Peruvian footballer
- Renato Terra, Italian actor and poet
- Renato Vallanzasca, notorious Milanese mobster during the 1970s.
- Renato Villalta (born 1955), Italian basketball player
- Renato Zanelli, Chilean baritone and tenor
Other
- Renato (album), a 1962 album by Italian singer Mina
- Renato, a main character in the Italian opera Un ballo in maschera
Renata
- Renata Adler (born 1938), American journalist and writer
- Renata Beger (born 1958), Polish politician
- Renata Berkova (born 1975), Czech triathlon athlete
- Renata Borgatti (1894–1964), concert pianist
- Renata Burgos (born 1982), Brazilian swimmer
- Renata Dancewicz (born 1969), Polish actress
- Renata Katewicz (born 1965), Polish discus thrower
- Renata Končić (born 1977), Croatian singer
- Renata Nielsen (born 1966), Danish long jumper
- Renata Przemyk (born 1966), Polish singer-songwriter
- Renata Ruiz (born 1984), Chilean model
- Renata Scotto (born 1934), opera singer
- Renata Soñé, Dominican Republic beauty queen and actress
- Renata Strašek (born 1972), Slovenian javelin thrower
- Renata Tebaldi (1922–2004), Italian opera singer
- Renáta Tolvai (born 1991), Romanian Hungarian singer, dancer and model
- Renata Wentzcovitch, Brazilian condensed matter physicist
- Cecilia Renata of Austria (1611–1644), Archduchess, daughter of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor
- Renata, name of the band The Last Goodnight from 1995 to 2006
- Trent Renata (born 1988), New Zealand rugby player
Renate
- Renate Blauel, music engineer, married to Elton John
- Renate Dorrestein (born 1954), Dutch writer, journalist and feminist
- Renate Götschl (born 1975), Austrian alpine skier
- Renate Groenewold (born 1976), Dutch speed skater
- Renate Holub (born 1946), political philosopher and social theorist
- Renate Klein (born 1945), Australian writer, publisher and feminist health activist
- Renate Künast (born 1955), German Minister of Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture, 2001–2005
- Renate Loll, Dutch physicist
- Renate Müller (1906–1937), German actress
- Renate Schmidt (born 1943), German Social Democratic politician
- Renate Sommer (born 1958), German politician and Member of the European Parliament
- Renate Stecher (born 1950), German athlete and Olympic champion
- Renate Tobies (born 1947), German historian of mathematics
- Renate von Natzmer (1898–1935), German noble lady convicted of spying and treason
- Silvia Renate Bernadotte (born 1943), Queen consort of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
- Renate Aschauer-Knaup (born 1948), German singer (Amon Düül II)
René
- Adrien René Franchet was a French botanist.
- Alain-René Lesage
- Bernard-René de Launay
- François-René de Chateaubriand
- Frederic René Coudert, Jr.
- Jacques René de Brisay
- Jean René Constant Quoy
- Louis René Édouard
- Louis-René Beaudoin
- René & Angela were an 80s R&B duo
- René Adler
- René Angélil
- René Arnoux
- René Arped Spitz was a psychiatrist and psychologist.
- René Auberjonois
- René Auberjonois (painter)
- René Barjavel
- René Barrientos
- René Bazin
- René Benjamin
- Prosper-René Blondlot was a French physicist
- René Blum, a French ballet choreographer
- René Blum, a Luxembourgian politician
- René Bolf is a Czech footballer
- René Boylesve
- René Caillié
- René Cassin
- René Char
- René Clair
- René Clément
- René Coty
- René Crevel was a French writer
- René Dahinden
- René Daumal was a French surrealist writer.
- René de Birague
- René de Laboulaye
- René Descartes
- René Dif
- René Doumic
- René Dreyfus
- René Dubos
- René Dumont
- René Dupéré is a composer from Quebec.
- René Echevarria is a television writer and producer.
- René Eespere
- René Favaloro
- René Felber is a Swiss politician.
- René Fonck
- René Fontaine
- René Girard is a French philosopher and historian.
- René Goblet
- René Goguen
- René Goscinny
- René Goupil
- René Grousset was a French historian.
- René Guénon
- René Gusperti an Italian swimmer.
- René Guyon
- René Hardy
- René Harris
- René Henriksen
- René Herse
- René Higuita
- René Highway was a Canadian dancer and actor.
- René I of Naples
- René Iché was a French sculptor.
- René II of Lorraine
- René Jacobs is a Flemish musician.
- René Just Haüy
- René Laanen
- René Lacoste
- René Laennec
- René Lalique
- René Lavand
- René Le Bossu
- René Leboeuf
- René Leibowitz
- René Leriche
- René Lévesque
- René Lohse
- René Louis d’Argenson
- René Lussier
- René Magritte
- René Maheu
- René Malaise was a Swedish entomologist
- René Maran
- René Mayer
- René McLean is a jazz saxophonist and flutist.
- René Moawad
- René Monteagudo
- René Morin
- René Muñoz
- René Nicolas de Maupeou
- René of Alençon
- René of Châlon
- René Pétillon
- René Piché is a former politician in Ontario, Canada.
- René Pleven was a French prime minister
- René Pottier
- René Préval
- René Rachou was a Brazilian physician specialized in malaria
- René Rapin
- René Réaumur
- René Renoult
- René Richard Louis Castel
- René Robert Cavellier
- Rene Russo is an American movie actress
- René Schneider
- René Simard is a Canadian pop singer from Quebec
- René Stockman
- René Strickler
- René Thirifays
- René Thom
- René Thomas was a French auto racer.
- René van de Kerkhof
- René Vandereycken
- René Viénet
- René Viviani
- René Voisin
- René Waldeck-Rousseau
- René Wellek
- René Worms
- René, Marquis of Elbeuf
- René-Louis Baire
- Saint-René Taillandier
Renée
- Renée of France (1510–1574), daughter of Louis XII, King of France
- Renée Adorée (1898–1933), French-American actress
- Renée Cox, artist and photographer
- Renée Estevez (born 1967), American actress, daughter of actor Martin Sheen
- Renée Fleming (born 1959), American soprano singer
- Renée Geyer (born 1953), Australian singer
- Renée Jones (born 1958), American actress
- Renée Montagne, radio journalist
- Renee O'Connor (born 1971), American actress
- Renée Richards (born 1934), American ophthalmologist, tennis player, transwoman
- Renée Rienne, fictional character on the television series Alias
- Renée Soutendijk (born 1957), Dutch actress
- Renée Zellweger (born 1969), American film actress
René as a surname
- France-Albert René (born 1935), President of Seychelles, 1977–2004
See also
- San Renato, Catholic saint
- Renato (disambiguation)
- Renatus (game publishing company)
Other
- 575 Renate, a minor planet orbiting the Sun
- Hermes & Renato, a Brazilian MTV comedy show
- Renate, a commune in Lombardy, Italy
- Stadio Renato Dall'Ara, stadium in Bologna, Italy
- Stadio Renato Curi, a soccer stadium in Perugia, Italy
- 1250 René-Lévesque, a skyscraper in Montreal, Canada
- Automobiles René Bonnet, French automobile maker
- René-Levasseur Island, an island in Lake Manicouagan, Quebec, Canada
- Renato Kantutero, an American group that advocated sexual relationships with children
- René, Sarthe, a commune in Sarthe, in the department of Loire, France
- Renatus Media, LLC, social and mobile games publishing company