Biruta (given name)

Biruta or Birutė is a Latvian and Lithuanian feminine given name, which means "snow", derived from the Lithuanian word byrančiu. The associated name day is June 1.

Letovia
People with the name include:


 * Birutė of Palanga (died 1382), Grand Duchess of Lithuania, worshiped as a female deity
 * Biruta Baumane (born 1922), Latvian painter
 * Birutė Ciplijauskaitė (born 1929), Lithuanian literary scholar
 * Birutė Dominauskaitė (born 1973), Soviet Lithuanian basketball player
 * Birutė Galdikas (born 1946), Canadian anthropologist
 * Biruta Hulanicki, younger sister of Polish fashion designer Barbara Hulanicki, and namesake of fashion store Biba
 * Rūta Birutė Jokubonienė (1930–2010), Lithuanian textile artist
 * Birutė Kalėdienė (born 1934, née Zalogaitytė), Lithuanian athlete
 * Birutė Kavaliauskienė, mother of Lithuanian basketball player Antanas Kavaliauskas
 * Biruta Khertseva-Khertsberga (born 1944), Soviet slalom canoeist
 * Birutė Landsbergis, Lithuanian musician, daughter of Vytautas Landsbergis
 * Biruta Lewaszkiewicz-Petrykowska (1927–2022), judge of the Constitutional Tribunal of Poland
 * Birutė Mikalonienė, Lithuanian translator
 * Birutė Nedzinskienė (1955–1994), Lithuanian politician
 * Biruta Ozolina, wife of the Italian ambassador to Thailand, featured in the painting The White and the Black
 * Birutė Paukštienė, director of the Ignalina Mikas Petrauskas music school
 * Birute Regine, British business consultant of Harvest Associates, wife of Roger Lewin
 * Birutė Šakickienė (born 1968) Lithuanian rower
 * Birutė Neringa Simonaitis, daughter of Erdmonas Simonaitis
 * Biruta Skujeniece, Latvian actress-poet sister of Marģers Skujenieks
 * Birutė Užkuraitytė (born 1953), Lithuanian swimmer
 * Birutė Valionytė (born 1956), Lithuanian politician
 * Birutė Vėsaitė (born 1951), Lithuanian politician

Characters
Fictional characters with this name include:


 * Biruta (dog), a fictional dog created by Lygia Fagundes Telles, from the eponymous short story Biruta.
 * Biruta Aze, a fictional character from the 1947 Soviet film Victorious Return
 * Biruta Baiba, a fictional character from the 2016 Latvian film The Chronicles of Melanie