Jimena or is the Spanish female version of the given name Jimeno. The French rendering of the name is Chimène. It has come to be viewed as a form of the name Simone, though their origins are distinct.

A variant is Ximena.

People with the name include:

• Jimena, legendary mother of Bernardo del Carpio
• Jimena of Cea, wife of king García Sánchez II of Pamplona (10th-/11th-century)
• Jimena, daughter of Ramon Berenguer III (11th-century)
• Jimena, daughter of Alfonso V of León (11th-century)
• Jimena Díaz, wife of El Cid (11th-century)
• Jimena Muñoz, mistress of Alfonso VI of León and Castile (11th-century)

• Jimena Antelo (born 1972), Bolivian journalist and television presenter
• Jimena Canales, Mexican-American physicist and author
• Jimena Elías Roca (born 1989), Miss Peru Universo 2007
• Jimena Fernandez-Morales, Mexican Softball Player
• Jimena Florit (born 1972), Argentine mountain biker
• Jimena Gallego (born 1980), also known as Jimena (singer), Mexican singer

• Jimena, character in the Colombian soap opera Pasión de Gavilanes.

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