Audrey Hepburn Hepburn-Ruston on 4 May 1929 at number 48 Rue Keyenveld in Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium. Her father, Joseph Victor Anthony Ruston (21 November 188916 October 1980), was a British subject born in Auschitz, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary. He was the son of Victor John George Ruston, of British and Austrian descent and Anna Wels, of Austrian descent. In 1923–24, Joseph had been an honorary British consul in Semarang in the Dutch East Indies and prior to his marriage to Hepburn's mother he had been married to Cornelia Bisschop, a Dutch heiress. Although born with the surname Ruston, he later double-barrelled his name to
Audrey Audrey Audrey () is an English feminine given name. It is the Anglo-Norman form of the Anglo-Saxon name "Æðelþryð", composed of the elements "æðel" "noble" and "þryð" "strength". The Anglo-Norman form of the name was applied to Saint Audrey (d. 679), also known by the historical form of her name as Saint Æthelthryth. The same name also survived into the modern period in its Anglo-Saxon form, as "Etheldred", e.g. Etheldred Benett (1776–1845). In the 17th century, the name of "Saint Audrey" gave rise to the adjective "tawdry" "cheap and pretentious; cheaply adorned" (after a fair of St. Audrey where cheap