Jacqueline
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| Jacqueline | |
| Gender: | Female |
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| Origin: | French |
| Meaning: | "may God protect" |
Jacqueline is a female given name, coming from French, as the feminine form of Jacques. Jacques originated from 'Jacob', which is derived from the Hebrew meaning 'may God protect' or, because of Jacob's actions in supplanting Esau, as recorded in the Old Testament, 'supplanter'.
Supplanter, the more distasteful of the two meanings, is the word to describe a person who wrongfully or illegally takes the place of another. 'May God protect' is usually the meaning that most Jacquelines would like to use, in describing their name.
There are several spelling variations, and slight variants in both spelling and pronunciation have come into use, such as: Jacquelyn, Jaclyn, Jacklyn, Jacqlyn, Jacquelin and Jacklin. The diminutive for Jacqueline is Jackie, which also has variants, including Jacqui, Jacque, Jack, Jacquie, Jaci, Jaki, Jacki, Jaqui, Jacky, Jackee and Jay.
Arguably the most famous person to bear the name in the twentieth century is Jacqueline Onassis, née Jacqueline Lee Bouvier, later Jackie Kennedy (wife of the U.S. President John F. Kennedy from 1953 to 1963), who is usually referred to as Jackie Onassis. The name's popular image of elegance may derive at least in part from its association with her.
Jacqueline may refer to:
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[edit] Television and film
- Jacqueline Bisset, British actress
- Jacqueline Collen, actress
- Jacqueline Dane, French actress
- Jacqueline Kim, actress best known for the role of Lao Ma in the Xena: Warrior Princess television series
- Jacqueline McKenzie, Australian actress
- Jacqueline O'Neil, radio host known as Jackie O
- Jacqueline Saunders, actress
[edit] Military
- Jacqueline M. Anderton, Ensign, Chief Communication Officer of USS Magellan
- Jacqueline Barnes, Rear Admiral and the Pentagon's On-Site Inspection Agency director
[edit] Political
- Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, wife of the U.S. President John F. Kennedy, and former First Lady of the United States
[edit] Literature
- Jacqueline Susann, writer
[edit] Music
- Jacqueline du Pré, British cellist
- Jacqueline (song), a song by Franz Ferdinand from their album Franz Ferdinand
[edit] Science
- Jacqueline K. Barton, German-American observational astronomer
- Jacqueline Chen, Sandia National Laboratories Combustion Research Facility scientist
- Jacqueline McGlade, environmental scientist, head of the European Environment Agency
- Jacqueline Mitton, Cambridge-trained astronomer
- Jacqueline Olin, chemist, and a retired Smithsonian Institution researcher
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[edit] Other
- 1017 Jacqueline, an asteroid
- Jacqueline is the title of a song by Scottish band Franz Ferdinand, from their self titled debut album.
- Jacqueline Zadoc-Kahn, disciple of Benjamin Jekhowsky
- Jacqueline (painting), a 1961 portrait by Pablo Picasso
[edit] See also
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