Bianca
Bianca |
Pronunciation |
bee-un-cuh |
Gender |
Female |
Origin |
Word/Name |
Italian |
Meaning |
"White" |
Other names |
Related names |
Blanche, Blanca, Branca |
Bianca is a feminine given name or an Italian family name. It means "white" and is an Italian cognate of Blanche.[1] Bianca may refer to:
People
- Bianca Balti (born 1984), Italian model
- Bianca Beauchamp (born 1977), Canadian model
- Bianca Bianchi (1855–1947), stage name of Bertha Schwarz, German/Austrian opera soprano
- Bianca Bin (born 1990), Brazilian actress
- Bianca Butler (born 1989), American ice skater
- Bianca Byington (born 1966), Brazilian actress
- Bianca Cappello (1548–1587), Grand Duchess of Tuscany
- Bianca Casady, (born 1982), American musician, band member of CocoRosie
- Bianca Castanho (born 1979), Brazilian actress
- Bianca Chatfield (born 1982), Australian netball player
- Bianca Chiminello, an Australian model and actress
- Bianca Collins (born 1988), American actress
- Bianca DeGroat (born 1976), American actress
- Bianca Ferguson, American actress
- Bianca Gascoigne (born 1987), British model and TV personality
- Bianca Gonzalez (born 1983), Filipina TV personality
- Bianca Jagger (born 1945), social and political activist
- Bianca Kajlich (born 1977), American actress
- Bianca Kappler (born 1977), German long jumper
- Bianca King (born 1986), Canadian–Filipina actress, Model
- Bianca Lamblin, French writer
- Bianca Lancia (c. 1200 – c. 1233), Italian noble
- Bianca Langham-Pritchard (born 1975), Australian field hockey player
- Bianca Lawson (born 1979), American actress
- Bianca de' Medici (1536–1542), illegitimate daughter of Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany
- Bianca Netzler (born 1976), Australian field hockey player
- Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, Nigerian beauty-pageant contestant
- Bianca Rinaldi (born 1974), Brazilian actress
- Bianca Ryan (born 1994), American singer
- Bianca Maria Sforza (1472–1510), Italian noble
- Bianca Solorzano, American TV journalist
- Bianca van Rangelrooy (born 1959), New Zealand artist
- Bianca Maria Visconti (1425–1468), Duchess of Milan
- Bianca Weiß (born 1968), German field hockey player
Fictional characters
- Bianca, played by Mariah Carey in the video for her 1999 single "Heartbreaker" and in "Boy (I Need You)"
- Bianca (Spyro the Dragon), from the video game series Spyro the Dragon
- Bianca (That's So Raven), from the American TV series That's So Raven
- Bianca Castafiore, a recurring character in The Adventures of Tintin
- Bianca DeSousa, in Degrassi
- Bianca di Angelo, in the fantasy novel The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan
- Bianca Jackson, from the British soap opera EastEnders
- Bianca Montgomery, from the American soap opera All My Children
- Bianca Solderini, in Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles
- Miss Bianca, from the animated films The Rescuers and The Rescuers Down Under
- Bianca Erdmann, a pre-pubescent nymphomaniac in Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon's novel
- Bianca Reyes, mother of Blue Beetle (Jaime Reyes) in the DC Comics continuum
- Bianca, an anatomically correct doll in Lars and the Real Girl
- Bianca, a character from the movie Pokémon Heroes
- Bianca, the name of Varric's crossbow in Dragon Age II
- Bianca, a rival character in Pokémon Black and White
See also
References