Monique

Monique is a female given name, the original form of Monica. It has also been regularly used in English speaking countries since at least the 1950s.

Notable women named Monique

In acting:

• Gabrielle Monique Union, American actress (Bring it On and Bad Boyz II)
• Monique, American erotic actress
• Monique Alexander, American erotic actress
• Monique Gabrielle, American actress (Bad Girls IV and Amazon Women on the Moon)
• Monique Coleman, American actress (High School Musical)
• Mo'Nique Imes-Jackson, American actress and comedian (Precious and Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins)
• Monique Leyrac, Canadian singer and actress from Quebec
• Monique Mercure, Canadian actress (b. 1930)
• Monique van de Ven, Dutch actress

In music:

• Monique Buzzarté, American composer, trombonist, and activist
• Monique Haas, French pianist
• Monique (Chinese: 林慧萍, Lin Hui-ping), singer from Taiwan (b. 1963)

In Canadian politics:

• Monique Guay, Quebec politician
• Monique Richard, former Quebec labour union leader
• Monique Smith, Canadian politician
• Monique Vézina, Canadian politician

In other fields:

• Monique Adamczak, Australian professional tennis player
• Monique Bégin, Canadian academic
• Monique Hennagan, American athlete who mainly competes in the 400 metres
• Monique Knol, Dutch cyclist
• Monique Lhuillier, Filipino-American fashion designer
• Monique Truong, Vietnamese-American writer living in Brooklyn, New York
• Monique Vinh Thuy, the widow of Vietnamese emperor Bảo Đại
• Monique Wittig, French feminist theorist
• HRH Norodom Monineath Sihanouk, queen mother of Cambodia, wife of Norodom Sihanouk, born Paule-Monique Izzi, sometimes referred to as Queen Monique

Fictional characters

• Monique, friend of Kim Possible
• Monique Pollier, Orson Hodge's deceased mistress in Desperate Housewives

See also

• Monica (given name)