Genevieve (given name)

Genevieve (French: Geneviève) is a female given name of Celtic or Germanic origin. It may be from the Germanic name Genowefa (latinized as Genoveva) meaning woman of the race.^[1]

People with this name

• Genevieve, French saint in Eastern Orthodoxy and Catholicism
• Genevieve Angelson, American TV and film actress
• Genevieve Blatt (1913–1996), American judge and politician
• Genevieve Brunet (born 1959), Canadian female cyclist
• Geneviève Bujold (born 1942), Canadian actress
• Genevieve Gorder (born 1974), American television host and interior designer
• Genevieve Hafner, French photographer based in New York City
• Genevieve Nnaji (born 1979), Nigerian actress
• Geneviève Page (born 1927), French actress
• Geneviève Simard (born 1980), Canadian alpine skier
• Genevieve Woo (born 1969), Singaporean television news presenter
• Genevieve Morton (born 1986), South-African swimsuit top-model
• Genevieve Padalecki (born 1981), American actress
• Genevieve Hannelius (born 1998), American teen actress

Fictional characters

• Genevieve Villard in CrossGen Comics' Sigilverse
• Genevieve, a vintage car, title character of the classic British film Genevieve
• Genevieve Atkinson, a character on the American CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless
• Geneviève Emery, a character in the French film, Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, played by Catherine Deneuve
• Genevieve Selsor, a character in the chapter "The Silent Towns", in the book The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
• Geneviève Dieudonné, a character in several different works by Kim Newman

See also

• Genovefa (disambiguation)
• Juniper (given name)

References