Gladys (given name)

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Gladys or Gladice is a feminine name from the Welsh name Gwladus or Gwladys, which bears the meaning of royalty (princess) or the gladiolus flower.

It has been sometimes used as a Welsh form of Claudia.

People

• Gladys Aylward (1902–1970), English Missionary to China
• Gladys E. Banks (1897–1972), New York politician
• Gladys Berejiklian, Australian politician
• Gladys Brockwell, American actress
• Gladys Bustamante (1912–2009), Jamaican activist
• Gladys Cooper, English actress
• Gladys Fries Harriman (1896-1983), an American philanthropist, equestrian and big game hunter
• Gladys Knight, American singer/actress
• Gladys Vanderbilt Széchenyi, American heiress and wife of Count László Széchenyi
• Gladys Rich (1904–1994), American composer
• Gladys Yang (1919-1999), Sino-British translator

Fictional characters

• Gladys Hotchkiss, one of the lead characters in the musical The Pajama Game
• Gladys Emmanuel, a character off Open All Hours
• Gladys Kravitz, the snoopy neighbor who always spies on the Stephens household in the TV show Bewitched
• Gladys Pugh, Chief Yellowcoat, sports organiser and voice of Radio Maplin in the BBC comedy Hi-de-Hi!
• Gladys Porter, the scatterbrained wife in the TV sitcom Pete and Gladys