Genevieve (given name)

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

People with this name

• Saint Geneviève, French saint (Patron saint of Paris) in Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy
• Genevieve Angelson, American TV and film actress
• Genevieve Blatt (1913–1996), American judge and politician
• Geneviève Brunet (born 1959), Canadian female cyclist
• Geneviève Bujold (born 1942), Canadian actress
• Geneviève Castrée (1981–2016), Canadian comics artist, illustrator, and musician
• Genevieve Gorder (born 1974), American television host and interior designer
• Geneviève Hafner, French photographer based in New York City
• Genevieve Hannelius (born 1998), American teen actress
• Genevieve Morton (born 1986), South-African swimsuit top-model
• Genevieve Nnaji (born 1979), Nigerian actress
• Genevieve Padalecki (born 1981), American actress
• Geneviève Page (born 1927), French actress
• Geneviève Simard (born 1980), Canadian alpine skier
• Genevieve Woo (born 1969), Singaporean television news presenter

Fictional characters

• Genevieve, a vintage car, title character of the classic British film Genevieve
• Princess Genevieve, main protagonist in the animated film Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses
• Genevieve Atkinson in the American CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless
• Geneviève Dieudonné in several different works by Kim Newman
• Geneviève Emery in the French film Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, played by Catherine Deneuve
• Genevieve Selsor in the chapter "The Silent Towns", in the book The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
• Genevieve Villard in CrossGen Comics' Sigilverse

See also

• Genovefa (disambiguation)
• Juniper (given name)
• Guinevere

References