Adele
Encyclopedia
Adele is a female given name of European origin used in English
, French
, German
and Italian
with a meaning of noble, kind, and tender. It should not be confused with the male Arabic name Adel
, which has a different pronunciation, although rarely Adele may be spelled without the "e" on the end, as with Adel Rootstein.
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
, French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
, German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
and Italian
Italian language
Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
with a meaning of noble, kind, and tender. It should not be confused with the male Arabic name Adel
Adel (name)
Adel is an Arabic male name that is derived from the Arabic word "Adl" which means fairness and justice. It is commonly used in Muslim countries, and sometimes used by Coptic Christians throughout the Middle East...
, which has a different pronunciation, although rarely Adele may be spelled without the "e" on the end, as with Adel Rootstein.
Given name
- Adèle of ChampagneAdèle of ChampagneAdèle of Champagne , also known as Adelaide and Alix, was the third wife of Louis VII of France and the mother of his only male heir, the future Philip II...
(1140–1206), French queen consort - Adèle of DreuxAdèle of DreuxAdèle of Dreux was born in 1145, to Robert I of Dreux and his second wife Hawise of Salisbury. She married firstly on 24 June 1156, Valeran III of Breteuil and had the following issue:* Adèle , married Raoul le Roux had issue....
, French countess - Adele of MeauxAdele of MeauxAdele of Meaux Also known as "Adele of Vermandois" was a daughter of Robert of Vermandois and Adelaide-Werra de Chalon.-Marriage:...
(950–980), French countess - Adele of ValoisAdele of ValoisAdele of Valois was a daughter of Raoul III of Valois and Adele de Bar-sur-Aube.She married Herbert IV of Vermandois and they had:# Adelaide, Countess of Vermandois, married to Hugh of Vermandois....
, French countess - Adele of VermandoisAdele of VermandoisAdele of Vermandois was a daughter of Herbert II of Vermandois with his first wife, Adela. She married Count Arnulf I of Flanders in 934 and had four children:*Luitgard, married Wichmann, Count of Ghent*Egbert, died 953*Baldwin III of Flanders...
(910–960), French countess - Adele AddisonAdele AddisonAdele Addison is an African American lyric soprano who was an acclaimed figure in the classical music world during the 1950s and 1960s. Although she did appear in several operas, Addison spent most of her career performing in recital and concert...
(born 1925), American singer - Adele AdkinsAdele (singer)Adele Laurie Blue Adkins , known professionally as Adele, is an English singer-songwriter. She was the first recipient of the Brit Awards Critics' Choice and was named the number-one predicted breakthrough act of 2008 in an annual BBC poll of music critics, Sound of 2008...
(born 1988), English singer-songwriter, known professionally by her first name - Adèle AndersonAdèle AndersonAdèle Anderson is an Olivier Award-nominated singer and actress, best known as a third of the cabaret group Fascinating Aida.-Career:...
(born 1952), British singer - Adele AnthonyAdele AnthonyAdele Anthony is an Australian-American violinist. She attended Dernancourt Primary School, South Australia.A native of Tasmania, she studied violin at the University of Adelaide and the Juilliard School....
(born 1971), Australian musician - Adele ArakawaAdele ArakawaAdele Arakawa is an American evening news anchor for NBC affiliate station KUSA-TV of Denver, Colorado. She was the first female radio disc jockey in Knoxville, Tennessee...
(born 1958), American news anchor - Adele AstaireAdele AstaireLady Charles Cavendish , better known as Adele Astaire, was an American dancer and entertainer. She was Fred Astaire's elder sister. Her birthdate was often given as 1897 or 1898, but the 1900 U.S...
(1897–1981), American singer and dancer - Adelle AugustAdelle AugustAdelle August was an American movie actress.She was born in Kennewick, Washington as Adele M. Slaybough. In 1952 she graduated from Highline High School, and was crowned Miss Washington USA the same year. Two years later she was signed to Columbia Pictures...
(1934–2005), American movie actress - Adèle BayerAdèle BayerAdèle Bayer was a Philanthropist active in both missionary work to Native Americans and seafarers missions.-External links:*...
(1814–1892), Belgian missionary - Adele CarlesAdele CarlesAdele Simone Carles is an Australian politician. She has been a member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly since May 2009, representing the electorate of Fremantle. Initially elected as a Greens WA member, she resigned from the party on 6 May 2010 to sit as an independent...
(born 1968), Australian politician - Adèle ChristiaensAdèle ChristiaensAdèle Christiaens was a Belgian fencer. She competed in the women's individual foil event at the 1936 and 1948 Summer Olympics.-References:...
, Belgian fencer - Adele Ramos-DalyAdele Ramos-DalyAdele Ramos-Daly is a Belizean poet, author, journalist and publisher. She is assistant editor of the Amandala, a widely circulated tabloid newspaper, published twice weekly....
, Belizean poet, author, journalist and publisher - Adelle DavisAdelle DavisDaisie Adelle Davis , popularly known as Adelle Davis, was an American author and nutritionist who became well-known as an advocate for specific nutritional stances such as unprocessed food and vitamin supplementation...
(1904–1974), American author - Adele DeGarde (1899–1972), American actress
- Adele DeLeeuwAdele DeLeeuwAdele DeLeeuw 1899-1988 was an American-Dutch children's story writer. The New York Times attributes more than 75 children's book to her. She was originally a native of Ohio and then, in her adult life, emigrated to Plainfield, New Jersey- then the "Queen City" of the area...
(1899–1988), American writer - Adele DiamondAdele DiamondAdele Diamond is one of the founders of the field of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. She holds the Canada Research Chair Tier 1 Professorship in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of British Columbia , Vancouver...
, Canadian psychologist - Adele DixonAdele DixonAdele Dixon was a London-born British musical theatre and film actress best known for performing in Broadway musicals, British musicals and in musical, comedy films of the 1930s and 1940s....
(1908–1992), English actor - Adele FaccioAdele FaccioAdele Faccio was an Italian politician and deputy of the Radical Party .-Abortion activism:...
(1920–2007), Italian politician - Adele FarinaAdele FarinaAdele Farina is an Australian politician. She has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Western Australian Legislative Council since 2001, representing South West Region...
(born 1964), Australian politician - Adele FifieldAdele FifieldAdele Fifield is a recipient of the Order of Ontario, and was a director of the War Amps' National Amputee Centre. In Feb. 2008 she became CEO of the [Canadian Association of Radiologists]....
(born 1966), Canadian director - Adele GarrisonAdele GarrisonAdele Garrison was the nom de plume of Nana Springer White, an American writer. Her daily newspaper column, a serial story called Revelations of a Wife, ran in multiple American newspapers from 1915 until the Depression....
, American writer - Adèle GerasAdèle GerasAdèle Geras Adèle Geras Adèle Geras (born 1944, Jerusalem, is an English writer for young children, teens and adults. She has written more than 74 books, that have either been published or are in waiting...
(born 1944), English writer - Adele GirardAdele GirardAdele Girard Marsala was a jazz harpist associated with the Dixieland and swing s. She is one of the first jazz harpists, with only Casper Reardon predating her...
(1913–1993), American jazz harpist - Adele GivensAdele GivensAdele Givens is an African American actress and comedian from Chicago, Illinois. She currently lives in Lexington, Kentucky.- Career :*Her television appearances include The Hughleys, Moesha, The Parkers, Comedy Central Presents, Def Comedy Jam, Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry, Martin, Tracey...
, American actress - Adele GoldbergAdele Goldberg (linguist)Adele Eva Goldberg is a researcher in the field of linguistics. Since 2004, she has been a Professor in Linguistics, and an associated faculty in Psychology at Princeton University. From 1997-2004, she was an Associate Professor of Linguistics and the Beckman Institute at the University of...
(born 1963), American linguist - Adele GoldbergAdele Goldberg (computer scientist)Adele Goldberg is a computer scientist who participated in the development of the programming language Smalltalk-80 and various concepts related to object oriented programming while a researcher at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, PARC, in the 1970s.Goldberg began working at PARC in 1973, and...
(born 1945), American computer scientist - Adele GoldstineAdele GoldstineAdele Goldstine , born Adele Katz, wrote the complete technical description for the first electronic digital computer, ENIAC...
(1920–1964), American computer scientist - Adele Khoury GrahamAdele Khoury GrahamAdele Khoury Graham is a Lebanese-American educator and the wife of former Florida governor and senator Bob Graham.Adele Graham was the First Lady of the state of Florida from 1979 to 1987. She spent her career as public school teacher in Massachusetts and Miami, Florida. In all, she had four...
(born 1938), Lebanese educator - Adele GriffinAdele GriffinAdele Griffin is the critically acclaimed author of numerous novels for young adults, including the Vampire Island and Witch Twins series. Her novels Sons of Liberty and Where I Want to Be were both National Book Award Finalists....
(born 1970), American writer - Adèle HaenelAdèle HaenelAdèle Haenel is a French actress. She was nominated for a César Award in the Most Promising Actress category for her performance in the 2007 film, Water Lilies.-Filmography:-External links:...
(born 1989), French actress - Adele HolnessAdele HolnessAdele Holness is a female dance/progressive house artist from England who was the lead vocalist on Ben Shaw's 2001 number one Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play track "So Strong".-See also:*List of number-one dance hits...
, English singer - Adele C. HowellsAdele C. HowellsAdele Morris Cannon Howells was the fourth general president of the Primary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1943 until her death....
(1886–1951), American general president of the Primary - Adèle HugoAdèle HugoAdèle Hugo was the fifth child of French writer Victor Hugo.Her story inspired the 1975 biographical film The Story of Adele H., directed by François Truffaut.-References:...
(1830–1915), French diary writer - Adèle IsaacAdèle IsaacAdèle Isaac was a French operatic soprano, active in Paris in the late 19th century.Isaac was born in Calais. After studying with Gilbert Duprez, her professional debut was in 1870 in Victor Massé's Les noces de Jeannette at the Théatre Montmartre...
(1854–1915), French opera singer - Adele JergensAdele JergensAdele Jergens was an American actress.Born in Brooklyn, New York, Jergen's birth date is sometimes listed as 1922. Jergens first rose to prominence in the late 1930s, when she was named "Miss World's Fairest" at the 1939 New York World's Fair...
(1917–2002), American actress - Adèle KindtAdèle KindtAdèle Kindt was a Belgian painter, the leading female painter of the 1820s to 1840s.Born in Brussels, into a family which produced many female artists, Marie-Adélaïde Kindt was trained in drawing by engraver Antoine Cardon...
(1804–1884), Belgian painter - Adele KingAdele KingAdele King is an Irish entertainer better known as Twink from her time as a member of a group called Maxi, Dick and Twink which was a girl band in Ireland in the late 1960s and 1970s. She is Chloë Agnew's mother....
(born 1951), Irish entertainer - Adèle Caby-LivannahAdèle Caby-LivannahAdèle Caby-Livannah is a writer from the Republic of the Congo born in 1957. From 1983 on she was a school librarian in Mante, France. She is primarily a short fiction writer with in least two collections.-References:...
(born 1957), African writer - Adelle LutzAdelle LutzAdelle Lutz is a costume designer, model and actress.Lutz is a daughter of a Japanese mother, Mona Lutz and a German father, Walter E. Lutz. She was the wife of David Byrne, but divorced in 2004 with a daughter, Malu Valentine...
(born 1948), German model - Adele MaraAdele MaraAdele Mara , born Adelaide Delgado, was an American actress, singer and dancer who appeared in films during the 1940s and 1950s. During the 1940s, the blond actress was also a popular pinup girl....
(1923–2010), American actress - Adele MarcusAdele MarcusAdele Marcus was an American pianist, but better known as a teacher of many other famous pianists.She was born in Kansas City, the last of 13 children of a rabbi of Russian descent...
(1906–1995), American pianist - Adelle McDonnellAdelle McDonnellAdelle McDonnell is an Irish radio producer, presenter and television columnist. She is the producer and a co-presenter on the Meteor Award-winning The Ray Foley Show, in the weekday lunchtime slot on Today FM...
, Irish television personality - Adele MegannAdele MegannAdele Megann is a Canadian writer.-Life:Adele Megann is a Newfoundlander based in Halifax. Her short fiction has been published in many Canadian and US reviews and anthologies. As an active member of the writing community, Adele has won several awards, emceed readings, and taught creative writing....
(born 1962), Canadian writer - Adele MoralesAdele MoralesAdele Morales is an American painter and memoirist; she is best known as the second wife of American author-playwright Norman Mailer....
(born 1925), American painter and memoirist - Adele Aus der OheAdele Aus der OheAdele Aus der Ohe was a German pianist and composer.Aus der Ohe was born in Hanover. She initially studied with Theodor Kullak, where American pianist and chronicler Amy Fay heard her...
(1864–1937), German pianist and composer - Adele Parks (born 1969), English novelist
- Adele W. PaxsonAdele W. PaxsonAdele Warden Paxson was an American socialite, philanthropist, conservationist, and a Champion breeder of Thoroughbred racehorses....
(1913–2000), American socialite - Adele ReinhartzAdele ReinhartzAdele Reinhartz is a Canadian academic and a specialist in the history and literature of Christianity and Judaism in the Greco-Roman period, the Gospel of John, early Jewish-Christian relations, literary criticism including feminist literary criticism, feminist exegesis, and the impact of the Bible...
, Canadian academic - Adele Roberts (born 1979), British past Big Brother participant
- Adel RootsteinAdel RootsteinAdel Rootstein was a British mannequin designer responsible for premium designs that are sold worldwide.-Early life:Rootstein was born in Warmbaths, South Africa in 1930. She married the industrial designer Richard Hopkins...
(1930–1992), British mannequin designer - Adele RoseAdele RoseAdele Rose was a prolific writer on Coronation Street, UK television's longest running soap opera, penning around 500 scripts between 1961 and her eventual departure from the programme in 1998. In addition, she also co authored the popular children's series, Byker Grove.-References:...
, British soap writer - Adele SandéEmeli SandéAdele Emeli Sandé , known by her stage name Emeli Sande, is a Scottish R&B and Soul recording artist and songwriter, from Aberdeen, Scotland...
(born 1988), Scottish R&B and Soul artist - Adele SandrockAdele SandrockAdele Sandrock was a German actress. After a successful theatrical career, she became one of the first German film stars....
(1863–1937), German actress - Adele ScheeleAdele ScheeleAdele Scheele, PhD, is a career coach and author on the subject. She is among the first to practice in the field of career coaching and is author of the career strategy book, Skills for Success in mass paperback trade...
, American writer - Adele SilvaAdele SilvaAdele Silva is an English actress and television personality who has been on stage and television since she was a young girl. She is best known for playing the role of Kelly Windsor in the television soap opera Emmerdale....
(born 1980), British soap actress - Adele SimpsonAdele SimpsonAdele Simpson was a child performer in vaudeville who danced in productions with Milton Berle and other entertainers. She became a fashion designerwhose influence continued for nearly five decades.-Design career:...
(1903–1995), American fashion designer - Adele StolteAdele StolteAdele Stolte is a German soprano singer in concert and Lieder, and an academic voice teacher.- Biography :...
(born 1932), German soprano singer - Adelle StripeAdelle StripeAdelle Stripe is a poet from Tadcaster, North Yorkshire. In 2006, alongside Tony O'Neill and Ben Myers she formed possibly the first literary movement spawned via a social networking site, The Brutalists, who the BBC described as a 'group of young writers with a back-to-basics approach to...
(born 1976), English poet - Adèle de Batz de TranquelleonAdèle de Batz de TranquelleonAdèle de Batz de Trenquelléon founded the Daughters of Mary Immaculate , or Marianist Sisters, a Roman Catholic order of nuns and one of the four branches of the Marianist Family. Adele was born to a wealthy, aristocratic French family that was exiled for several years during the French Revolution...
(1789–1828), French nun - Adele Ann WilbyAdele Ann WilbyAdele Ann Wilby or Adele Balasingham is the Australian born former leader of the women’s wing of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam of Sri Lanka. She currently resides in London, UK.-Biography:...
(born 1950), Australian activist - Adele WisemanAdele WisemanAdele Wiseman was a Canadian author.Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, she received a B.A. from the University of Manitoba in 1949...
(1928–1992), Canadian author - Adele WongAdele WongAdele Wong is an actress, singer, writer, and screenwriter from Singapore.-Biography:Born in Singapore, Adele Wong traces her ancestry to Shanghai, China. Adele graduated from National University of Singapore with an honors degree in sociology...
(born 1983), Singaporean actress
Surname
- Deborah AdeleDeborah AdeleDeborah Adele, E-RYT 500, is an author and lecturer on yogic philosophy and yoga lifestyle. She writes and speaks on topics such as the Yamas and Niyamas, the Mind and Meditation, and Right-Living. Adele is initiated into the Himalayan Tradition of Hatha yoga...
(born 1949), American author - Jan AdeleJan AdeleJan Adele was a circus, vaudeville, theatre, film and television entertainer and actor best known for her recurring role of Trixie O'Toole in the 1970s television soap opera Number 96....
(1936–2000), Australian actor