Bianca
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Bianca is a feminine given name
or an Italian family name
. It means "white" and is an Italian cognate of Blanche
. Bianca may refer to:
Given name
A given name, in Western contexts often referred to as a first name, is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name...
or an Italian family name
Family name
A family name is a type of surname and part of a person's name indicating the family to which the person belongs. The use of family names is widespread in cultures around the world...
. It means "white" and is an Italian cognate of Blanche
Blanche (given name)
Blanche is a feminine given name. It means "white" in French, derived from the Late Latin word "blancus", which is itself of Germanic origin, one of a number of words designating colours - others are words for "grey" and "brown" - which are thought to have been borrowed into Latin to classify...
. Bianca may refer to:
People
- Bianca BaltiBianca BaltiBianca Balti is an Italian model born in Lodi, in the Lombardy region of north Italy.-Career:Balti was first booked for the cover of L'Officiel, shot by Alexi Lubomirski. Her first notable advertisement campaign came for Dolce & Gabbana...
(born 1984), Italian model - Bianca BeauchampBianca BeauchampBianca Stéphanie Beauchamp is a Canadian fetish and adult model, known for her glamour, erotic and latex modelling.- Early life and education :...
(born 1977), Canadian model - Bianca Bianchi (1855–1947), stage name of Bertha Schwarz, German/Austrian opera soprano
- Bianca BinBianca BinBianca Bin , is a Brazilian actress. She has played the lead role in the telenovela Cordel Encantado.- Career :Born in Jundiaí, São Paulo state, she played the lead role, Marina, in the 2009 season of Malhação. After leaving Malhação, she played popular character Fátima in Rede Globo's telenovela...
(born 1990), Brazilian actress - Bianca ButlerBianca ButlerBianca Butler is an American pair skater.For almost ten years, she competed with Joseph Jacobsen. They were the 2007 US National junior silver medalists...
(born 1989), American ice skater - Bianca CappelloBianca CappelloBianca Cappello was an Italian noblewoman who was the mistress, and afterward the second wife, of Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany.-Biography:...
(1548–1587), Grand Duchess of Tuscany - Bianca Casady, (born 1982), American musician, band member of CocoRosieCocoRosieCocoRosie is a musical group formed in 2003 by sisters Bianca "Coco" and Sierra "Rosie" Casady. The sisters were born and raised in the United States, but formed the band in Paris after meeting for the first time in years...
- Bianca CastanhoBianca CastanhoBianca Castanho Pereira is a Brazilian actress.-Telenovelas:*2009 Promessas de Amor - Arminda*2007 Amor e Intrigas - Antônia Fraga*2006 Cristal - Cristina da Silva de Jesus...
(born 1979), Brazilian actress - Bianca ChatfieldBianca ChatfieldBianca Lee Chatfield is an Australian netball player. In 2001, she was selected for the Australian team to tour three-nations test series against England and New Zealand in the UK. Bianca plays in the positions of GK and GD...
(born 1982), Australian netball player - Bianca CollinsBianca CollinsBianca Suzanne Collins is an American actress. Bianca is currently cast as Lulu in the Teen Nick television series Gigantic....
(born 1988), American actress - Bianca DeGroatBianca DeGroatBianca Marie DeGroat is an American actress who worked on the PBS Kids show Cyberchase. She played a small role on the TV show Parenthood. She has also worked in various commercials, including McDonalds, Pier One Imports, TurboTax, and Chevrolet. She won a Daytime Emmy in 2007 for her work on...
(born 1976), American actress - Bianca FergusonBianca FergusonBianca Ferguson is an American actress from Gary, Indiana.Ferguson is best known for playing Claudia Johnston Phillips in the soap opera General Hospital from 1978 to 1987. She is also married to former Designing Women actor, Meshach Taylor.-External links:...
, American actress - Bianca GascoigneBianca GascoigneBianca Gascoigne is a British glamour model and television personality. She is the daughter of Sheryl Gascoigne, and stepdaughter of Paul Gascoigne, a former footballer...
(born 1987), British model and TV personality - Bianca GonzalezBianca GonzalezBianca Gonzalez is a Filipina TV host and model.-Education:Bianca Monica Malasmas Gonzalez graduated from high school at the De La Salle Santiago Zobel School and graduated with a degree of AB Communication Arts with a minor in Philosophy at the Ateneo de Manila University.-Writer:Her first job in...
(born 1983), Filipina TV personality - Bianca JaggerBianca JaggerBianca Jagger is a Nicaraguan-born social and human rights advocate and a former actress and model...
(born 1945), social and political activist - Bianca KajlichBianca KajlichBianca Maria Kajlich is an American actress. Kajlich has had starring and supporting roles in television and film; she currently plays Jennifer on the CBS comedy Rules of Engagement.-Early life:...
(born 1977), American actress - Bianca KapplerBianca KapplerBianca Kappler is a German long jumper.She finished ninth at the 2004 Olympic Games. She competed at the World Championships in 2003 and 2005 without reaching the finals....
(born 1977), German long jumper - Bianca KingBianca KingBianca Charlotte King is a Filipina-Canadian actress. She is known in her role as Noemi Manansala in the thriller drama series Sinner or Saint aired on GMA, replacing Nita Negrita. She went to San Beda College Alabang during her grade school and high school years. She proceeded to take up AB...
(born 1986), Canadian–Filipina actress, Model - Bianca LamblinBianca LamblinBianca Lamblin is a French writer who was romantically involved with both Jean-Paul Sartre and his lifelong companion Simone de Beauvoir, for a number of years...
, French writer - Bianca LanciaBianca LanciaBianca Lancia d'Agliano was an Italian noblewoman, who was the mistress and later wife of emperor Frederick II of Hohenstaufen, although the marriage, conducted while she was on her deathbed, was considered non-canonical.- Family :Born ca...
(c. 1200 – c. 1233), Italian noble - Bianca Langham-Pritchard (born 1975), Australian field hockey player
- Bianca LawsonBianca LawsonBianca Jasmine Lawson is an American film and television actress.-Early life:Lawson was born in Los Angeles, California. She is the daughter of Denise and actor Richard Lawson. Bianca is also the great niece of Motown founder Berry Gordy...
(born 1979), American actress - Bianca de' MediciBia de' MediciBia de' Medici was the illegitimate daughter of Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, born before his first marriage....
(1536–1542), illegitimate daughter of Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany - Bianca NetzlerBianca NetzlerBianca Maree Netzler is a female field hockey midfield player from Australia, who made her debut for the Australian women's national team during the Argentina Tour in 2001. She was a member of the Hockeyroos at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, where the team ended up in fifth place in...
(born 1976), Australian field hockey player - Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, Nigerian beauty-pageant contestant
- Bianca RinaldiBianca RinaldiBianca Rinaldi is a Brazilian actress best known for her roles in telenovelas, especially A Escrava Isaura.-Biography:...
(born 1974), Brazilian actress - Bianca RyanBianca RyanBianca Taylor Ryan is an American singer and guitarist, who won the debut season of NBC's America's Got Talent at age 11....
(born 1994), American singer - Bianca Maria SforzaBianca Maria SforzaBianca Maria Sforza was Holy Roman Empress as the second wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor. She was the eldest legitimate daughter of Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan, by his second wife, Bona of Savoy....
(1472–1510), Italian noble - Bianca SolorzanoBianca SolorzanoBianca Solorzano is a correspondent for CBS News. Prior to joining CBS News, Solorzano was an anchor on MSNBC....
, American TV journalist - Bianca van RangelrooyBianca van RangelrooyBianca van Rangelrooy is a New Zealand artist.Van Rangelrooy was born in Wellington, New Zealand and received her BFA from the University of Canterbury. Widely known for her public art in government buildings in New Zealand. Van Rangelrooy also works in environmental art, drawing, painting,...
(born 1959), New Zealand artist - Bianca Maria ViscontiBianca Maria ViscontiBianca Maria Visconti was Duchess of Milan from 1450 to 1468.-Early years:Born near Settimo Pavese, Bianca Maria was the illegitimate daughter of Filippo Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan and last of the Visconti rulers, and Agnese del Maino, the only person the shy, secluded Filippo ever loved...
(1425–1468), Duchess of Milan - Bianca WeißBianca WeißBianca Weiß is a former field hockey goalkeeper from Germany, who was a member of the Women's National Team that won the silver medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.-References:*...
(born 1968), German field hockey player
Fictional characters
- Bianca (Othello)Bianca (Othello)Bianca is a fictional character in William Shakespeare's Othello . She is Cassio's jealous lover. Despite her brief appearance on stage, Bianca plays a significant role in the progress of Iago's scheme to incite Othello's jealousy of Cassio. Bianca is traditionally regarded as a courtesan,...
, from William Shakespeare's play Othello - Bianca MinolaBianca MinolaBianca Minola is a character in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew . She is the younger daughter of Baptista Minola and the sister of Kate, the "shrew" of the title. The lovely Bianca has several admirers in the play, but Baptista has refused to allow her to marry until his shrewish daughter...
, from William Shakespeare's play The Taming of the Shrew - A character from Bianca e FernandoBianca e FernandoBianca e Fernando is an opera in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini.There are two versions of this opera: the first, entitled Bianca e Gernando has a libretto by Domenico Gilardoni, after Bianca e Fernando alla tomba di Carlo IV, duca di Agrigento by Carlo...
, an 1828 opera by Vincenzo Bellini
- Bianca, played by Mariah Carey in the video for her 1999 single "HeartbreakerHeartbreaker (Mariah Carey song)"Heartbreaker" is a song by American singer-songwriter Mariah Carey. It was released on September 21, 1999 by Columbia Records as the lead single from Carey's seventh studio album, Rainbow . The song was written by Carey and Jay-Z and produced by the former and DJ Clue...
" and in "Boy (I Need You)Boy (I Need You)"Boy " is a song co-written and co-produced by Mariah Carey and Just Blaze for Carey's twelfth album Charmbracelet . It features a sample of the Rose Royce song "I'm Going Down", which is also sampled in the same fashion in rapper Cam'ron's 2002 single "Oh Boy". Cam'ron himself provides verses for...
" - Bianca (Spyro the Dragon), from the video game series Spyro the Dragon
- Bianca (That's So Raven), from the American TV series That's So Raven
- Bianca CastafioreBianca CastafioreBianca Castafiore, the "Milanese Nightingale", is a fictional character in The Adventures of Tintin, the series of classic Belgian comic books written and illustrated by Hergé...
, a recurring character in The Adventures of Tintin - Bianca DeSousa, in Degrassi
- Bianca di Angelo, in the fantasy novel The Titan's CurseThe Titan's CurseThe Titan's Curse is a 2007 fantasy-adventure novel based on Greek mythology written by Rick Riordan. It is the third novel in the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series and the sequel to The Sea of Monsters...
by Rick Riordan - Bianca JacksonBianca JacksonBianca Butcher is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by Patsy Palmer. The character was introduced by executive producer Leonard Lewis and appeared initially from 1993 to 1999, when Palmer opted to leave. In 2002 executive producer John Yorke brought the character...
, from the British soap opera EastEnders - Bianca MontgomeryBianca MontgomeryBianca Christine Montgomery is a fictional character from the American daytime drama All My Children. In June 2010, Christina Bennett Lind replaced Eden Riegel, who portrayed the role from July 2000 to January 2010. Until Riegel assumed the role, the character was portrayed solely by child...
, from the American soap opera All My Children - Bianca Solderini, in Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles
- Miss Bianca, from the animated films The Rescuers and The Rescuers Down Under
- Bianca Erdmann, a pre-pubescent nymphomaniac in Gravity's RainbowGravity's RainbowGravity's Rainbow is a postmodern novel written by Thomas Pynchon and first published on February 28, 1973.The narrative is set primarily in Europe at the end of World War II and centers on the design, production and dispatch of V-2 rockets by the German military, and, in particular, the quest...
, Thomas Pynchon's novel - Bianca Reyes, mother of Blue Beetle (Jaime Reyes) in the DC Comics continuum
- Bianca, an anatomically correct doll in Lars and the Real GirlLars and the Real GirlLars and the Real Girl is a 2007 American-Canadian comedy-drama film written by Nancy Oliver and directed by Craig Gillespie. It stars Ryan Gosling, Emily Mortimer, Paul Schneider, Kelli Garner and Patricia Clarkson...
- Bianca, a character from the movie Pokémon HeroesPokémon HeroesPokémon Heroes: Latios and Latias, originally released in Japan as , is a 2002 Japanese animated film directed by Kunihiko Yuyama. It is the fifth film in the Pokémon series, complimenting Pokémon: Master Quest...
- Bianca, the name of Varric's crossbow in Dragon Age IIDragon Age IIDragon Age II is a role-playing video game developed by BioWare's Edmonton studios, and published by Electronic Arts. It is the second major game in BioWare's Dragon Age franchise...
- Bianca, a rival character in Pokémon Black and White