Cornelia
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Cornelia is a feminine given name. It is a feminine form of the name Cornelius. Nel or Nelly can be used as a shortened version of Cornelia (or Helen or Eleanor). Nele or Neele are popular German short forms used in their own right.

Cornelia may refer to:

People

  • Cornelia Africana
    Cornelia Africana
    Cornelia Scipionis Africana was the second daughter of Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus, the hero of the Second Punic War, and Aemilia Paulla. She is remembered as the perfect example of a virtuous Roman woman....

    , mother of the Gracchi
  • Cornelia Cinna minor
    Cornelia Cinna minor
    Cornelia Cinnilla , daughter of Lucius Cornelius Cinna , and a sister to suffect consul Lucius Cornelius Cinna, was married to Gaius Julius Caesar, who would become one of Rome's greatest conquerors and its dictator...

    , first wife of Julius Caesar
    Julius Caesar
    Gaius Julius Caesar was a Roman general and statesman and a distinguished writer of Latin prose. He played a critical role in the gradual transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire....

  • Cornelia, a Christian saint martyred with Anesius
    Anesius
    Anesius is one of several Christian martyrs in Africa commemorated as saints on March 31. The Martyrologium Romanum mentions Anesius, Theodulus, and Cornelia. All mentioned saints were canonized pre-congregation...

  • Cornelia li Britannia, a fictional character in the anime series Code Geass
  • Cornelia Bürki
    Cornelia Bürki
    Cornelia Bürki is a retired long-distance runner from Switzerland, who represented her native country in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1980. She is a 47-time national champion outdoors, which includes a fifteen-year undefeated streak in cross country and fifteen consecutive titles...

    , Swiss long-distance runner
  • Cornelia Dumler
    Cornelia Dumler
    Cornelia Dumler is a female volleyball player from Germany, who represented her native country in at the 2004 Summer Olympics, finishing in ninth place...

    , German volleyball player
  • Cornelia Dahlgren
    Cornelia Dahlgren
    Cornelia Dahlgren is a Swedish singer, songwriter and producer known by the stage name CORNELIA. She also owns her own independent label called 'Camp Mozart'...

    , Swedish singer and songwriter
  • Cornelia Frances
    Cornelia Frances
    Cornelia Frances is a British-born actress based in Australia since the early 1970s. Frances is best known for her recurring role as judge Morag Bellingham on Home and Away.-Early life and personal life:...

    , English-Australian actress
  • Cornelia Funke
    Cornelia Funke
    Cornelia Funke is a multiple award-winning German author of children's fiction. She was born on 10 December 1958, in Dorsten, North Rhine-Westphalia. Funke is best known for her Inkworld trilogy, with the English translation of the third book, Inkdeath, released on 6 October 2008. Many of her...

    , German children's writer
  • Cornelia Hale
    Cornelia Hale
    Cornelia Hale is a fictional character in comic book W.I.T.C.H. and the television series of the same name. She is one of the five teenage girls who are chosen to be the new Guardians of Kandrakar...

    , a fictional character in comic book W.I.T.C.H.
  • Cornelia Polit
    Cornelia Polit
    Cornelia Polit is a former backstroke swimmer from East Germany. At age seventeen she won the silver medal in the women's 200 m backstroke at the boycotted 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR, behind her team mate Rica Reinisch.-References:*...

    , East German backstroke swimmer
  • Cornelia Otis Skinner
    Cornelia Otis Skinner
    Cornelia Otis Skinner was an American author and actress.-Biography:Skinner was the daughter of the actor Otis Skinner and his wife Maud Skinner. After attending the all-girls' Baldwin School and Bryn Mawr College and studying theatre at the Sorbonne in Paris, she began her career on the stage...

    , American actress, humorist, and playwright
  • Nelly Gaierová, Czech actress
  • Cornelia van Nijenroode
    Cornelia van Nijenroode
    Cornelia van Nijenroode , was a Dutch merchant in the Dutch East Indies, famous for her conflict with her second spouse. She is the subject of a novel, Bitters bruid by Leonard Blussé....

  • Cornelia Toppen
    Cornelia Toppen
    Cornelia Toppen, known as Keet Zwenke, , was a Dutch orangist, and the instigator of the 1784 riots of Rotterdam.Toppen was in 1755 married to Boatswain Jan Reijnier Zwenke. During the politicall riots between orangists and patriots in Rotterdam in 1784, toppen was the leader of the orangist party,...


Places

Italy
  • Cornelia (Rome Metro)
    Cornelia (Rome Metro)
    Cornelia is an underground station on Line A of the Rome Metro. It can be found at the junction of via di Boccea and the Cornelia ring road - from which it takes its name. The station was inaugurated on 1 January 2000.-Services:This station has:...

    , an underground station on Rome Metro

South Africa
  • Cornelia, Free State
    Cornelia, Free State
    Cornelia is a small town in the Free State province of South Africa. In 1894 it was named after the wife of former Free State President Francis William Reitz.The town is situated near the Skoonriver .-Fossil Discoveries:...

    , a town in South Africa

United States
  • Cornelia, Georgia
    Cornelia, Georgia
    Cornelia is a city in Habersham County, Georgia, United States. The population was 3,834 at the 2010 census. It is home to one of the world's largest apple sculptures, which is displayed on top of an obelisk shaped monument...

    , a community
  • Cornelia, Wisconsin
    Cornelia, Wisconsin
    Cornelia is an unincorporated community located in the town of Harrison, Grant County, Wisconsin, United States....

    , an unincorporated community
  • Lake Cornelia, a lake in Wright County, Iowa
    Wright County, Iowa
    -2010 census:The 2010 census recorded a population of 13,229 in the county, with a population density of . There were 6,529 housing units, of which 5,625 were occupied.-2000 census:...


Other

  • Cornelia Marie, a crabbing ship
  • Cornelia (gens), list of the notable Roman women in the Cornelii family

See also

  • Cornelius (disambiguation), the masculine form of the name
  • Corniglia
    Corniglia
    Corniglia is a frazione of the commune of Vernazza in the province of La Spezia, Liguria, northern Italy. Unlike the other localities of the Cinque Terre, Corniglia is not directly adjacent to the sea...

    , one of the five villages in the Cinque Terre, Italy
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