Genevieve (given name)
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Genevieve is a female given name. It is of Germanic
Germanic peoples
The Germanic peoples are an Indo-European ethno-linguistic group of Northern European origin, identified by their use of the Indo-European Germanic languages which diversified out of Proto-Germanic during the Pre-Roman Iron Age.Originating about 1800 BCE from the Corded Ware Culture on the North...

 origin (latinized in Genoveva) and it means woman of the race.

People with this name

  • Genevieve
    Genevieve
    St Genevieve , in Latin Sancta Genovefa, from Germanic keno and wefa , is the patron saint of Paris in Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox tradition...

    , a saint in Eastern Orthodoxy and Catholicism
  • Geneviève Bujold
    Geneviève Bujold
    Geneviève Bujold is a Canadian actress best known for her portrayal of Anne Boleyn in the 1969 film Anne of the Thousand Days, for which she won a Golden Globe Award for best actress and was nominated for an Academy Award....

     (born 1942), a Canadian actress
  • Genevieve Brunet
    Genevieve Brunet
    Genevieve Robic-Brunet is a retired road racing cyclist from Canada, who represented Canada at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1984. Training in New Mexico and then Colorado, the resident of Pierrefonds, Quebec ended up in 22nd and 4th place in the women's olympic individual road...

     (born 1959), a Canadian female cyclist
  • Genevieve Woo
    Genevieve Woo
    Genevieve Woo Marn Huong is a Singaporean television journalist and news presenter with Channel NewsAsia, an English-language news network reaching more than 20 Asian countries and territories. She currently presents Asia Business Tonight, which airs between 10.30pm and 11.00pm from Mondays to...

     (born 1969), a Singaporean television news presenter
  • Genevieve Gorder
    Genevieve Gorder
    Genevieve Gorder is an American television host, is an interior decorator, and actress. She is currently the host of Dear Genevieve on the HGTV cable channel.-Early life:...

     (born 1974), an American television host and interior designer
  • Genevieve Nnaji
    Genevieve Nnaji
    Genevieve Nnaji is a Nigerian actress. In 2005 she won the African Movie Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. CNN states that she is referred to as the "Julia Roberts of Africa".- Early life :...

     (born 1979), a Nigerian actress
  • Genevieve Hafner
    Genevieve Hafner
    Genevieve Hafner is a French photographer based in New York City, known mostly for her colorful and spirited photographs of the street scenes of New York City. Her 100+ postcard collection of New York, under Concrete Jungle, has shown many locals and visiting tourists a new way to look at the...

    , a French photographer based in New York City

Fictional characters

  • Genevieve Villard
    Genevieve Villard
    Genevieve Villard is a fictional character from CrossGen Entertainment's Sigilverse. She appeared in Mystic comic series as a major character because she is the older sister of Giselle, the Sigil-Bearer on her world of Ciress. Genevieve studied hard and moved up rapidly in the ranks of the Nouveau...

     in CrossGen Comics' Sigilverse
    Sigilverse
    The Sigilverse, also known as the CrossGen Universe, is a fictional shared universe which served as a setting for most titles published by CrossGen Comics. Except for El Cazador, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, and a handful of flashbacks, all CrossGen Universe titles are set in the future...

  • Genevieve, a vintage car, title character of the classic British film Genevieve
    Genevieve (film)
    Genevieve is a 1953 British comedy film produced and directed by Henry Cornelius and written by William Rose. It starred John Gregson, Dinah Sheridan, Kenneth More and Kay Kendall as two couples comedically involved in a vintage automobile rally...

  • Violet Montgomery or the alias Genevieve, a character on the American CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless
    The Young and the Restless
    The Young and the Restless is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in a fictional Wisconsin town called Genoa City, which is unlike and unrelated to the real life village of the same name, Genoa City, Wisconsin...


Genevieve as in the dog in madeline, of which saves a young drowning girl
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